We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest – Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible and we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-70% self sufficient in our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
In our videos you can follow our journey as we share our experiences and what we get up to at Freedom Forest. This Video is a Spring Tour of our Forest Garden, showing many of the different Fruits, Berries & Medicinal Herbs that we grow in our Temperate Climate Food Forest (Growing Zone 9a).
We are MASSIVELY grateful that you choose to watch our Videos and support us in this way, however, If you appreciate and get value from what we share and would like to help us a little more, you can become a Freedom Forest Patreon (link below).
It takes us about a day to film each video and another few evenings to edit it, Patreon provides a way you can support what we do with any size donation you wish, it could simply be the value of a packet of seeds! We have many projects coming up, as well as wanting to improve our videos with better camera equipment… maybe even a drone one day to make our videos even more detailed and better quality for you to enjoy! You can help make it viable for us to keep putting the time into making these videos by becoming a Patreon. In return your name will appear in the end credits of our videos and we’ll message you a password for the ‘members area’ of our website where we share more of our favourite recipes exclusively for our Patreon’s 💚
https://www.patreon.com/freedomforestlife
Enjoy & Thanks for Watching
✌️🌿 Peace and Plants
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21 Comments
It’s amazing how fast the garden can change at this time of the year 💗
Spring salutations. Wow its all amazing. You've given me some great ideas too. I take scull cap and never thought about planting some in my garden pharmacy so I will be trying that. It's just really lovely seeing what you've planted and how it's all growing. You are both brilliant educators and impart knowledge naturally and are inspiring. I too am trying wine caps as well as oyster mushrooms soon… So excited. I've also used wild asparagus which is coming up vigorously through the woodchip and strawberries. I love seeing all the different guild plants and learning why you chose them and how you will use them.
Really appreciate you taking the time to make thos vid and tour around d your food forest. How exciting and inspiring your space is. Please do a summer and autumn follow up 😊
Learned a lot again and will overthink some things in our foodforest… 😊 Peace and plants! 💚
Lovely to see your forest garden. This was a great tour, thanks for naming the plants and showing them up close. 😊
Very interesting, thank you. Lots of ideas for my mini food forest. It would be really helpful if you would include pruning tutorials when you do the fruit trees. Many thanks. Peace and plants. ✌️🌿
Thanks for sharing. Amazing food forest… Everything is coming to life too and I feel I don’t have enough time in the day to keep up 😀
I love your foodforest tours and recognise many things that grow in my garden too 🌱And I'm looking forward to seeing your mushroom bed 🍄👨🌾💚
Add Pawpaws ( Asimina Triloba ) and Sasktatoon berries – variety Smokey to your collection
Hi, love the tour! Thank you for creating. Similar plant palette here in Portland Oregon USA. Curious how you irrigate?
Beautiful place.
What a beautiful and full garden! That's a lot of work and growth for only 5 years impressive
A very enjoyable tour, everything is starting to come together in your food forest now. It looks great and will be very productive! 😊✌🌿
I'm so excited to find this channel! Very inspiring to see this as I want to achieve something similar in my (way smaller lol) space. Can't wait to see how it changes over the season.
Your food forest is really coming along! Mine is a couple of years behind yours. Apparently aronia berries make a lovely jam. 💚
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Nice tour! Lush green garden.
try honeyberry, care full with raspberry, they need a barrior to prevent spread. you need a big ass net to cover it all. [Edit] honeyberry are like apple trees they need a different type of honey berry to cross polinate.
Very nice 🙂
The extent of my gardening vocabulary in English is still limited, please what exactly is that « just a berry » or « Justin berry » according to the automatic subtitling?
I really enjoyed this tour video 😊 Is the food forest in a separate area from where your poly tunnels are, or is everything within the 20 by 30 meter space?
What a lovely chilled video, thank you!
🙌Everything is looking lush you’re going to have a tonne of fruit!!