Join me on a tour of our permaculture garden at the beginning of May!
I talk about the different vegetables I’m doing this year, show you my greenhouse and talk about developing the herb layer of our food forest.
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Great video, thanks.
Thank you Vera for sharing your garden with us. I hope you enjoy your break from social media.
Thank you very much for all the knowledge you have given us,because of your videos I’m enjoying 5 star broccoli this year for the first time and is delicious , enjoy your time off,but please come back 😉
I'm surprised to hear that one can dig up and move comfrey considering it seems to have a large taproot, but definitely a good tip as I have a large one that I'm very fond of, it's just in the wrong place. Enjoy your time off, and I'll be looking forward to your next video when you have time to do one.
Good on you for recognizing when to take a break. Thanks for all you have taught me. My french lawn has been transformed to a beginning edible foodforest with haskaps, pawpaws, jostaberries and many other plants you mentioned in your videos. Enjoy being free for a bit. About moving the comfrey: best of luck to you. I found that a little piece of remaining root is always enough to have it return. The place I planted it first has had comfrey in it for 8 years now, and I remove it every other year. Nature will win out in the end; whenever I see it again, I feel lucky
Getting back to do what you love without the pressures of social media…priceless!
Will await patiently for a June update.
i really enjoyed this video – seeing someone putting permaculture into practice is fascinating. Enjoy your gardening and see you in a month
Brave and healthy…. Teaching us more than gardening I think🙄👍😻 thanks from Stockholm Sweden 🤗❤️🌷
Love your videos and I really like your accent and vast knowledge of English language and words.🌻🍓🐞🍀🥕🌸👍👍
so you are the jack of all trades, you have a lot of skills to mention a few, great. hope we can design the whole city with full of nature surroundings hahaha…a friend fully support.
Social media breaks are simply wonderful for recharging and getting back to life. 🙂
I hope you have a lovely month off of "work" and enjoying working in the garden! Looking forward to June updates. Hopefully my garden will have woken up by then too. 🙂
Its been the coldest spring in Toronto, Canada in years.
Hope you can rest and replenish, but I will miss your videos.
Por favor subtitula en español!
I have a lot of new plants in my garden this year because of you!! 🙂
Love your garden tours
The garden looks perfectly wonderful and thanks for the tour.
Leuke video Vera. Kun je ook vertellen wat de naam is van de ground cover waar je het over hebt ? Dank.
I follow all your videos and since we recently moved to the Netherlands, is it possible for me to visit you and your garden? Hope you take the time you need and enjoy finally the good weather we got.
Great 👍
I applaud your choice to go back to your "roots" and return to what you enjoy about gardening. 🙂
Some thoughts for when you do return to making videos:
I feel like you have a wealth of permaculture and food forest knowledge, and access to amazing gardens to share your experience in a hands-on way. But it always feels as if you're filming "from a distance", focusing on your own face / body first and on the garden second. I'd love to get a closer, more detailed look at what's going on in your gardens.
It would be amazing if in the future you could shoot more B-roll footage that you cut to while you're talking about a plant, insect, or gardening principle of some kind. For example, when you're talking about lettuce, please show us a couple different close-up shots of lettuce plants, possibly in various stages of life. Or if you're talking about pollinators, cut to scenes of some "unusual" pollinators that a city dweller may have never seen before. If you are talking about a plant that you are standing next to, intermittently cut to some close-up shots of that plant so we as the viewers can get a better look. You don't have to pause the talking while you show us close-up shots, but rather the video footage of you standing in the garden could be interrupted by close-up shots, while the audio of you talking continues uninterrupted.
B-roll footage would not only make your videos more informative, but also more entertaining. Creating more dynamic videos might help you grow your channel. At the moment, most of the information you share could be conveyed as a podcast with some supplemental pictures. It doesn't seem like you are taking full advantage of what video has to offer when it comes to communicating an "experience".
If B-roll footage sounds like too much work: I also watch the YouTube channel "Edible Acres". They rarely use B-roll footage but I still feel like I'm getting a detailed look at their garden. They have a very different approach to filming. Instead of primarily filming themselves, they primarily record their garden while talking from behind the camera.
Yuk! I'm glad you like it, but Hubbard squash is not very tasty in my book. Is there a variety you like?
What do you think about live ground cover? I'm trying a wild plant looks like a pearlwort or something. I'll let you know how it goes 😊
I hope you are doing well and gardening in joy and peace. I missed you and came back to check on you, to see if you were posting again. I really enjoyed your videos and learned much from you, thanks so much! I love the Lord, He gives me so much peace and I especially love feeling His presence outside in my little piece of land in my garden watching everything grow and be full of life, watching the bumbles pollinate and the birds aerigate, the toads, eeks even the snakes hahaha, here's to peace in our gardens 👩🌾💚🤠
So many plans and then comes the flood 💦🌊 I hope it didn't destroy your garden. I wonder if you enjoyed your time off from social media or if you missed it. You achieved already a lot with your channel and your 📚 👍
Cheers to you living life for real and not to make a video for others.
Too many minds only do something if they can video it and upload for others.
It's caused a "look-at-me" psychology, when no one is asking to see
Are you ok… no videos for a while?
While I miss your videos, I am glad you can choose what supports your wellness. Kudos on prioritizing your enjoyment of your life.
Congratulations so happy that your hobby turn into job. I wish I can do that too