What is going on everyone?

What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We are joined by Cameron Acrami. He is the man behind the

busy gardener. It's a YouTube channel and he's also on

Instagram he just started a website as well I came across you Cameron from I believe

Charles Malki from Ivy Organics and you know just kind of jumped into your channel I've really been

getting into backyard orchard culture backyard fruit trees that whole thing and

you're really well known for that and so first of all it's great to connect I'm glad to have you

on the show yes I'm glad to be here with you Kevin cool so again you got really

known in in this space for your fruit tree and backyard orchard culture knowledge.

And so one of the things that I found really interesting when I was getting into,

the very preliminary stages of planning out the future orchard at my house was this whole idea from Dave Wilson of backyard orchard culture where you are breaking the traditional rules of high scalescale, you know, large acreage orchardists and you're

planting more densely, you're pruning in different ways, and one of the things that really

stuck out to me was this high- planting idea so I figured maybe we could

kick off with that. Yeah sounds great. Yeah it is definitely a new way to look at

fruit trees I think for somebody who hasn't grown up around

fruit trees or been around this, the idea of a fruit tree is this big tall tree

that grows really, really big and once a year it's apple season or whatever and this takes it from that kind of

large scale orchard style commercial orchard style and brings it and makes it smaller and more accessible

to the backyard grower.

And so, yeah, this idea, this concept around this backyard orchard culture is really taken off and just like you I started off looking

at Dave Wilson nursery videos back in the day years ago or so and the idea of doing high density planting is that you're getting in the space where you would normally see one tree

...