Permaculture Fruit Tree Guilds 

Thank you for explaining how you build a guild and even how you laid down cardboard, soil and mulch... this was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for the video, Billy. You do a great job of it.

Watching this again for the eleventieth time before I put out my stakes for the Nitrogen fixers.

I am truly looking forward to growing Comfrey. Chop and drop material right where you need it! And so much more. WARNING Do not try to get Comfrey to grow in a desert during the hottest part of the year. LOL I had to try, because you never know. Well, fall is coming for round two. :o)

Thanks for this info on the fruit trees, I’ve gotta practice this method with our fruit trees now! 😊🙌🏻👍🏻

Looking back to move forward. Gathering information to help my fruit trees and seeing where you started compared to where you guilds are today. My comfrey is doing well and putting in my bulbs this fall.

Love your shirt. Thanks for all the great info. I'm looking forward to seeing more from you.

Great point! Letting people know that it is actually a sliding scale between compost and mulch. Oh, the compost pile did not decompose much? Cool! Well composted mulch! HA HA HA The idea here is that I used to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I will produce better compost someday soon, but I cannot wait till then to grow food, eh?

Thanks a ton for the good bug mix recommendation, I’m still very new to the tree guild concept (although I went crazy with Bocking-14 Comfrey around the trees at my last house 😂, I guess I was half way there.)

Billy, thank you for the video. I have a question, what do you do to keep the soil acidic for blueberries and keep it alkaline for apples or cherries?

I wish I had a ten acre farm next door to yours. The things that we could trade as we both specialized in our favorite parts of farming... Ah, the possibilities...

Brilliant. I we can be as smart as nature, we can turn it around.

Great info.

After watching this video, I found out you moved to NC from the great state of Texas. What part of Texas.? I am in West Texas, San Angelo, and have been thinking of pulling stakes, and moving to an area which has a more conducive environment to growing....ie. more rainfall. Anyway, it is hard to think about leaving all the work I have done so far, but, on the other hand, it seems if I was in an area which was more conducive to growing, I could replicate what has taken me fifteen years, in a much shorter time. Any regrets on your move?

Elaine Ingham is why I have a microscope today! Oh, just to let you know. When you rattled off the list of names, know that when I do it, yours is included!

NOW that's the kinda PIMP I can work with! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🥰🥰😍😍🥰😍😍👍🏽👍🏿👍🏻👍🏽👍🏻👍🏽👍🏽👍🏿👍🏽👍🏽👍🏻👍🏿👍🏽 I need that shirt! Support your farmers and sex workers!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

You mention not to use an auger- mind if I ask why? We’re hoping to plant a couple hundred trees next spring and I was planning on using a battery powered ryobi auger, but i may rethink if there’s a good reason not to!

Love your videos. I'll start following you in Rumble. Do you also buy your fruit trees from Peaceful Valley?

what type of compost do you use.

QUESTION: Will dandelions and aloe vera be beneficial for fruit trees (apples & pears). Judi

Just finding your channel. Love this concept. It’s a year later... maybe you’ll give an update?

NC, what area ! Im just finding out about guilds ! Western NC.

In my garden (urban food forest) I like to think of it this way: The single-purpose of each individual plant is to provide exudates to the microbes in the soil. Nothing else. Just that. The single-purpose of the garden itself is to feed us. As a plant, if they are alive and healthy, they are doing their job. If I am smart enough to know that a plant that produces exudates for the soil AND produces food for me is better than a plant that only produces exudates, right? My job is to make sure the right things are planted, and the wrong things are not allowed to grow. There are more kinds of plants then we will ever be able to plant, so, why not pick plants that do a lot, right?

I'm a 5'3" 70-year-old woman planting an orchard in light silty sandy soil (very low clay percentage). Please explain to me why I should break my back, or spend a fortune hiring somebody else to break their back, rather than use an auger! The auger on my micro-mini excavator seems like a perfectly reasonable way to plant 100 trees and shrubs. If you don't explain WHY - I will ignore you.