Welcome to Our Path to Infinite Abundance

Find Food Forest University on YouTube

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:15:21 GMT

Find Food Forest University on YouTube!

Food Forest University teachings are now on YouTube, in neat playlists that teach you about food forests, food forestry, and you can learn the 8 steps to create a food forest for U!

Previously, my free courses were on a website, but the website hosting service closed down, so I decided to put them up on YouTube. I feel good about it. Please visit the channel https://www.youtube.com/@FoodForestUniversity

Get Expert Help for your San Diego Area Garden!

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 02:09:27 GMT

Get help designing and installing your San Diego area home garden.

From an experienced San Diego area designer, and graduate of Food Forest University!

Here is what Food Foresters will be doing in summer!

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:44:43 GMT

Recommendations for what to do in your food forest during summer!

Aloha Friends and Food Foresters!

In this video, I read a bit from "Step 8. Sustainable Harvesting and Annual Cycles" from my book "The 8 Step Path to Creating a Food Forest."

I use this guidebook to help me remember what I've learned so I won't forget anything important.

Since Summer began yesterday in the Northern Hemisphere, I'm looking at the section that tells you what to do in Summertime.

In summer, we water plants as needed, harvest, chop-and-drop to maintain mulch at 1" deep and prune trees to keep them in the shapes we like.

Join Food Forest University for Free!

https://foodforestuniversity.com/

Here's a link to Paul Gautschi's YouTube video on pruning:

https://youtu.be/fWJ5pnTrxMo?si=0lATHC8gzKTPpGON

Glyphosate in Products Like RoundUp

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:41:20 GMT

We can do better than that!

Viewers shared these websites about the potential dangers of using glyphosate products.

https://www.drugwatch.com/roundup/glyphosate/

https://www.consumernotice.org/environmental/pesticides/roundup/

https://www.consumernotice.org/environmental/pesticides/roundup/glyphosate/

There's really no need to use it! Here's what you can do instead:

You can spray white vinegar on "weeds" if you want to kill them.

You can pull up a weed and place a seed or a seedling in it's place. This springtime practice transforms your garden floor by encouraging your favorite plants to grow in place of the "weeds" you don't want to grow.

You can mow or weed-whack weeds, and if you do so before they create seeds, you stunt the future growth of the unwanted plant.

Bottom Line; Nature has all we need and want. Use your wits to overcome obstacles. Don't use poisons frivolously as they are not necessary.

I send you all so much Aloha! and may your gardens grow infinitely abundantly!

Tutu

Chatting with a graduate of Food Forest University, Crystal Hilsley!

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:09:09 GMT

Learning to grow food forests at Food Forest University. In this video, Tutu chats with Crystal Hilsley, who is a graduate of Food Forest University and an accomplished entrepreneur and passionate protector of children, nature, and our Mother Gaia.

Crystal has founded Homegrown Harvests in San Diego.

Find out about HomeGrown Harvests offerings here:

https://homegrown-harvests.com/

https://homegrown-harvests.com/contact

We chat about how Crystal discovered Food Forest University, how it helps her create sustainable gardens, and about her current Food Forest projects.

She shares how the lessons in Food Forest University can be used to create food forest gardens everywhere on Gaia.

To enroll in Food Forest University, click here:

https://foodforestuniversity.com/

Learn to Grow a Home Food Forest at Food Forest University!

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:35:59 GMT

“Achieve more food freedom, health freedom, and financial freedom by growing a food forest garden near you”

Unleash the power of food, health, and financial freedom by growing a thriving food forest garden right in your backyard. With a food forest garden, you can enjoy a diverse range of fresh and nutritious produce all year round, while saving money and reducing your carbon footprint. Don't wait any longer to experience the benefits of a food forest garden. Start your journey towards a sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle today!

Are Food Forests the Gardens of Eden?

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:45:38 GMT

The words of Revelation 22, the last chapter of the Bible

This verse came into my awareness recently, and it's prophecy sounds like the beautiful vision that I received about our Path to Infinite Abundance and World Peace through Food Forestry!

Mother Nature is Infinitely Abundant and Provides All forms of Mater for Us, Freely, as long as we live in unity with all life.

I believe Food Forests are our Future!

Restore Health to Yourself, Restore Health to Mother Earth

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:05:44 GMT

Chapter 10 of Our Path To Infinite Abundance!

My friend, if you want to eat the freshest, most nutrient dense food available, then a food forest is for you!

WISDOM OF THE TREES! A UNITY WAY MESSAGE

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:52:39 GMT

TREES ARE WISE TEACHERS AND ABUNDANT PROVIDERS

This is a beautiful video about the wisdom of trees, and the history of growing trees. It shows how food forest gardens have been a part of cultures worldwide before this modernized era. If you love trees, you will enjoy this message!

Free Membership in Food Forest University

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:34:18 GMT

Step onto Your Path to Infinite Abundance! Join Food Forest University - For Free!

These courses will help you step onto your path to infinite abundance, and learn to create body care products, household cleaning products, and live a healthy lifestyle.

Ancient Teachings on Bhoomi aka Earth or Gaia

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:48:28 GMT

Sanskrit writings about Earth, which they call "Bhoomi"

Let's check out some ancient Sanskrit messages regarding Earth, or as they called it back then, Bhoomi!

We visit the website Greenmessages.org and read aloud from the page on Bhoomi. Thank you, Greenmessages.org, for the lovely website.

The Food Forest Floor Trifecta - Mulch, Fungi, Wood Ashes!

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:57:40 GMT

The Food Forest Floor Trifecta - Mulch, Fungi, Fireplace Ashes!

The worm on the thumbnail is from our food forest! I took this picture and zoomed in so you could see its little face! So cute!

By mulching with wood chips and adding mycorrhizal fungi and ashes to our heavy clay soil, we have filled it with life forms, such as worms and smaller decomposing creatures.

We got the mycorrhizal fungi from Paul Stamets' website https://fungi.com/products/mycogrow_soluble.

Learn more at

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tutu-Sainz/author/B07ND3W7VB

22 Things to Love About Food Forests

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:25:05 GMT

Here are 22 things to love about food forests! It's from the book "Our Path to Infinite Abundance, Introduction to Food Forests"

Create living soil in your garden today and grow the best food available!

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Learn to co-create a food forest near you!

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tutu-Sainz/author/B07ND3W7VB

https://www.alohafoodforest.com/

Aloha and Peace on Earth!

Tutu

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Joy to the World! We have Infinite Abundance on Earth!

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:38:47 GMT

Joy to the World! We have infinite abundance on Mater Earth!

Mater Earth is the source of all material and gives birth to all life in fractally infinite patterns. We are all infinitely wealthy when we tap into Nature's Infinite Abundance! It's time to be joyful!

To Step onto your path to infinite abundance, check out Tutu's books here:

https://www.amazon.com/Tutu-Sainz/e/B07ND3W7VB

Co-Create with Nature to Form Terra Preta Inspired Soil - Using Ashes and Mulch

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:52:06 GMT

Living close to nature, we can form the most extraordinary soil. We use twigs and cuttings from the food forest to fuel fires, returning the ashes, char, and mulch to the forest floor.

Amazon Rain Forest soil is called Terra Preta, meaning dark earth. Ashes, woodchip mulch, and composted kitchen waste create a habitat for soil life when added to the ground.

While the scientific community is busy arguing about who is right, I'm going ahead with creating my version of terra preta with the resources I have around me. Twigs and fallen branches go into the fire to heat the house or cook food, and when they are turned to ash, they go back into the garden.

Since we dug swales and berms to conduct rainwater earlier this year, we are taking advantage of those structures to add the fireplace ash onto the soil surface.

The amazon rainforest was once inhabited by millions of people, who grew edible, medicinal, and useful plants. Due to a tragedy of some sort, the society was obliterated, but the ancient buildings can be detected using ground penetration lidar.

Check out the video for details, and if you are curious, explore the concepts of terra preta and biochar.

Be sure to get copies of Tutu's books and get started growing your infinitely abundant food forest today!

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Tutu-Sainz/author/B07ND3W7VB

Discover the Miracle of Eco-Enzyme!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:29:26 GMT

Learn how to make this multi-purpose cleaner, fertilizer, from kitchen scraps!

It's practically free to make, and a perfect solution to pollution!

Begin to care for our EARTH, starting from your kitchen.

I learned about eco-enzyme from a Food Forest Abundance webinar presented by Wenting Chen in July 2022.

Eco-enzyme is a multipurpose liquid whose applications cover household, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc.

Developed by Dr. Rosukon, who has been actively involved in enzyme research for more than 30 years.

Dr. Ros encourages people to make eco-enzymes at home.

Eco-enzyme is a dark brown, scented, complex liquid produced by fermentation using:

fresh kitchen waste

sugar

water

It is dark brown and has a solid sweet, sour fermented scent.

So, back in n October 2022, the enzyme was ready, and everyone agreed it smelled pretty pleasant.

I poured my new batch of fragrant eco-enzyme into a spray bottle and soon discovered how wonderful it is as a multipurpose cleaner.

I love it. It does a great job of cleaning.

Laundry, Dishes, Pots and Pans, Glass, Counters, Floors, Showers, Toilets, Stoves, Rugs, Tile Grout, and the Kitchen Sink!

All look brighter and smell better.

Dr. Ros’s Eco-Enzyme is a complex organic substance that people already use in cultures worldwide!

I am so grateful and glad that I discovered this, and I will continue using this.

Make your own fabulous cleaning and fertilizing solution for free! No need to purchase cleaners and fertilizers.

Why should we make Eco-Enzyme?

Eco-enzyme is your best household helper:

+Anti-Bacterial, Fungus, and Virus, Natural antiseptic for your home.

+Purify Underground Water

Enzyme residues flowing underground will eventually purify the rivers and the seas.

+Purify Air

Remove odor and toxic air released from smoking, car exhaust, chemical residues of household products, etc.

+Easy to DIY at a negligible cost!

+Free of life-harming pollutants!

It is an effective solution to multiple household problems!

+The the longer it steeps, the better it gets. Eco enzymes will never expire.

+No electricity is required to make it or store it!

+Save Money!

+Get Free DIY multipurpose household cleaner and fertilizer!

+Even helps seeds start!

+Natural household cleaner; air purifier; detergent; car care; fabric softener; organic fertilizer, etc.

+Reduce pollution by using waste products!

+Beneficial to sea plants and marine life.

+Enzyme’s Function:

· Resolve / decompose

· Transform / Change

· Compose / makeup/combination

· Catalysis

+For Agriculture

Reduce overuse of chemicals in agriculture. Keep the farm free from infections and insects.

+Enzymes can fertilize the soil for healthy vegetable growth and provide a natural hormone for plants and trees.

+Enzymes can also cultivate land into fertile farmland suitable for planting.

+It also keeps the air in the farm atmosphere clean and cool,

+Cleans impure and dirty water on the farm.

+Help in driving away insects, reduces mosquitoes, flies, rats or cockroaches, etc.

+Remove odor from pets and cigarettes

For ticks and carpets

For ironing and washing

For hallway and bedroom

For car maintenance

Prevent drain pipe blockage: Release residues accumulated in the pipe of basins or toilet bowls.

Learn ECO ENZYME DIY in this video

Visit Dr. Rosukan website at:

https://www.enzymesos.com/what-is-eco-enzyme

Visit Wenting Chen's channel!

Here's how she makes the paper measuring guide:

https://youtu.be/fic0rqPudSI

Visit Food Forest Abundance:

https://foodforestabundance.com/

Harvesting Pecans to make Hair Dye and Snacks!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:08:31 GMT

Processing Pecans for hair dye and Snacks!

The pecans were growing when we got here, and we learned how to use the dark husks for hair dye and enjoy the nuts for snacks. Nature is good. Aloha!

The Warmth of the Sun Comes From a Wood Fire!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:25:43 GMT

We get a dose of sunshine on a cold night!

Each tree and plant receives warm sunlight in its material body. When we have twigs, broken wood, and bits and pieces, we can light them up and release the sunshine from the plant material.

It’s so fun and warm and beautiful!

Then we can put the pot ashes back out into the garden.

According to Wikipedia,

The English name for the element potassium comes from the word potash, which refers to an early method of extracting various potassium salts: placing in a pot the ash of burnt wood or tree leaves, adding water, heating, and evaporating the solution. When Humphry Davy first isolated the pure element using electrolysis in 1807, he named it potassium, which he derived from the word potash.

The symbol K stems from kali, itself from the root word alkali, which in turn comes from Arabic: القَلْيَه al-qalyah 'plant ashes.'

Macadamia Nut Harvest 11 16 22

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:17:39 GMT

Feeling blessed to harvest nuts from a tree that someone else planted long ago!

The beauty of a forest is that it keeps on producing harvests for decades and centuries!

Here we are harvesting the nuts before they fall to the ground, and letting them finish ripening in the husks.

There's a stalk of greenish bananas ripening there too!

Welcome to Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Food Forest Gardens

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 19:09:34 GMT

Learn why and how to grow a food forest in this slideshow with Tutu Sainz, Co-Creator at Aloha Food Forest.

What does forest mean?

What is a food forest?

Discover the amazing potential of seeds!

Food forests can grow everywhere - even snowy mountains and deserts!

Learn the 8 steps to creating a food forest!

Get on your path to infinite abundance today!

Use Dry banana leaves to wipe, when peeing outside!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:24:02 GMT

When peeing in the wild, you may use dried banana leaves to wipe!

Humans and Gardens belong together!

Because pee fertilizes a food forest with generous amounts of NPK! (nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus!), please feel free to pee in your food forest floor!

When peeing in the wild, you may use dried banana leaves to wipe the pee!

When finished, let the toilet wipes fertilize the plants!

Learn to wash your hair and body with fresh garden produce!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:49:37 GMT

Mother Nature's shampoo is the best shampoo for all!

See how to create Garden Tea for Hair and Body Care!

You can make healing hair and body care teas, using a variety of garden ingredients.

Use it for hair care and then garden fertilizer!

The False Matrix and the Real Matrix

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:30:02 GMT

The word Matrix comes from the Latin word for Mother,

When we speak the word Matrix, we are referring to Mother.

The Global Corporatocracy is a False Matrix.

Our Beautiful Mother Earth is the Real Matrix.

Compare what you get from the false Matrix with what you get from the Real Matrix, Mother Gaia.

For more research, here's a link to the video by Mike Adams regarding the war on the periodic table elements .

https://brighteon.tv/GlobalistWar/

Wishing you infinite abundance, joy, and peace!

Aloha!

Tutu Sainz

Are the crows planting pecan trees?

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:19:18 GMT

Here's evidence that crows are pecan tree planters!

Slideshow presentation on Nature's Infinite Abundance and the 8 Steps to Creating A Food Forest

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:05:47 GMT

Here are the main teachings from books 1 and 2, presented as a slideshow. By Tutu Sainz

Listen as Tutu Reads "Our Path to Infinite Abundance, Introduction to Food Forests"

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:53:19 GMT

Hang out at the food forest, under the trees , listening to the birds singing and Tutu reading the entire first book, Our Path to Infinite Abundance, Introduction to Food Forests!

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Food Forests, Our Path to Infinite Abundance!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:11:58 GMT

Learn why and how to co-create with nature to grow a food forest!

Infinitely Abundant, Eternal Gardens, Food Forests can bring Mother Gaia back to pristine health, and feed and shelter all living beings. Exchanging our time and effort to grow our food and medicine at home lowers our need to use money,

Using Laundry Graywater to Create a Small Pond

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:30:33 GMT

The ground is a great place to save water!

Where once we had dry land, now we have a small pond and oasis. Since we piped our laundry graywater into a large gravel-filled hole, many plants and animals have made it their home.

Olive Tree Bursting with Olives Growing in a Food Forest

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:54:30 GMT

This olive tree was once coppiced to the ground and has responded beautifully to the food forest environment!

March 29, 2022

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:50:35 GMT

March 29, 2022

Another beautiful day at Aloha Food Forest, following heavy rain.

Mallow! A Wonderful Wild Vegetable!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:57:19 GMT

Mallow, the Marshmallow plant, appears to be a self-seeding "weed," but is a valuable vegetable!

Self-seeding mallow plant roots are used for making marshmallow candies.

The leaves taste better than lettuce or spinach to me.

The delicious seed pods grow in the shape of a pie or cheese wheel.

Durable and tasty greens that can grow in bright sunlight and low water - perfect for hot dry climates.

Edible leaves and stems! Forage fresh or include the greens leaves, stems and seed pods in recipes.

Let it grow in your backyard and harvest infinite abundance.

Sending Love, Joy, Peace, and Infinite Abundance to All!

Tutu Sainz

We have fun using an outdoor shower to water our food forest plants!

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:46:20 GMT

Learn about using an outdoor shower to water the garden, and what to wash with when you shower outside!

Birds sing and butterflies fly by as we clean our hair and bodies using fresh garden produce. The cold water can be saved in a pot or a bucket to be distributed into other parts of the food forest, and the rest of the water goes into the underground aquifer. Learn how we use fresh garden produce we use to clean ourselves!

Bees Buzzing in Nectarine Flower Blossoms

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:10:33 GMT

Bees pollinating nectarine blossoms while birds sing!

Just another beautiful moment in a food forest!

Restore Health to Yourself, Restore Health to Mother Earth

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:45:25 GMT

Tutu reads chapter 10, “Heal Yourself, Heal Mother Earth!” from her book “Our Path to Infinite Abundance, Introduction to Food Forests”

Photomontage at Aloha Food Forest 02/27/2022

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:57:21 GMT

Let pictures of the food forest touch your heart.

Nature's infinitely abundant fractal patterns are obvious when you look for them. Aloha to you, dear friend!

It's fun and easy to let my iPad make movies from photos!

Aloha Food Forest

rootsgrowfruits@gmail.com (Tutu Sainz) — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:45:32 GMT

Another blessed day at Aloha Food Forest

Discover Tomatoes - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:00:02 GMT

Learn about growing tomatoes in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Hair Care - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 16:00:02 GMT

Learn about natural hair care methods and best practices in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Discover Pigeon Peas - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 16:00:02 GMT

Learn about the wonderful gift of Pigeon Peas in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Learn About Food Forests - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:00:02 GMT

Learn about Food Forests from TuTu Sines, founder of Aloha Food Forest!

Holiday Gift - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:00:02 GMT

Learn about an amazing holiday gift idea from TuTu Sienz, founder of Aloha Food Forest!

