How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden | Grow Food Not Lawns

You are awesome and inspiring!

Do we put the mulch immediately after you put the cardboard? And how long after that to put compost?

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to grow food in lawn space where I’m from, but Fem I’m going to do it anyway.

Feeding people is more important than invasive grass.

Like and sub'd 🫛 I'm an architectural drafter close to your area and am focusing on sustainable design. We should link up and design some stuff.

Great video Curtis Stone said there are 40 million acres of lawns in America alone. That's alot of cultivation space. 7 billion gallons a day to water grass is nonsense.

Thank you for all this useful information. Im working and learning. This is my 3 year but I feel I know nothing. But after ur video i can see how much I have learned. Please do step 2. Special how to treat problems like dusty mold.

Amazing. Thanks.

I love your video! Your advice is great. Thank you!

Amazing I didn't know so much of the food was grown locally in the wars

that exterior water line should be protected from the sun with insulation like a pool noodle style foam. Just an FYI and prevent brittle/breakage.

Great video!
One thing you might want to mention to your viewers is that there might be city codes that require a certain amount of their front or back yards to be grass. Don’t want anyone to get into trouble or have to rip their garden out.
I live in Utah and there are several things that would be a little different here, but the general principles are great! (We used to not be allowed to collect rainwater! But that has changed, now you just need a permit if it’s over 100 gallons.)

I've recently been reading that rainwater collection off your roof carries toxins from roof material unless your roof is metal and that it should only be used for non-edible plants. I was so disappointed to learn this.

My hoa would not be happy 😮

Loved the video Rob. Thank you so much for all of your tips and hard work!

Abolish HOAs

Inspired, subscribed and grinning from ear to ear 😎🌼❣️🌻. Florida native here😎🌴🌺🦩. Let’s do it people! What if people collaborated and did this all around our cities?!?!? 👍🏻🌺

Man, I wish this would catch on! The chemicals used on lawns is terrible! Think if all the food that could be feeding the homeless and everyone, IF ONLY❣️

I didn’t k ow rain collection it planting in front yards was legal in Florida! A native here!

Does towns allow this?

My lawn has a plastic mesh underneath it. Unexpected

When I used cardboard, zillions of termites nested under it.

that's great! thank you for sharing

I can't imagine any company giving anything away for free these days, especially not mulch, but I admit that I haven't asked any yet.

Thank you for that video! I can’t wait to finally have a lawn garden. I am in an apartment now with little space. Any suggestions for what I can grow inside?

Moringa loves hot weather and sand and is a superfood

How do you combat bugs like the big banana spiders that come with the tree 😅? I’m going to tune my front an back yard into a garden

you are so awesome Rob. thank you so much for the inspiration and information brother!

I seriously wanna do this but money and winter are preventing me

Rob, what perrienials did you choose to use?

My cats shit all over :'(

ingredients you need:
carboard to supress grass, kill it and break down. add mulch (tree cutting/shreds) on top of it.
- mulch holds moisture and is environment for important microorganisms. mulch overtime breaks into nutrients you need.
- mulch turns to SOIL. can get organic soil if possible
- sun

Thank you so much! This was just what I needed and was straight to the point for starting out a food forest from a lawn!

thank you for sharing your ideas for gardnig tips and technique.

Nice one Subscribed Please keep it comin

Didn't see a single edible.

Very informative Rob. Cheers, mate

Good video i live in the northeast and i stopped watering my grass years ago. I now have white clover growing and it looks great and the bees love it too.

In Australia, the local council forbids you to do this outside your fence perimeter. You would receive a letter to rip it out & then a fine if you didn’t comply💔

Just make sure you don't get black walnut mulch. Very little will grow in that.

What a complete yet concise video! You’re sharing such valuable information here. Thanks very much and congrats!

I live in the state that has NO snakes issues. We’re moving to Jacksonville next yr for my husband’s job. I’m scared of snakes and wanna know how to prevent them

I have a question so you said we have to put cardboard for the grass but what happens if it rains? Is very rainy in my country

June 2021 we moved from Colorado to coastal southwest Florida. We immediately started tearing out the backyard. I piled up cut-off palm fronds and pruned tree banches and then I piled the torn out sod upside down on this pile which is basically an eighty foot long berm in front of the backyard fence. Next we dug in into the sterile sandy soil huge piles of leaves from our property and our neighbor gladly gave us all her leaves. Step-by-step were are turning the sterile backyard soil into a rich growing medium for plants and trees. One unfortunate set back in terms of gardening is that when the temperatures started heating up into the 90's suddenly our awesome pepper crop was decimated by some kind of wilt disease -- so it's back to the drawing board and now we are covering the garden with clear plastic and solarizing it for several months.

His yard looks like a bunch of weeds!
It doesn’t look very professionally done!

Totally awesome. Garden on! 👍😎🇨🇦🌲

Well done buddy. Between foraging and hunting and gardening one doesn't even have to go to the grocery store often.

And I thought I had hard clay soil. Nope, just a 100 year old lawn. I put down the cardboard and straw/mulch and now I have the purdiest dirt I've ever seen. 👍

Thanks You gracias por subtitularlo los escucho en inglés pero siento que se pierde un poco la información al ir leyendo los en inglés más para mí que no soy tan bueno 👏👏