Growing A Food Forest with Chop and Drop Mulching

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I started my swale food forest about 5 years ago with the digging of the swale then planting out a number of plants. I've slowly been increasing my plantings to not only produce food but provide a ready source of mulch. As time as gone by the support, mulch trees are getting huge and it's hard keeping up with them all.
In today's video I harvest the mulch in both my peach tree guild and my apricot guild. It's a very satisfying process because I know it is so beneficial to building the soil which in turn helps grow our productive trees. Down the track the system will act like a forest and look after itself but in the meantime I'll help move it along - forests grow on fallen forests - I'm just helping the forest fall more quickly :)
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@najwaseiya 3 месяца назад

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👍

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

😊

@vickiwood9192 3 месяца назад

At the beginning of the video, I thought, "Oh, no! The nectarine tree is dead!", forgetting that we are in opposite seasons and the tree had simply lost its leaves. When I remembered, I was so relieved. The green trees and grass and the brilliant sunshine in your videos can confuse me sometimes. Right now the USA is experiencing a record breaking heat wave. I hope your part of the world is not having extremes in temperature. Hope your hard work pays off in abundant fruit production.

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Haha - perhaps I should have clarified a little more at the start!! Will have to remember that half of my viewers are in a different season! The weather here is fairly mild at the moment so quite enjoyable. Hope the heat settles down soon for you!!

@countrymousesfarmhouse497 3 месяца назад

The stonefruit will appreciate that love. Hopefully they'll recover and grow well now. Thank you for sharing lovely ❤❤

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Thanks Naomi - I hope so too!!

@jomcleay 3 месяца назад

I love your careful assessment of your trees

@LittleGardenBigDreams 3 месяца назад

Love chop and drop Linda🌱🌱 Your trees will hopefully produce lots of beautiful fruit for jam making season for your stand. I can barely keep up with mine. I froze lots of summer fruit and it’s been wonderful. Off to make some more jam this morning 🤣 Enjoy your Sunday xx Cathi xx 😘

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Excellent Cathi enjoy your ham making! I’ve got lots of plums, peaches and berries in the freezer - still need to do something with all of that!! Enjoy your day too xx

@siobhancapell 3 месяца назад

Very informative video. Thanks Linda. I'm still very tentative when it comes to chopping and dropping tree sized bits. I usually drag them off to the side to decompose a bit first. Perhaps I need to chop things smaller, as you're alluding to. Thank you.

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

I chop tree bits quite small if I’m mulching around small plants but now most of my trees are quite large it’s quick & easy to dump big pieces. You can always go back later to chop small if it’s all sitting up too high! Great you’re giving it a go - the only way to really learn!!

@deborahlee8135 3 месяца назад

Oh, your trees will love the extra sunlight and mulch ❤ The hakeas here do very well, and some are indigenous to us, so i think i will plant more, as you say, they still provide good biomass. I'm interested to know how/where you learnt your equipment skills, eg tractor operation, chainsaw etc (those things not part of an urban lifestyle) I noted the powerlines near some of the self seeded trees near the fence.

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Hey Deborah! My skills have all developed right here - with plenty to do and no one else’s to do it you just gotta give it a go - can only get better haha! Yes there’s unfortunately a few powerlines around to keep in mind with growing trees - need to prune those ones sooner rather than later!

@lorrainerichardson3280 3 месяца назад

Job well done, it's great having as few weeds/ grass around the base. Still to tackle mine but too cold as you say no rush. Take care =-)

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Yes no rush at all. Live in the moment & don’t panic about things too much - we’ll get to it - hey Lorraine!? 😆

@gillianfahey6464 3 месяца назад

Gosh that must be so therapeutic .. it is also watching it

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

It was very satisfying that’s for sure! Thanks for watching- pleased you enjoyed it 😊

@peterellis4262 3 месяца назад

As we're in the US here and just starting summer, my chop and drop work has been focusing on grasses much more than trees. Many new tree plantings from this spring have been getting mulched with grass and briar clippings. I've had enough briar to cut back that I've been able to put thorny barricades around some of my nut and fruit trees ;)

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 3 месяца назад

Hi Peter! I also love mulching with grass in the growing season. I find I’m not as overwhelmed with all the growth but embrace it if I can use it to add to my growing trees - do you know what I mean!?? Clearing is then a win and a pleasure rather than a chore! I love your use of the briars 👍