As a wheelchair gardener also I was impressed by his wide paths which left him room to turn to the plants head on! I've been thinking of espaliered fruit trees and enjoyed seeing the size and shape of his figs.
Honestly, everything about this tour was great. But the secret garden was just beautiful. I could easily do naps in that spot. Also, I loved the wider paths and the abundance of fruit trees! And the layout was fantastic.
I’m 21 and use a wheelchair because of mobility issues caused by cerebral palsy. Thank you so much for this video, truly. My partner and I have imagined our future garden after college and this is incredibly helpful.
I feel gardening itself is theuraputic.....the peace, the birds chirping, the irrigation water flowing and all that! I grew up on a farm and farming was life for my family, produce paid for mines and my siblings high school; from livestock to veggies to fruits to honey to trees and more. This guy's garden makes me want to go back and appreciate what my mummy and dad were trying to teach me 💕💕
This is so awesome and its personal for me. My garden and greenhouse rank in my joy only after my spouse and family. They have done all they can for me but within a few years I may end up in a wheel chair myself. My biggest fear was not being able to garden. Thank you for showing us that it can be done.
@@GardenWizard. thank you very much. I pray not but there are no more surgeries left. Watching this made me feel much better about it if it occurs however.
I pray your health will turn around for the better, that you would continue to enjoy gardening and not need to be in a wheelchair. God's blessing be upon you and your family always. 🙏🌱🙏
You should give jerryrigeverything a watch his wife is handicapped he does a lot for her he even made her a great garden he even sells a off road wheelchair kinda like a bike so you don’t lose the freedom of bike riding he does a lot a tech stuff but if you search his name and bike or garden it should pop up
As a wheelchair user who loves to garden and have been having a hard time trying to figure out how to do it and safely. I think I’ve found a new hero 😊 thank you
Raised garden beds are a huge help. And you can make them last quite a while on fewer waterings if you start with a hugelkuture base of rotting woods in the bottom half of the planter boxes and plenty of mulch on top. Be very aware of your reaching ability, especially for those with balancing issues--when in doubt, pick a narrower box, and definitely research espalier techniques!
This is the best one yet Kevin!! I am raising a child on the autism spectrum, I also care for my paraplegic mother in law and my gma with dementia and the garden is where we all thrive and learn how to coexist with each other and nature. We've blossomed in the garden and Steve's mastery is proof that we can get to that next level! Thank you Steve for allowing the world to see how capable one can be once you put limitations aside!
Bart Kay is autistic, Carnivore makes him function much better. He is also a nutrition scientist. And Alzheimer is actually diabetes 3. Heal with carnivore (no carbs).
Please feature this type of content as regularly as you can. I will be retiring in a year and have been putting some thought into a garden setup that will serve me as I age. Some of Steve's ideas are super helpful to that process.
This is the kind of content that makes my heart happy in all the chaos. Some of these Ideas, I may be able to use myself for my husband, who uses a wheelchair to get around. Thank you for remembering to produce content to EVERYONE. Those who may be disabled in some way, have cognitive or physical impairments and of course our aging population too. This is a hobby everyone can do. Gardening can spark joy in people and bring back things we've lost as the world moves forward.
This was such a joy to watch as someone with chronic illness that has mobility issues and a mobility aid. This has given me endless ideas for my allotment here in Scotland UK. Thank you Steven for sharing your garden with all of us! 🤗 My favorite areas were the raised beds with caged doors, the container garden and fruit orchards 🥰
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden and a beautiful tour. I have loved gardening all my life and am a retired nurse who is physically challenged but finds ways of doing things. So impressed by your ideas!!! Pat, RN
WOW! This guy's back porch is my absolute dream. I'm also disabled and when I started gardening I told my friend I was feeling guilty for all the time and money I spent on it (accessible gardening is expensive). She said, "You're stuck at home. You might as well make it as beautiful as possible." And it changed my whole perspective. I started doing it more and now gardening is my passion. This guy takes it to a whole new level! There was such beauty everywhere you looked.
Massive admiration and respect for this guy. It is so hard to overcome adversity, and he's found such a beautiful and fulfilling way of dealing with it.
