Planting Cherry Trees & Eco-Lawns: a Food-Not-Lawns Perma-Blitz in Forest Hills!wmv

Learn the secrets of properly planting a fruit-bearing tree from a suburban permaculture workshop led by Brendan and Gusti, two inspiring leaders of Tri-State Food Not Lawns. The eco-lawn saves you water, money and provides a varied visual; why didn't I think of that? Using sand and stones around the root ball makes it super-easy for the fruit tree roots to absorb water as soil organisms do not compete for food and the soil becomes more permeable. Why didn't I think of that? The light was low but the spirit was hi as Tri-State Food Not Lawn's perma-culture design team went at it. Gusti designed it; Brendan led the team. Lois helped. And I really enjoyed Mrs. Hatep's baklava! So let's all plant eco-lawns, fruit trees and swales! Perma-New York City, baby!

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• Urban
• Permaculture
• fruit
• trees
• Tri-State
• Food
• Not
• Lawns
• Danaleecohen
• Dana
• Lee
• Cohen
• tree
• grows
• in
• Queens

[danaleecohen]

Thanks for watching, despite the lighting! It was rainy that day! If you are interested in helping me cover permies/honeybees in NYC and know about film-making, I 'm all ears! I am so glad, despite the darkness, and my 1 chip camera, so many people have had the interest to wade throught this piece and collect the empowering ideas Food for Lawns shared with us that day!

[pgm98387]

Good video, very informative. Lighting could have been better.

Thanks! :-)

[learnamericanenglish]

I have five apple trees on my lot and two young plum trees. This year we didn't really buy a lot of extra fruit from August to early October. We also dug up the front yard and laid down a long 25 x 8 ft. strip for tomatoes, beans, green peppers, and sunflowers. The tomato harvest was awesome, and after canning our harvest we're good through at least February for tomatoes. Everything is organic. No pesticides or fertilizers.

[bopn]

food not lawns- the change is coming.