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Front Yard Lawn to Food - Planning your front yard edible landscape

John shows an overhead view of his front yard garden. He discusses his design criteria and gives you some things to think about when designing your front yard edible landscaping project.  
 
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Michael7477 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Hi John 5 stars for your great video.
I hope you don't mind a few questions:
1) exactly how big is your property and how much of that is taken up by the house & drive?
2) how much of your non-meat requirements does this garden provide for how many persons?
3) how much time do you spend maintaining your garden (after setup)?
4) should one use treated or untreated wood for the planter boxes?
5) do you recycle/compost everything you don't eat?
thanks for uploading - very inspiring.
rawfoods (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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1) 7900 square feet (approx). House takes up about 2000 square feet.
2) 60% of food requirement met for 3 people (could feed more, I have excess) (I do not eat any meat or animal products)- need to plant more fruit trees to get closer to 100%. They are growing :)
3) I would estimate if you put in 5-10 hours a week, that would cover it.
4) untreated wood. Cedar or Redwood are best from my research.
5) Yes, I do compost and recycle
growingyourgreens (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Some of them think Im a bit "different". although I have met more of my neighbors due to my garden than the prior 10 years!
PhotoNika (2 months ago) Show Hide
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your growing neighbors!

You have done a simply fantastic amazing and inspiring job and I am so glad you do it in your FRONT yard, its a teaching tool for everyone.

I stopped the video to comment so am not sure if you address this later but I had a question. What fertility inputs are you using? I dont know how draconian it is where you live but you might want to add some chickens in the backyard (sell the eggs to neighbors? Your raw foodist right? neighbors will love you even more)
pdsavage (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Do you harvest your rain water?
growingyourgreens (2 months ago) Show Hide
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not yet. I have the barrels and that will be coming soon :)
Sirmau (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Where abouts in the US this food garden?
growingyourgreens (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Northern California
Sirmau (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Northern Canada is impossible to grow during winter...
After 45 years I'm comtempleting to move back into my home land (Portugal).

I'll probably mis Canada and USA but gota take a dif tour and see what gives.
rawfoods (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Northern California - Sonoma County

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