How incredible! So good to see how possible gardening is, no matter what life is throwing at us. As a disabled gardner I am thrilled to see what can be accomplished!
As someone who has needed a wheelchair in the past and may need one again one day, this was amazing and made me so happy and hopeful. Thank you for sharing
Thank for for making content like this! I’m a disabled gardener and garden seated most of the time. It’s so helpful to see how people adapt their gardens to make them easier to care for so they can continue to garden.
Thank you! As I age and my husband spends more and more time in a wheelchair due to mobility issues, I have gotten so much inspiration. Again, thank you!
@@nygirlinancworld1628 I've got mine in the metal horse troughs which are on thicker landscaping timbers. These were placed on a concrete slab with two sets together then to the next sets. They have enough room for a large wheelchair to go on boths sides. I am able to reach almost to the middle of the two troughs. Really really love them!
This is awesome! I really appreciate Steve talking about how he had to reimagine his life with disability. I've been using a wheelchair for a few years now and have had a hard time figuring out how to adapt my dreams of my future to my abilities. I But this gave me a lot of hope.
This is one of the most beautiful, genius uses of a garden space I have ever seen. The fact that it was designed with accessibility in mind only makes it better.
Great video! As a stroke survivor, I find Steve’s approach to gardening and accessibility amazing and well thought out. Gives me a lot of unique information and ideas. Thank you
😍 I love this Man's out look on life and His vision he's accomplished in His garden. I can really appreciate seeing this video, bc I myself am physically challenged, its very inspiring. Thank you Kevin and Steve 😊🌱❤
Kevin, as a young disabled gardener, I want to say Thank you for showing this content! I’ve been following you eagerly since the start of the pandemic, and I was stoked to see what a great ally you are by helping give voice and representation to a group of people who often aren’t thought of in our discussions. I am a public speaker on the topic of including disabled folk in all arenas, and I was really excited to see this video pop up today! Lots and lots of green thumbs up to you, your crew and Stephen for sharing his passion! Great message: life isn’t over or joyless after disability!
So grateful for this video! I’ve been trying to find ways to adapt my garden since developing a disability and requiring a mobility aid. Steve’s garden has given me so many great ideas.
My favorite area was the raised beds with caged tops. Also the winding trails. The garden is very relaxing and beautifully designed. Thank you for taking us along in your walk.
Beautiful garden for sure. I was just telling the wife I wanted to build a cage almost exactly like the one in the beginning to prevent hail from beating the crap out of my tomatoes
As I lay here in bed recovering from major ankle andnlef surgery looking at 3 months of physical therapy and work ahead of me just to walk again this hits home! I thank you sir for sharing it with us! I don't know if you know robbie and Gary in southern california...but when we move next winter I will be making a chair garden of my own! To get my plants up off the ground, make weeding easier...less likely for things to eat it... and created amazing accessibility ♿️! Not the fanciest thing in the world but she and her husband do alot of food forest and planting with "found" things! I'd love to see the 2 of you hook up and tour her garden sometime!
Wow, Love Steve's energy and outlook on life! He made lemonade out of lemons with his situation and isn't bitter or given up on life. Love his ideas and garden. I'm sure being able to be in nature like this everyday helps. Thanks for this video.
Kevin- you always offer various blessings to others through your incredible videos. I couldn't help but reflect on what a blessing you have received from the people you surround yourself with. I absolutely love watching Jacque and you interact. What an incredible friend you have there! And Chris has added such depth to your channel. You have featured your employees who share your vision and it is so awesome. You are truly blessed my friend. Keep up the great work! And now this connection to Jacque girlfriends father. What a treasure! I can listen to people who so passionately share their love of life with others all day long. Thank you sir!
This is such an awesome video! Im a L2 paraplegic, been in a chair since 2012 and just found your channel a few months back, just started my garden in March. This is super helpful for me to get some ideas and just be inspired in general! love your channel and content!!!
As someone who developed full blown POTS in 2020 out of nowhere (not post covid POTS) I now depend on a wheelchair (2 years in Aug). I'm so happy for this video! I'm stilling learning how to make my surroundings around my home more accessible. Grow bags and raised beds have been my best friends!
