Planting an ecosystem in your garden!

The sheer beauty and abundance of your garden has brought me to tears. Reject aesthetic, reject scarcity, reject high cost inputs, just keep growing more and more my friends. Don’t ever stop.

Great video! I'm impressed by your way to keep viewers watching AND learning!

Would love to see this watched by all high school and college students. A beautiful production. Thank you for gifting us with it.

Thank you for this inspiring video! I live in a neighborhood with HOA but i still garden from back, side and front. I camouflage the edibles with edible flowers and flowering vines for my grapes. So far neighbors are not complaining except the guy in charge that like to take pictures of what he thinks shouldn't be there. 😮 He took a picture of my pots on the side of the garage and my husband sent a plan back to the email and it was approved. So my pots will stay where i want them to be. My backyard didnt have a fence but i planted dwarf fruit trees this year, added more raise beds and big pots for more fruit trees. Some neighbors enjoyed visiting my garden and complimented how nice my garden is because they are gardeners as well but retired so they can't handle too much plants. Kids enjoyed hunting strawberries in my strawberry raise bed and grapes hiding from the big vines leaves. With the internet world, i asked my kids to go out and harvest veggies to get off the chair and get some sun. I noticed they are happy when they are outside. They might complain but when they are outside, they play with the clay soil, bugs in the garden and our neighbors dog. I still make mistakes so I love to learn more. Videos like this inspire me to do better. So thank you for sharing your knowledge of what works for you! God bless! ❤️🙏

I live in an HOA community in Florida. My garden is on three sides of my house. Fourth year no issues! 😊

Absolutely. If you have a ton of time on your hands or your garden is super tiny.

Tom, this is THE MOST awesome, informative gardening video that I have watched. (and I have watched thousands!) It could be a thesis for my approach to my back yard garden/ecosystem. If there is one video a gardener should watch, this is it. Thank you tom, thank you!

Love your garden, especially the mud wall - looks great! I'm not sure what a successful zone 10 garden might look like but I promise you it will be nothing like yours. Our quirky weather, our sub-tropical climate, and brutal summers pose a great many challenges - never mind hurricanes ... The trick is finding what will grow and what grows well with each other. We're almost there but it takes time and in our changing climate creating a shade canopy is a must. I learned this year that some sunflowers are only ornamental, not edible:). There are no cellars in Florida much less root cellars so that is not an option etc... But we are blessed with two growing seasons and many perennials from herbs to veggies and who doesn't like bananas off the tree or as banana chips. I wish I could grow apples and sweet cherries but we have passion fruit and plenty of wild Elderberries.

This is priceless information and education. Food scarcity, droughts, global warming - there are many impactful topics which this "philosophy" of land stewardship provides us a fighting chance I have personally seen the benefit in how much more water is retained when I started mulching and composting. This spring has been dry and hot and I have not needed to water once (besides starting out some seedlings :) ). Thank you for your time and care in creating this video

Enjoy your videos very much.Thank you!

I'm glad I stumbled upon this video! It makes me think about how I stopped using organic pesticides and will continue since it's amazing when you let nature handle things. This video is just a sign to continue connecting with nature and me being the conductor of my garden.

Marvelous! I love trying to create these thriving masses of life. My husband loves the aesthetic of monoculture in neat constrained rows. It’s been challenge to find the balance there… Thank you for a beautiful, informative, and inspiring video.

What an AWE inspiring video. Thank you for taking the time to make it. Absolutely beautiful.

Thank you so much for all that fantastic and well explained information 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire

That's an awesome idea!!

Amazing video.

Beautiful garden inspiration, thank you!

Really inspiring video. Thank you very much.

Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently implement what you so generously shared

What a great video. Thank you