Maintaining Avocados - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:01:38 GMT

Learn how to maintain avocados in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Growing Avocados - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:00:02 GMT

Learn how to grow avocados in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Maintaining Strawberries - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:00:02 GMT

Learn how to maintain strawberries in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Growing Strawberries - Aloha Food Forest Video Series

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:00:01 GMT

Learn how to grow strawberries in this Aloha Food Forest Video!

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Chapters 5 and 6

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:00:03 GMT

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests

In this fourth segment of her new video series, Tutu reads chapters 5 & 6 of her wonderful book Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests . Get your own copy here .

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Chapter 4

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:32:19 GMT

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests

In this third segment of her new video series, Tutu reads chapter 4 of her wonderful book Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests . Get your own copy here .

Our Path to Infinite Abundance Chapters 1 and 2

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:44:38 GMT

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests

In this first segment of her new video series, Tutu reads chapters 1 & 2 of her wonderful book Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests . Get your own copy here .

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Chapter 3

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:00:01 GMT

Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests

In this second segment of her new video series, Tutu reads chapter 3 of her wonderful book Our Path to Infinite Abundance - Introduction to Food Forests . Get your own copy here .

Growing Sugar Cane at Aloha Food Forest

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:14:49 GMT

Plant of the Month for October - Sugar Cane

Sugarcane or sugar cane refers to tall tropical perennial grasses in the genus Saccharum used to produce sugar . They like plenty of sunshine and water.

S ugarcane plants form lateral shoots at the base to produce multiple stems, about 2 in in diameter. The sprouts grow into 75% cane stalk, with leafy tops.

Sugarcane is an ancient crop grown around the world! The Persians and Greeks encountered the famous "reeds that produce honey without bees" in India between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. They adopted and then spread sugarcane agriculture. Merchants began to trade in sugar, which was considered a luxurious and expensive spice from India. In the 18th century AD, sugarcane plantations started in the Caribbean, South American, Indian Ocean, Pacific island nations and became a significant driver of massive migrations.

In some regions, people use sugar cane reeds to make pens, mats, screens, and thatch. The young, unexpanded flower head of Saccharum edule ( duruka ) is eaten raw, steamed, or toasted, and prepared in various ways in Southeast Asia , including Fiji and some island communities of Indonesia.

Here at Aloha Food Forest, we enjoy sugarcane as a snack ,

as a stirring stick for sweetening a boiling mixture,

This picture shows a big pot of freshly picked purple grapes boiling with sugarcane pieces used as stirring sticks/mashers to make sweet grape juice.

And we are happy to say we are using sugarcane as a mulch covering the soil.

Sugarcane is an exciting new source of mulch that is very high in carbohydrates and nitrogen for the soil life and the green plants.

Mow the dry leaves with a mulching lawnmower to create mulch,

and the canes can go through the wood chipper smoothly.

Here is a picture of our Patriot wood chipper and the mulch from one sugar cane.

Nitrogen fixation

Sugarcane varieties are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen in association with the bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus .

Unlike legumes and other nitrogen-fixing plants that form root nodules in the soil in association with bacteria, G. diazotrophicus lives within the sugarcane's stem’s intercellular spaces.

Carbon fixation

Sugar Cane is one of the most efficient photosynthesizers in the plant kingdom. It is a C4 carbon fixation plant, able to convert up to 1% of incident solar energy into biomass.

History

Sugar cane was among the early crops brought to the Americas by the Spanish and the Portuguese from their fields in the Madeira Islands . Christopher Columbus first brought sugarcane to the Caribbean during his second voyage to the Americas .

Once a significant crop of the United States’ southeastern regions, sugarcane cultivation declined there during the late 20th century and is primarily confined to small plantations in Florida , Louisiana , and southeast Texas in the 21st century .

Sugarcane cultivation ceased in Hawaii when the last operating sugar plantation in the state shut down in 2016.

But woohoo! We can grow it here in Southern California!

Soil

Sugarcane can be grown on many soils ranging from highly fertile, well-drained Mollisols , through heavy cracking Vertisols , infertile acid Oxisols and Ultisols , peaty Histosols , to rocky Andisols .

Sun and Water

Both plentiful sunshine and water supplies increase cane production. Desert countries with good irrigation facilities such as Egypt produce some of the highest-yielding sugarcane-cultivating regions.

Harvesting and Re-Planting

Although some sugarcanes produce seeds, modern stem cutting has become the most common reproduction method. Each cutting must contain at least one bud, and the cuttings are sometimes hand-planted.

Once planted, you can harvest a stand several times; after each harvest, the cane sends up new stalks, called ratoons . Successive crops give decreasing yields, so eventually, you might need to replant new cuttings by planting a cut piece of sugar cane’s nodes in the soil. In a more traditional agriculture type with smaller fields and hand harvesting, like in the French island la Réunion or a backyard food forest, sugar cane is often harvested up to 10 years before replanting.

Recipes

In most countries that cultivate sugarcane, there are several foods and popular dishes derived directly from it, such as:

Raw sugarcane: chewed to extract the juice
Sayur nganten : an Indonesian soup made with the stem of trubuk ( Saccharum edule ), a type of sugarcane.
Sugarcane juice : This combination of fresh juice, extracted by hand or small mills, with a touch of lemon and ice makes a popular drink, known variously as air tebu , usacha rass , guarab , guarapa, guarapo, papelón , aseer asab , ganna sharbat , mosto , caldo de cana , nước miá .
Syrup : a traditional sweetener in soft drinks, now primarily supplanted in the US by high fructose corn syrup , which is less expensive due to corn subsidies and sugar tariffs.
Molasses : used as a sweetener and a syrup accompanying other foods, such as cheese or cookies
Jaggery : a solidified molasses, for sweetening cooking. Known as gur , gud , or gul in India, is traditionally produced by evaporating juice to make a thick sludge and then cooling and molding it in buckets. Modern production partially freeze dries the liquid to reduce caramelization and lighten its color.
Falernum: a sweet and slightly alcoholic drink made from sugarcane juice
Cachaça is the most popular distilled alcoholic beverage in Brazil, a liquor made of the distillation of sugarcane juice.
Rum : is a liquor made from sugarcane products, typically molasses but sometimes also cane juice, commonly produced in the Caribbean.
Basi : is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane juice produced in the Philippines and Guyana .
Panela : solid pieces of sucrose and fructose obtained from the boiling and evaporation of sugarcane juice; a food staple in Colombia and other countries in South and Central America
Rapadura : a sweet flour that is one of the simplest refinings of sugarcane juice, common in Latin American countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela (known as papelón ) and the Caribbean.
Rock candy : crystallized cane juice

Planting Food Forest Guilds

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:00:35 GMT

This Food Forest Guild grows in a space only 15 feet deep by 24 feet wide.

Planting Food Forest Guilds

A food forest guild is a unit or building block of a food forest, that includes plants in each of the nine layers of a food forest.

One of the best things about arranging new plantings in guilds or groupings is that when they are still young and need water, you can water them all together, so you save water.

If you plant things far apart, you need to water many different areas.

So if you want to start small and build over time, create one or two tree guilds surrounded by companion plants that attract pollinators or cover the soil with green mulch, like clovers, or woodsorrel, as you get the trees established. Ideally, as they share nutrients through the soil food web, they assist each other to thrive.

A permaculture guild from Medium.com

Here is a lovely picture someone created of a guild in which all the members of the guild help each other thrive.

In this picture, everything is growing close together. Small herbaceous plants can grow under trees, also garlic and onions.

Keep an eye on your guild as it grows, because you may see one plant overtaking and suffocating another. Then you can trim them back so that everyone gets enough sunshine, earth, and air.

George W. Carver's Words Ring True Today!

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:03:06 GMT

George W. Carver's Words Ring True Today!

George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist, author, and inventor

This American hero, George Washington Carver , was wise, kind, and brilliant, and I am thankful that his words are still around for us today.

When I review his quotes, I see how strongly I agree with his ideas, and we both love the same things. Even as children, we had similar interests.

“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”

- George Washington Carver

This quote strikes me how grateful we can be for the phone apps that allow us to identify plants and animals in our environments . George would have loved it!

“Reading about nature is alright, but when a person walks through the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

- George Washington Carver

In food forestry, we practice observing nature and listening to God’s still voice as we watch .

"Young people, I want to beg of you to always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By doing so, you will learn many valuable things every day of your life."

- George Washington Carver

You will learn universal truths that apply across all areas of life in nature .

A food forest is the plane midway between the infinity existing above us in outer space , and the infinity below us in microscopic beings and and matter on Earth .

The more you look at the tiny, the more new, even smaller things you find. The more you look into space, the more huge stuff you see. But you have to place your attention there.

The zero plane of food forest is just as infinite as the above and the below, but it is on the ground .

There are infinitely expanding patterns all around us, just waiting for us to place our attention there. There is excellent abundance there, so I encourage you to pay attention to nature’s lessons around you .

Another beautiful thing to observe in the food forest is that all biota perform unique roles to help themselves and each other in their biodiverse community that performs as a united community , the “ Food Forest University .”

By focusing our attention on nature around us, we discover that the place is teeming with life . And they are not at war, but rather that all contribute by doing unique jobs, feeding on each other and plants and fungi, and balancing each other’s populations .

I believe nature’s design is for us to be at peace with each other and with the steady rhythms of birth, life, death, and transformation of the material body into new energy and form .

In the forest, everything decomposes and becomes part of the next cycle of life. It doesn’t seem so sad if you see it as a rhythm of ebb and flow. When you see a beautiful young flower, you know that it came from a seed that fell from a parent that is no longer here. And that is okay. That is what is going to happen to all of us. So we can be a pretty flower or a healthy tree or a beautiful human being for the life we have on Earth. We can choose to enjoy it and not worry about dying.

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.”

- George Washington Carver

To this, I say, Nature shows great kindness to us in a food forest, and when you focus on that, you will unlock joy and abundance for yourself and the diverse plants, fungi, and animals on your land.

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

- George Washington Carver

Liziqi shares the life of Potatoes

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:11 GMT

www.youtube.com/watch

Plant some green onions and garlic in your garden!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:11 GMT

Get an unending stream of green onions, and garlic by planting some in your garden.

There are many kinds of produce from grocery stores that can be planted in your garden to create streams of food for you to pick as needed!

Check out what happened when we planted some fresh green onions that we purchased from a grocery store!

Nature’s abundance provides free food for you! Start your food forest today!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:10 GMT

Food Grows for Free

See what’s possible in your own back yard!

See many many beautiful plants we started for free and cheap – plants we grew from seeds, roots, and cuttings!

Here’s some inspiration to help you get growing new plants in your future backyard food forest! You can plant seeds from fruits you buy, take cuttings from trees and shrubs you love, and even plant root vegetables from the store!

We cut stems and make them grow roots and turn into whole new plants!

Our Earthly Mother is the Giver of Life

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:09 GMT

Our Earthly Mother is the giver of life.

Know that your Mother is in you, and you are in her.

She gave you birth and she gives you life.

She gave you your body, and to her, it will return one day, when you give it back again.

Know that the blood which runs in you is born of the blood of our Earthly Mother.

Her blood falls from the clouds, leaps up from the depths of the earth, babbles in the brooks of the mountains, flows wide in the rivers of the plains, sleeps in the lakes, and rages mightily in the tempestuous seas.

Know that the air which you breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother.

Her breath is azure in the heights of the heavens, sighs in the tops of the mountains, whispers in the leaves of the forest, billows over the cornfields, slumbers in the deep valleys, and burns hot in the desert.

Know that the hardness of your bones is born of the bones of our Earthly Mother, of the rocks and of the stones.

Know that the tenderness of your flesh is born of the flesh of our Earthly Mother, whose flesh turns yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, and green in the fruits of the trees.

The light of your eyes and the hearing of your ears are born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother, who surrounds you, as the waves of the sea, enclose a fish, and as the eddying air a bird.

You are one with the Earthly Mother;

She is in you, and you are in her.

Of her were you born,

In her do you live,

And to her, you will return again.

Keep, therefore, her laws,

For none can live long,

Neither be happy,

But he who honors his Earthly Mother

And keeps her laws.

For thy breath is her breath,

Thy blood her blood,

Thy bone her bone,

Thy flesh her flesh,

Thy eyes and thy ears

Are her eyes and her ears.

He who hath found peace

With his Earthly Mother

Shall never know death.

Know this peace with thy mind,

Desire this peace with thy heart.

http://essene.com/GospelOfPeace/peace2.html

Angels are with us

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:08 GMT

We are not alone ��

Love peace joy abundance and Aloha to you dear heart ��

Air Layering is another way to Nature’s Infinite Abundance!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:07 GMT

Aloha Friends, check out this method of growing new trees from existing trees!

Peace, Love, Infinite Abundance, and Aloha!

Roots Grow Fruits! Healthy Soil is the Key to Healthy Plants

Welcome to Our Path to Infinite Abundance!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:03 GMT

Walk onto the Path that is featured on the book cover of “Our Path to Infinite Abundance: Introduction to Food Forests!

Wonderful

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:03 GMT

Relax and Enjoy!

Healing with Plant Spirit Medicine with Deanna Gabriel Vierck and Lauren Galey

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:02 GMT

Create change in your body and on Mother Earth in this is gentle but profound meditation with comfrey, dandelion, and lily, to root you to Mother Earth, heal your wounding, fill you with love, and lift your energy to the cosmos.

Speak the Ho’oponopono

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:48:01 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Here in the USA, we are celebrating Mother’s Day, our holiday to honor the love our mothers give us. We all share one Mother, our Mother Earth.

My gift to you is sharing this beautiful way of bringing harmony into relationships.

The words of the ho’oponopono mean to make right in Hawaiian.

Speak these words anytime you wish to transform angry feelings back to love. When we forgive others and receive forgiveness from others, we bring health into our bodies.

“I Love You. I’m Sorry. Please Forgive Me. Thank you.”

Happy Mothers Day, to Mother Earth and all of her people!

Paramahansa Yogananda

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:58 GMT

DIY automatic watering system for young plants using gallon jugs and more!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:58 GMT

Are you ready to enjoy a life of true health and true wealth

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:57 GMT

Aloha My Friend! Grow multiple streams of food income from your own yard – in your spare time on weekends and afternoons. A food forest provides living, healthy food for you, your family, your friends to eat fresh or to use when cooking.

All of our food, air, water, fire, even the ground we stand on, is a gift provided from Mother Earth. There’s so much abundance, we can’t even begin to eat it all! Food forests are good for Mother Earth and are a key to world peace.

Check out this video and please let me know if you would like to grow a food forest by commenting below.

Peace on Earth, Good Will to All!

Easily Turn Kitchen Scraps into Garden Soil

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:52 GMT

Aloha Friend!

Here’s an EASY way to deal with organic kitchen scraps…

Simply dig a hole in the garden and throw the kitchen scraps into it until you fill the hole up. You can cover the scraps in the hole with leaves periodically if you don’t want to see the scraps.

When you have filled the hole all the way, cover it up with leaves and wait for 6 months or so while the life-forms in the soil turn your kitchen scraps turn into vibrant, living soil.

Then you will have a pocket of rich soil, where you can plant something new!

Angels in the food forest

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:49 GMT

I could see the rainbows and the huge sphere of light surrounding the medicine wheel.

The camera picked up the orbs of light moving around.

5 Tips for Increasing Fruit Tree Vigor and Production

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:49 GMT

Aloha Everyone,

Here’s a video that we put together to show you how we brought vigorous health to some very old, neglected fruit trees that were here on the land when we arrived.

Please watch this video for our 5 tips that will help you bring health to a fruit tree near you!

Alternately, here’s the text from this video, so you may read the information if you like.

Aloha Everyone,
This is Elizabeth with Aloha Farms food forest in sunny Southern California, where we enjoy growing citrus fruit year-round. The 5 decades-old trees that were here when we moved in hadn’t been cared for in a while, but we found that with a little TLC, we were able to bring them back to outstanding health and they now produce some of the juiciest, most delicious fruit I’ve ever had.
Healthy trees are less likely to attract harmful pests. Our beautiful citrus trees were recently tested by the County of San Diego Department of Agriculture, when they placed traps in the trees for 6 weeks during January and February 2016 to see if they could trap exotic fruit flies, asian citrus psyllids, and other unwanted pests. They found that our trees had no pests – which is really great news.
Here are 4 things we did to improve the health of the dear old citrus trees:
1. Pruning – cut off dead or dying branches and stems, remove leaves or stems that are infested with bugs like scale or white fly, remove new growth from the interior of the tree to improve air circulation. These “Water Sprouts” grow vertically from lateral branches and can be removed entirely or pruned above a node to re-direct their growth.
2. Cover the soil under the tree in organic material, which feeds and protects the life-forms that grow in the soil allowing them to proliferate safely under the covering. This also moderates the soil temperature so that it doesn’t get too hot or too cold, and finally, helps retain the soil moisture by preventing it from evaporating.
3. Sprinkle the soil with epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) before a rain so that the rain will wash it into the soil. This really invigorates the trees.
4. Insert into the ground under the tree a 2′ – 3′ piece of ABS pipe or other pipe that’s 2″-3″ in diameter, leaving 2″ or so above the soil level. This will be your watering pipe, so you can water directly into the pipe with a hose, and the water will go right down to the roots. Before we installed our watering pipes, we could water for an hour on top of the soil, and it wouldn’t penetrate deeply into the root zone, so we definitely found this to be a tremendous improvement. We can fill the pipe a few times, and we have deep water penetration of the root zone.
5. This last tip I discovered, and it works well against flying insects that love to feed on new leaf growth. During periods of rapid new leaf growth, if the weather is dry, come out in the late afternoon/early evening and shower off the trees’ foliage with water from a hose. Whatever flying insects are on the tree will instantly fly away to go find drier places. I do this in the early evening so that the water won’t quickly evaporate from the leaves and the insects will stay away while the leaves are wet – and hopefully decide not to come back! This also washes off dust and the trees seem to enjoy a good shower – just like we do

That’s it for now – I hope this information helps any of you who are growing fruit! Thank you for watching, and Aloha!!!

Come and see our outdoor shower and how we create our own shampoo from the garden

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:47 GMT

Amazing wealth is found in nature’s powerful abundance

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:45 GMT

Mathematics expresses itself in nature through the songs birds sing, the fractal patterns in trees, the designs of leaves, flowers, and roots and the infinite potential in seeds.

