The EASIEST VEGETABLES to Grow from SEED & HARVEST Seed From - START YOUR PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST!

YOU CAN DO IT! IT JUST TAKES ONE SEED! If you're just getting started on a window-sill garden, a balcony, patio or backyard garden, or you've been gardening for a long time, it's always great to know which vegetables and other food-giving plants are easy to grow, and better, EASY TO GET SEED FROM, so you can KEEP GROWING THEM YEAR AFTER YEAR!
In today's video I am going to be talking about just that! I am also going to talk a little about the idea of a PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST. It's important to remember that nature is always changing, always adapting, and nature in balance, a healthy vibrant ecosystem, is biodiverse. That diversity includes the idea of what consists of a permanent forest ecosystem that gives you food - a Permaculture Food Forest. It is not necessarily what is often viewed as a forest as a dark place full of old trees growing closely together. In the FOOD FOREST, there are many levels that all interact in balance. There are the tallest mature trees, which provide a canopy high in the air, then there are the big trees that aren't quite mature, there are the shrubs and small trees, there are the vines that grow up all those tree and shrubs, there are the herbaceous plantes (the low growing leafy plants that are so many of our vegetables, native wildflowers and herbs), there are the ground covers, like wild ginger and wild garlic, and then there are the plants whose main parts are below ground, the root, the tubers, the fungi, and so much else. All of these layers interact in balance, and they don't always look like a traditional forest. In fact, your backyard vegetable and flower garden with some trees, shrubs, vines and groundcover can be a microcosm of a Food Forest.
And there is one extremely interesting point that is the most important to remember: THE MOST BIODIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS are what are called EDGE HABITATS. These are the areas that are in the places (on the edges you could say) between major different ecosystems, like between a forest and a prairie, between a grassland and a creek, between a wetland and a lake, between a forest and a river, etc. In these EDGE ECOSYSTEMS, you have plant, animal, fungi and other species from both ecosystems that surround that edge, so you have twice the biodiversity.
A FOOD FOREST that we can create can very much imitate this type of edge habitat, and can take on many looks. There is such a diversity of ecosystems in the world, that FOOD FORESTS can have an equally diverse image.
I explain all of this in this description in order to show you how a simple vegetable, herb and wildflower garden with a few trees, vines, groundcovers and shrubs added to the mix, which can all fit in a small backyard, or even on a tiny scale, on a patio, can all be set up if you are on a journey to learn about GROWING a FOOD FOREST. You don't have to do it all at once. I've been gardening for 30 years, but I only began creating a food forest where I live 4 and a half years ago. I created food forests at schools where I worked in the past, but never at home. 4 and a half years ago, I finally had a chance to throw myself fully into this process at home. But all those years of gardening prior gave me the skills and knowledge I needed to make the process now just such a joy, so natural, and so successful.
All you have to do is begin. Plant stuff, and let those plants, let nature, teach you. Observe, look up the needs of the plants you grow, and just do it. The plants and nature will take care of the rest!
This video is about what you can easily start with, so you can easily have food, and harvest seed and keep doing it year after year while you learn more!
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