Tag: permaculture

Episode-250- Food Forest In Full Swing Part 3/4

Tony Teolis July 20, 2014 0 Comments
This third installment of the Food Forest in my bakyard show how the backyard extends to all around the house. Beginning on the south side I show the raspberries which produced about 18 pounds of fruit this season! Going to make wine now that the jam is stored. Of course the raspberries depicted in this video only make up about half of the total raspberry plants. We harvested about 12 pounds...

Episode-249- Food Forest And Permaculture Showcase Part 2/4

Tony Teolis July 11, 2014 0 Comments
Here is part 2 of the food forest videos. This video shows how the swales that I built in the backyard have matured to the point where they now support hundreds of plants. That is no exageration and the goal is to have them eventually fill out with the fruti producing bsushes such as Juneberry, Goji and Goumi. I'll ad to those over time too. The video was taken before the battle with Japanese...

Episode-248- Food Forest And Permaculture Showcase Part 1/4

Tony Teolis July 10, 2014 0 Comments
I finally get a chance to share with you a view of the food forest I have envisioned growing. The backyard is a web of interconnected systems. It is not a forest yet as full production will take several more years. There are apple and peach tress that have to come online yet and the goji, goumi, juneberry, and other berries have some time before they will become productive. In the meantime...

Episode-246- Plant Comfrey And Parsley Part 2

Tony Teolis July 4, 2014 0 Comments
This is part 2 of the parsley and comfrey planting this year. The last video showed what the comfrey looked like out of the fridge where it was stored for a month. The gardens look bare and that's because they are. Soon though things will be growing in all the mounds and swales. They will be hosting apple and peach trees, elderberry and blueberry and much much more. There will be juneberry,...

Episode-245- Plant Comfrey And Parsley In The Backyard

Tony Teolis June 22, 2014 0 Comments
This how the gardens get started this year. I begin with comfrey from Nantahala Farm & Garden in North Carolina  and the parsley were the first plants started from seed in February. The seeds came from SouthernExposre In Mineral, VA. I have had a great experience buying from them over the years. Today's video shows how they have grown in the past two months and I briefly show where they...

June

Tony Teolis June 14, 2014 0 Comments
The dog and I were just outside this evening in the dark and its not just the ole sloping backyard instead it's a sponge full of life. It has rained 6 of the first 12 days in June 2014 and for that we are grateful. Almost a full two inches in a time when it's usually scarce. The dearth might be coming but for tonight it's alright and it will last. The swales and hugel mounds all over the place...

Episode-241- Grow Radish In Three Easy Steps

Tony Teolis May 26, 2014 0 Comments
Growing radish is an awesome return on investment plant that brings forth produce in a short amount of time. So short that it is the shortest of all the plants I grow. All it takes is for radish seeds to be planted i s good loose soil that's watered, weeded and mulched. The Voila within 28 days you have food. Of course you have to like radishes like I like radishes in order to say that...

May

Tony Teolis May 10, 2014 0 Comments
Wow! I have not posted ever since I wrote all those things in April I was going to do next. Well I did and I am and there's more to do. So that's what happens in May. There's some cool vids of the new bees (mason and honey) being installed coming next. Apples, peach, strawberries, comfrey, rhubarb, horseradish, lavender and on and on are all in the ground. More to get there, more to sow, honey...