I’ve spent every day of the last 6 years observing and enjoying nature as I grow a food forest.

I originally grew the forest garden so I could enjoy the juicy fruits, tasty nuts and seeds, the lovely fragrances, and the healthy herbs.

That’s great abundance right there, but as it turns out, that’s only the beginning of the abundance I discovered.

The plants in the food forest also reproduce themselves exponentially, so the abundance expands exponentially!

The branch of math called Calculus deals with exponential increases where numbers get bigger really fast and approach infinity. This best describes the kind of math I see in the food forest.

In this image, check out the orange number line climbing rapidly as it approaches infinity.

Graphic Image of numbers getting larger and approaching infinity. From Socratic.org

I see this type of exponential growth curve going on in the food forest every day.

Seeds, which grow in great abundance in the food forest are the best example of exponential growth. A perfect example of this phenomenon is this romaine lettuce plant that grew from a single seed.

This romaine lettuce plant grew from 1 seed. We enjoyed eating the leaves of the plant as it grew. After a few months, it stopped producing leaves and began to produce these puffy white flowers. Inside of each flower are about 10 or 20 seeds. (yes, i counted several of them). I picked off the flowers and seeds to plant elsewhere in the food forest, and a couple days later, more flowers grew back to replace the ones I picked. I took this picture after I picked most of the flowers and the second round of flowers had grown to replace the first.

One (1) seed can grow into thousands (1000’s) of seeds of it’s kind in as short as 3–6 months.

What kind of Return on Investment can you get from a well planted seed?

Let’s say, as in the picture above, that you “invested” 1 lettuce seed by planting it in the ground and letting it grow for a few months. Then you harvested 1,000 seeds that grew from that lettuce plant, so you ended up with 1,000 seeds.

Here’s the simple “Return On Investment” formula:

Copied from Investopedia.com

(1000 seeds gained — 1 seed invested) = 999 more seeds than you started with

999 seeds / 1 seed cost of investment= 999% return on investment.

If you get a return of 1000 seeds from growing 1 seed, then you get 999 more seeds. Divide the 999 seeds you got by the 1 seed you put in and there’s your ROI percentage.

999% return on investment for growing a seed — in under 6 months.

Compare that to the stock market, where you can expect to average 6% Return on Investment per year. That’s if you’re lucky and you keep your money invested in the stock market for 30 years.

Imagine how many seeds you might have after a few years of planting seeds!

If you plant a tree instead, you will receive fruit and seeds from that tree for decades! We are grateful to have several fruit trees that are over 30 years old and are still producing fruit. Someone else planted them long ago, and we continue to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

If you really want to see abundance, look to a garden rather than an interest-earning financial account.

Have a look at how nature’s abundance happens in this video:

Here’s a video I made about a 110 year old oak tree that grew from an acorn.

From the single acorn grows the mighty oak!

Here’s an orange tree that’s over 30 years old.

Navel oranges grow on an over 30-year-old orange tree!

This orange tree is over 30 years old, and still gives delicious fruit. Plant a fruit tree, get fruit for generations!

Another good example of nature’s abundance is multiplication through roots. Look at these bananas that expand their roots into the soil and pop up new banana plants.

This growth isn’t exponential like seed growth, but still it multiplies with repeated additions of new plants.

New banana trees grow from the roots of existing banana trees

There’s no doubt that a food forest produces an amazing abundance of good food for people. Everyone talks about eating healthier food, and this is a simple, direct way to get healthy food. Forest gardens work in harmony with Planet Earth’s natural processes.

The food forest also produces a healthy habitat full of good food for many animals. The animals feed on plants and on each other to create a balanced population.

We have seen coyotes, rabbits, squirrels, gophers, lizards, birds, insects, possums, raccoons, mice, rats, snakes, skunks and cats. They go about their business, doing what they were born to do, whatever it might be. It feels really good knowing that they like being here in the food forest!

If more people everywhere around the world grow forests of food , we can go a long way toward healing our planet and providing healthy habitats for animals and people.

I hope for a future with food forests growing everywhere on a healthy planet Earth. Where clean water flows, and happy people enjoy plenty of food, love for one another, lots of laughter, and a spirit of co-operation as a big wonderful family of human beings!

Thanks for reading this post.

Aloha!

Lemony Fresh Laundry Water Re-Used in the Garden!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:42 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Here’s an earth-friendly way to wash your clothes and re-use the laundry water in your garden!

Wishing You Peace, Abundance, and Aloha!!!

THE PATH TO ABUNDANCE IS RIGHT UNDER YOUR FEET!!! Grow a food forest

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:42 GMT

When you grow a food forest, you will have healthy food to eat without much work. Food forests are all about planting nut and fruit trees and filling in the rest of the land from there with berries, vegetables, herbs – whatever you like that grows in your area. Food trees are the best thing to start with because they begin to enrich your soil and enrich the garden for the next wave of food plants.

To start your own food forest, start with a patch of earth and create healthy soil – It’s all about the covering of organic material.

Briefly:

Food forests grow quickly because they work in synergy with nature, which speeds growth along . Here are the basic steps to creating a food forest

Use whatever patch of earth you have available.

Dispose of any trash.

Plant trees – fruits or nuts – whatever you like that grows in your area.

Chickens can help clear out over-populations of weeds and insects, while simultaneously loosening up the soil and adding their waste as fertilizer.

Drop chipped plants and animal manure onto the surface of the soil = Sheet Mulch

Soil covered in Sheet Mulch = Nurturing Soil for Worms + Microbes + Fungi to grow in

Nurturing Home for the Worms + Microbes + Fungi + Rain + Time = Worm Waste + Microbe waste + Fungus Roots = Fertile Soil for Nurturing Plants

Fertile Soil for Nurturing Plants + Favored Seeds – Unwanted Seeds +Time = Vigorous Food Plants

Vigorous Food Plants = Delicious, Juicy Healthy Food to eat + Beautiful and Fragrant Flowers + Medicinal and Useful Plants for Better Health

All of this adds up to healthy land, water, and air, and a healthy environment for creatures of all kinds to live in.

Imagine a planet Earth where gardens abound!

See a summary of how we began here:

See how the forest transforms old growth into humic soil in this video:

This link does an awesome job explaining the benefit of sheet mulch. We recommend you watch it!

This film highlights the importance of living in syntropy with the earth by growing food forests:

Aloha to you!

FLOWER POWER!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:41 GMT

Aloha!

There’s amazing power inside of a flower!

Hugelkultur – Raised Garden Beds that create moisture!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:40 GMT

What! Did you just read that correctly – a garden bed that creates moisture? How could that be?

In this video, we introduce you to a very old method of creating raised garden beds called “hugel-kultur”, meaning “hill-culture”.

We use this natural process to rapidly enhance our clay garden soil and get crops to produce abundance more quickly.

These hill-shaped pockets of buried organic material decompose under the soil and function like small pockets of moisture and organic nutrients within the larger surrounding clay soil.

Create a Hugel-Kultur in your own garden by digging trenches in the soil and burying fallen branches, stalks, vines, etc. in the hole. The buried material will release moisture into the soil as it decomposes underground.You have some spent branches, stalks, vines.

You have some spent branches, stalks, vines.
You dig a trench into the clay soil that is deep enough to contain the organic waste you are burying.
Fill the trench with your garden waste and back-fill it with the soil you dug out. Stomp it down and cover it with leaves.
When it rains, this deep trench in the clay will accumulate water like a small pond. It will fill with water and slowly allow the water to seep into the water table. You can put the tiny ponds anywhere you think they will be most useful. Near a prized plant is a great place to locate a hugel-kultur.
In the moist environment, worms and other soil-dwelling creatures will grow in the soil and then their waste feeds the plants. Everyone wins.
As it dries out, the buried material releases all of its moisture, so the hugel-kulture will be a pocket of moisture in your garden for a long time.
Repeat.
If you get too much material, you can get a chipper and chip the material and lay it on top of the soil.

Protect your Seedlings from Predators with Materials from your Garden

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:39 GMT

Forest Gardening for Snowy Climates – please meet Sepp Holzer of the Krameterhof

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:38 GMT

Aloha All,

A reader just asked about forest gardening in snowy climates, and I realized that I overlooked linking this site to this amazing creator of forest gardening processes in the snowy mountains: Sepp Holzer !!!

We love to watch all of the videos on his work repeatedly because we learn so much from them every time! Truly, Sepp first inspired us create our garden using food forest growing concepts. Because he grows a food forest on the top of a snowy mountain, we can’t use all of his ideas in our climate, but many of his processes are useful in any forest gardening situation.

Sepp’s fascinating work has greatly influenced not only us, but the entire planet, and I’m honored to be able to introduce you to him! He grew up gardening on this mountain Krameterhof, planting his first seeds at age 5. You will be amazed at what he has achieved over a lifetime. Now his son is running the Krameterhof, and in this YouTube video, his son Josef explains many of their processes. Also, you can learn more if you visit www.krameterhof.at .

Best wishes, and happy exploring…

Aloha

Making Seed Balls, Masanobu Fukuoka style, perfect for food forest seed planting

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:27 GMT

Aloha!

We have been learning more important lessons from an important teacher, Masanobu Fukuoka, author of One Straw Revolution, a popular book from the 1970’s that looks at his successful style of natural farming.

Today we decided to try making seed balls, Masanobu Fukuoka style, for a quicker way to plant seeds in the food forest. In one pleasant afternoon, we created around 200 clay balls full of a variety of seeds (around 1500 seeds) that we will scatter throughout the food forest as a quick and easy way to plant a large quantity and variety of seeds. This was really fun, and brings to mind making chocolate chip cookies or meatballs for spaghetti.

Ingredients:

Clay soil – pound out the hard lumps with a pestle or stone, until you have no clay lumps, and the soil is consistently fine. (soil that the moles have been working on was soft, pliable, fine, and perfect for use in this recipe). I must tell you that the clay soil that the moles had worked over was the perfect choice for this project!!!

Seeds – a variety of whatever seeds you have on hand, or whatever seeds you choose.

Water – to moisten as needed.

A large bin for mixing the ingredients together.

Directions:

Obtain clay soil for the main ingredient of the seed balls and place it in a large container. If there are lumps in the clay, then pound them out with a pestle or a smooth stone, so that the soil is uniformly fine.

Add a wide variety of seeds to the clay and mix them in.

Use water to moisten the clay until it’s moist enough to form into balls. Try to cover the seeds with the clay, so birds and insects won’t eat them.

The seed balls or seed bombs we are making today contain seeds of pumpkin, corn, lettuce, sunflower, and artichoke and beans. You can create fun plant combinations of your choosing for each new batch you make.

You can let them dry or you can plant them right away. I will plant these right away. First, I’ll part the mulch and place the seed ball onto the soil, so the roots can get right into the earth. then lightly cover the ball with a very thin layer of organic material, mostly to hide the seed ball from curious animals.

When these clumps of plants come up together, they will be companion plants growing forest style.

I hope you try this easy method of seed planting and that it brings you great success in your food forest!

With much gratitude to Masanobu Fukuoka, One Straw Revolution, for his wisdom and guidance in food forest gardening.

Don’t Water – Be Lazier – Feed Yourself – Have a Laugh – Thank You Paul Wheaton!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:26 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Here’s a smart, funny permaculture talk, if you like that kind of thing.

Be even lazier!? Ahhh

Feed yourself first? Ahhh

Love mycelium, your tap rooted species, your nitrogen fixing species, your food producing species.

Hold your water on the land.

Let’s raise the Vibe!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:25 GMT

A vision of Universal Unity including you and me!

Permaculture Home Building!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:24 GMT

Aloha Friends,

Check out this uplifting and hopeful video, which shows a low-cost way to create beautiful homes.

Imagine what an exciting game-changer this could be!

Homes for all!!!

Life in Syntropy

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:23 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Life in Syntropy is the opposite of Life in Entropy!

“As noted by Viterbo, syntropy is “the tendency towards energy concentration, order, organization and life” (http://www.syntropy.org/). In contradistinction to “entropy,” syntropy is a result of retrocausality leading to persistent and more complex organization.” – from Wikipedia

Anyway, this is the way to make the planet better instead of worse!

I love this movie featuring a man named Ernst Gotsch who shows the way!

How fun is that?

Peace and Abundance to you!

The Secret Underground World of Food Forests

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:22 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Please enjoy this video featuring Paul Stamets, a truly revolutionary man who is dedicated to teaching the world about the Mysterious World of Mushrooms and how they affect food forests.

He makes this subject exciting and compelling and you will be so grateful you got a chance to hear him speak.

Peace, Abundance, and Aloha to You!

Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Tour Video Provides a Peek into Paradise!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:19 GMT

Aloha Friends!

By watching the video below, you can be with permaculture master Geoff Lawton as he leads us into the peaceful, abundant future we could all share on planet Earth!

In this must-see video, he shows how the inhabitants of Zaytuna Farm live in an abundant, peaceful, earthly paradise that they designed and created!

Not only has Geoff demonstrated once again how to work in harmony with plants and animals to create quick abundance for all, but he also shows the way to work collectively and peacefully with other human beings to complete the circle of abundance.

Some highlights in this video include:

harvest and save water
Use gravity to irrigate slopes, create ponds, dams, and a rice-patty.
Use dribbler pipes and swivel pipes.
How they garden on a floating garden raft in a pond
How Muscovie Ducks add fertilizer to the water that flows to water the plants.
How Turkeys and Cattle enjoy life while adding benefits to the ecosystem.
Anaerobic bacteria releasing iron oxide on the surface of run-off water.
recycle and re-purpose old things for new uses
create quick kitchen gardens
fertilize naturally
live off-grid
Geoff’s perspective about “Designed-Disturbance”, which explains how sometimes permaculture design requires us to disturb the surface of the earth to direct and capture water
How chickens like to work as minor disturbers, helping create food forests and how they enclose chickens with fencing and move the chickens throughout the food forests.
See a favorite hand tool called a rice-knife that they use to cut, chop-and-drop.
See gardens, food forests, interns working,
See plant-nurseries, the children’s nursery, worm farms, composting systems.
See unusual yet wonderful crops that are easy to grow.
Hear how they disfavor plants they don’t want and favor the plants they do want.
See a fun, unscripted scene featuring Geoff’s dog Possum, who rounds up and captures a wayward chicken and waits for Geoff to come pick it up and put it back into the coop where it belongs!
Hear Geoff’s straightforward advice on how to choose land for your permaculture system.
Tips on earth works, using a cover crop of japanese millet and cow pea covers bare earth that was dug only two months earlier.
Observe how the plants perform and respond to more and less fertile areas of the landscape.
He finishes by walking through a natural forest, where he loves to visit and observe.
Plus you get to enjoy Geoff’s pleasant personality throughout the video.

Check it out for yourself ��

Be Inspired

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:17 GMT

Choosing optimism faith hope and love can heal your body!

I hope you enjoy this!

Aloha!

Tutu

Life is Easy. Why do we make it so hard? by Jon Jandai THIS IS AWESOME!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:17 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Let’s listen.

A city dwellers guide to creative tree-planting

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:16 GMT

Greening the Desert with Geoff Lawton – We Can Fix All The World’s Problems in a Garden!!!!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:15 GMT

Aloha Friends,

We truly can fix all the world’s problems in a garden!!!!

Please enjoy this video from our most respected and beloved permaculture voice in the world today – Geoff Lawton.

If you don’t know him yet, you’ll be glad to meet him and the people he works with – who speak for the soil, for the earth, and for the future of our beautiful shared planet!

Sending You Peace, Love, Abundance, and Aloha!!!

Sow the seeds of love

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:14 GMT

Nature’s Abundant Gifts Today August 20, 2018

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:10 GMT

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Aloha Angels!

We are grateful for the figs, passion fruit, pigeon peas, and coffee beans we harvested from the food forest today

Every day we learn from our Great Teacher, the Garden

With Joy and Abundance, We Pray for World Peace,

=Tutu

Finding Balance

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:09 GMT

Loving Life and Embracing Death

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:09 GMT

Are you interested in death? Naturally! Death is a natural result of life.

Death is a way of regenerating new life from the old.

We don’t cease existing! The reality is that we are reborn into something new.

The food forest exemplifies this truth. We exist in a fractally expansive spiral where each piece creates the next piece. When we let go of the fear of death, then we can enjoy life.

If you are still reading, I hope you take a little time to enjoy this energy update from Lee Harris, a remarkable fellow that I heard speak at Soulapalooza 2019 in Carlsbad, CA. I love taking time out to listen to his insightful messages, so maybe you will, too.

Sending love and anchoring the light of NATURE’S INFINITE ABUNDANCE on PLANET EARTH!

ALOHA BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS!

Check out this Worldwide Roundtable of Doctors on the truth about COVID-19.

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:07 GMT

https://londonreal.tv/dr-rashid-buttar-hosts-a-doctors-covid-19-roundtable-1000-voices-strong/

What is going on in the minds of a wide swath of doctors from around the world? This video will lighten your heart and enlighten your mind!

Bealtaine Cottage – Goddess Permaculture

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:02 GMT

Bye bye COVID fear

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:01 GMT

Store bought veggies you can regrow!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:00 GMT

Aloha Friends!

I planned on making a video like this to share with you, but now I don’t have to because these folks did a great job!

You can also plant sweet potatoes into the soil and take lavender cuttings using the same method he shares for rooting herb cuttings.

Experiment with your own ideas and please leave a comment below.

Channeling Water

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:47:00 GMT

Plant some green onions and garlic in your garden!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:59 GMT

Get an unending stream of green onions, and garlic by planting some in your garden.

There are many kinds of produce from grocery stores that can be planted in your garden to create streams of food for you to pick as needed!

Check out what happened when we planted some fresh green onions that we purchased from a grocery store!

Angels are with us

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:58 GMT

We are not alone ��

Love peace joy abundance and Aloha to you dear heart ��

Life is Wonderful

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:57 GMT

Relax and Enjoy!

Paramahansa Yogananda

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:56 GMT

We Will Heal This Land

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:55 GMT

Imagine A Peaceful Purple Political Party!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:50 GMT

Aloha, my friend!

We have a red party and a blue party in the United States of America, each representing a set of opposing viewpoints. But in between the opposites, there lies a broad spectrum of views.

