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@@lishde3 that should definitely solve it!

@@jonas3333 it does! And it was also used as a life jacket filling during WW2! Kids and families were actually paid to collect and bring it in similar to the boom in scrap metal collection for the wartime effort.

@@masihnewbie0 glad to!

@@SolitaryMan41 yea I’ve had several folks get confused and think I’ve sold them beef by mistake because of how deep red, marbled, and flavorful it is 🤣.

@@Dianna-pm2hv thank you💚 I believe that good Agriculture is good conservation, and that good conservation is good agriculture. That as the most impactful ecosystem engineer species we have the responsibility to make that impact be for the better. That the lands we steward should be more healthy for having us on them. 💚

@@markfalgoust6910 I’d rather eat the pork instead. I’ll leave this for the beetles, flies, worms, and birds.

That’s what soap and water are for. 🤣

@@MommaMystic99 a movement tracking camera stand! It’s called Pivo it’s super handy!

@@bettinaripperger4159 great ROI! We had always planned on selling it, but never sold more than a couple buckets to friends because I always wanted more and more for our paddocks. It’s super expensive to buy, yet can be made with stuff grown on your own land or from neighbors yard waste, and 6cubic foot or so made in an hour in an old bathtub. Absolutely awesome thing to invest time in.

Good idea 💡 We ill definitely try in india .

@@badanakantiajay great!

@@greenthicketfarm can i get your contact

No I don’t, sorry! This was just so we could plant seedlings easily on our farm!

@@TsetsiStoyanova yea we thought this would be a good way to tell apart the varieties(lavender blossoms on lavender, ground juniper berries on cedar wood, ect) because of some Instagram posts we saw, but really they drive us nuts. So I brushed them off before using them sadly.

@@walkingmonument yes they pollard really well!

@@walkingmonument I was super impressed with Willow, mulberry, and hackberry for pollarding! Honey locust and Osage Orange did alright for pollarding but stellar as coppice. And I was abysmally disappointed in Silvermaple for pollarding, but it coppice absolutely great though.

@@greenthicketfarm mulberry doesn’t surprise me. Thanks for responding. Been considering a hackberry

@@walkingmonument no problem! The European hackberry was traditionally used to make pitchforks by coppicing, pollarding, and carefully pruning them to shape. Here’s an awesome video on it: ua-cam.com/video/BmNnRjhv4XY/v-deo.htmlsi=LQ5O4uOkwra5Y4-y

@@anio6865 pint jars, 40-65hrs, the higher the bees wax percentage the longer the burn was.

@@frozenpicklechips2404 do it! It’s so easy! Do you mind me asking where about since you said ocean bank? If it’s on the oregon coast there’s some beautiful salt tolerant native willows there.

They really can be! Not sure about geese, but their poop is really high in plant materials since they graze a lot like sheep…I’ll have to start looking now and see! Thanks for the inspiration!

@@greenthicketfarm yeah. just gets cleared too fast.

@@MistressOP that’s not a bad thing! Means it’s getting processed by nature quickly. I love seeing cattle paddocks that a cow pat is gone in a matter of hours when dung beetle populations get high enough.

I did think about it, and considered using the wood chipper to process it, but just never managed to get around to it! I think it would be a great idea!

I wish I’d have made a lot more of it, cause the pigs loved it as a dried hay addition to their soaked feed over the winter, especially the gals and piglets in the farrowing yards.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Yup! We had kids of them all the time. At night there would be 1 or two in each of the loops on the top of the pool with ya, so easily 20+ just hanging out.

We wound up using the wood wicks on later batches and really liked them over the cotton for that very reason! Yours is a great solution!

I think you are totally right! Thank you for the correction!

Glad to help!

Yes

Yup! I have planted tons of thornless honey locusts over the years! And I love both the thornless and thorned for different uses, but the caveat to thornless honey locusts is that the genes for thorns can be “turned on” by damage to the tree. I notice this in thornless seedling ones that I wind up deciding to coppice/pollard, or in ones that pigs, goats, or rodents have decided to do so for me 🤣. The regrowth seems to have thorns just like a normal thorned one from that first cut onward.

This isn’t biochar compost, this is just biochar. It’s not becoming the topsoil though that would take an insane amount of it to do so on our half acre paddocks. My goal was to make enough to make it comprise 10% of the top 6” of soil, which is still a ton of biochar for a half acre paddock to make one bathtub at a time. As for placing on the top of the soil here that’s a context specific decision. We ran a lot of animals in our rotational grazing system, and coupled that with tall grass grazing. So that meant that essentially we could build soil layers in place, because up to 4-5x a year the grass would grow 2-4’ tall then get trampled flat, the tops die off, leaving a 1/2-2” thick dense mat of organic matter, covered in fertility rich manure and urine, then the base of the grass/forbes grows again, starting that process over. So in addition to the composting in place grass layering the biochar into the new soil, the pigs hooves also helped to drive it into the top of the soil with their impact. People’s concern with adding biochar to the soil without charging it with fertility first is that boost in microbial activity it causes pulling too many nutrients from the soil, but we actually often had too much fertility in this paddock so this actually helped to tie it in place and make sure it didn’t leave our farm and pollute down stream as runoff.

