Cant say how much I appreciate your videos Richard. Give me one more year and I'm up to switch job and establish the first coop CSA and with eggs for Lisbon, Portugal from 40 min out of the city. What makes more sence, than to join this amazing movement with global force. Your and the people you meet are truly my heroes!
Whatever Richard does or wherever he goes I am left inspired and amazed, great stuff! Certainly a great role model for young peoples like myself who are trying to get into productive enterprises. Cheers and keep being awesome ;)
How wonderful that they could so quickly garner the necessary support to shoestring into such a successful and productive enterprise. Congratulations Marko, Pit, & Sophie.
Fantastic video....really appreciate what you focused on to make a farm more productive.A big hats off to all the creative forces and volunteers and brains and braun behind this gorgious farm.
I've watched a lot of your videos and this is my favourite. Showing inspirational farms and explaining the refinements you would make and why is very very interesting. Because these are refinements others can make too.
It is such a privilege to watch videos like this...so interesting and so much going on. It never ceases to amaze me how much people can achieve when they have a passion for something. Thank you all so much. Blessings from Northern Ireland.
I really enjoyed your critique and suggestions for cost-effective improvements. What they are doing in Luxemborg is amazing! I also loved the photo books. Thank you for sharing those!
I think you did a good job Richard at pointing out the great things that Marko and his partners are doing, but at the same time giving them constructive criticism. I'm sure they respect your opinions and knowledge of what other farmers are doing that makes profitable sense. I do believe though that they need to expand their horizons and introduce other revenue streams such as mushrooms, poultry, eggs or whatever makes sense for their area that would bring in higher ROI besides just focusing mainly on garden vegetables. I was shocked when I heard Pit say they're growing over 30 varieties of tomato's!!!. Good Grief! Great video as always.
Absolutely beautiful.. gorgeous produce .. I can almost smell the garden vegetables and love to eat a tomato or 5 .. awesome set up.. 💚☀️ love from Australia
Thank you so much for showing forth your farm and project. Any chance you could show the CSA member page, I would love to see how it's done and made. discussed here: 12:39 Please come to Denmark! 46:46 Very inspiring. Thank you again, Richard, Pit and Marko!
very nice work Richard and hat's off to Marko, Pit and Sophie .. et al, I really like that a cooperative model was chose. It is the future of humanity and it takes courage and insight to think outside of the capitalist, individualist box. Also, the drone footage in all these videos is so awesome, and crucial in order to appreciate the over all design and relationship between beds, buildings, fields and the outlying environment. sweet
Beautiful farm, great advice. I struggle with the idea of how to get people to work with? Gotta figure this out. Starting up early next year. Working on business plan to submit to a property owner.
Another great reason for growing annual veg in an orchard, or with other perennial stuff like herbs and shrubs, would be the presence of mycorrhizae?! Hugely beneficial for the annual crops, providing the tilling is minimal.
Tree roots in your beds aren’t what they are sometimes made out to be. Everyone in town is gardening around tree roots. Suckering trees and those that make tons of seed could be troublesome.
Amazing farm, great job. I have a question though, you (Richard) mention 600kg of tomatoes = 8.000 euro of revenue out there...is this correct? Tomatoes are barely 1 euro / kg in Italy and we are talking b2c sale...counts don't seem to add up! Thanks for explaining
Really interesting thanks. Great to see people doing stuff for their community, for nature and the future rather than just themselves. But ultimately they have to make a decent living and have a sustainable workload to survive and thrive. Do you mention in the video (I haven't watched to the end) whether they rent or own the land and what the costs of that are?
It must be expensive acquiring land close to a major city. What does it cost and how do new starters manage to get going. You say a 40,000 Euro initial costs but including paying for the land it must be much more?
They could feed those chickens off the veg waste like Geoff Lawton & produce their own compost at the same time. See his Chicken Tractor of Steroids video.
What about if they had the chicken between apple trees and moved all small greens beds to the outer area were you suggested for chickens? You think this will be better as for the system!
Thanks Richard for your videos, they have truly inspired me. Would it be possible to get the name of the German seedling supplier. I am in north Germany and wanting to set up a small project of my own in Dithmarschen. It would be interesting to see what they do..
