Larry & Linda’s Backyard Food Forest Video Tour
Linda and Larry Saltzman, Founders of the Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club, share with us a Food Forest right in their suburban backyard. Produced by Jill Cloutier, Carol Hirashima & Logan Nevitt.
18 Responses to Larry & Linda’s Backyard Food Forest Video Tour
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, We’re just outside of Portland Oregon on a 50×100 city lot. We also have little “open” area left as we put in more and more edible plants. We really like 1/4 minus 10 gravel for mulch and walking areas. It keeps the mud down in our wet season and breaks up the clay. I don’t find it a problem to rake the paths of leaves. A little small gravel won’t hurt the compost. And much of the leaves I put onto planted areas anyway. Happy growing.
Patricia Hoffman
December 8, 2012 at 10:28 am
For starters the lemon in your backyard doesn’t cost anything.
pauluminous
December 8, 2012 at 11:08 am
the lemon you buy at the store is picked before it is ripe and shipped across the country, if not the world, ending up costing a lot in packaging for shipping and fuel costs for transportation, where as the one in your backyard fits into the system of the world where the only by product it creates is compost and only fuel that is required is sunlight.
DontPlayForPoint
December 8, 2012 at 11:47 am
you could add more native herbs if you can.
vidaripollen
December 8, 2012 at 12:12 pm
What is the difference between the same lemon in your backyard and the same lemon sold at the market?
heartlessvietboy
December 8, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Israel is a world leader and a pioneer in this field. My wife and I were privileged to visit last year and were very impressed.
jimmyjoemeeker
December 8, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Very impressive and inspirational. And what a beautiful and impressive food forest. This proves that you don’t have to have a lot of land to get started. Thank you so much for the info.
And shame on buxehude 123 for cursing and sounding so vile. People that are truly environmetally conscious do not engage in such petty, personal vicious attacks.
Cairokmt
December 8, 2012 at 1:08 pm
While I am not a “tree hugger” by any definition of the word, I really like this. It just makes sense. Less lawn to cut and tend to, FREE, GOOD FOOD. Any time I get to save a little bit out of my pay check, it is good.
I will bet that the house gets a little shade from the trees in the garden, too. (Saved money on power bill.)
Any intelligent person can see that this make good sense.
jeffery19677
December 8, 2012 at 1:50 pm
true you dont need a lot of land to grow lolts of food!!! thanmks for sharing.
button1943
December 8, 2012 at 2:28 pm
nice job
GovernmentGoneWild
December 8, 2012 at 2:48 pm
We love this. Our dream is to see food forest gardens across the planet… Abundant free food for all…
pierresoleil1
December 8, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Im getting my trees from the Arbor Day Foundation….
pdsavage
December 8, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Where can I learn how to create a garden like this?
Mzinterested1
December 8, 2012 at 4:38 pm
nice job
miraclePaws
December 8, 2012 at 5:08 pm
I am glad for the positive responses. The video makes did a great job. There is a ton of material on the internet about Permaculture and food forest. Learn about it, anybody can do what we did.
Larry Saltzman
December 8, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Lovely. Thanks for the inspiration!
quantumsolutions
December 8, 2012 at 6:35 pm
thanks for sharing this video…….I love it…
alex ca
December 8, 2012 at 6:36 pm
What a neat yard! Thanks for sharing with us.
markhess
December 8, 2012 at 7:08 pm