Got Some Land, Now What? 5 First Steps When Starting a Permaculture Garden or Farm

Permaculture is the future 🌱🌳👍🏼

Observe, start small, slow down - I keep repeating this as a mantra! I tend to get overly excited about things including gardening in my new yard. I want to grow everything right now haha! But instead I keep observing, watching your videos and gobbling up a bunch of permaculture books.

How serendipitous. I just made a video exactly like this a few days ago. Hopefully we get lots of new people started and joining us! Great video.

Thank you for reminding us that it is all available for free. So many push PDCs or believe that that’s the only way to be knowledgeable in the subject.

I'd love to see your site map of your property to see how it's arranged in relation to north, south, east and west. Thanks for all the great content!

I love this. My allotment this year (very small rented plot in uk) has really suffered due to my time poverty but my home gardens have been so productive as I am able to access them. I decided I am going to make the allotment a permaculture plot and have been thinking how I can do this so I can set it up and leave it to itself for the most part. I have lots of perennials in mind

I agree, and would add, as someone who bought land with permaculture in mind and didn't get around to starting it until after years and years, here are the things I learned. FYI my land is flat so there was no planning for swales, etc. First, we don't all end up in a place with plentiful rain in the summer. So establish a way to easily water your garden. My first garden immediately collapsed because I had no easy way to water it. For the next many years I was "too busy" to fix that problem. Second, immediately after you have water, plant the trees. Because, of course. Protect them from deer, etc. Save up and buy one tree at a time if necessary. Eventually you will have a bunch. Third, sheet mulch everything with cardboard and wood chips. This could actually be FIRST, but the best time to plant the trees was five years ago, so prioritize what it takes to get trees growing. While sheet mulching, be aware of any native plants you want to keep so you don't kill them. Finally, come in and plan your guilds and start planting.

Exceptionally well done. You are a gifted teacher and your collected wisdom really shines in this video.

Thank you for being so generous and to the point!

At the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain we learn and adapt. Observation is king!

I have learned a great deal from you and a few others. I quit watching the 'You have to do this' or 'You must have these'.

Thank you very much for this video. This is so timely for me & I'll be taking notes!

I hope other people can and will pay you for your on-line work, you deserve it. I can't and I'll spare everyone the reasons. What I will say is THANK YOU, Angela, from the bottom of my heart. Some people make me want to cry because they have helped me so much and relieved YEARS of clogged up thinking and fruitless work in just a few minutes of a smart, kindly spoken videos. You cleared up many bad ideas I had and gave me many better ones. Following is one example of a huge problem I've had that has caused 8 years of back-breaking, fruitless, "total bummer" nothingness and how you opened up HUGE potential for me. As soon as I finish typing I get to go outside and get to work on things that will produce, including buying the one little pullet chicken that is for sale near me! THE PROBLEM: We have an electric well pump that we haven't used in 8 years because of broken underground pipes going to about 15 spigots in our 3-acre, raw, rural yard. The spigots don't work, so I had limited myself to gardening and animal raising within 40' of the house, which has one "city water" spigot. The area where the hose would reach is not ideal for any of the permaculture/animal work I wanted to do. -- We have an old barn, a south-facing concrete arbor, a wood gazebo, a metal shed and a run-in shed, all going to waste because we can't get water out there without filling gallon jugs. We're 62 and 80 years old and those well spigots were part of why we bought this property. I don't know how the pipes broke but they did. We've tried digging and making repairs ourselves, but to no avail, and we can't possibly afford to professionally fix everything. So guess what you inspired me to do, based on your 5 steps? SOLUTION: I'm going to turn on the well and observe where the water shows up in the yard (I know it does) above the broken pipes. I think there are about 6 places. It will either pool or shoot up and I will assess how best to use that water for trees, vegetables, animals, composting, etc. Depending on whether there are trees or shade or natural berms/swales, I'm going to make my garden beds and animal pens. I can just turn on the well pump when I need water for those needs! It will be like an underground spring! I now know that I can fill a little pond area for the chicken I want, and maybe a duck! THANK YOU NICE LADY! THANK YOU! I'm going to name the pullet Angela.

I enjoyed this video immensely. It's the first video I can remember taking notes from. I'm retiring mid October this year and I will finally have the time to spend to reap the rewards I want. I'm so excited. I've been subscribed for a few months and I appreciate your style so much. Thank you!

Thank you so much for putting up so much free content. So much knowledge is out there but I find it isn’t in forms that helps me learn. You are very clear in your ideas and never boring

Thank you for your kind guidelines... Appreciated ...

Unintentional succession plan. I have a massively old elm in front of my house on the street strip of plants. I have a squirrel planted walnut just on my property, underneath the elm. When the elm needs to come down, my walnut should be big enough to shade my house. ❤️🌳

Excellent thank you Angela. Working on this for our 5 acres.

Thank you Angela! I always appreciate your content 😌.

Fabulous outfit! It all compliments you well.