Nature's Resilience: Thriving Abandoned Food Forest After 2.5 Years of Neglect! 

Congratulations to William, and his lovely Bride. Nothing more fun, and memorable than a Texas Home Wedding. My Bride and I had ours back in 1969. I also know the joy of getting new relatives, and looking over your property years and now decades later, and seeing the good impact you had on the land. Thanks for sharing your joy with us.

Wow Mr. GQ! You are lookin sharp! 👍🙏🙏🙏❤😁

You clean up real good Billie, congratulations to William and his new bride God bless you all, this is Randy.

So happy to see William starting his tandem journey!! Bless you both!!

How exciting! Two very handsome gentlemen. Congratulations William! It was an eye opener seeing how time can benefit all the hardwork you are doing on your new property!

Having a daughter, and watching William in many of these videos, I have found William to be an impressive young man, and thought that he would be quite a catch for some young lady. Looks like that day has come! Congratulations William and family! May God bless and protect your marriage!

Congratulations William and to the beautiful bride as well. That lady is blessed to be connected to this wonderful family. Praying God’s blessings to you guys

Congratulations William!! Wishing you all blessings in your marriage! 🤵💒👰🙏🙏🙏

Im in Southeast Texas. My food forest is coming along. Its been a learning experience, some success some failures but well with the trial and error. Everyone should plant something 🌿

All my best wishes to William & his lovely bride! Your old property is indeed a great study in permaculture design and showcases what that can do. As I watched, I began thinking and imagining (and praying) that in a couple years mine will succeed, too. Still have much more to plant, but now I’m building some momentum. This video is also motivating me to keep growing, in the ground and in my head. Thank you for leading the way. Soon it will become easier as the results of all the hard work begins to come together.

Oh, wow! You guys clean up really nice! Congratulations William, may God bless the new chapter of your life and draw you near to Him! Go to Him for all your needs, put Him first and He will bless your marriage! 🙏🤗🤗💜🤗🤗

Blessings and wishing and very happy marriage to the newlyweds!! ~Jan in Ohio

Congratulations on your new daughter! I live in deep East Texas. I ordered 50 Comfrey root cuttings from you which arrived on April 2 this year. Wow! I struggled to find Bocking 4 that wasn’t totally obliterated by being cut into such small pieces and then sliced in half. I searched for a very, very, long time. I am very impressed by your integrity in both sending such quality, generously sized, roots cuttings and throwing in extra stock to boot! Thank you. I found your channel through my search for Bocking 4. I didn’t know what to expect when ordering but at the very least I knew the roots couldn’t be smaller than the ones I had seen posted for sell and I wanted to do business with a Christian homesteader. A month later they are growing beautifully! Thank you!

Look at y’all!! You both clean up alright! Congrats to the beautiful couple and best wishes for a long and happy marriage! Very cool to see your old place still thriving after being totally unattended. Especially after the crazy weather we’ve seen in Texas the last couple of years. It gives me hope seeing that nature knows more than we do about what it needs to be healthy and productive!

Cleaning up and getting down! :) The old place is beautiful. Congratulations on so much this weekend.

Congratulations to William and his new Bride! You all looked gorgeous and so happy! May God bless both families that joined together with lots of JOY for your lifetimes! We have lived in East Texas all our lives and would loved to met up with you while you were back here.

This is so cool that you're doing a video on a permaculture food forest that is "self maintaining".... because after I watched your recent video on "Are Your Trees Lonely?", where you showed the variety of ways you plant around your fruit trees, and you mentioned the "7 layers of a forest", I looked that up, and several articles and videos of Geoff Lawton came up on the search results page. And I watched two videos on permaculture food forests he developed. One was in a desert area in Jordan, and the other was in Australia (or was it New Zealand?). And in the Australia video, he showed how after it was completed, a year or two later, the funding wasn't there.... but it maintained itself those couple of years, with no human intervention. Those videos were amazing. And now you're showing the same results of a permaculture food forest! Big Congratulations to the happy newly wedded couple! May God bless their marriage with ABUNDANCE in every way possible! 👼🙏❤️🐑👑🪔

Love that he’s doing it right 🎉

Looking good Billy and congrats to William!

Wow! Congratulations to the beautiful couple!!!❤️🍾🥂 (Love the garden too!)

Dang Billy. You got your sunday best on

As a northern fella who's fruit trees have done so well that the trees have LITERALLY fallen apart. The peach you showed looks like if it were burdened with fruit it would fold over into the ground. Have you thought of using the locust to seasonally support the fruit laden fruit trees ? They could be intertwined. My one (one peach!!) was a part time job just to keep it harvested!! My orchard has 25 trees.