@@peanutbear Right, that's what I meant by farm-based, only as I was taught it was a yoke of oxen, not a horse. The hectare is a unit of measurement based on a calculation (close for the time) of the size of the Earth so it is not based in agriculture.
My guess is because tomatoes are primarily not wind-pollinated or even animal-pollinated, it probably doesn’t matter so much. The reason why bees help us the buzzing vibrates the plants at a suitable frequency for the pollination to occur. The second thing would be that they’re going for the best tasting tomatoes, so I think as long they have good quality, I think the “purity” of the strain may not matter as much haha. But this is all conjecture
Would it not be worthwhile to consider making their own compost? They could give some land over to growing compost material and maybe even collect green waste. I used to buy compost from a farmer who had a contract with the council to handle their green waste - he reckoned it was a win-win-win as he was paid to take the waste, paid for the finished product and had improved his own land whilst ceasing fertiliser inputs. We basically paid him delivery plus a small amount and he delivered using a friend's skip wagon and a 12 cubic yard skip. The wagon tipped it out.
These videos are really insightful, I appreciate what you are doing a lot! I have been thinking about perhaps starting a market garden enterprise myself on just a 1000sqm but the climate here in the South of Portugal is quite challenging, summers are long, intense and there is not a drop of rain 5-7 months on end and on top of that the borehole water is full of calcium that would clog up driplines super fast. Do you happen to know any examples of this system/methodology being done in the Mediterranean?
Can you please write the name and/or company were you can get the irrigation hose/stings? Gravity based would work wonderfully here in Austria Thank you for your videos
Instead of buying machinery for the compost and then working really hard to compost everything, why don't they just integrate some meat animals with a land rotation system, during which quarters are fertilized and planted upon consecutively? What you do is the cows, pigs and chickens doing the composting for you, and you even make a profit from the animals.
Maybe but they can solve that by planting shade loving plants like their salad mixes, even kale, under the trees instead or things prone to bolting in the summer like broccoli and cauliflower. - jacob
Hi there Patrick! Still live in Namibia? I am a young farmer just starting out here after studying in Germany for some time...and I am absolutely devouring all these videos. A lot of my produce will come to Windhoek next year 2021. Already producing quite a bit for ourselves. I am trying to show people that this is possible in Namibia as well. Even with little water!
Cà chua, mà làm, mức, đường phèn, không có ngọt nhiều, còn không thì, ,, xoáy khô hết cát loại trái cây tươi,, những trái cây tươi nào mà ngọt, thì khỏi để đường, người lớn tuổi, hoạt trẻ em, ăn ngon hơn
My bad, I had meant to say Eur 10/kg, which is what I had in mind from the previous day in Denmark. I'm used to Scandinavian prices and costs! I think they would get Eur 7 here... Still, numbers are quite high in Lux, as are costs, and the pattern of the thinking remains the same...
One of the things that really give me pause when parsing the feasibility of those models in germany. The competition seems to be a lot harsher by means of a lot lower prices for organic produce, with the cost of living not that much lower in proportion. I´d love to see actual numbers from someone trying it here, seeing their margins (or lack thereof, as i fear).
Keep in mind that if you are doing things the right way like Richard is you are not just another organic grower, it's also your story that sells and I'm sure enough people would gladly pay a little bit more to buy produce from people they can actually approach directly rather than some faceless organic brand found in the supermarket (that most likely is growing on depleted soil).
Richard talks about someone who is starting in Germany. I think a lot of people, especially Germans (I am from Scotland living in Germany) are very nervous about regulations and the issue of supermarket bio. The difference to what you are getting in the supermarket and what Richard and other similar farmers are producing products of a much higher quality. I would love some type of scientific studies to really check this claim but I really believe that. I will do some digging (pun intended) to see if this is the case
Loving the videos Richard, thank you. I'm interested how you calculate €8000 profit from 60 laying hens. I'm based in the UK and I calculate roughly £4,000 gross profit using organic feed @ £0.45 per kg and selling eggs for £0.30 each (retail). I estimate that 60 hens would eat 2.5 tons and lay roughly 290 eggs each per year.
