Holistic Orchard Management with Michael Phillips UNCUT 

I am a 55 year-old looking to retire and spend my last years building a permaculture orchard to leave my family. Your videos are a gold mine of information. Thank you.

This man is a hero... I will be watching this video over and over

This video is so long but I can’t get enough of it . Ive watched it 3 times already and will probably watch it many more times .The extensive knowledge of Micheal when it comes to fruit growing is mind blowing .

One of the best educational videos that I have watched on RU-vid. Thanks to Michael Phillips and RU-vid for presenting this amazing video.

This is one of the best channels for the blend of the academic and real world experienced approach to agriculture. Thank you so much for making this wealth of knowledge available to the public. These are worth mountains of black gold.

He is so engaging and knowledgeable. Wonderful that he shares all of his learning and experience freely, so people don't screw up their trees. This video is worth every minute to hear his golden words.

Michael Phillips 1957' - 2022' Great Video

I typically do a huge amount of browsing through RU-vid content at 1.5x - 2x viewing speed to optimize my limited viewing time. I’m accustomed to hearing the term nutrient dense in relation to the subject matter I seek. However, I consider this discussion by Michael very “knowledge dense”. I actually slowed my viewing speed back to normal and rewound back to the beginning because I didn’t wish to miss a single point or word. Very well done! Thank you for an amazing contribution! Wonderful material presented in a clear and entertaining manner. I’ll be saving this one for many replays. Thanks again.

this is incredible. So informative and a rare opportunity to see an orchard like this.

What a great presentation! I wish I had access to information like this when I was in my 20's many years ago. My career path would certainly not have ended in accountancy. This really is a master class. Humble thanks and appreciation.

Good Lord, this will take me the rest of my life to digest..this video contains a life time of information..( not a collage course)..a life time ..I love it.. I keep telling people...we need to make t-shirts that say (SAVE THE MICROBS!).. every thing above ground is a by product, or a gift due to microbial life...they are the plant builders..

Thanks for the knowledge, I live in north east Mississippi. I was told the old timers would sprinkle ashes all around very thinly under there fruit trees right as they started to bloom out so that the fresh ash would run the ground bugs out and the fresh ash would Keep the mouths away as well . The ash made the fruit crop bug free and provided minerals the tree needed . I have done this and had very good results each time I used it . The ash needs to be dry so it will dust out and spread out very thinly way out past the canopy. They all so placed burnt tin cans and nails around for iron and mineral addition. Orchards around these old house places all ways has ash and rusted cans and nails stowed all across them . They used what they had on hand to accomplish what was needed . I am trying to get some old verities growing from some old house places . But it is slow and I’m kinda struggling a bit .I have a few trees of a small green kind that is hardy and strong and am working on getting a nice strong heavy barring medium red verity that I’m trying to root this winter , again I want to thank y’all for all this knowledge I have gained from this video.

After working out with THE BOYS (big up them boys) I was afully tired and went for a nap, only to be awoken 4 hours later by this man meat talking about the right time to spray trees, what a legend! Keep it up! You are one of the real ones (y)

This is one of the most, or in fact, is the most informative video I have ever watched! Thank you so much. My apple trees thank you also!

I’m so glad I happened upon this video. Thank you very much for sharing this wealth of knowledge. It has to be well in the top 5 orchard videos on RU-vid. Thank you!

What a tapestry of wisdom, knowledge & understanding of the beauty of harmonizing with nature.! Thank you!

What a fascinating talk, and in beautiful, peaceful surroundings, the perfect conditions for learning. Thank you for sharing.

This is one of the best videos I have ever watched on Apple trees! What a goldmine of information! Thanks so much for doing this!

Absolutely awesome talk! Very informative, a thorough balanced talk. So glad we found this video in our first few years of planting fruit trees in our family yard. I love the holistic fruit tree approach. And how beautiful is this woman’s orchard. Thank you so much for sharing!

This is gold, thank you Michael and Living Web Farms!

So pleasant to see this while you all are relaxing in a beautiful orchard. Packed full of useful information.

It's fun to see that Michael already knows the answers to a lot of her questions, but wants to demonstrate the wisdom of her practice to the audience. I feel his enthusiasm ("this is my most burning question: 'How long is your ladder?'").

i have been using colloidal silver as a fungicide on my blackberry plants. now those bright orange rust spots on the leaves have turned brown. i also spray the ground, and so far it's been working well for the new growth, the leaves are spot free! i could never afford to use the stuff at the health food store, so i make my own, which to be technically correct is mostly ionic silver, but that's what you need anyway, that's the active form that causes apoptosis from the reactive oxygen species it forms silver is a broad spectrum fungicide, so i would think it works for scab too. i recently gave my uncle a bottle to spray on the drywall he was ripping out, which was covered with black mold. it's good for that too. oh! and it also kills bacteria and viruses for an orchard this big, i would probably use some kind of powered sprayer. i use an old spray bottle, and even with my 10 or so blackberry bushes, my hands get tired pretty fast thank you for the video! i loved it and just had to subscribe. i will be looking at some of your older videos too. Happy Gardening!