But what does that mean? In between the two polar extremes are where we find most of the ideas and opinions.

Between Red and Blue is a broad spectrum of Purple.

Blending red and blue makes the lovely color purple.

Let’s shift to thinking of American individuals as occupying a spectrum of colors in between the opposing red party and blue party.

We could be a Purple Party! Realizing how connected we are could result in pleasant interactions, therefore less stress among us.

We could choose to kindly respect each other’s rights to free speech and free listening and become a freer society.

This way of thinking would completely replace most of our strife with harmony because there would be no enemy, just differing viewpoints.

Please join me in seeing us all in a Purple Party spectrum of ideas that lie somewhere between the extremes, leading to a lot more happy moments and fewer stressful moments.

We are grateful for our freedoms, so, therefore, let’s be respectful of others and give up the rudeness. Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing about our country. All viewpoints are valuable, and all are allowed to be spoken and heard and respected.

I think we will all feel surrounded in love, peace, and infinite abundance like never before.

When you love Someone

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:49 GMT

Jason Mraz

I Love You, My Dear Friend ��

Here’s what’s happening

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:48 GMT

Truth and Abundance and Peace on Earth!

Aloha from Tutu

Let’s all sing ha Le lu ya

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:47 GMT

I love 💖💖💖this video called “speaking to the water”🌎

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:43 GMT

Tutu here – sending you so much love and feeling our oneness

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We are the children

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:41 GMT

Change the world!!!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:40 GMT

Aloha Friends!

I am imagining a world of peace beauty abundance happiness and well-being for all life on our mother Gaia

Believe in World Peace, Love and Infinite Abundance for All!!!

Today is a gift, be grateful

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:40 GMT

Havaiiana

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:39 GMT

Don’t Water – Be Lazier – Feed Yourself – Have a Laugh – Thank You Paul Wheaton!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:34 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Here’s a smart, funny permaculture talk, if you like that kind of thing.

Be even lazier!? Ahhh

Feed yourself first? Ahhh

Love mycelium, your tap rooted species, your nitrogen fixing species, your food producing species.

Hold your water on the land.

Food Forest Wisdom with John Oneill

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:32 GMT

Aloha Friends!

More and more people around the world are seeing the wisdom of growing food forests!!! Hurray!

In this video, John shares his insights into why food forests are the best way to heal, bring abundance, and ultimately peace to our beautiful shared planet.

Please enjoy the video, and be inspired to plant a food forest near you ��

Roots Grow Fruits!

Meet the Turkeys!!!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:32 GMT

Aloha!

Please meet Rosie and Daisy, the two turkey residents of the food forest in this fun children’s film!!

Wishing you Abundance, Joy and Aloha!

Thank You Kind Readers, We are so Grateful for Your Comments!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:31 GMT

Aloha Everyone ��

Thank you so very much to the many kind readers who have been cheering us on here on this blog with encouraging comments – we appreciate hearing from you!!!

We’ve learned that it’s one thing to send out our message into the world, but something else entirely to receive back so much encouragement – it was unexpected and it feels amazing! It brings us joy and even laughter each time we receive your encouraging words and funny comments!

Overwhelmingly you are most interested in Ways We Conserve Water, so we will explore how growing food forest-style is itself a way of conserving the water that’s in the soil. We’ll share some ideas to get you inspired.

Here are the answers to a few questions we received from the comments:

Is there a way to subscribe?

On the front page, Aloha! down toward the bottom on the right side, is a “Subscribe to Aloha Farms Food Forest Blog” section. If you enter your e-mail address in the box, the system will send you a confirmation e-mail, if you then confirm that you want to subscribe via the link in the e-mail, you will be subscribed!

How long have we been blogging?

We had a blog called AlohaFarmsToday@wordpress.com from November 2013 to November 2015. (Hardly anyone saw it!) In November 2015, we created this website blog by transferring the information from the old blog into this one. So in total, we’ve been blogging for about 2.5 years already – although it feels like we just started!

Do we have any tips on how to get onto yahoo news?

Nope! We don’t know how that happened – and we didn’t even know we were on there until you told us! We still have quite a bit to learn ��

How frequently do we update the website?

We don’t have a set time schedule, but we try to put out new information when we have a great idea to share!

Thanks Again, and Much Aloha to you All!

The Aloha Farmers, Tutu and Papa

Major Molt-Down!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:30 GMT

Here are six reasons to be grateful for the trees.

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:20 GMT

Here are six reasons to be grateful for the trees.

The more you know about trees, the more reasons you find to be grateful for them.

Trees (along with the entire plant kingdom) make food for all life out of free sunlight, air, soil, and water.

Our Mother Earth grows free food continuously for us using sustainable free resources. Free food flows on our planet!

Check out these images showing a food web featuring the “Autotrophs” – the plant kingdom of primary producers that creates the source of food for all other life.

So we can see that plants are the source of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to feed all life forms in the food web community, above and below the earth’s surface.

Their roots feed the perfect diet of carbohydrates to the trillions of microbiota dwelling in the soil, and for surface dwellers like insects, animals, and humans, they supply us with leaves, flowers, fruits, and nuts. Trees do this year after year, generation after generation.

So how do they do it? They combine sunshine, air, soil, and water using the ingeniously designed, mysterious process we call photosynthesis.

Water and soil nutrients pass through a tree’s roots and vascular pathways up to its leaves.

Air enters the leaves through the stomata, filling the spaces between the cells.

Sunlight energy enters the leaves through the translucent cells in the foliage.

The life force energy of trees assembles these 4 ingredients, sunshine, air, soil, and water, to transform into larger, more complex molecules called glucose. There are several substeps in photosynthesis, but the overall chemical reaction is:

6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight → C6H12O6 + 6O2

6 Carbon Dioxides + 6 Waters + Sunlight transforms into 1 Glucose + 6 Oxygens.

The glucose stores a rearrangement of sunlight, water, minerals, and carbon dioxide as energy to fuel life, similar to how a battery stores electricity.

The glucose carbohydrate combines and shifts and recombines into many other forms of complex molecules that store energy in the form of nuts and fruits.

When animals or humans eat these plant products, their carbohydrate energy becomes part of our bodies. Then when carnivores eat vegetarian animals, we call it eating meats.

This diagram shows the plant’s metabolism of glucose for making starch and cellulose, respiration, amino acids, proteins, and lipids (fats and oils).

When we eat, our bodies combine the food with air that we breathe, releasing the sunlight energy into ourselves to fuel our bodily functions, and releasing carbon dioxide back into the air.

In other words, photosynthesis transforms the light energy of the sun into energy that you and I and all living things can use to fuel our bodies.

With this quiet miracle, the plant kingdom makes food for all life out of sunlight, air, soil, and water.

2. The plant kingdom makes oxygenated air for us to breathe .

The other output of photosynthesis is oxygen, as trees consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

When we burn firewood, ethanol, or coal, oil, and other fossil fuels, oxygen is consumed and create carbon dioxide is released back to the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide stored in fossil fuels was removed from the atmosphere over eons of time and is being replaced very quickly through our consumption of fossil fuels, creating an imbalance of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Because photosynthesis consumes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, growing trees is a key to restoring balance in the Earth’s atmosphere. Trees help counteract the effect of the combustion of fossil fuels.

By planting your food forest, you will restore balance to our atmosphere on Earth.

You will grow fresh oxygenated air for us to breathe.

3. The plant kingdom supplies us with our significant sources of energy: petroleum, natural gas, coal, firewood.

Energy from burning firewood is critical to survival in many parts of the world.

One of the carbohydrates resulting from photosynthesis is cellulose, which makes up the bulk of dry wood and other plant material. When we burn wood, we convert the cellulose back to carbon dioxide and release the stored energy as heat.

Petroleum, natural gas, and coal are all derived from ancient plants and animals, and the energy stored within them came from sunlight through photosynthesis. Burning fossil fuels is like the oxidation process that occurs in our bodies; it liberates the power of “stored sunlight” in a useful form and returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

4. The plant kingdom supplies us with useful fibers and building materials .

Tree branches and trunks provide lumber for us to create buildings and useful products.

Paper is nearly pure photosynthetically produced cellulose, as is cotton and many other natural fibers. Even wool from sheep derives from photosynthetic energy.

Petroleum-based plastics and synthetic fibers come from photosynthesis. Our metal refining depends ultimately on coal or other photosynthetic products. It’s difficult to name an economically important material or substance whose existence and usefulness is not in some way tied to photosynthesis and the plant kingdom.

5. Trees moderate our soil and air temperatures and shelter us and the wild creatures from storms.

During windstorms, they slow the wind as it encounters friction from their leaves and branches, and create pockets of calmer, warmer areas under their leafy canopies.

During hot weather, they cool the air and soil temperatures with the absorbing, deflecting, and shading the sunlight with their foliage.

Year-round, they create pleasant surface conditions for humans and cozy homes for wildlife. Think of places without trees, like deserts and tundras. They are the least friendly places to be.

6. The plant kingdom replicates itself, infinitely abundantly.

The first five points above are mind-bending, but nature keeps giving. Here is bonus 6! Inside of every fruit and nut is a seed for another tree of its kind. Not only will you get to enjoy the fruits and nuts, but you can also plant some of the seeds to grow new trees.

Here is some advice from God! According to the First Chapter of the First Book of the Bible.

“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ” Genesis 1:29

That’s nature’s infinite abundance.

What a great gift we food foresters give to future generations of wildlife and humans when we plant our forests of fruit and nut trees.

The good news is, you only have to plant them once, and the sooner you get them planted and growing, the sooner you will begin harvesting, and the earth will be a healthier place for all.

Much Aloha and Happy Food Foresting!

Transform your garden by replacing weeds with seeds!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:16 GMT

May 20, 2019

Enjoy this beautiful day in the food forest with Tutu, and learn some garden transformation tips!

I wrote this book for you!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:13 GMT

Aloha to You!

Are you looking for a way to expand your freedom, eat from an endless supply of living plant food, save lots of money, lose weight and gain health?

Welcome – You’ve come to the right place! I’m already living this life and I’m here to show you the way.

The path is to grow what I call a food forest. Maybe some would call it a Garden of Eden.

Either way, if you are here, then this is for you.

Forest gardens grow according to the essential, expanding patterns of Source Creator. Abundance flows through from the seed to harvest but is not diminished by the bounty of the crop. The bountiful crop expands into more bounty! Food forests replenish themselves and increase in abundance to fill our need for the many things we need to live.

New generations of children and animals, trees, and everybody else will be so glad when they grow up enjoying Divine abundance.

O Lord how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches – Psalm 104:24

Are you looking for an easier way to grow food?

The easiest way I know of to grow food is in the forest setting. The problem with other methods is that we have to fight the elements, kill the pests, break up the soil, and pay lots of money for products designed to “help” us grow gardens.

Are you looking for a supply of fresh food to use in your daily cooking and baking?

If you love to cook or bake, you will love having fresh ingredients grown in living soil to add to your recipes. When you taste something produced in the food forest, you say “Oh, that’s what strawberries are supposed to taste like!” or “Oh, this is the best orange I’ve ever tasted!” or “I never liked this before, but this is delicious!” or “I never knew bananas tasted like this!”

Are you looking for food that will heal your body better than medicine ever could?

If you want the healthiest body possible, then the simple method of eating food grown in living soil can help you feel better in ways that medicine never could. I haven’t had a cold or flu or a symptom of disease for many years now, and I attribute that to eating healthy forest food.

Are you looking for a way to save money?

If you want to save money, then grow a food forest in your yard, and reduce spending at the grocery store! Here’s a strange, but true story! Our water district reports that we use an average of 14 units of water/billing cycle, and the average water use by homes in our neighborhood is 24 units of water/billing cycle. So we use 42% less water than the average in our neighborhood, and we have a huge garden!

Are you looking for a way to lose weight?

If you want to lose weight, try growing and eating fresh forest grown food. It satisfies hunger better than you would expect because it is nutrient-dense. At the age of 57, I’m back to being a size four like I was in high school, and I eat whenever I feel hungry. I’m pretty sure it’s because I eat a lot of fresh forest food.

Growing a food forest is your solution to many problems.

My friend, I found this way to grow infinite abundance in my backyard, and it would mean the world to me if I could help you and others around the world to have a food forest growing healthy food in your yards too.

In 2011, when I was 50 years of age, and we were all in the middle of the subprime housing market meltdown, against all the odds but the goodness of God, I purchased my first home. Built the same year I was born, its 1/2 acre back yard featured a giant oak tree and several other mature but neglected fruit and nut trees, with trash and weeds covering the ground. I said, “It’s perfect!”

To me, this was a miracle that I’m still grateful for every day. If I hadn’t moved into a home with fruit and nut trees already growing, I would not have learned to understand food forests.

When I moved in, I planned to create my best garden ever. The yards of my youth involved preparing and amending the soil, planting seedlings in rows by type, adding fertilizers from the store, and using pellets and sprays to kill off insects and snails. In short, I worked hard to get those harvests and felt frustrated if they didn’t work out as I hoped.

Thankfully we have the internet! I began reading about sustainable permaculture and regenerating garden soil.

I saw beautiful videos about getting “Back to Eden” and living “Life in Syntropy” with Mother Earth.

I learned that the best gardens are grown by Mother Earth herself – she is the expert. Her forests of trees and companion plants grow the densest biomass of all, and nobody works to maintain a forest!

I found a way to grow a small forest of food in my yard, and it’s incredible!

Every time I walk outside, I find ripe fruits, nuts, and berries to eat, herbs for my cooking and birds singing happy songs.

Navel oranges grow on an over 30-year-old orange tree!
Zucchini
Romaine Lettuce growing from seed
Kale
White guava
Onion and Garlic
Artichokes and Potatoes
zucchini
Macadamia Tree with Ripe Nuts
Macadamia Harvest
Pecans
Prickly Pear
Juicy Apples!
Nectarines
Beets
Coffee Cherries
A Couple of Ripe Figs
Corn
Bananas
More Bananas
Apricots and Nectarines
Pigeon Peas
Pecans
Peanuts and Herbs
A banana and avocado jungle
A forest in the front yard
A meadow growing herbs

It’s not a neat and tidy look like the gardens I used to grow, and I’ve come to love that about the food forest! It’s a bit wild.

p.s. I’m co-creating a new online course and workbook called Food Forest U. I’ll teach you, step by step, how to create a food forest in your yard. It’s almost ready to launch!

After that, I’ll work on my next book, “Food Forest Living” to show you how to use garden produce to create luxurious hair and body care products, non-toxic laundry and household cleaners, and how cooking with fresh food provides our bodies with nourishment to heal and keeps us slender and youthful.

Welcome to your path to infinite abundance – a food forest!

ALOHA!!!

The Quiet Miracles of the Plant Kingdom

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:12 GMT

Nut and fruit trees form the pillars and canopy of the food forest. Beautiful, and powerful, they protect us from harsh weather and quietly hold power to materialize food, oxygen, fuel, handy supplies from the ether. Effortlessly, they keep all of Mother Earth’s children fed, warm, and safe.

The more you know about trees, the more reasons you find to be grateful for them. Here are some of the reasons

Trees (and the plant kingdom) make food for all life out of sunlight, air, and water.

That’s a tremendously bold statement, but it’s true!

Check out these images showing a food web featuring the “Autotrophs” – the plant kingdom that creates the source of food for all other life

The food pyramid shows herbivores eating the plants, then predators eating herbivores and other predators eating them! Not shown is the human being level of the predators, but our foods, whether we are herbivores or carnivores, all derive from the plant kingdom too.

The drawing on the right shows lines going from the tree in the middle to the life forms around it, expressing that trees (and the plant kingdom in general) feed other creatures either directly or indirectly.

Please note that in both images, decay detritivores like worms and fungi feed on the plant kingdom too, to break complex materials into their simpler forms.

Here’s a fun chart showing another perspective on how the cycle works. Start at the sun and follow the yellow sunlight energy arrow to autotrophs (plants), then up to the heterotrophs (herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers). The decomposers finish this awesome cycle by returning mineral nutrients to the soil.

So we can see that plants are the source of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats to feed all life forms in the food web community, above and below the earth’s surface.

Trees do this year after year, generation after generation.

So how do they do it? They combine sunshine, air and mineral-rich water in a miraculous process we call photosynthesis.

Water enters leaves through the vascular pathways that pipe water up from the roots.
Air enters leaves through the stomata, filling the spaces between the cells.
Sunlight energy enters leaves through their translucent cells.

These small, simple ingredients assemble in the leaves into larger, more complex molecules called glucose. There are several substeps in photosynthesis, but the overall chemical reaction is:

6CO2 + 6H2O + sunlight → C6H12O6 + 6O2
6 Carbon Dioxides + 6 Waters + Sunlight becomes 1 Glucose + 6 Oxygens.

The glucose stores rearranged sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, like a battery storing energy that fuels life.

The glucose carbohydrate combines and shifts and recombines into the many other forms of carbohydrate energy we call vegetables and meats.

This diagram shows that plants use glucose:

to make starch and cellulose
in the process of respiration
to make amino acids and therefore then proteins
to make lipids (fats and oils)

When we eat, our bodies combine the food with air that we breathe, releasing the sunlight energy into ourselves to fuel our bodily functions, and releasing carbon dioxide back into the air.

In other words, photosynthesis transforms the light energy of the sun into power so you and I and all living things can fuel our bodies and get to work doing good.

With this quiet miracle, the plant kingdom makes food for all life out of sunlight, air, and water.

The plant kingdom makes oxygenated air for us to breathe.

The other output of photosynthesis is oxygen. Trees consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

When we burn firewood, ethanol, coal, oil, or other fossil fuels, carbon dioxide is released back to the atmosphere.

Because photosynthesis consumes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, growing trees are the key to restoring balance in the Earth’s atmosphere. Trees help counteract the effect of combustion of fossil fuels.

By planting your food forest, you will restore balance to our atmosphere on Earth.

You will grow fresh oxygenated air for us to breathe.

The plant kingdom supplies us with our significant sources of energy: petroleum, natural gas, coal, firewood.

Because petroleum, natural gas, and coal are all derived from ancient plants and animals, the energy stored within them originally came from sunlight through photosynthesis.

Burning fossil fuels is like the oxidation process that occurs in our bodies; it liberates the energy of “stored sunlight” in a useful form and returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Our primary sources of energy originated as sunlight, held in the cells created by the plant kingdom!
The plant kingdom supplies us with useful fibers and building materials .