@@gb9276 pots is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. When we change positions from lying down to sitting and sitting to standing our bodies don’t do what they are supposed to do. Our blood pressure drops and our heart rate skyrockets which causes us to faint or to near faint . Also if we get our heart rate up to high at any given moment that can also make us faint or near faint. It’s a lot more complex but this is just a basic overview of it. Hope that helps!
@@jennhoff03 I do not. But I do have some of the other comorbidies that go with POTS. Fibromyalgia, IBD, Autoimmune (was tested in 2019 and they still can't figure out which one) and MCAS (Which suckssss. I'm down to only about 3 foods I can eat... every.. single.. day)
i worked for over 30 years with the disabled and have bought home so many ideas from their gardening practises over the years, and now i am retired am so thankful for what i have learnt:)
Absolutely astounding. My mouth hung open basically the whole video. What an incredible accomplishment by any measure. Mr. Cantu has definitely built an arboretum. Just shows what the Earth will give us when we give first to Her. Thank you to both of you for sharing!!
Man Kevin, Steve was a swift kick in the balls for me sir! I was electrocuted at work and permanently disabled at work 3 years ago. I am gardening until I hurt and then go in and take something & feel sorry for myself and then go back and work for a few more hours. Steve straightened my attitude out a lot, with his attitude & outlook is encouraging. I’m still angry, bitter, depressed & filled with fear, anxiety & pain. As I’ve mentioned once my wifey and I leave where it all happened and to our Dream home/ Surf shack/ Super Fab shop/ Homestead/ Farmhouse in Oregon I’m hoping most of my turmoil will stay here too. Steve made me realize that I have to do the work to make my garden work best for me and my needs. In other words, he didn’t sit in the living room looking out the window feeling bad that he is in a wheelchair and CANT because he’s hurt. Im actually a bit a lot embarrassed in myself…. Thanks bro.
Great video Kevin! With the San Diego Botanic Garden closed for renovations, Steve could start a business hosting tours of his AMAZING garden lol Thank you for sharing these beautiful gardens with your viewers. Garden tours are my favorite :)
Steve's garden is fantastic! Years ago we had a weekend massage workshop at a camp for the blind - arranged for us by an LMT who was blind. One of the treats was a terraced 5 senses garden, with many herbs and other fragrant plants. There was a wide path zigzaging around and the beds at easy arm's reach. The land on the Sandy River had been donated by a woman who realized the need for a 'FIG' retreat for the blind - and she was able to stay in her home on the property as she aged - a wonderful win-win.
Too many people don’t garden because they think it’s inaccessible, and I hope this video helps disabled people change their minds and get inspired. Sure, it can sometimes take more time, money, and effort to set up than it would for abled folks, but it’s worth it and can totally pay off. Plus, most disabled people aren’t born with our disabilities, so it’s kind of a good future-proofing insurance to make it as accessible as possible to begin with, “just in case”. I’d love to see more accessible garden tours in the future, if possible! This one is truly gorgeous!
So glad you made this video with this guest! I am wheelchair bound I am in a cumbersome electric per mobile wheelchair and it will not work on anything but blacktop or concrete so I am limited to grow bags on pallets on top of cinder blocks along my paved driveway because I don't have help to do raised beds. But gardening brings me so much joy! I am so grateful I am able to do it!
I’m out to make the world accessible, as I had a child with cerebral palsy. One thing I’ve noticed is, with using “universal design”, it’s much more comfortable for EVERYONE!🥰 Steve has created a beautiful eden here!
This is perfect. I’m a part time mobility aid user and have been trying to use out how best to have my garden set up for when I need to use my rollater.
A very amazing garden and gardener. I use containers on the ground and on chairs and raised beds and chairs for sitting everywhere. I can’t stand for long periods but didn’t want to stop growing. I really appreciate the ideas you have in this garden.
I also can't stand for long periods, I also have a hard and wobbly time walking and worse of all I can't carry something and walk, I have to toss it in the direction I want to go. As for sitting, I used chairs until they sink into the ground. Now I use plastic milk crates tied together with zip ties and have a kneeling cushion zip tied to the top. the two-stacked milk crate chair is easy for me to move around my allotment garden and sit where I need to work on planting, weeding or harvesting my garden.
