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, where 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 week is a Autumn tour of our Vegetable Beds, packed with Roots, Tubers & Green, to harvests now and all through Winter. Wild and abundant is the theme for this area! You can also see how our Sweet Potatoes are looking just before harvest time today and how our Yacon is coming along too.
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 some 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
Other Videos Mentioned:
Start of the Season Finishing our Beds: https://youtu.be/EfZt0mPMvuQ
Fire Cider: https://youtu.be/Y8HZq1WR27Q
Winter survival crops: https://youtu.be/YQKkkIfqWsQ
Enjoy & Thanks for Watching
✌️🌿 Peace and Plants
#yacon #gardentour #vegetablegarden
8 Comments
Looks like the recent rains have done wonders for the plot. A surplus of any crop is a very nice problem to have – looks like you're inundated and can take your pick of the bountiful harvest.
Keeping chickens on the site may not be an option for you, but if you could get a few of them in one of those moveable coops they could be your natural answer to the sorrell seedlings. They'd clear the area for you in no time.
Roll on December and yacon harvest time!
Hi Dan and Laurie
I struggle big time with sheep sorrel too with my acid soil. Have tried covering with cardboard and 20cms of straw for 12 months and it still comes back. Have tried plastic for 18 months and guess what, it still comes back. Best trick I've found is to dig it out as much as you can which goes against the grain I know, with no dig but sometimes needs must, and then add a good sprinkling of agricultural lime which is actually nothing more than chalk. It raise the PH which the sheep sorrel hates. It does not get rid of it completely but severely knocks it back for the season and allows you to be able to get on top of it when it does come back weaker. Good luck!
Hi again, should have also said thank you for the names of varieties of beans that you grow for drying. I do several but am always looking for new ones so will try to find some seeds of the ones that you do to add to my garden.
Yeah 🎉Sweet potato harvest in the pipeline 🎉
Everyone’s gardens get like this at this time of the harvest/garden year. Don’t be embarrassed that’s why we have winter to clean up!
Hi great video again, maybe if you've got too much space to maintain do more of a layered plan that will maintain itself for areas you can't keep on top of or do open days for volunteers etc I'd love to have the kind of space you've managed to get it's amazing.
Thank you for another amazing video ❤
Nice update on your gardens. We would really appreciate a video about your curing and storing methods for the sweet potato and yakon harvests.