From Dirt Lot to FOOD FOREST | Wood Chip Garden with 200 Fruit Trees in the Desert 

Probably the most simplest explanations I’ve heard about gardening. I’m inspired to grow now.

Hi Jake, I’m Hessa from UAE, desert country .. so happy to see our desert trees gardening in your yard especially date palm trees. With the dates you can make honey date thick syrup. We use this syrup as breakfast with bread. It’s full of minerals. Try to plant Jasmin trees, they love sun and heat. Thanks for sharing this and I’m super fan of your achievements.

So glad these videos are still here.

My garden is coming along nicely thanks to your help

Great work. I am originally from SriLanka and to witness how you are growing lovely papaya, guava, Moringa and many other gorgeous trees and the harvest makes me really smile. Your Energy is superb and keep on looking after our Mother Earrh.

Ah ah aha I Sometimes feel My Family Thinks I'm crazy. "I'm Like Hey Let's Go See My Trees" lol

I don’t think it’s getting hotter or harsher lately. My husband and I lived in Glendale, Az in 1973-75, and it was 120 degrees for many weeks/months back then. My husband landscaped a 6 acre newly built apt complex in the extreme heat.

This is a man that is found his place the amongst the Earth in a strange place Phoenix Arizona is well sadly to say a shit hole, but this man has made it a paradise.

Jake please come back to Tempe. You created a masterpiece with Pam and have deserted both your garden and her! Come back! We love you!

Another way to get wood chips is go ask the contractor on new home construction sites and ask if you can have the small pieces of framing lumber they're throwing away then run it through a chipper

Thanks for rescuing the fish

Thank you for another excellent video and for helping others like myself to learn...you make a big difference in the world and helping to restore what we as a society have lost sight of.

Thank you Jake! for your garden video!!

4:20 Take a moment to admire the beauty that is this man's bicep ;)

It's much easier to have your own mulch when you are owning forests. It does a lot of work to care for them, but you are rewarded with tons of mulch. I am even using compost and mulch to my inside the house trees in pots.

44:02 before and after pictures of my garden!

I just got 2 lemons and a mandarin orange dwarf trees yesterday.

Thanks for sharring this video Jake. I love what you are doing in your backyard. I have a blank canvass right now but, will be applying all your teachings to fill my backyard with edible trees. Right now i have a few small trees in pots one of them is a moringa tree i grew from seeds i purchased on your webside. I go and smell the leaves everyday. I think the trees like it when you intract with them. My baby morninga tree is now 5+ feet tall, this happened in about 3 months. I hope it makes it though the TX winter.

I started watching your channel and now I have a moringa, barbados cherry and goji berries in my yard. We already had some citrus trees but I'm liking the added variety.

Hi Jake, I was trying to grow some items just on the porch in a pot in California and they started out well but started dying. Now I have moved to Las Vegas and thought if my plants did not survive in California I was sure it would not survive here. So thanks a million for these videos.

This was really great production by the 2 of you, perfect for those ymthat don't think they can or that haven't started yet, it is sooo easy to understand and motivating. You videos are always great but I think this is really going to be well reviewed and special as it reaches out to non-gardeners yet to be awesome Treeples!!!

I stay in an apartment without even a balcony. But still you've inspired me a lot. And am trying to do compost. Been a week since I started and it feels great when I dump my food scraps everyday in my bin. Have some plants that too. Thank you...

Really these are the results of a continuous hardwork and various investments in the desert clay soil.

Having a huge garden its a paradise! Love it from Philippines....

this is very VALUABLE information for me as somebody whos going to move to this exact area, you saved me hours of research. thanks alot

I am in England (so a very un-desert climate - more of a constant rain climate!) and have a Mojo Mulberry bush which I just planted this year from a 10 inch nursery start pot. Only had a few berries this year which the birds got before I could harvest them - but looking forward to next year! X

Love this! So much helpful info! Your garden is really amazing! Thank you! I can adapt a lot for my Indiana yard. Right now the soil is sand and not much wants to thrive, so while I am building the soil I am going to grow a garden for the monarch butterflies. I do have guava seeds that I am going to try as an indoor tree and will see what happens. Thanks again, great video!

Oh my, I love to get the gifts from trees. I had an orange tree. I would gather the dropped fruit, it tasted the best. Interesting fruit garden, thanks for sharing.

Goodness, that's lovely. I see the only thing I maybe envious about your urban living is the chip drops. I'm so rural it's out of the way for city gardeners to dump at my place. 😢but I still wouldn't change a thing. Your garden is absolutely goals! 💯

thanks for sharing this. love your stuff, dude!

Great video! Great suggestions! One piece of advice. The best use of carob fruit is to press them for the honey. The ripe pods drip with carob honey! Good sugar substitute, can be boiled into syrup, made into candies!

thanks for all your free advice!

I live in Nevada ,i hope to meet you same day i am new gardener and i am happy to grow my food,is very good and the tasty is very different front the store...thank you for you videos i will to plant more trees for sure..!!!

This video is awesome! Thank you!

Loved it especially the before and after pics

Jake mace the before and after pictures were awesome.

Beautiful video, informative and answered lot of my gardening queries.