Absolutely love this! Really nice to see different ways that a garden can be adapted to meet the needs of the gardener and garden users. I'd be really keen to see this being a bit of a series with different accessability needs. Low vision, sensory, families with kids, and so on.
People that overcome unpredictable challenges and just keep on overcoming challenges constantly always inspire me, Especially because I have a disability and I am 22 and I am just coming to terms with the challenges, but also because I have seen some of the most brilliant inventions made by disabled people when they encountered an accessibility challenge. Wow.
Thank you to both of you! I am disabled and would love to garden but have a very hard time doing it. This gives me many ideas! I'm definitely following your page sir! I already follow Epic Gardening. Love this channel!
This is wonderful in every way! We need more Steve content! 😆 he probably doesn’t even have time for that with such a large garden to tend. Thank you to Steve for sharing this with us and showing the world how literally anyone of any ability can garden and be prolific at it.
Thank you Steve and Kevin for an inspirational and informative video! As a disabled person, it was great to see the different ideas I can use when I can someday get back to gardening! I miss it so much!
Thank you so much for showing us Steve’s amazing garden. My front yard has many succulents that my late father in law designed but not as huge as Steve’s garden. Steve’s garden is my dream garden. I love every part of his garden.
One of the best vids you've done. Steve seems like a real guy, with an awesome garden. Loved hearing about the progression of his property and veg-scaping since 1999. Thanks for showing us!
What a great video highlighting a concept I've never seen! I live in such an ableist world it's something I've never even considered. Thanks for shining a light on this garden, so cool to see.
Stephan is an amazing person and has a brilliant garden. My grandmother is also a master gardener here in Illinois. I grow cacti indoors and his cactus garden is by far a masterpiece in my eyes 👀. Thanks for taking the time to interview and tour this garden Kev
Amazing! Such a beautiful property. I had grand plans to transform my backyard into raised beds this summer, but I broke my ankle 3 weeks ago. I decided to just do what I could with pots and grow bags for now and do a lot while sitting. Might not be what I wanted for this point, but I am getting outside and doing what I love. Go with the flow, if you will.
This is very impressive. So inspirational and helpful. Excellent to show what is possible. For those who are wheelchair bound gives incentive and what is possible.This garden is wonderful.So much work and truly remarkable and the fruit trees are super. Regards from here in England. Thank you so very much to two guys who are superb.
Thank you for sharing. A really inspiring garden. Not only is it accessible, it's young children safe and stunningly beautiful. The path materials were interesting. So often gravel type surfaces are hard to wheel over because the gravel moves. The fine granite addition solves that problem. Having enough path width for turning around, having more than one person and resting is so often not considered. What's fantastic about sensitive accessible design is that the disability becomes secondary and the conversation is more around the activity and decisions of gardening. I needed an inspirational video because I a bit down with my dried up patch. You have given me lots of ideas and hope.
As an Occupational Therapist and a newish gardener, this video was fantastic in terms of all of the modifications that can be completed. I just recently put in 2 foot raised gardens so I don’t have to bend over as much (to minimize post-concussion symptoms). Thanks for sharing.
I loved this. I am a wheelchair gardener too due to amputation and poor balance. I use a mobility chair. This was so inspiring and motivating that I cannot wait for this heat wave we have to move on so I can work on mine. Thank you Steve for sharing.
I have an adult autistic daughter & I have a garden. 1 reduces the stress of the other. I am learning how to grow and nurture other living things and to include nature in my day. I pray that she will learn to appreciate my sanctuary and find peace in it as much as Steve does. Great video!
Wow, I'm humbled and excited at the same time. Having a few mobility and back issues but loving to garden, this gives me inspiration to carry on. Thanks for doing this video!
I'm a wheelchair gardener from Australia. I admire all the hard work you have put into your beautiful manicured garden. Some great tips and ideas you have come up with that I will employ in my own garden. Go worldwide wheelie gardeners.