Tree branches and trunks provide lumber for us to create buildings and useful products.

Paper is nearly pure photosynthetically produced cellulose, as is cotton and many other natural fibers. Even wool from sheep derives from photosynthetic energy.

All plant and animal products require energy to produce, and that energy comes ultimately from sunlight via photosynthesis.

Petroleum-based plastics and synthetic fibers come from photosynthesis.

Our metal refining depends ultimately on coal or other photosynthetic products.

It’s difficult to name an economically important material or substance whose existence and usefulness is not in some way tied to photosynthesis and the plant kingdom.
Trees moderate our air temperatures and shelter us from storms.

These long-lived pillars of strength shelter and protect us and the wild creatures.

During windstorms, they slow the wind as it encounters friction from their leaves and branches, and creating pockets of calm areas under their leafy canopies.

During hot weather, they cool the air and soil temperatures with the shade of their foliage, and during cold weather, they warm the air and soil temperatures under their canopies.

Year-round, they moderate the soil and air temperatures making earth more pleasant and providing homes for wildlife.

Think of places without trees. We call them deserts and tundras.

The plant kingdom replicates itself, infinitely abundantly.

The first five points above are mind-bending, but nature keeps giving! Here’s another bonus: Inside of every fruit and nut is a seed for another tree of its kind. Not only will you get to enjoy the fruits and nuts, but you can plant some of the seeds to grow new trees. If you don’t plant them, the birds and other animals will!

That’s nature’s infinite abundance!

What a great gift we food foresters give to future generations of wildlife and humans when we plant our forests of fruit and nut trees.

The sad tale of a farmer named Monocropper.

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:12 GMT

Here’s an excerpt from my upcoming book, Food Forest U! Written with you in mind, it’s a complete coursebook on how and why to create your food forest. Enjoy!

Here’s a sad tale about a farmer named Monocropper, who thought up a good plan to earn lots of money by growing such a huge amount of one crop that he could sell his harvest far and wide.

First, he needed to purchase a fancy new tractor. He needed a tractor, you see, so he could hook chains to the trees growing where he wanted to make his field, and he could pull out the trees using the tractor with the chains, and drag the trees away. And he would need again when he was ready to till the whole field in straight lines.

So Monocropper bought the tractor, pulled out the trees, and dragged them away. Then he tilled the whole field in straight lines. This way, Monocropper would have full sunlight on his field.

Then he needed to purchase seeds to plant in his field, so he purchased the latest modernized seeds, from the big experts, and planted 1 seed every few inches up and down every row in his whole field.

As his crop began to grow, Monocropper noticed his plants looking rather pale and sickly. Soon his problem became apparent. All the plants in his field required the same soil nutrients to grow, so every plant in his field had to compete with neighboring plants for available nutrients.

You see, in Monocropper’s field, all the same plants were planted at the same time, and are expected to mature at the same time. So the entire field of plants all requires the same nutrients, at the same time. His plants compete with one another for nutrition to grow.

The law of supply and demand dictates that the plants will consume and deplete those nutrients from the soil, unless Monocropper adds more nutrients into the soil.

Poor Monocropper has get to work fixing this problem. He must find a way to add more of the necessary nutrients into the soil to keep the plants growing.

His solution is to purchase lab-created fertilizer blends and apply those to the soil.

Poor Monocropper , imagine him carefully measuring, diluting, and applying his blend in recommended amounts because, you know, if he doesn’t measure and mix correctly, the fertilizer will burn his whole crop. He must get the blend right and evenly apply the right amount to every part of the whole field.

What a nerve wracking task for poor Monocropper , because if he messes up, he loses his crop!

He decides to purchase a new spraying attachment for his tractor so he can drive the tractor through his field while spraying the fertilizer blend.

Although he has spent a lot of money on the tractor equipment, the seeds, and the fertilizer, Monocropper considers those as necessary costs of doing business on a farm and he hopes to make more than enough money to pay for everything when he sells his harvest.

Poor Monocropper , he doesn’t realize it, but over at the lab where they blend up the fertilizer blends he purchased, they add only a few kinds of the many nutrients that plants love. Even though the laboratory blends try duplicate nature, they end up missing important components.

The lab-created fertilizer blends exclude a widely diverse set of micronutrients and microbiota that authentic plant-food includes. Still, Monocropper considers the fertilizer blends to be his best choice and a good investment.

Poor Monocropper. Maybe nobody explained to him the definition of authentic plant food.

Definition of Authentic Plant-Food: Waste by-products from living *Biota, and decomposing parts of deceased *Biota.

*(Biota = the set of all plant and animal life forms)

Imagine that a fruiting tree can use decomposed parts of last year’s fruits, leaves, and stems as components for new growth.

How do the parts decompose? Many biota work together to decompose plant parts – from rodents to insects to earthworms to tiny soil microbiota, like bacteria and fungi and mould.

Fortunately, Monocropper’s neighbor down the road, another grower named Foodforester , learned how to grow food crops without the problem of limited soil nutrients!

Foodforester planted a widely diverse selection of plants. Everything from tall fruit and nut trees down to underground root crops like carrots and onions, and allowed them to grow together, into a forest of food, which became a unified, self-regulating community of plant and animal biota that generates nutrients for itself, by itself, automatically, and grows food for human beings and wildlife automatically, generation after generation.

Lucky Food Forester, the many varieties of plants in her food forest contribute a huge variety of nutrients back to the soil during their life cycles, so all the plants can share the soil together with little competition.

Some of her plants are very old – over 100 years old! Some are very young – just days old, and most are somewhere in the middle.

The older plants give nutrients to the younger plants, so they can grow up and share nutrients with the next generation of new younger plants. For generation after generation.

Some of Foodforesters plants have roots that grow deep into the soil and bring up nutrients to the surface for other plants to use! Some of her plants crawl along over the forest floor, using nutrients from the mulch to grow new crops on the forest floor.

Lucky Foodforester! Her trees grow nutrient-dense leaves with the help of the soil biota, the deep soil minerals, and light energy from the sky.

When those nutrient-dense leaves fall to the ground, they pass their nutrients on to the surface plants and to the soil dwelling biota, who help decompose the leaves into food for the next generation of leaves to use.

Each of the diverse plant varieties in Foodforester’s garden adds a unique set of nutrients to the garden soil by decomposing at end of life. Various nutrients from various sources cover all the soil. Nothing goes to waste, and nothing more is needed.

Lucky Foodforester, she doesn’t have to go purchase lab-produced fertilizer blends and apply them meticulously with expensive machinery because she allows the plant material to decompose on the soil surface and provide authentic plant-food and safe dwelling places for soil biota. Her biotic food forest community recycles the dead material back into nutrients for the next generation of living plants.

Foodforester watches her crops grow abundant harvests year round, and has lots of time for other things besides growing food, like cooking and baking, creating fun projects, learning new things in online classes and running a business, since the work of the biota ultimately grows food for us in a food forest !

I give you this Food for thought: “Death supports life. Life supports death.” They’re like two sides of the same coin.

Poor Monocropper , just when he thought he had covered all the bases, crop-eating insects invaded his field and got right to work, breaking down the unhealthy plants. Now, please don’t get angry at the insects, they are helping out! They quickly begin decomposing the sickly plants to create authentic plant food for the next generation of seedlings. The insects move through the field, rapidly jumping from one plant to another and another.

Poor Monocropper, with insects breaking down and recycling his unhealthy plants like paramedics of the sick garden, he’s discouraged and disheartened. But he doesn’t want to give up after spending so much money on equipment, labor, seeds and fertilizers! He must gather up more fortitude and set out to prevent this crop loss, and any more crop losses. in the future.

He must battle and kill those insects! Sadly, he goes back to the store to purchase insecticides, to kill the insects. Then he decides to purchase some fungicides to kill any funguses and some antibiotics to kill any microbes. He feels prepared for the future, but still, he wonders why he struggles to dang hard to grow food on this planet.

I give you this Food for thought: Warring against Mother Earth’s beautifully designed biotic system? Mother Earth will win.

Luckily, Foodforester’s method of growing food eliminates the “pest” problem. Diverse thriving plants create a welcoming habitat for predators and prey. Ladybugs, praying mantises, spiders, lizards and birds, all coexist in the food forest, keeping each others’ populations in balance.

Many plant-eating insects can’t fly or travel well, so when they show up at Foodforester’s garden, the scents and colors of various plants distract them in many directions. They can’t focus in on breaking down a large area of the same plants, as they can in Monocropper’s grow, because of the diversity of all ages and stages of plants in the forest.

Generally, food forest plants will be healthy and green and unattractive to decomposing insects. But even in the food forest there are times when plants need to be decomposed.

A team of decomposers lives to break down any dead and dying plants into usable material for the next generation of plants. That’s their job! They decompose suffering plants, not healthy plants.

They digest green parts and brown parts and return those into the soil in the post-digested form, as they deposit their bodily waste back into the soil, which continues to benefit the soil community.

When plant parts drop-off and die, they are ready to return to the soil. Those plants will be processed into authentic plant food by the microbial biota.

Poor Monocropper , he discovered another problem with his farm! His field gets extremely hot and extremely cold depending on the temperature, and howling winds batter his field, damaging and blow-drying his plants.

He went back to the store to purchase enough shade cloths to cover his whole field in sun screen fabric for heat waves, and enough freeze cloths to cover his whole field with frost protection fabric during cold snaps. Then he needed to find a place to store the cloths nearby in case of emergency.

Luckily, plants growing in Foodforester’s forest setting naturally receive protection from buffeting winds and extreme temperatures by the trees and other plants around them and by the organic material covering the soil on the forest floor.

Foodforester observed that biota with different functions and strengths benefit from each other’s presence in the garden.

Deciduous plants provide shade in summer and sun in winter, ground covering plants anchor the soil, preventing erosion. Soil microbes help fix nitrogen from the air, Deep rooted plants collect soil minerals. Imagine the many undiscovered benefits occurring in a forest where diverse plants live together.

From Foodforester’s point of view of the plants are performing the very thing they were created to do. Fulfilling their purpose, serving others, mutually benefitting from living together in a community.

The most miraculous takeaway of all is that the entire biota work together in concert to grow food for human beings!

Just as in the human world, we wouldn’t thrive or even survive as a society if everyone did the same job. Monocropper’s farm, variety create wholeness.

We thrive best when we have diversity and live in community where we get along and help each other.

As each individual expresses their own vision and uses their own talent, we all benefit!

Foodforester learned the truth about natural abundance from observing a forest. Diversify to create strong plant communities.

Meet and Greet the Weeds – Volunteers Are Growing Good Stuff in your Garden Already!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:10 GMT

Here’s is an excerpt from my upcoming book, “Open the Door to Infinite Abundance,” instruction in 8 steps to creating your food forest.

Here is Step 2, after you have obtained a patch of land to plant in, and will be helpful to you where ever you live on Mother Earth!

So now that you have your land, you may feel like the new kid on the block when you walk out and meet a bunch of unknown plants growing everywhere! Tall ones, short ones, fuzzy ones, spiky ones – a wide variety of strange-looking creatures may be growing out there!

Flax, Nasturtiums, Feverfew, Wild Lettuce

Native and naturalized plants will grow spontaneously, each contributing specific benefits to help the garden.

They are offering their services, so don’t get mad when they show up for work!

Because plants can’t talk to us, we have to make an effort to learn to recognize them. Although you know many plants by sight already, new volunteers pop up in regularly, so when you meet them, stop and enjoy greeting them and learning to recognize them.

Soon you will know them just as if they are your friends.

When you learn their names first, and then do a little research about each one, you will be so glad you did, because many times you will discover that they grow food for us and the wildlife, first aid medicine, and useful materials. They are also designed to regenerate your soil back to vibrant health

Here’s a wild lettuce seedling, which contains a white sap that works as a pain reliever when applied to the skin!

The more time you spend near plants, the more you will recognize them.

After a while, you learn how a plant looks like as a seed, as a tiny emerging seedling, and as a mature plant because you’ve seen them so many times before.

Calendula flowers and seeds

Calendula seedlings emerging, and newly flowering

You will even be able to tell whether the plant feels healthy or not because you know how they are supposed to look.

You will gain self-confidence as you walk the land, knowing what’s growing.

You will be prepared to guide yourself in making better decisions about what to keep and what to remove.

Sunflowers and Euphorbia Peplus, which contains a toxic and irritating milky latex which is widely known as a therapeutic agent for the removal of warts, corns, waxy lesions, and sun-spots on the skin

Here’s how easy it is to start learning plant names:

Get a smartphone app for plant identification. Choose one that allows you to take a photo with your phone, and suggests possible names. These are available for free or cost only a few dollars in the app store. I use the iNaturalist app, but there are lots of choices!

So get a plant identification app on your phone, if possible, because that’s the easiest way to identify plant names and families.

No smartphone? No problem!

You can do an internet search on any computer for descriptive terms like “tall bush with purple berries” or “yellow flowering groundcover” and look through the images until you see a match.

There are also “online plant guide” sites that will walk you through the characteristics of your plant such as height, leaf type, flowers, and your region of the world.

With so much information out there, you can identify plants that you see if you try.

Once you know the name of a plant, then Wikipedia is an excellent resource for more details, such as plant history, uses, taxonomy, ecology, cultivation, and culture.

You may be amazed to learn that the strange-looking plant you thought was a weird weed had wondrous virtues after all!

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

These 150-year-old words ring true today, based on prolific scientific findings published online. Ralph Waldo Emerson would be proud!

Each plant is a unique individual life form, a living expression of Creator God, bringing its gifts and taking what it needs while performing a specific job as part of the overall forest community.

For starters, Pioneer plants will show up and grow up in extreme conditions. By being the first to grow in a harsh environment, and being stronger than most, they provide shelter from winds and extreme temperatures.

A Pioneer Plant taking hold

They start feeding the soil biota, and their presence creates a safer space for new plants to grow and expand the community. All over the planet, sturdy pioneers grow without help from humans. From cacti in the desert to bearberry in the arctic tundra and everything in between, pioneers will get the garden-party started!

Groundcovers will join the community to cover bare soil. Grasses and clovers and strawberries all grow interlocking webs of roots that hold ground in place and enrich soil biota.

A newly emerging sourgrass seedling

Sourgrass in midlife

Yellow Flowering Sourgrass (Oxalis stricta) forming a soft groundcover

Ground-covering creepers and grasses are excellent for stabilizing hillsides against erosion or collapse, and also for creating healthier soils in flat areas.

When flowering plants join the community and spread their seeds around, they attract pollinators and other helpful insects, then lizards and snakes and birds. Soon you have a home for the wildlife in the community too!

Instead of calling them weeds, I like to call the plants that show up and grow up in the garden “volunteers,” which sounds fitting and grateful for plants that grow voluntarily.

By meeting and greeting your volunteers, you will soon understand that volunteers are often doing an excellent job of growing free food/medicine/dye/resources and supporting healthy soil in your forest garden!

I learned from online research that I had some lovely sources of food, first-aid, and materials volunteering to grow around me. I had been uprooting some desirable plants that volunteered to grow here without any effort on my part because I thought they were weeds.

“Although widely regarded as a weed, this species was once one of several plants cultivated by Native Americans in prehistoric North America as part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. C. berlandieri was a domesticated pseudocereal crop, similar to the closely related quinoa C. quinoa. It continues to be cultivated in Mexico as a pseudocereal, as a leaf vegetable, and for its broccoli-like flowering shoots.” – Wikipedia

How awesome it is that they freely grow and produce, independently of us! That’s a refreshing change for us humans, who are accustomed to putting in a lot of effort to get anything!

Many of the new plants you meet will taste good and satisfy your body’s need for excellent nutrition. Once you learn which plant parts are edible, you can find food all over! Just because we don’t see a specific plant for sale at a grocery store doesn’t make it any less a food source.

You will be a freer and wiser food forester, once you recognize those living around you, by meeting and greeting your volunteers.

Fresh eating and cooking from a food forest are priceless, in terms of getting vitamins, minerals, sunshine, water, and eternal beauty into your body!

Check out these volunteers:

Flax, Nasturtiums, Feverfew

Here blue-flowering flax seed, yellow and orange nasturtium flowers, orange calendula flowers, and feverfew flowers volunteer their services in the food forest. We say thank you all! : )

Fennels and Stinging Nettles growing from seed

Delicious Stinging Nettle volunteered to grow out in the orchard.

Before I met this “volunteer,” I would have considered it unwanted because I didn’t plant it, and have eliminated it from the food forest! I used to think the only edible plants were the ones I planted by my own choice and by my hand. But because now I know better, I treasure it as a favorite crop that shows up and grows up every winter through spring.

Thank goodness the internet helped me identify it by name and learn about its qualities, because now I know to let it grow, and harvest it as if I had planted it myself!

I learned that for thousands of years, it served as an excellent source of food/herbal medicine and even clothing fiber. You can see the results of scientific studies done on the health benefits of stinging nettle by searching on GreenMedInfo.com.

This robust little herb thrives in many environments, and I consider it an “adaptogen.”

a·dapt·o·gen

/əˈdaptəjən/

noun

noun: adaptogen plural noun: adaptogens

(in herbal medicine) A natural substance found to help the body adapt to stress and to exert a normalizing effect upon bodily processes. A well-known example is ginseng.

So I decided to try eating it and bring on the all-around health benefits. It tastes eat-right-out-of-the-pan good! The stems are starchy like potatoes, and the flavor is pleasant.

Harvest this hardy grower daily during its short season by clipping above nodes of new growth. Caution: leaves and stems will sting your skin, so wear gloves as you cut the stems with scissors and drop them into a paper bag. Once dried or cooked, they no longer sting.

I discovered a famous soup recipe featuring stinging nettle, and it is good too! I dry it to use year-round in soups and spaghetti sauce and rice and potatoes and pizza, adding flecks of mild-tasting greens into the food. Use it fresh or dried as a hot tea or a refreshing herbal infused water too.

Wild-lettuce is related to the lettuces we eat regularly, and the leaves are edible and best when young. But the remarkable part of this plant is the harmless white sap that relieves pain when applied on the skin. Break open a leaf and paint the white juice on the palm of your hand and ease a headache instantly! Put the crumbled leaves on an achy back and feel relief immediately. These incidents happened here.