Knowledge is power! Thank you Michael.

A truly amazing place owned by an amazing woman. Fascinating video, thank you. Great explanation of scab etc.

This is one of the most informative videos I've ever seen, thank you!

This video relaxes me so much 🙌

😍🥰😀 So beautiful place 😍 I love green, love trees, love the nature 🥰

Its amazing to me that almost a million people have watched this

its still running? damn i came back after few hrs.... i gotta go back and watch it...this guy knows his stuff and i appreciate it.

Thaek you for your incredible experience and knowledge Michael... Much appreciated and a gold mine of wisdom shared with genuine love for the orchard... Sharing with South African Permaculture students and trainers. Michael you are a legacy builder...🙏 🥰 🎶 💃 💜 AWESOME THANK YOU

This is amazingly informative. Incredible!

Great tutorial ! I've learned a lot from that. Thanks to Michael and everyone implied in this. At 1h25min, the french name for the ancient dwarf seedling rootstock is "paradis", some traduce "paradise".

i fell asleep watching the urban rescue ranch and thus us what i wake uop to

wow, yet another amazingly informative and enlightening video by Living Web Farms :D thanks! and thanks to Michael and Pat!

This is one of those videos that I wish I could hit the like button again but I already did a year or so ago. 👍👍👍👍

Hello, this is "touch"! I am a fan of your channel. This video was very good. Thank you for your continued support as a youtube friend.

As always--things get complicated if you dig into them enough. Learned some useful things about my apples I'd never heard of before.

Thanks for taking the time to share knowledge with us.

Rip Michael

Thank you for sharing "Holistic Orchard Management with Michael Phillips", video very good, wonderful*

THANK YOU, FOR ALL OF THIS DETAILED ADVICE ON ORCHARDING! [BUT, YOUR CAMERAMAN NEEDS TO LEARN TO BE A LOT STEADIER, AND USE A GIMBLE, AND A TRIPOD, TO TAKE SMOOTHER VIDEOS. ]

Excellent video. I will apply some of the information to my food forest. Thank you

I just bought his book and need to read it and watch this. I would love to see the orchard in this video.,

Thanks for all the great knowledge!

Geeze I learned so much in this video. Amazing!

One variety that I read about in a book by Eric Sloane was the Seek no Further. It wasn't a pretty apple but apparently it was easy to propagate and fairly prolific. He said it was popular with the pioneers. I'd like to get some scions and try grafting. I remember watching my Dad do that in ND in the 70s.

Such a wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing it!

Myself retiring and continuing to tending my gardening and fruit trees and expanding on more land. Ths

Just a wonderful, information filled video with so much depth and diverse subject analysis. Explanations are detailed, yet straightforward and comprehensible! Great view.. thank you…

Ah~ha! moment! So this happened to my lemon trees, and blueberry bush!! I thought it was something like a big rain! It happened shortly after we got rain for two days straight. in zone 5b... I noticed what appeared to be mold spots appearing on the leaves, so I just wiped it with my fingers. As I was wiping, it came off no issues, however...the bluberry bush, still young, leaves totally taken out! I just stripped all the leaves, sprayed it down good with neem oil spray, and prayed for new leaves at least by end of October...I'll be storing them inside for the winter...

Great content as always! Thanks for recording this for us.

Yesterday I was very busy and happy with my garden and my sister🤗😅😊 we have to do about the vegetables for our food 😊

Michael's t-shirt rocks. I'm just say'n

Marvellous...3 hrs well spent

Beautiful orchard. Namaste 🙏

Spectacular . I'm a arborist trying to spread knowledge about my field of work . It's actually pretty hard to realy his concept of time travel to what he has guided these trees to produce fruit . True information . His group understands maybe 1/2 of this great information

This guy is amazing !!! My God how I wish he was my neighbor,,,

2 hrs in and I'm thinking is college for apple trees. Wow lots of info

I would really like to see a follow up tour to see how all this good advice was followed.

Thank you so much for sharing it!

This is fantastic. Thank you

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

What an orchard! It would be heaven to lie on the grass under those trees, get drowsy on the sound of the bees buzzing, drown in the scents of all the flowers around and then munch on some crisp, juicy apples while reading something in my Kindle.

Enjoyed thus thank you alot of wisdom

Hello My Fellow RU-vidr Content Creator @living Wed Farm@ I Find This Vlog To Be Very Informative ..The Holistic Orchard Manager MR. Michael Philips,Is Quite Knowledgeable ..His Teaching Can Be Applied To Any Fruit Trees On Your Farm Or Your Home Garden..I Find The Information To Be Very Enlightening..Thanks For Sharing This Knowledge With Us.🍎.✅‼⭐🎄🌳🎍🌴🙏🌄🌞😎

I think, I remember this topic, I had to see about this video 😊

I love watching this cat! Now if you have any questions about your fruit trees and etc just tune into this 🐈‍⬛ cat. I never knew it only takes Five Years to bear fruit on apple trees.??

