Small Space Food Forest

In this video, I will show you how to start & maintain a small, productive food forest garden.
A lot of useful tips!

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Hi I’m MCH and welcome to my food Forest it’s very tiny but I get to pick fruits and vegetables year round for my family and still have some for sharing with Friends and neighbors if you follow along I’ll show you how to create a productive one in a small space at your

Own pace while nurturing our planet but what is a food forest and why is it good for you and the planet you might ask a food Forest mimics a forest but with edible plants here in the tropics it is the traditional way of gardening before the introduction of landscape ornamental loans and

Gardens there are seven layers in a food Forest the first to our trees the canopi which is the tallest or the fruit and nut tree l layer and the second is the underst stor dwarf fruit tree layer underneath the tree layers we have the shrub layer the herbaceous layer

Root layer or the risos spere ground cover and the crowers and Vines since we’re talking about a small space food Forest it is better in my opinion to skip the canopy layer and start directly with the fruit dwarf fruit trees make a list of the things you want to

Grow taking in consideration of the size of your garden and also what you want to eat because what is the use of growing your own food when you won’t eat or don’t like what you have grown since the garden is small plant should also have multiple uses after planting the fruit trees

Maximize the space by planting in between and underneath the trees plant things where you think they’ll Prosper it will be a trial and error at first there will be a lot of shaded areas and you might think that your sun loving plants will not Thrive but try it

Anyway I have lots of things that I’ve read that won’t grow in one area but when I Tred since I like the space they actually did grow and they stripe soil should be ideal but if you just starting to grow never mind that there will be enough nutrients in the

Ground when you start to Food Forest what’s important is know how and when to amend the soil there are different ways to amend the soil and then there are different ways to Compass do what is easy for you and adaptable to your situation plant nitrogen fixers like Moringa they capture the nitrogen from

The atmosphere and help your plants grow also incorporate animals like chickens rabbits and worms they’re good weeders and pest managers their manure is a very good natural fertilizer try to plant natives they are your pollinator fruit remember when there are no pollinators there will be no fruits prune after every fruiting to

Encourage more fruits and manage the height of your trees for easy harvesting put up a pathway so gardening especially harvesting will be easier water less frequently but deeply this will encourage the roots to dig deeper into the soil in search of water this will help them withstand strong winds

That is brought about by these climate changes if you think a tree is not worth growing or worth keeping remove it use it instead to mulch the food forest or use it as firewood when I remove the nut tree and the cleur leaf tree my banana that

Stopped fruiting for a year brought in two bunches in a year’s time and another one coming soon finally just enjoy the slow process there are no gardening mistakes just experiments you do you and enjoy the fruit of your labor