Honey locust trees are nitrogen fixers. I think redbuds may be, too. You can get thornless honey locust trees. Their seed pods are edible and supposed to be quite sweet (why they're called "honey" locust).

How lovely! Congrats to William! Love it when families grow and merge!

Congratulations! My farming journey has just begun made some mistakes last year but this year I hope for a great drop. Thanks for all the great information.

Congratulations William & Bride on their Wedding ❤️

Looking sharp,Billy!😉

I didn't know that you used to live in Texas. It's cool to see that things you planted and systems you put in place several years ago are still going strong. Congratulations to William and his bride!

Just accidentally found your channel and already learnt so much new from you tonight! Thanks so much for your dedication and devotion to Permaculture and it's easily see how you raised your child and what he's become today. Big congratulations to you all and with all the best & wishes from Sydney, another part of the world!!

Congratulations William. Billy your old home is beautiful. I'm being presumptuous in thinking William will have that someday. I'm happy you showed this video. God bless.

Congratulations William! Both of my kids are getting married next year...I'm still not able to gather it all in! lol

Perhaps my favorite video of yours ever. Welcome back to my neck of the woods.....Denison.

Looking good Billy and William! So happy for everyone. It is truly a blessing. 🙏🙏

Congrats William 🍾

Blessings to your family! I hear that Yah blew His blessing over this most special day and announced His presence with the “chime.” What an amazing Yah we serve!

Congratulations and blessings to William and his beautiful bride.

Billy you clean up nice :)

Billy, you clean up well. Congratulations to William and his new bride. We are happy for you and your family.

Congrats to William and his beautiful bride. Looking sharp Billy

Oh my Billy! You really are a permaculture P.I.M.P. Daddy, lol at those threads! 🤣😂 Love it! Congrats to William and his bride on their big day!

What a beautiful setting and looks like a gorgeous day for the wedding, congratulations! BTW... I love mimosa trees and now I know they do more than just look pretty :)

It's funny watching a long-service combat engineer almost smiling. Congratulation on your son and the food forest. Long hard work paying off.

Congratulations to William and Emily and the whole family❣. You clean up nicely Billy! 🕺💃 Your old property is flourishing. 🌱

Congrats William! Many blessings to you and your whole family.

Congratulations to William and Emily !!!! Also here in Texas .. Michelle must be so proud as you are . God bless this amazing wedding and also all of yall . Mrs Josette Tharp Montgomery , Texas 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Congratulations to William and his Bride. Live a great life together!

So, I don't really need to remove all of the locusts, and baby mimosas when I put in fruit trees? This is so cool! Congratulations William!

Your such an inspiration for me! I spent my weekend helping and teaching a friend to plant her entire garden in 2 days. So glad she's ready to try her hand at gardening.

Congratulations to William and his bride and congratulations to you Billy and Michelle!

Wow!!! Congratulations Mr. And Mrs. William!!! I Pray God's Blessings on your lives. So happy for you! So nice to know there are young people starting out who are capable of taking care of themselves.Oh, nice permaculture video Billy. LOL 😆

Wow. Getting married. Awesome. Been away for a while, so missed it all. Lol. Congratulations. Love the food Forest. Hope to get our started soon. ❤️

Congratulations sir Billy,you'll be a grandpa soon👏👏👏👏,and wish William a good luck and blessings on his married life🙏😇😇😇

Congratulations to William!!! Nice dance movies Billy...

Congratulations to you all! What a blessing to merge families. Keep Growing! 🤗🌱❤️🙏

Congratulations Brother, your enthusiasm is contagious!

Alright congratulations y’all !!!! Glad to see the celebration and the working old home place!!

Congratulations William! Billy, I first saw the thumbnail and thought you had to go to court or a funeral, Lol. Lookin sharp!

Congratulations William and his new Bride!!!!, Billy and Michelle on your new daughter.

WHOA!!!WOWOWOW!!! CONGRATULATION William and Emily...SO EXCITED for you guys. You guys will ROCK this world with all your knowledge and become a guiding light in this dark world. May God bless you with His wisdom and knowledge as you live your lives to be the leaders guiding the next generation. Again CONGRATULATION:))). Oh, by the way, May 1st is our anniversary...so William and Emily will be having the same anniversary as us...how cool is that:))))...(doing a happy dance...lol).

Amazing to see the old property and how great to see the progress. Congratulations you all look so smart 😎🤗

Congratulations to William, hiss new bride and all of the family! It is wonderful that your family has grown. I know William and his bride are set for success in their future with all of the knowledge you and Michelle have given him! Blessings to you all!