Also, when I’m pruning the plants and get a lot of sap on my skin, I get an overall relaxed feeling, almost sleepy. It is non-addictive and safe to use.

It’s lovely that so many volunteers offer to grow free food for us, and if you look, you will find some helpful volunteers growing free food in your garden too!

Food for thought: Many of the “weeds” we see today were planted and cultivated by people in previous generations, and that’s why there are still so many seeds for them around today!

That doesn’t mean you will have room in your garden for every volunteer, though! You get to focus on growing your favorites!

I hope you enjoy this nugget of gardening wisdom!

I wish you Infinite Abundance, Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to All!

Aloha!

Healthy Soil is the Key to Healthy Plants

Strengthen Your Plants with Korean Natural Farming Fruiting Recipe!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:08 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Korean Natural Farming is very interesting and I hope you check out this short video featuring a simple recipe for increasing growth, flowers and fruiting.

2 ingredients:

Crushed and Baked Eggshells

White Vinegar

Place Crushed and Baked Eggshells in a jar and cover with White Vinegar. Wait for at least a week for the vinegar to bubble out the calcium.

Strain the liquid from the jar and use 4 teaspoons of the liquid calcium concentrate/1 gallon water as a foliar spray and for soaking roots.

This “hardens-off” the leaves against bug bites and gives the stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits the calcium they need to construct strong cells! Also helps to quickly decompose your eggshells into a soil component.

We recorded the results we saw from using this recipe in our food forest.

With great respect and admiration to those who teach and practice Korean Natural Farming – thank you!

Abundance and Aloha Everyone!

=Tutu

Mother Earth’s Shampoos are the Best Shampoos for Us!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:08 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Mother Earth loves us and gives us every good thing. Great gifts, like air, water, food, warmth, ground to stand on, beauty, and regeneration.

I’m grateful to share with you her gift of the best shampoos that come straight from the garden and end up back in the garden, feed the next generation of expansive growth.

Please enjoy this video about creating free, fragrant, and nourishing shampoo and body wash.

Mother Earth’s Shampoos are the Best Shampoos for Us!

Create your hair and body care solutions from the garden.

Made from the garden’s herbs and fruits, they are non-toxic for people and safe for use in outdoor and indoor showers or bathtubs, and for use in natural bodies of water like oceans, lakes, rivers, and ponds.

We use these and hair and body care solutions in our outdoor shower to add water and nourishment into the garden soil.

Mother Earth and all of her beautiful inhabitants – including us – benefit from using these fabulous blends that anoint our heads with fragrant essential oils as we cleanse.

Dreaming of World Peace and Abundance for All!

Aloha,

-Tutu Sainz

Roots Grow Fruits!

p.s.

Food forests are the best gardens. They grow all over planet earth, and they need very little help from humans to keep growing year after year.

Please take the time to learn to identify and recognize the plants that grow around you, then research about them to find out their unique uses.

Creating Soup to Feed the Soil Dwellers with Harvest Scraps

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:07 GMT

Aloha Friends,

Healthy soil-life is the foundation of healthy plants and gardens.

In a food forest, we chop & drop and chip plant material, and place it on top of the soil where it eventually decomposes and feeds the soil life.

In other gardens, folks create compost piles which eventually heat up and cause the plant material to decompose, then add it into the garden soil to feed the soil life.

Here’s the GOOD NEWS!

You no longer have to wait a long time for plant matter to decompose, because your old friend Tutu has discovered a way to feed your garden soil dwellers quickly and easily!

I’ll share it with you here!

Here’s the idea:

When processing your harvest into food for people, toss the scraps into a big pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil.

This simple process releases many nutrients into the water and is a free and fabulous way to return sugars, fragrances, and necessary nutrients back to your soil-dwelling allies!

Recycling the beautiful garden produce back into the garden can be accomplished in a day!

Please enjoy this video showing how the process works.

Sending You

Rainbow Light,

Love,

Peace,

Infinite Abundance,

and ALOHA!!!!!

Nature provides infinite return on investment

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:06 GMT

Aloha Friends,

Please enjoy this video about Nature’s Infinite Return on Investment.

We hope you find yourself enjoying Nature’s infinite abundance in a food forest near you!

Mathematics expresses itself in nature through the songs birds sing, the fractal patterns in trees, the designs of leaves, flowers, and roots and the infinite potential in seeds.

I’ve spent every day of the last 6 years observing and enjoying nature as I grow a food forest.

I originally grew the forest garden so I could enjoy the juicy fruits, tasty nuts and seeds,the lovely fragrances, and the healthy herbs.

That’s great abundance right there, but as it turns out, that’s only the beginning of the abundance I discovered.

The plants in the food forest also reproduce themselves exponentially, so the abundance expands exponentially!

The branch of math called Calculus deals with exponential increases where numbers get bigger really fast and approach infinity. This best describes the kind of math I see in the food forest.

In this image, check out the orange number line climbing rapidly as it approaches infinity.

Graphic Image of numbers getting larger and approaching infinity. From Socratic.org

I see this type of exponential growth curve going on in the food forest every day.

Seeds, which grow in great abundance in the food forest are the best example of exponential growth. A perfect example of this phenomenon is this romaine lettuce plant that grew from a single seed.

One (1) seed can grow into thousands (1000’s) of seeds of it’s kind in as short as 3–6 months.

What kind of Return on Investment can you get from a well planted seed?

Here’s the simple “Return On Investment” formula:

Copied from Investopedia.com

(1000 seeds gained — 1 seed invested) = 999 more seeds than you started with

999 seeds / 1 seed cost of investment= 999% return on investment.

If you get a return of 1000 seeds from growing 1 seed, then you get 999 more seeds. Divide the 999 seeds you got by the 1 seed you put in and there’s your ROI percentage.

999% return on investment for growing a seed — in under 6 months.

Compare that to the stock market, where you can expect to average 6% Return on Investment per year. That’s if you’re lucky and you keep your money invested in the stock market for 30 years.

Imagine how many seeds you might have after a few years of planting seeds!

If you really want to see abundance, look to a garden rather than an interest-earning financial account.

Have a look at how nature’s abundance happens in this video:

Here’s a video I made about a 110 year old oak tree that grew from an acorn.

From the single acorn grows the mighty oak!

Here’s an orange tree that’s over 30 years old.

Navel oranges grow on an over 30-year-old orange tree!

This orange tree is over 30 years old, and still gives delicious fruit. Plant a fruit tree, get fruit for generations!

Another good example of nature’s abundance is multiplication through roots. Look at these bananas that expand their roots into the soil and pop up new banana plants.

This growth isn’t exponential like seed growth, but still it multiplies with repeated additions of new plants.

New banana trees grow from the roots of existing banana trees

The food forest also produces a healthy habitat full of good food for many animals. The animals feed on plants and on each other to create a balanced population.

If more people everywhere around the world grow forests of food , we can go a long way toward healing our planet and providing healthy habitats for animals and people.

Thanks for reading this post.

Aloha!

Healthy Soil is the Key to Healthy Plants

Replace Weeds with Seeds

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:03 GMT

Aloha Everyone,

With spring on the way, and weeds popping up everywhere, we present this VIDEO to help you get MORE of your favorite things growing in your food forest!

I feel so happy when I’m out in the garden, pulling out weeds and dropping seeds in the holes where the weeds once grew. It’s fun to transform the garden floor with seeds for plants you love!

The practice of replacing weeds with seeds can also be used to raise your vibration! When I’m thinking an angry or hating thought, I think of it as a weed seed in my mind. If I speak words of anger or hate, I’m planting those bad seeds into the energy field around us.

Sometimes it takes a bit of effort to remove the weed-y thought from my mind, but I give it a tug, or use a tool like meditation to pull it out of my mind, and then it’s easy to replace it with a forgiving and loving thought.

Then I imagine how I would like to see the situation with the good seeds growing instead of the weeds. Just like planting a better seed in my mind. It’s fun!

Then I nurture those better feeling thoughts in my imagination by focusing on them and talking about them to other people. Those better-feeling words fall into the energy field around us and begin to grow, just like little plants spring up from seeds.

When words are spoken, they carry more power than thoughts because they are being heard by the people around us and they enter into their minds and their thoughts, so it’s important to watch which words you are planting!

By continuing to hold those positive images and ideas in my mind and speaking them out into the field of energy around us, soon I begin to feel the feeling as if they are the truth.

After that, I help the images grow by taking small actions to make them come true. Pretty soon, I look around, and what I imagined has become real in this world.

This is the very process I used to co-create a food forest and learn how to write a blog, and it’s way more fun than walking through life in an ugly field of anger or hate!!

Now that being said, here’s the video:

Here’s the transcript of the words in the video:

The official start of Spring is just days away, and gorgeous healthy weeds are popping up everywhere. We have dandelions, thistles, spurge, mares tails and a wide variety of other volunteers that I can’t even name growing right up through the mulch!
What I’ve come to love about these volunteers is that they are really here to help. They get the garden started where nothing is growing, creating healthy nitrogen-rich leaves, and breaking up heavy clay soil with their roots! See here how useful these gardening allies are for creating crumble, friable soil where once we had dense clay!
I’ve been enjoying time in the garden, listening to the birds sing, breathing in the fresh air and getting exercise as I pull up weeds and drop seeds or small seedlings in the holes left behind, burying the seeds or seedlings back up and then tearing up the leaves and dropping them for mulch. I give some of the dandelions leaves to the turkeys too – they are very fond of eating dandelions!
I’ve been planting lots of corn seeds because I still have a huge bag of corn seeds left over from last years crop, even after we ate a lot of fresh corn, froze some, and popped some. This year, I hope we can sell some too!

Well that’s our post for today – when you pull out weeds, replace them with seeds (or seedlings) of your preference!

Break off the flowers and seed pods from the weeds for disposal before you drop the leaves back on the ground, if you wish to prevent more weeds from self-propagating.

Infinite Abundance, World Peace, and Aloha!

Broadcast your Seeds Onto the Forest Floor

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:46:02 GMT

Aloha Friends,

We have good news for you!

You don’t have to meticulously plant seeds in your soil and cover them back up! They will sprout if you toss them out on top of the mulch on the forest floor and wait for the rainwater to germinate them.

Onions sprouting from seed that was broadcast onto the mulch. The seeds germinated when the rains came.

During summer of 2016, our beets, carrots, onions, lettuces, arugula, flax, basil, parsley, etc. produced thousands of seeds!!! That is way too many seeds to plant individually.

We experimented this summer by broadcasting thousands of our own seeds onto the mulch layer to see if they would come up. Why shouldn’t they? Weed seeds easily sprout up through mulch. We tossed out the seeds right onto the mulch surface and left them there for a couple of months. When the rain came in autumn, they sprouted.

One of the most important aspects of a forest is the covering of organic material on the forest floor. Our soil is covered about 1/2″ – 1″ deep in a variety of organic mulch.

Some people think that you have to part the mulch to plant the seeds in the soil underneath. This may be true for certain larger seeds like corn or pumpkin, but this was not the case for our tiny seeds.

Up come some carrot seedlings!

Carrots thriving on the forest floor after we scattered the seeds and let them grow where they landed!

Flax growing from flax seeds that were strewn onto the surface of the mulch.

One day, just as the seedlings were starting to appear, many crows landed on the forest floor and started digging up the seeds. After chasing them away, we placed this dragon kite in a tree near the seedlings.

Crows think this Dragon Kite is a DEAD BIRD and won’t come near it!

The dragon kite is simply perched in a tree

This dragon kite scared the crows so much that they haven’t come back into the garden since we hung it in this tree!

Apparently crows are afraid if you hang a DEAD BIRD on a tree or a pole for them to see. Now the crows fly by, and when they see this scary dragon kite which looks like a dead bird, they cry out with a fearful CAW and they won’t land anywhere near it! Even our pet turkeys are afraid of this kite and moan fearfully when they see it!

Compared to our first scarecrow, which didn’t seem to do anything at all – this has been amazing!

This scarecrow didn’t scare the crows at all! He did, however, startle us at times!

Here are more seedling pictures.

By planting the roots of green onions from the store after we ate the green tops, the roots grew into large green onion plants, which developed seeds that we distributed around the garden. Now we now have a field of green onions growing, and you can see there are seeds getting ready to create exponentially more onion plants! This is a great picture of nature’s abundance!

See how the seeds of the onion seeds drop all around and new onions begin to grow.

Aloha Farms food forest – Nasturtium seedlings under Lemon Tree. These are from the third or fourth generation of nasturtium seeds. Each new generation includes many new colors and varieties of nasturtiums!

Last year’s nasturtium flowers growing from seed sprinkled around on the mulch

Here are the yellow flowers of the romaine lettuce plants. Each of the flowers will produce about 20 more seeds for new romaine lettuce plants!

An abundance of calendula flowers growing from seed scattered around the forest floor

We hope you are happy to learn about how easy it can be to plant seeds when you have a food forest!

We wish you Peace, Abundance, and – let’s say it together – Aloha!

This year we had our best Macadamia Nut harvest ever!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:59 GMT

Aloha!

Walking past the macadamia tree this morning, I noticed a lot of nuts on the ground.

I started gathering them in my pocket, then looked up into the tree and noticed these babies were ready to pick! Instead of a pocket to hold the nuts, I needed a shopping bag

They are completely ripe when the husk turns brown and releases the nut. These are about to fall to the ground.

I noticed that some creatures were starting to eat some of the nuts, which tells me it’s time to harvest them.

Here the husks have opened, and you can see the nuts, so they are ready to harvest.

These are not yet ready to pick, because the husks haven’t split open yet.

Here are some pictures of the heavy shopping bag containing the macadamia nut harvest.

They can’t stay in the bag or they will get moldy. They need to dry out for a couple of days, and then I can take off the green husks.

Here’s my system for drying:

I use these trays that you get from nurseries when you buy seedlings.

I keep these old nursery pots full of rocks I collected from the food forest. The rocks collect heat during the day and release it during the night, so they accelerate the drying process. Bricks work the same way.

I line the nursery trays with brown paper so the nuts don’t fall through. Paper is a good choice because it will allow air to flow through it.

Pouring them into the trays. A single layer of nuts will dry more quickly.

Here’s where they will stay until the husks dry out and then I’ll take the husks off. I leave the husks on for a few extra days in case they will help the nut to mature a little more. The husks will leave me with a new pile of organic material to lay out on the forest floor or to use as a dye.

Once the husks are off, the nuts will continue to dry for a few weeks. Test to see if they are fully dry by shaking the nut. When the nuts are fully dry, you should hear the nut rattling inside the shell.

Some of the nuts have already sprouted and can be planted in the pots to grow into seedlings.

Macadamias are delicious raw or roasted. Salted or unsalted. Eat them by the handful or use them in baking and cooking. A local grocery store sells the popular shelled macadamia nuts for $16.99 per pound.

Roots Grow Fruits

Wishing You Peace, Joy, Abundance, and Aloha!

Get back to the Garden or Go Extinct!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:57 GMT

Aloha Friends!

“This is an exciting time!!… This is an opportunity to try!” This is an opportunity to let go of the old belief systems of violence and war. There was a garden when we got here, and if we understand it, there can be a garden when we leave here. And if we leave it as a garden, there will be others left behind to share that garden.”

These are some exciting words you will hear in this video, along with so many more. This is a video you could watch multiple times and keep learning from it.

Please enjoy Bruce Lipton as he shares his amazing insights into today’s world:

Let’s All Join as a Collective Community in Peace, Love, Abundance and Aloha!

We’re all connected and we can create a heavenly Earth!

Expand into new healthy ways of meeting our needs, appreciate and care for earth’s bodies of water and sacred atmosphere of air to breathe.

Will You Join Many Souls in Learning to Share Love All Around, Overlooking Minor Disagreements and Focusing on Solutions?

I will and I hope you will too!

Aloha to You!

We are growing Moringa!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:56 GMT

Have you heard of Moringa, the Miracle Tree?

We are growing it here at Aloha Farms and are so excited about it!!!

Here’s a picture of our baby tree, but even better, here’s a link to see what Moringa is all about!

Green Gold – Documentary by John d. Liu

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:54 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Here’s another great class in Permaculture!

Thank you John D Liu for inspiring and educating us, a new world of natural growers here on our Beautiful Shared Earth!

Aloha!!!!!!!!

Thanks, Alligator Lizards!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:53 GMT

Aloha Friend!

We have even more good news!!!

Mother nature brought us another perfect creature to help us in the food forest!

Yesterday when we saw an alligator lizard running away from Papa’s hose water, I decided to search online to learn what they like to eat.

Fortunately, they have been helping us balance the population of invertebrate insects by eating up as many ants, snails, grasshoppers, scorpions, spiders, centipedes, and sowbugs as they can hold! They even eat small rodents and other lizards.

Fortunately, they eat them dead or alive, because without these garden helpers, we would have a lot more bugs and dead carcasses to deal with in the garden.

Then, unfortunately, we would want to go and buy bug spray.

But fortunately, we don’t have to ��

Lunch Time!

I’m so thankful for the Alligator Lizard’s service to the food forest that I wrote a thank-you note to the alligator lizards of the world. Here it is:

Dear Alligator Lizards of the World,

Thank you for eating the many dead and alive insects and rodents small creatures that you’ve eaten.

You keep their populations in balance, and you do it all on your own, with no help from us!

We love and appreciate you and will do our best to make our food forest a healthy, happy, place for you to enjoy life in peace and abundance.

Aloha to you and yours,

Tutu

So if you see an alligator lizard – or any kind of lizard – treasure it and be glad for its help.

Thanks for reading!

Aloha, Peace, and Abundance to You!

The Awesome Power of Seeds

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:51 GMT

Aloha Friend!

You possess a great yet mostly unrecognized power to shape the world around us.

The power exists in the seeds that you plant during your lifetime.

Seeds can be physical seeds that we plant in the soil of our gardens, and they can also be invisible seeds which include the thoughts we think, the words we speak, and the actions or movements we make .

There is vast and unforeseeable life-changing potential in a single seed, whether it’s a garden seed or a human seed.

First, let’s look at how physical seeds operate in garden soil:

The seeds we plant in our soil can endure as trees or plants for generations, reproducing and repopulating gardens and affecting our planet long past our own lifetimes. A planted seed may even create a forest that will last for the duration of planet earth. Seeds are so persistent that many of the “weeds” we see in our gardens are descendants of plants that were cultivated by people of previous generations and the plants are still reproducing without any help from humans.