#1 I think they (REALLY) like each other 😍

Great video!

fruit trees are the very best thank you for the info

This is a great, informative video; thank you so much. Is there any way you can share the organic spray recipes and schedules?

Great content.

Every informative ..love the video had to subscribe

Thanks!

Is the guy with cider orange shirt in love with the main speaker?? He seems mesmerized by her.

When I was a kid, I was told to take out hard wood ashes from our stove and scatter the cold ashes sparingly but throughly from just outside the drip line to about a foot to 18" from the trunk of the trees in either late December through January but not doing this if if the weather starts warming up in February. If it's a very cold or a lot of snow this could extend throughout the middle of February. Did this kill harmful bugs and fertilize the soil or what was the purpose of this? I know hardwood ashes makes lie when water leaches through the ashes. Then I was told to go to the trees that didn't produce well and take a shovel and follow a circle along outside of the drip line and every 3' - 4' stick the shovel straight down in the dirt then skip 3' - 4' and repete this all the way around the tree. If I remember right this was done around the end of October. Did this encourage new feeder root growth and fertilize the tree by the decomposition of the feeder roots? I think I sprinkled epsom salt in March and lime after the trees stopped flowering in spring. Flower bulbs were either scattered and planted in fall or early spring to naturalize under the trees. I think this was done to keep the soil lighter so nurishment could pass through to the feeder roots easier. Are these processes right and in the order I think I remember them? I don't want to damage trees now.

GREAT video, thank you! do you mind if I ask, what are your thoughts on spinosad? I have a Haraldson apple tree that grew nicely, produced well too. Then next time when it's "boon" producing year came around, it got tent caterpillars of some kind I'd never seen before. I cut the badly affected branches and burned them, then sprayed the tree with spinosad solution I'd made from Monterey's concentrate. It worked well, but they either came back, or their after effects tainted all of the fruit...it looked ok on the exterior, but sliced open, it revealed tiny specks that looked like bruises. Under a microscope I couldn't see any egg or insect. I wanted to water in more spinosad, but I'd never used it on a fruit tree. And I wasn't convinced I was battling a bug or some strange fungus? -any suggestions? any thoughts or experience on using spinosad as a systemic on apple trees? P.S., a few neighbors apple trees were decimated by whatever this pest was...it left their trees looking stripped and unhealthy. Mine was abit more lucky, could it be coz of the treatments I did with spinosad? It's worked VERY well watered in with my garden veggies, etc. and has a micronutrient action they seem to love. But I wonder about apple trees...I've not done any water in regiment with it, kindof spooked!.

Love this video 😍😍😊😊

Wow. That’s all I can say. That, and thank you.

Ive been clearing the dead trees and brush in an 8 acre woods out back of my friends house. I use hard wood for her house wood/ coal burner and the pine must be burned on site due to bore beetles tgat are killing them. I have now about 50% direct sun, a couple of about an acre "Hollars" after getting rid of burdock n poison ivy and trees they killed. This is year 4. And all along i put produce cuttings, seeds, eyed potatoes, ect. And alot is growing. Now im looking to take splits from my friit trees at my house and graft them to saplings in her woods . And maybe il get to the nursery to get the last fruit trees on clearance ( my own are from thise clearance sales , and doing great. My apples had apples this year. But we had soooo much rain this year. Nothing did excellent, new plant either got drowned or steamed. Lol but its all lestning curves.

Now, I forget to book the room for university, Today I need to do it now, May I do it now at Line app. Be right back! 🙂 Today I will have to go to the bank as well 🙂

Wow good job! 😍❤

incredible video.

Would orchards like these be suitable for sylvopasturing pigs?

Thanks for tutorial

Awesome Content! Mahalo and aloha td

Pat is such a badass

so much truth thank you

Wish you good health

❤When fertilizing with fish emulsion. Should you fertilize when flowering and fruiting? Im in zone 9B and have a full size loquat.

Silica strengthens cell walls making it harder for disease/pests to penetrate them.

Excellent

Michael, would you consider Rumex longifolius / dooryard dock a beneficial plant under an apple tree? It is tap rooted, but my impression is that it sucks energy from my M9 and MM106 stock rooted dwarf trees.

2:46:45 how to manage the ground underneath your fruit trees.

What’s the name of the red plants providing shade the ones at the beginning of the video ?

can you add your spray schedule to your notes?

Great info. Thanks.

Does he have a book, I can buy?

any suggestions to address Japanese Beetles invasion? any companion plants to repel or attract JB eating pests? Many Thanks.