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Mark takes us on a beautiful tour around Liz Zorab's food garden in the UK's Welsh countryside. During the tour you will see the many things she does to stay self sufficient, from keeping sheep to growing a garden. 
She shows how she keeps the rabbits out of the gardens, using a fence. And also tells that if the fence goes down, they immediately tend to get in and eat.
Liz refers to herself as a "chaotic gardener". She has plants mis-matched all throughout the garden. This can often be done to ensure you don't deplete a single area of nutrients, which is why most raised-bed gardeners have to think a lot about rotating what gets planted where.
Liz has many environmental struggles. The main pests she seems to deal with are snails, slugs, caterpillars, birds, rabbits, and squirrels. She has a hot house/tunnel so she can keep gardening for longer, as the temperatures get too low through Winter.
She does, however, explain that she does not consider all animals pests. She leaves certain plants especially for the caterpillars to eat, and grows certain flowers as the birds love the seeds so much.
She explains that compared to food forests in Australia, she has to space each plant further apart. This is because there is less sunlight, and they would shade eachother out and simply not grow well.
Future plans for Liz include turning a few acres into cut flowers to sell, and building another hot house.
Also, Liz Zorab has written gardening books! Do not forget to check those out
Handy tip! Want to talk to Mark directly? Did you know that there is another way, outside the forum?
Support Mark on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier enables mentoring from Mark via an exclusive VIP email where he will answer your questions etc ASAP).
She shows how she keeps the rabbits out of the gardens, using a fence. And also tells that if the fence goes down, they immediately tend to get in and eat.
Liz refers to herself as a "chaotic gardener". She has plants mis-matched all throughout the garden. This can often be done to ensure you don't deplete a single area of nutrients, which is why most raised-bed gardeners have to think a lot about rotating what gets planted where.
Liz has many environmental struggles. The main pests she seems to deal with are snails, slugs, caterpillars, birds, rabbits, and squirrels. She has a hot house/tunnel so she can keep gardening for longer, as the temperatures get too low through Winter.
She does, however, explain that she does not consider all animals pests. She leaves certain plants especially for the caterpillars to eat, and grows certain flowers as the birds love the seeds so much.
She explains that compared to food forests in Australia, she has to space each plant further apart. This is because there is less sunlight, and they would shade eachother out and simply not grow well.
Future plans for Liz include turning a few acres into cut flowers to sell, and building another hot house.
Also, Liz Zorab has written gardening books! Do not forget to check those out Handy tip! Want to talk to Mark directly? Did you know that there is another way, outside the forum?
Support Mark on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier enables mentoring from Mark via an exclusive VIP email where he will answer your questions etc ASAP).
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