FANTASTIC VIDEO !!!!! Thank you for sharing with us. Cheers Denise- Australia

Give William the communal congratulations of our audience. I suspect grand-kids are in the foreseeable future. Having said that, thanks for the presentation.

Congratulations to William and all the family! Great video of seeing your past permaculture area. Y’all looking fancy!

Congratulations to William! Blessings to the new couple!

Billy, you are one handsome man all duded up! LOL I so love your permaculture passion. Sure hope you will be at the next TN October gathering. PS - Congrats to William and his bride!

Congratulations! Prayers for a long and blessed union!

Congratulations and prayers for the new couple.

Congratulations to William his bride and your family. Blessings!

Congratulations Mr William, and his new bride. Your method truly works and the proof is right here in this video. Best Wishes To All My Friends

Wow! Congratulations on your wedding William. Best Wishes, Love & Prayers for a blessed and beautiful life together. Your food forest is amazing, in just 2.5 years. Question??? Is William bringing his Mrs. back to good old NC? Billy I know you and Michelle are over the moon happy for William and his new bride. What a beautiful family you all have! God Bless!

I like those dance 🕺 moves!! Congrats 🎉 to you and Michelle!!

Congratulations William and the Mrs.! Thank you so much for sharing this experience. I am looking to buy land and your videos are helping to guide my decision making. God bless you and your family. ✌🏾🙏🏾

Goooooo Billy! And congratulations to William. May God bless the union and bring lots of children

Congratulations to William! And I will definitely be using this as an example. Thank you for sharing

Congratulations to your son, his new bride and your entire family! 💒 🔔

I just discovered your channel. Very cool! Thank you for your motivation and wealth of knowledge.

Love (& share) your passion, Billy! William is a lucky man in many ways. This gem, full of your love for him and for your farming, is what all of us need to let ourselves express - to clients and to all! All the best to your (growing) family - esp those black locust. ;)

We use deep mulching as swales are impossible here with so much rock in the ground. Layers and layers of horse, cattle and chicken manure, old hay and wood chips. Our blueberries even survived through a 5 year drought. We watered with 1000l pod once a fortnight from our spring fed creek and everything did just fine but all the local orchard farms had huge losses.

Great video! Firstly, congratulations on the union!!!! Also that look at the untended food forest was great verification of what you have been showing us and for that alone it puts this video among the top of any I've seen here. And that last clip was great BTW. 😎

Congratulations William! Happy Billy & Michelle. 💗

Best wishes for a long, happy blessed marriage, William! Billy, you were looking sharp!

Awesome vid. Thanks for posting! Congrats to both families! I think you need to suit up every once in a while for your vids, you're looking pretty sharp 😁 * ordered more comfrey from ya'll as well lol

Your joy and your knowledge produced a wonderful space. Beautiful episode. Thank you.

Congratulations to you all!!

Congratulations to your family! I'm looking forward to turning my regular orchard to a permaculture orchard!

Congratulations 🎊🎈🍾 y’all were in my neck of the woods I’m abt 1.5 hrs away from Fort Worth in a rural area with a population of 272 we just had some massive wildfires here in Eastland County but God is so good because we’re also in a drought. You and your family will be good bonus parents to the young lady as well. You have so much wisdom they’ll learn so much from you and you’ve taught William so much priceless wisdom. You’re teaching me permaculture too. God Bless you all.

Wonderfully done!!! A very heartfelt congratulations to you and your family sir!!! Truly amazing thank you for sharing!!!

Looking smart ,Congratulations William.

The only thing I can see that would give away that there is food on that land is that you still have the collars on the fruit trees.

That is so encouraging. We live in Texas 60 miles east of Abilene and severe drought is a real problem. E also are totally reliant on a water well very deep about 300 feet. So if the Electricity electricity

May He bless y’all and keep you, may y’all rejoice together in His blessings, may He prosper your house, your crops, and your livestock until you cannot contain the blessings! Fair warning from the voice of experience: them whom He blesses, He expects, in turn, to be a blessing to others.

Congratulations! Enjoy the new additions to your wonderful family.

This sold me! Look how GREEN everything is along the swell! Wow, great work!

Congratulations William!!

ZZ TOP does food forest . I am impressed . Looking to start a food forest and couldn't have asked for a better intro . I am so excited . I'm going to try blueberries , wish me luck. Lloyd Wales . UK.

Many many blessings Mr.& Mrs. William ..

Best wishes to the happy couple. Looking very dapper, love the suspenders.

Congratulations William and Emily!!

Wow! you dress up well. I like those threads. Congratulations on the addition of a daughter. You said you could optimize this in 30 minutes. What would you do beyond cutting back the mimosas? BUSTIN SOME MOVES!! Way to go!