Yes, as long as you use the Noromectin Injectable 1% solution for swine and cattle. It’s approved off label as an oral dewormer for pigs and dogs per our vet. 1cc/50lbs live weight.

@@greenthicketfarm i appreciate you for responding! She’s about 10-15 lbs what’s the dose for her size?

@@nateperez478 no problem, I hate leaving people hanging if I can help out! For that size I’d give her 1/4cc. Does she have visible parasites I.e worms in her poop, or lice? Or are you wanting to give this as a preventative? If as a preventative just give this once a year, if she has visible parasites then give that dosage 3 separate times 11 days apart to hit the hatching cycles of the parasites, and then move to annually from there.

@@greenthicketfarm i just got her and she hasn’t been wormed since birth she’s around 4-5 months old, she started rubbing her bottom on the ground yesterday and looks a little thinner than usual.

Don’t we all! They are a really fun one to find, not super common here in Missouri but Oklahoma Texas and Kansas they are quite a bit more common in regenerative pastures.

There was a good bit of germination! Unfortunately we sold the farm this spring and I started managing a farm up here in Kansas City for this past year, but here in October we will start traveling the country to find agrihoods and farms that are also working on this kind of stuff!

What spacing are you planing between each one when you plant them? Looking to transplant my 200 to make a fencerow along neighboring property.

Thank you! Here’s the set up, just make sure you fully quench! Make Biochar the easy way…with a Bathtub! ua-cam.com/video/SSSnXDQXMYw/v-deo.html

It’s an odd climate for sure lol, the record high and low for Springfield Missouri is 45c and -38c so we definitely can get a crazy swing. I think the worst I’ve farmed in here has been about 43c and -23c. Happy I could help! Good luck with your upcoming litters!

I catch a lot of flack for it but I love honey locust as a silvopasture tree! These are how I learned about Coppice! (Osage Orange and Honey locust) ua-cam.com/video/Db8ZcS-QbEU/v-deo.html

@@greenthicketfarm Osage are an amazing tree too . They used to be pruned and woven into living fences. Honey locust will always me my favorite though, going to start experimenting with a pellet mill that uses a hammer mill to prepare the seed before the pellet is made.

@@jonathanknobel2014 yea I had every intent to plant a full laid English style hedge row of Osage, honey locust, willow, crab apple, and a few other miscellaneous trees along our front road side. I got a lot of the trees planted but not all, before we moved this December. Love the pellet mill idea! I’d be interested to hear how that goes if you remember me once it’s up and running and you’ve tried it!

@@greenthicketfarm absolutely, planting a few hundred honey locust this spring to add to the pasture I’ve already had planted. Expect to be Getting the mill fully operational be this next fall.

@@jonathanknobel2014 that’s awesome!!!

Ours did, we just needed to find that balance of bees wax as a carrier. Also used wooden wicks on a later batch and really liked that better than the cotton.

While Green Thicket Farm was(we’ve recently moved to manage a larger farm a couple hours away) only 6 acres I’ve also managed a 1,600 acre farm here in the Ozarks, and yea it had plenty of them to work with also, and nope I still feel the same way about them. Also quick side note, they aren’t invasive here in the Ozarks, they are just a very prolific native, especially when poor land management causes bare soil or low density forage stands. You can call it disgusting if you want but I find wastefulness disgusting and ignoring a resource or wantonly destroying it disgusting. Allowing trees to grow in your pasture under good management doesn’t decrease forage, even if you want to ignore the forage the trees provide, multiple studies have shown that grasses and forbes grown under a 30% shade cover produce around 16% more biomass, and a higher protein content to forages grown in full sun, as well as cattle and sheep have been shown to have greater daily weight gains, and higher milk production in 30% shade cover. So if you wanted to “create areas that grow better grass forage” you’d do a better job managing the “trash trees” you have instead of trying to create an open pasture. Also you talk about “when these trees are established” or a “canopy of bare earth” so I think that sounds like you might not have listened to the full video, because the whole point of the video is on routinely cutting down and harvesting the trees while they are at a manageable young size. I suggest in the video cutting them to the ground every 7-15 years depending on species. I’ve clear cut, de-branched,and stacked dense stands of young bush honeysuckle, honey locust, and junipers before and was able to manage about 1-2 acres a day by myself with a chainsaw so if I was trying to manage 160acres I’d just break it into 16 sections, 10 acres each and clear cut or even leave a few standards on each 10 acre section every year. That would mean you’d never have a honey locust older than 16 years old, and the logs would be perfect size for firewood with minimal splitting or if you really wanted to make money, those would also be perfect size to make shiitake and oyster logs and burn the brash for biochar. So then not only would you be making better forage for your cows with the 2 week’s work every year you were going to spend cutting honey locust anyways, you’d also get 3 additional products to sell, not have to waste money on herbicides, and never run out of the resource that now is making you money and making better pasture. I care less about permaculture “looking cool” and more about it helping farmers make more money while also taking the best care of their land and stock they can with the resources they already have and might be overlooking. Here are the studies talking about the increased grass and forbes biomass, the increased protein, and the increased adwg and production: vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a7079756-9868-4d69-9340-d7d0dd05d601/content www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/aen/aen99/aen99.pdf www.researchgate.net/publication/237270613_The_Effect_of_Shade_on_Forage_Quality

