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Couple's Amazing Backyard Homestead Produces TONS of Food in the City + FULL GARDEN TOUR
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Couple’s Amazing Backyard Homestead Produces TONS of Food in the City + FULL GARDEN TOUR



Check out this incredible backyard garden that has a massive raised bed for vegetables, 18 productive fruit trees, a tangle of grape vines, and a beautiful pollinator garden. Marc and Aileen are growing such an abundance of food in their yard that they end up sharing and donating a good part of it with friends, family, and food banks.

They moved here three years ago and didn’t realize they had all these fruit trees and grapes growing. They quickly caught the farming bug and have transformed their yard into an impressive micro farm in the city.

You can follow and find out more about HogsBackYard here:
https://www.instagram.com/hogsbackyard/
http://www.hogsbackyard.ca

And you can check out Marc’s artwork here:
https://adornato.ca/

In this video we take a full tour of the backyard homestead, and we also get to see some of the cool projects they’re working on, like a rainwater irrigation system made from free secondhand rain barrels and hoses, a greenhouse built with reclaimed windows, a solar pop can heater, and a tree nursery for community tree planting projects.

Marc and Aileen try to keep the cost of this project down by saving their own seeds, and by using secondhand pots, tools, and wood that they collect from all over the place.

The food they’re growing helps keep their grocery bill cost down, and they preserve a lot of their harvest by canning, pickling, dehydrating, and freezing food so that they can eat it year round.

We are super inspired by these two and hope you enjoy taking a peek at what they’re up to! You can follow and find out more about their project here:
https://www.instagram.com/hogsbackyard/

Thanks for watching!

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Additional photos and footage provided by Marc and Aileen
https://www.instagram.com/hogsbackyard/

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38 Comments

  6. @NaturopathsGarden

    If your grapes become tart reduce the amount growing on each vine, the sugars concentrate over all the fruit so the less you have the sweeter they are…..biggest concern I hear in the nursery is people thinking they have grown the wrong type of grape because they are tart and then tell me how big the vine is and how much fruit grows on it….yup good hard cut back needed

  8. @melaniamonicacraciun9900

    Our planet is asking this much, do not call them vegetals but oxygen factories, all united we can invert the global warming by allowing our planet breathe again. Those who think, they can not have South American business interests, here they are 🎉❤🎉

  9. @ganymededarling

    Highly recommend automatic drip irrigation so you can go on small trips if you'd like. This took away so much of the work from our small garden!

  10. @freedomring3022

    looks awesome! I am in the suburbs and do the same thing. I only have the one fruit tree, apple, but loads of blackberries. I also have 10 chickens.

  17. @thedevilinfrankenstein6503

    @5:28 the potatoes/tomatoes plant? I got to know the step by step process of putting that together.
    Love the whole set up and the dedication of the community getting together to share good food home grown. ❤❤❤

  23. @benschannel9065

    When people said the solar-punk movement could start in all different forms this is what they mean!! If we can all aim to do a bit of this in urban life the day of tomorrow will truly be brighter. Also that DIY beer greenhouse panel is truly inventive!

  25. @ninirossau2304

    I have added rabbits to my garden farm, they eat a lot of my weeds and prunings and in return I get amazing fertiliser and lean meat. chickens may return when I get a grip on how to feed them without relying too heavily on pellets

  27. @Peachy08

    My husband and I have almost the same setup. Minus the fruit trees. All my neighbors are watering grass. Such a waste of space and water. Love your setup!

  30. @ktefccre

    I want that plus some solar panels, biogas digester, geothermo heat pump, and lots of rain water storage on my home.

    I also want to grow more than just food. I want to grow some production materials like bamboo, flax, and cotton.

  33. @makilahduncan556

    Really shows that you need a community to make it work well. And how you can make one. I love trading and recycling.

    You can call it "trashy" if you want but you can tell just how happy they are compared to if they just mowed it and focused on their main jobs for the rest of there lives. It's definitely a labor or love but it gives back so much that it's makes it worth the sweat and tears ❤

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