You are so awesome! I am learning so much from you

I love your garden. 💕🌱 Thank you for sharing.

asome evolution of youre backyard mate

Wow...beautiful n amazing! You've done an awesome job. I have a smaller scale plan for my own yard...you've given me great tips and inspiration. Nothing better than nature and home grown food...grown with luv and respect. ❤🍅🍆🍉🍎🎶

I believe it's the best organic material in the garden

i really enjoyed your presentation it has given me new insight as to how to mulch and let nature do her thing i am going to watch a few more of your vids as a lot of it isn't for my area (windsor ontario canada ) there is still a lot to learn i gave up on a lot of things after my hubby passed away jan 2nd 2016 and now i am starting to get my groove back a little at a time but i am going to do a large garden this year 3x the size it was as it's only my income now and the bills are eating me alive so i am having to do what i can between house repairs n bills i am having to be very frugal with my money and pinch pennies (oh i forgot we don't have pennies anymore) so it will be nickel pinching lol but again ty for the videos it has perked me up with interest on how to make my own forest garden floors and gardens thrive

I got some granada seeds and will be planting them soon but need some compost first.

I love this ! learning so much from you guys!!

Jake, so I did your suggestion when I had a tree service just down the road chipping trees. I ended up with about 19 cubic yards of free mulch and something else hidden in the pile. I found a $600 backpack blower buried deep in the pile. I'm not sure how it got in there. I immediately called the owner of the tree service and returned it. I most likely have free wood chips for life now.

love those guava donations!

Very informative, Jake! Do you have kumquat and plums too? See there, thank you for showing the wood chips and soil enriching underneath, natures best, wisdom in all directions. Patience, willingness to learn, and diligence in the work always rewards ....

OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!!

I'm in Minnesota we have the best natural forest soil in the world but our only problem is we have 20 below zero fahrenheit Winters. I am so envious of what you've done down there.

that's brilliant, I don't live in the desert, but some great info applicable where I live. Ta :-)

Its exciting seeing plants grow healthy and fast and how this will become your living body. Thats crazy if they can't make the connection in there minds but guess what don't you just feel cool being beside plants LOL

I usually ask for no palm in my chips and so far so good.

Thanks so much Jake for sharing your knowledge piece and good health and love #mystreegardenLA I use wood chips for my street garden in South LA the food desert

Great job👍👍👍

i recommend strawberry guava, once established, they are very very hardy

Hi Jake, I have to know what kind of shoes you have on. Thanks for the gardening knowledge.

you got date palm try some pacific island leaf fold make basket. then see how much food put in that basket out garden.

Very impressive garden! Gorgeous soil! And you made it yourself! May I suggest, add a mushroom element to aid in decomposition?

just ordered free mulch drop. Going to plant moringa and figs to start. Want to have food forest Thanks for all your inspiration.

Thank you so much for this incredible vid...🍉🍆🍅🍎🍌🍓🍏😎

I have a bag of mulch that is full of mycelium and microscopic bugs, unfortunately it's mulch dyed black. It doesn't even say on the bag what they dyed it with. But don't worry, I'm vocal about this stuff with my mom so she wont be purchasing stuff like that anymore. My mom thought it was mold. You're spreading the knowledge! I'm utilizing it and eventually will accomplish a pacific northwest version of what you have.

It's sad but he's right. People think you are nuts for getting excited about a garden.

The word was fruition. You were totally right.

Dude! When did you get pummelos? I love those!

When he threw that guava i wanted to catch it. lol

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My dogs love figs, so I never get to eat many. The same with my pears and apples, any ideas stop or at least curb their love for the fruit in my yard?

My son thought I was absolutely crazy when I had 25 cubic yards of free wood chips delivered to my house for the back yard lol

What kind of people did hit dislike?!!! Great video as always!

wow,wow wow o wow catctus yeah

Dude looks like he’s in South East asia with that black gold soil.

Fruition bro you said it right.

It’s like spinning straw into gold

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This is incredible brother! How large is your lot? Looking to get a feel for the size and how many trees you have etc. God bless and thanks for these awesome videos! Subbed

(Y) Great video with great analogies.

jake you grow miracle fruit outside? they are supposed to have 0 cold hardiness in the same hardyness catagory as coffee, breadfruit, mangosteen and durian

Regarding the aqueduct trenches that you dug in the 'before' pictures that connect to the trees; did you fill them with woodchips, and as the woodchips break down, does that cause any issues with the aqueduct system?

Canadian, eh? I am in Northern Alberta. If i ever get that far south, may i look you up?

Do you have trouble with mice, squirrels, raccoons....(Canada...squirrels etc.steal fruit etc.)

Do you know a good resource for growing in the Pacific Northwest? We bought a home and want to start growing our own food.

"Let's go outside & checkout my dirt"

What would you say is the ambient temperature difference between your garden and one of your neighbor's yard area?

In the beginning (or currently) did you have to water the trees? If so how much?

Oh, did y pump the bottom water or the top water of the fish pond,which is w poop water? and how???

Do you use sunken beds and/or infiltration basins? Or are you just dropping chips on the ground? What kind of prep?

Liked for 22:43 & 22:46, same here!

jake, how can i purchase a female date-palm. do you have any suggestions? i live in ca. i would love a couple of them to grow. yes, people can say alot of things...but the proof is in the production(your receits). thank you. much love and god,s peace be with you.

What about palm? My tree service has nearly all palm during the summer months.

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Oh, I forgot they peel and eat the oranges,too

Have you made oil from the moringa seeds?

Biochar Jake make or buy the biochar.Look up Terra Preta.charge the Biochar and the trees will grow 10x’s as fast and have supernatural fruit

Would it be better to put a pound of worms under each tree rather than making a worm bin? As long as your loading up the bottom of the trees with organic matter?

How about fruit fly and other bug problems ???

The ladies of my family think I'm a nut job too. My boy, however, loves helping me........looking for bugs, worms, etc.

Zis mycorhiza a normal flora of the soil!?

What type of wood chips are best