@greenthicketfarm First off, you need to refamiliarize yourself with the characteristics of an invasive plant then get back to me. Who is going to buy thorny Locust firewood? Was that a serious response? Better pasture? You've obviously not dealt with these trees once they have taken over. There isn't any forage underneath a nasty hedge apple! It's bare ground under there! Livestock can't access forage around the base of locust trees because they are protected by thorns! All for a few beans or some leaves? That's better pasture than having a quality stand of grass/ legumes in the same spot? Again, doesn't appear that you've experienced just how detrimental these weeds can be. It simply doesn't make sense when there are so many other useful trees that could still provide shade and even better forage options. Show me data on how invasive monoculture and bare soil benefit any ecosystem instead of your report on shade, and I'll consider that these trees have a place in my pasture.

Some Northern European Studies suggest 40% shade 😎 is still Beneficial. A note... many many professional growers recognize evidence based studies that crops often receive too much sun and they shut down. In hoop houses you will commonly see shade cloth over tomatoes in August. Increasing Co2 decreases the amount of sun needed to grow plants everywhere including hoop houses. John Kempf Regen Podcast

Glad I could help! We had just bought a big spool of the basic candle yarn from Micheals. It worked ok, but it kinda tunneled a bit so we wound up on a follow up batch trying out wood wicks, and those had way less tunneling!

Glad to help! We absolutely love having our own lard soap! And a bulk batch lasts ya a good while!

Glad you liked it! I love being able to share my passion for this stuff, we’ve just moved and I’m now managing another farm so I’m trying to think through a good way to continue the channel based on the planned changes we have in our life. But with that I wouldn’t have much use for the seed at the moment since I don’t have a spot to plant it with where we are living being temporary, but I’d highly recommend checking out the Missouri Department of Conservation George O white nursery sale, the trees are under a dollar, and are usually 12-18”(I’ve gotten up to 24”) so stellar price for the size, they’ll ship to most states, and they have the best survival rates of almost anywhere I’ve ordered! I did some follow ups scattered throughout the “Farm Tour Tuesday” series, but I didn’t do a dedicated follow up video. The results were that the cuttings I placed vertically almost all sprouted and grew, but only one horizontal one grew, and it didn’t make it whereas all the other vertical ones did! I feel ya there, we absolutely have to plan for dryer drys, wetter wets, colder colds, and hotter hots. When you work closely with the land you feel the shifts happening with the seasons, I’ve only been in ag for around 16 years but even I have seen it, I talk to some old farmers that have been doing it for 40-60 years and they all see it, and then when you look at the records it’s plain as day. The climate is changing and no matter whether folks want to believe we are playing a big part in it or not doesn’t change the fact that we need to be planning for how to adapt to it as farmers if we want to be successful.

@@greenthicketfarm I agree on all points. Whatever the cause climate and in turn weather are changing. I've planted walnuts , which grow here but were not native. Maples , our dominant tree is more and more prone to dieses. Thanks for the nursery lead. You are talking about osage trees I'm guessing. Sorry to here about your farm. I had to quite raising my highlanders due to costing me to much. One needs a good paying federal job to stay in farming anymore. It's sad. I'm planting christmas trees and some other stuff on my farm land. $50 bucks a pop on xmas trees. By the time mine grow it'll be $100.

Stopping our Swimming Pigs ua-cam.com/video/qzNNHOkfkBM/v-deo.html Paddock moves and some farm updates ua-cam.com/video/Yu59Nr5D-SE/v-deo.html You’ve commented on the final solution video, these two links are prior updates, including the initial attempt and explanation. Then there’s also some follow ups in the Farm Tour Tuesday series! Thank you for your interest!

God bless and protect your and your family. It will be interesting to see where the changes will lead you.

I know it took me way too long to respond to this but I can’t tell ya how much this comment meant to me. I’ve actually gone back and re read it several times over the last 2 months. Thank you so much for the support! We’ve since moved and are almost done selling the farm. I’m now managing a farm in north Missouri that has a large focus on getting folks out to the farm and helping them connect with where their food comes from. The lesson I ultimately took from this was that I need to use my passion for creating great food to help build that bridge. 💚

Yea definitely not one of my better videos, still figuring this whole thing out, But I appreciate the engagement, bye!

Thank you! I think so too!

Thank you!

I absolutely love growing willow! We had a few hundred coppiced and pollarded willows. They pop up fairly routinely in my videos. We sold some cuttings from them, sold some bundles for decoration(mostly curly yellow), but primarily I grew them for biochar and pig shade! Here’s a video where I talk about just that as far as the water goes: Grow what works on your farm! For us it’s willows and pastured pork! ua-cam.com/users/shortskxBAR3_xy1c?feature=share