Let’s consider the little miracles we call seeds. Within each seed exists not just one life-form, but also the potential for that life-form to continue producing new life-forms for generations. Seeds are incredibly powerful, yet they are free to us all, and they are everywhere.

Seeds are most often so small that they are easy to overlook or ignore. In this way, seeds act almost like secret-agents of amazing potential, as they quietly grow and shape the world.

Before a seed ever becomes a seed, it will start its life as a small growth on the stem of a plant. Feeding on the nourishment from the plant, the little growth will develop a stem and a flower bud. The flower bud will grow bigger until, bursting with promise, the flower bud opens itself up to the amazing experience of sunlight, fresh air, and fellow life-forms, such as flying insects and spiders. As the flower grows it forms a fruit with seeds, and soon the seeds are ready to become new plants.

Seeds can be dispersed in a variety of ways – by the hands of humans, by wind, by clinging to an animal’s fur for a ride to a new location, by being eaten by an animal and then being eliminated in the animal’s droppings, by flowing water, by seed pods that pop open and eject seeds into the area, and even by just falling onto the soil and starting to grow from there. If they land in a suitable spot, they sprout their roots and leaves and a new plant is born. Given time, a seed will grow into an easily visible new plant life that will shape the world around it, and eventually create many new seeds of its own, often unnoticed and with no help from anyone.

It almost seems that these new seedlings appear out of nothing, but we know they didn’t come from nothing – they came from seeds.

Annual plants live for only 1 season, growing and producing more seeds, and then dying. They leave their seeds to carry on the work in the next season. Trees, on the other hand keep growing more seeds year after year within their fruits and nuts.

Seeds produce many different forms of life, and strangely, we can’t see what resources they have consumed to grow into plants. The resources they need to grow are available for free in nature: sunlight, soil, air and water, and they don’t seem to use up the resources. Healthy soil is created from the decomposing leaves and branches that older plants have dropped, so nothing goes to waste in the plant world – it only gets richer and richer. As plants live their life-cycles, they contribute to the health and growth of the next cycle of plants.

Think about this, if you plant a seed that will become as dominant a life-force as an oak tree is in the garden, and it will reproduce for generations and generations, and become a forest, and an ancestor of forests, wouldn’t you want to carefully consider what seeds you plant?

We humans do prefer some plants over others. Perhaps we don’t want thorny plants in our gardens or plants that may grow to choke out our favorite plants, or plants that will grow too big for the area. In this case, we choose to eliminate these plants from the garden.

It’s good to know what a plant is before uprooting it. Some plants that we originally thought we should remove turned out to be useful crops that have been cultivated by people in previous generations. To name a few that have appeared in our food forest: dandelions, oxalis, flax, chamomile and purslane. We let these volunteer plants continue to grow in our food forest.

Just as good seeds produce good fruits, so also unwanted or unfavorable seeds grow in the garden and reproduce more unwanted or unfavorable fruits. We call these unwanted plants weeds. If you’re sure you want to eliminate a weed, it’s best to pull it out of the soil, roots and all, before it creates seeds of its own and especially before it can disperse the seeds around the garden. By eliminating one weed before it goes to seed, you will effectively be avoiding having thousands more weeds sprout from the seeds of that first one. We recommend to plant a good seed of your choosing in the bare space left after you have pulled a weed.

In the world of seeds, there’s abundance everywhere, so don’t underestimate the incredible power of seeds!!!!!!

Since there’s such amazing abundance that comes from a seed well planted in soil, just for fun, let’s take a break here and compare an investment of $1.00 in the stock market to an investment of 1 seed in the soil:

STOCK MARKET (Money Economy):

First of all, to even purchase stock in the stock market, we would have to pay a fee, so it wouldn’t make sense to just invest $1.00 if the fee is $10.00 to create the transaction, but to keep it simple, let’s just say the investment is $1.00. We would use our own heart and mind to decide what to invest in, then pay to create the transaction in the stock market.
We likely first obtained the dollar by performing some type of valuable work. We were then taxed on the money we earned, and this $1.00 is part of what we have left-over after our hard work and paying our taxes.
If we are lucky in the stock market and if we keep our money invested in it for many years, we may average 6% return on investment. Invest $1.00, earn $0.06 in a year, ending the year with $1.06. Again, this is if we are lucky, but there’s also a chance that we will lose it all and end up with nothing, and it would be completely out of our control.
When we do earn interest on our money, the national and state governments will be sure to take a portion of it, so we will have earned even less.
In terms of money, we see very weak growth at best. We have to keep working hard every day to get enough money to pay the next bill, and then the next and the next…. it’s a slave economy when we work for money.

SEEDS (Nature’s Economy):

There’s no fee involved for planting a seed. We use our own heart and mind to decide which seed to plant and where to plant it, then use our own hands to plant the seed.
We first obtained the seed either by finding a seed growing on a plant already – which would cost $0.00 – no money, or by purchasing a seed packet. If we purchased the seed in a $1.00 packet containing 100 seeds, then the cost of the seed would be $0.01 – one cent. The number of seeds in a packet can range from 10 – 2000 seeds/packet, so the cost of a seed could vary, but the example here is a reasonable one, and most seeds are very inexpensive and rarely would you pay $1.00 for one seed.
If you plant one seed, and in one year the plant yields even 1 new seed, you have a 100% return on your investment. If it yields 100 seeds, then your return on investment would be 10,000%. Or, if the plant yields another 1000 seeds then your return on investment would be 100,000%. (this is common!!!) If you were to plant all of those seeds, and many of them gave you the same yield, you would be approaching infinity in a few years! This one seed then makes an infinite number of new seeds possible. We have some control over this process too, when we plant the seed at the right time and in the right location. If it wasn’t planted at the right time initially, sometimes a seed will lay dormant for a long time, then one day, when the time is right, it grows.
We get to keep all of our seeds, and we can eat them (if they’re edible), or plant them and get more plants and more seeds, make alcohol with them, or sell them, or share them, or feed them to animals, or make jewelry with them, and even create a piece of art for your mother with them
In terms of seeds, once you plant them, they begin an unending chain of abundance, and soon you are overflowing with seeds!!!

Notice in the money-based economy, you work hard to gain little, while in the seed-based economy, you work little to gain much.

You can eat seeds and the fruits they produce, so they give you not only abundance, but great health. You can’t eat money, so you have to go find a way to trade it for food or medicine.

One reason why it’s so fun to create a food forest is to participate in this abundance.

Here’s a romaine lettuce plant that matured in the food forest until it grew these white puffy flowers. Inside of each of these flowers is about 10 – 20 seeds for new romaine lettuce plants. A few days ago, we picked all of the seeds off of this plant and planted them around the food forest, and now there’s a whole new batch of seeds to be picked and planted. There are way too many seeds to count, and they all came from one seed, which grew into one lettuce plant. During the time the lettuce plant was growing, we would regularly pick and eat lettuce leaves too, so we got to enjoy eating the lettuce, and we still got the seeds. How’s that for abundance?

Romaine Lettuce grows thousands of seeds – in 1 season!

This picture of a bag of arugula seeds that we have left over from one arugula plant. Another clear example of the seed economy of abundance – what a return on investment after one season!!! Plus we got to enjoy the arugula as it grew in the food forest.

From a Handful of Arugula Seeds come an outrageous increase in Arugula Seeds! And we also got to enjoy eating the leaves as they grew! There’s only amazing increase in Nature!

Here’s a bag of macadamia nuts, which are also the seeds for new macadamia trees. This came from 1 harvest last January 9th, and it only took about 15 minutes to gather.

Macadamia Trees grow these seeds in abundance, year after year! The seeds are delicious to eat (We call them Macadamia Nuts when we eat them), and the seeds will also grow more Macadamia Trees! Imagine if every seed grew another Macadamia Tree? Pretty soon we would have enough Macadamia Seeds to feed everyone!

Here are packets of seeds we gathered from the food forest for selling at our farm stand: Pigeon Peas, Guava Tree, Passion Fruit Vine, Nasturtiums, Calendulas, and Bird of Paradise. We are working on getting lettuce, arugula, fig and many other seeds ready for sale too!

A variety of seeds packaged for sale at the farm stand.

We experience amazing abundance from the food forest every day!

Our gardens provide a physical example to teach us how to grow well-being in our lives, too, so now let’s take a look at how invisible seeds operate in our lives.

OUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ARE INVISIBLE SEEDS made of energy. They exist as seeds only in our minds until we plant them into the field of our lives by speaking them aloud. Then, when we act on our words, we are cultivating their growth.

You can choose which thoughts and ideas you verbalize. If you don’t speak a thought, it will never be born or grow.

Once spoken, our thoughts and ideas have creative power which forms emotions, beliefs, and meanings in ourselves and others, which lead us to reactions and behavior changes, which change our lives and the lives of others in the world around us.

Our words can be dispersed into the lives of listeners in a variety of ways – they can be overheard, repeated, remembered, written, and recorded as songs or speeches.

As with physical seeds, the resources these seeds consume in order to grow into beliefs and emotions and meanings are invisible and made of the field of energy which surrounds us.

When we speak, we plant a seed into the field of our life which is connected to the field of everyone’s lives. Just as in the garden, the seeds we plant with our words will live on, reproducing and affecting ourselves and others long past our own lifetimes – for many generations, and maybe for the duration of planet earth.

Sometimes it takes time to see the seed grow. Patiently, seeds can lay dormant, then spring up and appear, sometimes even surprising the gardener who forgot they ever planted them, or who believed they would never show up.

We often think that the events of our lives just happen, but the truth is, they came from a seed. For example, we hear something spoken that triggers feelings of fear or hate and we begin to believe things about the world that change the way we act and those actions shape our realities. We don’t see the connection – that it started with an invisible seed – the spoken word.

Since whatever seeds we plant with our words will grow in our lives and affect the world around us, let’s choose our words carefully and plant the best seeds we can.

Like many wise mothers used to say to their children, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” because they knew that the best seeds to plant are the good ones!

Just as we wouldn’t plant seeds for undesirable garden plants, we can also choose not to speak thoughts that would grow into hate and fear, and instead speak ideas that grow into love and joy and happiness, health and goodness and peacefulness. Infuse your words with love.

Plant seeds that produce good fruit. Say kind and helpful things to yourself, your family, your friends and your neighbors. Talk about the good things that you want to see in the future. Imagine and speak of a future full of joy and hope and love. Use your ideas to bring solutions to problems and speak about solutions and possibilities for change. Sing joyful songs to yourself and express gratefulness which will increase the good feelings around you.

Pull up undesirable weeds when you see them growing, and replace them with good word-seeds that produce good fruits. Look at the cloud, and notice the truth that there’s silver lining. See a door close, and remember that a new door will open with new possibilities. With your words, you can accentuate the possibilities for good that can come out of a situation. You can speak of your ideas of possible solutions.

We must become aware that when we speak thoughts that are weed seeds that will grow into ugliness, fear, hate and shame, they will grow into undesirable futures. Probably most of us can remember when someone spoke negative words over us, and it can be hard to overcome those bad feelings and beliefs about ourselves, because when we heard those words, we felt bad and we believed them to be true .

Like the seeds in our gardens, the seeds we plant with our words will also have a vast and unforeseeable life-changing potential and return on investment.

Let’s choose to speak words that are harmless and words that are helpful and bring about feelings of love for life, for ourselves, and for others.

We send this message with a wish for peace on earth through the planting of awesome seeds that will bring an abundance of good things to all!

Aloha!

Shower in the garden using fresh produce to clean your hair and body

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:50 GMT

Aloha!

You can create an outdoor shower that is fun to shower in. Build a trellis and cover it with vines or use your imagination to create your vision of the perfect outdoor shower. You will enjoy being in nature with the birds and butterflies as you cleanse your body with fresh garden produce and let the shower water drain into the earth below.

Use fresh garden produce to cleanse your hair and body so as the water seeps into the ground; it will enrich the garden soil in your food forest!

Outdoor Shower attached to the trellis covered in passion vine Showering outside allows us to use the water twice – once for showering and a second time for adding water to the earth below It also saves the ocean, by staying out of the sewer system.

Here are a couple of our forest-friendly body cleansing recipes that we use in the outdoor shower:

Lemons and Aloe can cleanse and moisturize the skin

Take a whole fruit, cut it or poke a hole in it, and squeeze it over your scalp and hair. Massage your scalp and rinse out the pulp. The lemon ‘s fragrant oil smooths your hair and makes it easy to comb.

After you rinse the lemon from your hair, break the lemon into two or three pieces and use those pieces to cleanse the rest of your body. Your skin will feel the moisturizing lemon oil from the lemon peel and the tingle of the juice cleansing any cuts or scrapes in your skin. Rinse in the water, and you’ll be fresh and clean.

If you feel you need extra scrubbing, combine equal parts baking soda and lemon juice to make a fizzy paste which you can use to scrub your scalp and skin with effervescence.

Split open a succulent leaf of aloe vera and use the gooey insides to moisturize and heal your skin.

To finish your garden grooming, rub fragrant forest plants on your skin so the plant oil will perfume you! Some ideas are chamomile, rose, lavender, sage, rosemary; there are many beautiful smelling leaves, fruits, and flowers growing. Plant beautiful-smelling plants in your food forest, so you’ll have them on hand always!

Here are some forest-friendly ways to color your hair using garden produce:

Natural Hair Coloring for medium brown hair: Aloe Vera blades

Aloe Vera dyes hair and clothing and soothes skin, plus it multiplies – all of this grew from one potted plant in about three years!

Break off a blade of fresh aloe vera, and a small amount of yellow/orange fluid will flow out when you first break it open. It’s the circulatory fluid of the succulent leaf. This staining fluid will darken your hair and clothing with golden brown. Wear a shirt you don’t mind staining, and save it for your hair-coloring shirt Allow the fluid to flow directly from the aloe on to your head, or catch it in your hand, then put it on your head and comb it through your scalp and hair and let it dry.

After draining out the small amount of staining fluid, split open the blade. You will find the clear gelatinous slippery fluid and flesh inside the leaf. Wipe the clear liquid on your skin to moisturize and heal it, and watch how quickly your skin soaks it up. It’s especially useful after cleansing with lemon!

Another method that to use with a variety of leaves or fruits from the garden (also natural) :

Collect your choice of edible plant parts from the garden. Fill a teapot with the plant parts and cover them in water.

Boil, cool, add a spoonful of vinegar. Pour the cooled liquid from the teapot into old rinsed-out shampoo bottles. You might get two bottles full from 1 teapot. Save the extra coloring in the refrigerator.

Outside, in a shirt you don’t mind staining, squeeze or spray the dye on the roots of your hair, combing it through to the ends and adding more as needed to saturate the hair. Allow the hair to dry with the coloring on it as you brush through your hair.

Use the coloring as often as you want. The great thing is it’s nutritious for your hair and skin so it won’t hurt you.

You can experiment with edible leaves from your garden. Here are some ingredients we’ve tried:

sage leaves will produce a lighter brown color

blackberry leaves – darker brown

pecan husks – long-lasting dark brown

Lemon juice to lighten and highlight hair. Squeeze lemon juice on hair, then dry it out in the sun. It turns silvery hair a golden blond color.

Other commonly known plants for hair dye are:

walnut husks – for dark hair

chamomile to brighten blond hair

Be creative – you could look for something from your edible garden and give it a try.

Here’s the event that inspired the idea to use garden ingredients as hair dye:

One day when we were still new to the food forest, the crows began squawking and landing in the tall pecan tree – obviously a good sign that the pecans were ripe! To save our harvest, we went out and gathered as many pecans as we could reach with a ladder.

Here’s what pecan fruit looks like when growing on the tree

Not all the picked pecans were ripe. The mature ones have split-open husks that easily allow the nuts to fall out of them, but the immature nuts have closed husks and require some effort to remove the nuts from the outer husks.

Knowing what I know now, I would choose to let the pecans ripen for a few more days in the sun and allow the husks to split open over time. But because that was my first ever pecan harvest, I didn’t understand that then. I decided to work those husks off with my hands right then and there.

Here’s a shot of how the husks stained my fingers. And it didn’t come off for a full week of thorough scrubbing with various cleansers!

Fingers stained from pecan husks

That was the source of the idea. If these pecan husks are this staining, how would they work as hair coloring?

You can feel good about using these forest-friendly and budget-friendly methods of hair care!

I wish you Peace, Joy, and Aloha!

See Nature’s Abundance getting Us Back to Eden

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:49 GMT

Aloha friends

When you see how much abundance nature provides to us for free, you will understand that

World peace is truly within reach��

Meet the plant “Self-Heal,” A MIGHTY Little Helper!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:46 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Prunella Vulgaris, known commonly as self-heal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter’s herb, brownwort, and blue curls, looks beautiful and provides healing nutrients.

Please check out this entertaining and enlightening video by Herbal Jedi called Self-Heal, A Mighty Little Helper.

I love that it brings hope to people around the world.

Remember, Mother Earth provides us with everything we need to lead healthy and happy lives.

I plan to begin propagating this herb in pots so I can offer its blessings to our community.

Wishing you Peace, Love, Infinite Abundance, and Aloha!

Tutu

The Power Of A FOOD FOREST GUILD

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:45 GMT

Aloha Friends!

In this video, I show you a food forest guild, which is like a unit of plants growing together in the same area, that help each other to thrive and survive. They share soil nutrients, shade, and sun, and importantly for us in the Southwest, they share water and fertilizer.

Guilds are like miniature food forests and are the building blocks of a more extensive food forest.

Easy to get started, they include some of each of the layers of the food forest.

This one features bananas and moringa as the tree layer; pigeon peas as the shrub layer; tomatoes as the vine layer; strawberries, calendula, Okinawan spinach, woodsorrel, self-heal, and wild lettuce as the floor layer; and ginger root as the root layer.

This guild takes up a 22 x 11-foot area (242 square feet), making it a good demonstration of how to grow a variety of foods within a small space.

Everything you see here came from seeds or seedlings that I transplanted here or else voluntarily established here, so it is a low-cost investment in an ongoing stream of fresh food!

Thankfulness

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:42 GMT

Aloha Friend

Heal Earth!

Here’s what food food forests do:

Build rich soil

Sequester carbon

Gather, retain and store water

Provide healthy food

Create bio-diverse habitat for wildlife

Mitigate catastrophic climate change on Planet Earth

What an amazing life we are all living today

Miracles are happening everywhere

Each day seems to grow more beautiful than the last day

I am thankful to be here on the planet

Today, I saw Geoff Lawton and his team “Greening the Desert” on YouTube.

