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I'm experimenting with cardboard as a mulch here on this apple tree.
Just put down the cardboard and covered it in the weeds that I pulled.
Hopefully it'll have good results.
Beautiful Pomello.
This is some kind of wild tomato that came up on its own.
The interesting thing about it is that the tomatoes look like teeth.
I think i'll call it "sabre toothed tomato". It's actually growing on what looks to be
pure rock, which is interesting.
This beautiful leaf mould is great compost, it's perfect for starting seeds.
If you leech the tannins out of acorns they become edible. I've never done that before
because there are so many other things to eat that take less effort, but in a survival
situation I would leech the tannins out with water and eat them.
This is a mastic tree. The red ones aren't ripe yet. They have kind of a sour flavor
to them. While the blue ones taste a lot like pistachios and they're related to the pistachio
tree as well as the mango tree. You can see that the gum is being seeped out
of the tree - Very good for you. If you cut a wound into a branch of the tree,
it'll seep out enough gum to chew, and then you can collect it later.
Moss is very valuable, you can use it when you take cuttings from trees, you can wrap
them in moss and put them in a zip lock bag, and it will retain moisture.
Hi doggy. Are you waiting for me? Good girl. Where shall we go now?
Some wild olives. Just ripening. You can see how they're just changing color there, going
from green to red to black.
And here's a strawberry tree. It's a beautiful tree. You can see the red bark, it matches
the color of the fruit which is bright red. Mmm sweet. I love to eat strawberry tree fruit
just after it rains because they get softer and more flavorful.
Strawberry tree fruit has a rather mealy texture, if you're not used to it especially. It can
be very tasty if you pick it at the right time when they're perfectly red. Not when
they're brown, when they're bright red. And, at least in this climate, after it rains,
that's when they develop the flavor.
Actually, you can see the difference here between the ripe fruit that is red, and here
the unripe fruit that's a more dull color.
There's a whole guild of trees here, there's a wild olive tree here, and over here there's
a prickly broom which gives nitrogen to the soil, feeds the trees next to it, another
wild olives, a strawberry tree and a carob tree and another wild olive. A whole wild
This wild olive tree seems to have olives left on it from last year that haven't fallen
off. I'm curious how they taste. Not bad actually. Not much on them though. They've been on the
tree for so long that the tannins have been leeched out just by the weather.
The last chance to taste some sumac before the rain leeches all the flavor out.
The roots of this tree are completely exposed. Yet still it grows. Amazing. You can see the whole root system.
Can't take 5 steps without finding something to eat.
Here we are. A female carob tree loaded with carobs. They taste like honey. Carobs are
truly an outstanding survival food. If you just gather a few of these and keep them in
a dry place, they'll last years, literally years, without any kind of preservation. A
truly magnificent plant. Ancient tree. And they make a great dog treat, dogs love them.
Another carob, this one has smaller and thinner carobs. Actually some of them are longer.
Careful not to eat the seeds. They're very hard.
I wonder what those are. Never seen those before. Huh, squishy.
This is how they would plant olive trees in the old days. There are four trees here in
one hole, all growing side by side, maximum efficiency, and they're all covered in olives.
These are really old trees and they're not growing near any orchards, in the middle of
nowhere really. Beautiful trees.