If you haven’t checked him out yet, please do! A food forest in the desert is worth seeing!

Geoff embodies his work and because of his passion, he opens the eyes and hearts of people everywhere he goes.

Here are two more of my favorite YouTube Channels that I am very thankful for – and I want to give them a shout out!

Dan from PlantAbundance.com
The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni

These two channels have been supremely inspiring and delightful to me and I feel sure will delight you too.

Your garden is unique. Every garden is unique!

Just like no two snowflakes are alike, and no two people are alike.

Every garden has a unique space on the planet with a longitude and latitude that no other place has! I’m thankful that each of us has a unique piece of Earth to care for!

It’s fun to check out different peoples gardens wherever they are on earth. You get to see what we have in common and what we both can do the same way, and then contemplate what we do a little bit differently where we are, because of our climate and situation.

I hope you are growing something you love in a patch of soil today!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Sending you Peace and Aloha!

World Peace and Infinite Abundance are Within Sight

Thankful for Us! Tutu

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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:41 GMT

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22 Things to Love About Food Forests

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:41 GMT

A food forest offers you an intriguing and awe-inspiring connection to the world of nature. Seeing birds and enjoying themselves, and hearing birds singing as you walk among the living, growing food-producing tree and plant biota, you develop a sense of wonder at the complex network of life that you are walking along! You begin to sense how many creatures are working together out there to grow food for themselves and you!

A food forest system offers a chance to cooperate with nature. Nature’s forces do the work of growing, but you get to choose what to plant and cultivate what you like in the system. It’s a majestically powerful life force that we get to interact with while we live on this planet.

A food forest merges the cultivated plants with the wild biota, offering food for the body and souls of all earth-dwellers.

A food forest cleans the air by collecting dust from the sky which falls to the ground after a rain.

A food forest fills the air with oxygen by the process of photosynthesis, by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.

A food forest moderates hot and cold temperatures, cooling the environment in hot weather and warming the atmosphere in cold weather.

A food forest slows down strong winds by cutting the wind current with its tree branches and leaves.

A food forest feeds and houses innumerable biota species. Since all those species are interacting in the food forest, no one single species gets to overpopulate and take over the system. Having all those species living together creates a balanced population.

A food forest waters itself by storing its water in the soil. Rainwater falls on leaves and branches, runs down the trunks of trees, and into the ground under the tree. Try observing how plants’ designs can catch and divert water into their soil. When more plants grow in the land, more water stays in the ground, and less water runs off.

A food forest fertilizes itself by accumulating organic material on the soil surface, which then feeds the soil biota, which then turns around and feeds the plant biota in a complete recycling pattern.

A food forest keeps your leaves from going to the landfill. Instead of raking them up and putting them in bags and throwing them away, you will use your leaf mulch to enhance your soil.

A food forest provides food, medicine, building supplies, attractive flowers, and lovely fragrances for humans and wildlife to enjoy.

A food forest grows stronger and produces more abundance over time, in a fractal, exponential pattern in individual plants, and as a forest community.

A food forest takes on a life of its own as a cohesive, unified entity that works together in ways that are very complex and beautiful.

A food forest provides natural education to observers. People who go in and quietly observe the forest will learn truths about the natural laws of creation.

A food forest allows the gardener to experience solitude. When you are in your food forest, there’s a tremendous opportunity to meditate and to be at one with nature. It’s a peaceful setting where you can go inward, listen to yourself, think, feel from your heart, and tune in to your gut. It provides a backdrop for moments of quiet, outside of the noise and distractions around us.

A food forest provides a place to perform the mild physical exercise of tending the garden. Ages 2 to 92 can enjoy working in the garden while taking in the sunshine and vibrant, growing beauty. Moving your muscles never felt so fun and relaxing!

A food forest enriches the grower who tends to it by providing beauty, food, juice, freshness, nutrients, and the wonder of forest life. It feels like your body is imbued with a healthy life-force when you eat the fruit of the forest.

A food forest enriches the entire planet by cleaning the air and the water and sending its beautiful seeds out farther and farther, revitalizing the whole earth. (We can speed this up when we grow food forests where ever we are around the world.)

A food forest is the easiest way to grow the best food and medicine. Food and medicine blur together in my view because what we eat from the food forest is so wholesome and nutritious that our bodies receive the nutrients they need to grow and heal. Microorganisms that live in the soil also live in our bodies!

A food forest is an alternative food source as healthy food gets harder and harder to find in big stores. Organic produce from the grocery store costs much more than regular old chemical-laden crops. My friend, you can grow the freshest, healthiest safest food for free!

Here is your opportunity to turn a problem into a solution! Restore your family’s health and our Mother Earth’s health at the same time – by growing your food forest. Win! Win! Win!

Walk through our “Garden of Eden” food forest

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:39 GMT

Aloha Friends – Nature is here to provide you with infinite abundance!

Hi I’m Tutu, and a food forest is growing in my backyard right now! I love to imagine that it’s my own Garden of Eden.

November 17, 2018 Morning Walk

It’s so fun to pick a juicy fragrant delicious piece of fruit from a tree, inhale the fragrance, take a bite, and drink in that delicious goodness! And there are many different kinds of foods ripening in different seasons.

Every kernel of corn is a seed!

A Heart Beet!

Passion Fruit

Macadamias in Shells March 2017 – this year many of the nuts were already cracked when we harvested them – so nice!

Tangerines

Eugenia Cherries

White Nectarines

Apricots

Pecans

Pigeon Peas

Passion Fruit 1/2

Under the Orange Tree

Juicy Apples!

Pecans and Macadamias

Coffee Cherries

Figs

Apricots and Nectarines

Bananas

Blackberries

Lemons and Oranges

It’s a joy to meander through the shade of great trees and into the sunny meadows, breathing in fresh perfumed air, feeling the breeze on blow across my skin as the birds create a symphony of joyful song all around you!

You learn a lot by observing each unique plant growing according to its unique perfect design. You see how plants adjust their growth to get the most benefit from their environment. You also see how each plant contributes its own unique qualities to help the garden.

Soon you begin to experience gratitude as you realize that our Mother Earth’s creation gives us everything we have and gives it to us in infinite abundance.

All of our food, air, water, fire, even the ground we stand on, is a gift provided from Mother Earth.

I speak of Mother Earth as a person because I believe she is a benevolent living entity who will give forever if she is treated with the respect and honor that she so deserves.

I am writing this book to help Mother Earth and to help you at the same time, because I believe that food forests are a key to a healthy planet and to freedom and abundance for all of us earth-dwelling lifeforms!

For as long as we can remember, people have been fighting against tyranny and oppression to become free, and still today we fight the same fight against tyranny and oppression.

I suggest we start a revolution – not with violence, but today let us fight our battles by growing beautiful food forests. I ask you to join me in enjoying nature’s infinite abundance.

So let’s talk about how you can live a healthy joyful life as you create your own food forest!

Let us all explore mother natures many gifts

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:35 GMT

Aloha friends

Wouldn’t it be fun for all of us to be able to relax and enjoy life on mother Gaia?

Suppose that we didn’t have to work hard and that everything we need to enjoy life was given freely to us by mother Gaia

Wouldn’t that be awesome!

And no more war on plants, war on seeds, war on people

A magnificent end to war on planet earth

The good news is that we already have it if we only recognize it!!

Yay!!

Featured today is Wise Woman Tradition Self Reliant Medicine and thanks to my friend Tanja for telling me about this YouTuber!

Another very fun wonderful human on the planet with a message for us all

With gratitude to Susun Weed and her Wise Woman Traditions

Enjoy!

Infinite abundance, world peace, joy, love, and Aloha!!!!

What are your questions for me?

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:34 GMT

Aloha and Welcome New Subscribers!

We now have 733 subscribers and that number is growing every day!

What are your top two or three questions you would like to ask me about food forest gardening? Is there something you struggle with? Please hit reply and let me know!

Thank you very much, and I look forward to connecting with you!

Wishing you Peace, Infinite Abundance, and Aloha!

-Tutu

Roots Grow Fruits!

We can do this!!! We are the game changers!!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:32 GMT

Aloha Dear Friends!

We are changing the world in each moment of time.

Let’s all choose peace, love, joy, and laughter in each moment.

Our Mother Gaia provides us with infinite abundance at all times and teaches us, demonstrates to us, true love.

Here’s an awesome uplifting video for you now:

Gratitude to my angel friend Doron Kutash for sending me uplifting links to brighten each day via email subscription to his site The Source (including the above link).

Love world peace and aloha!

Imagine Every Day a Happy Human Day Every Where on Earth!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:28 GMT

Aloha Friends from all around Mother Earth!

This joyful video warmed my heart with a happy feeling, so I’m sending it your way to bring you joy and happiness too!

Thank you to Blossom Goodchild for making this video – you are awesome!

Happy Human Day to All!

Whenever you read this ��

Imagine Every Day a Happy Human Day Every Where on Earth!

Mother Earth Gives Abundance, Peace, and Well-Being to All

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:27 GMT

Aloha Friends!

I believe food forests are a key to wealth, peace, abundance and health everywhere on our shared planet, Mother Earth.

We all share the same mother – our beautiful Mother Earth, so that makes us all family.

Families can be the greatest of friends, sharing as brothers and sisters in peace and love together.

I am a resident of the USA and I hope to share peace and harmony with everyone on Mother Earth!

Let’s decide to stop hating and fighting each other because of where we live on the planet.

When we start growing food forests everywhere across the lands, we can all start enjoying nature’s FREE infinite abundance of food, health and wealth.

We can begin to feel happy and eat meals from our gardens, ferment our own beverages, laugh, sing, and enjoy the beauty of life together!

It would like a huge party all the time!!!! We could smile, laugh, sing and dance!!

I hope we all move toward this life of peace and freedom and free food everywhere around the world.

I believe we can create a world of peace, freedom, infinite abundance and FUN!!

Woot-woot!

Let’s decide to stop fighting wars.

Let’s decide to make peace with our enemies.

Let’s decide to create a fun life and enjoy our beautiful Mother Earth’s gifts of health and happiness.

The personal freedom to create the beautiful life of your dreams will make the entire planet great.

I believe that Peace is the Highest Aspiration of the People of Mother Earth.

Infinite Aloha, Peace and Abundant Forests of Free Food Everywhere on Earth, Dear Friends!

"Roots Grow Fruits"

How to Grow Oranges

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:27 GMT

Aloha Everyone,

Here’s a video to show you how we brought vigorous health to some old, neglected fruit trees that were here on the land when we arrived.

Please watch this video for our 5 tips that will help you bring health to a fruit tree near you!

Alternately, here’s the text from this video, so you may read the information if you like.

Pruning – cut off dead or dying branches and stems, remove leaves or stems that are infested with bugs like scale or white fly, remove new growth from the interior of the tree to improve air circulation. These “Water Sprouts” grow vertically from lateral branches and can be removed entirely or pruned above a node to re-direct their growth.
Cover the soil under the tree in organic material, which feeds and protects the life-forms that grow in the soil allowing them to proliferate safely under the covering. This also moderates the soil temperature so that it doesn’t get too hot or too cold, and finally, helps retain the soil moisture by preventing it from evaporating.
Sprinkle the soil with epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) before a rain so that the rain will wash it into the soil. This really invigorates the trees.
Insert into the ground under the tree a 2′ – 3′ piece of ABS pipe or other pipe that’s 2″-3″ in diameter, leaving 2″ or so above the soil level. This will be your watering pipe, so you can water directly into the pipe with a hose, and the water will go right down to the roots. Before we installed our watering pipes, we could water for an hour on top of the soil, and it wouldn’t penetrate deeply into the root zone, so we definitely found this to be a tremendous improvement. We can fill the pipe a few times, and we have deep water penetration of the root zone.
This last tip I discovered, and it works well against flying insects that love to feed on new leaf growth. During periods of rapid new leaf growth, if the weather is dry, come out in the late afternoon/early evening and shower off the trees’ foliage with water from a hose. Whatever flying insects are on the tree will instantly fly away to go find drier places. I do this in the early evening so that the water won’t quickly evaporate from the leaves and the insects will stay away while the leaves are wet – and hopefully decide not to come back! This also washes off dust and the trees seem to enjoy a good shower – just like we do
That’s it for now – I hope this information helps any of you who are growing fruit! Thank you for watching, and Aloha!!!

P.S. you could substitute “Rock Dust” aka Azomite for the epsom salt. We also added mychorrizal fungi in 2017, which adds to the soil health and the trees are still doing great!

Aloha!

A coyote is the pride and joy of the garden!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:25 GMT

Aloha Friend!

We always talked about finding a dog that would chase out rabbits, squirrels, and gophers. Then one lucky day, Mother Nature brought us this perfect creature, who turned out to be everything we had hoped for in a dog and more.

Deer-dog resting in the sun

Before we realized that this one single coyote had been quietly entering the food forest every evening, we noticed that the rabbits, squirrels and gophers had disappeared from the garden!

At first we didn’t know why the small garden gourmands no longer ate up all of our seedlings and fruit, but we were glad to be able to take down these protective (but unattractive) seedling fences and the protective netting from our fruit trees! They were no longer needed

Our Portable Garden Fences became unneccessary!

Once we realized that the deer-dog was responsible for pest control on the food forest, we were amazed and grateful for its presence.

We affectionately named it “Deer-dog” since it looks like a deer mixed with a dog and eats both vegetables and animals, and because of the double-entendre “Dear-dog” because we love it!

Here’s a video clip of deer-dog stalking an insect one evening recently. It was a grasshopper or a cricket or something along those lines.

Let us count the ways we love our coyote, Deer-dog!

It eats rabbits, squirrels, and gophers from our garden. No more need to build separate fences around our seedlings or netting over our fruit trees!!
Since the day it ate a crow, the crows became afraid to come back to our garden!!
It eats grasshoppers right out of the air!!
It eats fruit that has fallen to the ground and begun to rot, thus keeping the grounds clean. When nectarines and apricots fell to the ground, the deer-dog ate the fruit and spit the clean seeds back onto the ground!!
It never appears during visits from our human guests!!
It sleeps outside under a tree and guards the premises 24-7 for incoming animals that might otherwise be devouring the plants!!
It requires no extra insurance from the homeowner’s insurance company, no city license, no pet food, no entertainment, and no visits to the vet!!
It walks itself and it even practices yoga – we’ve seen it doing the “downward dog”!!
It doesn’t wake us up in the morning and never needs to be let out of the house!!
Its solid waste is comprised of natural ingredients and feeds the garden, so requires no clean up!!
It takes care of itself if we go on vacation or a day trip!!

If a coyote comes into your garden, remember our story, treasure it and be glad for its help!

You Can Catch Rainwater in a Rolling Cooler!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:23 GMT

Aloha Friends!

Rainy days have come to Southern California again and we have yet to setup rain barrels for catching run off on the back of the house. By chance, during a recent rain, we happened to have this cooler sitting out on the patio, and decided to open it up and let it catch the run off from the house.

We just opened the lid on this rolling cooler, and wheeled it into place so it could collect rainwater.

It gets too heavy to move when full, so we drained a few gallons of water into gallon jugs, using the drain valve. Easy!

Once it was light enough to roll, we rolled it out into the forest to drain the remaining water straight into the ground! So easy

Here you can see the water draining into the ground. You can open the drain valve and let it release water wherever its needed, and then close it and move it to another spot, or you can leave the valve open and roll it along, releasing water as you go. Another idea would be to fit a hose onto the drain valve (if you had the correct size hose or fitting), and then you could conduct the water into the ground using the hose to direct it.

Just throwing that out there in case someone finds it helpful

Wishing You Peace, Abundance, and Aloha!

How we saved our oranges from splitting open before ripening – and you can too!

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:45:21 GMT

Pigeon Peas – Nutritious food for chickens, turkeys, and people :)

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 20:44:01 GMT

People who grow food for people and animals will appreciate the many benefits of growing pigeon peas.

Pigeon Pea Flowers

Many cultures love and grow this plant, but here in the USA, we don’t hear much about it. We’re growing them here in Southern California and we love them so much that we want to share our enthusiasm about them with you.

We were introduced to pigeon peas on this permaculture site -which is clever and fun to read. Rather than me trying to re-state all of the information, please check it out here and then come back for the rest of the story!

tropicalpermaculture.com/pigeon-pea

We ordered seeds on amazon.com and planted them in May 2014, so they’re about 1 1/2 years old in our garden now.

We wondered how they would grow here in USDA Zone 10a/Sunset Western Garden zone 23.

Take a look… here they are just a few weeks after planting…

Pigeon Pea seedlings in May 2014 – when newly planted

Grow they did – and grow some more – and they keep growing 1 1/2 years later. It’s so pleasant and fun when something grows with such ease!

Pigeon Peas at 1 and 1/2 years old

The Pigeon Peas are about 6 feet tall at 1 & 1/2 years old.

Here’s a shot of the pigeon pea pods – with a caterpillar crawling on them. Butterflies love these plants, and so do bees and hummingbirds.

Butterfly on Pigeon Pea

They’ve been producing pods prolifically. All summer we picked baskets full every day.

This makes the turkeys very happy, because they love them so much!!! It feels good to give them something freshly grown.

They’re delicious just eaten off the plant, and they make a great addition to a salad or they can be boiled in salted water and they come out like edamame (boiled soybeans you get in japanese restaurants as an appetizer). They’re a great snack when served that way. Other cultures serve them regularly with rice and in soups and stews too. There are many recipes available.

As the weather began to cool down this fall, I noticed that the pea production slowed down, but stray pigeon peas plants had volunteered to grow where ever they had been dropped. They grow with practically no effort.

A volunteer seedling sprouting under the oak tree, with no human care.

We saved some of seeds and planted a new hedge with them too – so when those start producing, we will have not only something unique, but enough to offer to the community.

The flowers a beautiful too – they are red when still closed, and open up into a bright yellow.

Here’s a shot of one small green pod opened up to show the peas. They are delicious at this stage. Once they mature and dry out, they have to be soaked to be eaten. I think we’ve always eaten them fresh, but maybe soon we’ll make a pot of beans from the dried ones!

Younger Peas on Left, Older Peas on Right

Thank you for reading this post – we hope you enjoyed it!

– Aloha