I would be wanting 50 eggs/day on av. Depends on breed, but I'd get enough hens to get that. They can sell boxes of 6 for Eur 4. Thats over 12k. Feed at your price would be just over 1k. Boxes, other bits and bobs, not a lot. You guys need a nation wide egg price overhaul, it's too cheap a source of protein. I know its a very sensitive issue, and not so easy, but UK egg prices suck.
Have you heard about the recent egg scandal in The Netherlands? A banned chemical called fipronil ended up in the eggs because a supply company of cleaning materials was cutting corners and added it in their product most likely for economical gain purposes. Turns out fipronil contaminated eggs have now been found in 15 European countries, Sweden included.
Hi Richard. (Or anyone reading this) I have some land in the uk and would be interested in the idea of partnering with one (or more) of your graduates who has ambition skill and enthusiasm but lacks land and needs an opportunity………… feel free to contact
Cant say how much I appreciate your videos Richard. Give me one more year and I'm up to switch job and establish the first coop CSA and with eggs for Lisbon, Portugal from 40 min out of the city. What makes more sence, than to join this amazing movement with global force. Your and the people you meet are truly my heroes!
Já começaste? Estou a ver se consigo fazer algo parecido no futuro
Tuga do Norte aqui, também gostava de replicar cá em cima.
I put my applause for Land Owen r. Bravo.. u The Best.
Whatever Richard does or wherever he goes I am left inspired and amazed, great stuff! Certainly a great role model for young peoples like myself who are trying to get into productive enterprises. Cheers and keep being awesome ;)
Pumping the compost tea in the irrigation
How wonderful that they could so quickly garner the necessary support to shoestring into such a successful and productive enterprise. Congratulations Marko, Pit, & Sophie.
Fantastic video....really appreciate what you focused on to make a farm more productive.A big hats off to all the creative forces and volunteers and brains and braun behind this gorgious farm.
I've watched a lot of your videos and this is my favourite. Showing inspirational farms and explaining the refinements you would make and why is very very interesting. Because these are refinements others can make too.
It is such a privilege to watch videos like this...so interesting and so much going on. It never ceases to amaze me how much people can achieve when they have a passion for something. Thank you all so much. Blessings from Northern Ireland.
I really enjoyed your critique and suggestions for cost-effective improvements. What they are doing in Luxemborg is amazing! I also loved the photo books. Thank you for sharing those!
عمل ممتاز و ممتع لمن يحب الطبيعة والأكل الصحي شكرا لكم
That is one amazing farm!!! Absolutely beautiful. So inspiring!
I love the farm what you guys are doing. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the farm tour Richard...
I think you did a good job Richard at pointing out the great things that Marko and his partners are doing, but at the same time giving them constructive criticism. I'm sure they respect your opinions and knowledge of what other farmers are doing that makes profitable sense. I do believe though that they need to expand their horizons and introduce other revenue streams such as mushrooms, poultry, eggs or whatever makes sense for their area that would bring in higher ROI besides just focusing mainly on garden vegetables. I was shocked when I heard Pit say they're growing over 30 varieties of tomato's!!!. Good Grief! Great video as always.
Absolutely beautiful.. gorgeous produce .. I can almost smell the garden vegetables and love to eat a tomato or 5 .. awesome set up.. 💚☀️ love from Australia
Thanks for you work on these videos. They are a great resource for ideas and an inspiration!
Richard, I just found your channel yesterday. Keep up the good work, brother. I'm watching you...😎👍
What a beautiful place, i am totally blown away.
This is beyond amazing!! You guys are truly an inspiration. Thank you from Sacramento Ca.
This is absolutely amazing
Wow, thanks so much for this content! Your channel is bound to grow, I am surprised its not bigger already! Great job, thanks again!
Fantástico. Trabalho magnífico e inspirador. Parabéns!
60 hens would also help to quickly build up and add to their own compost production! A very beautiful place. ...:))
Amazing stuff! Thanks for yet another great video Richard. Keep up the good work! Good luck from Ireland :D
Beautiful....what an inspiration!
beautiful farm and cooperative spirit. Thank you for sharing it with us
Thank you so much for showing forth your farm and project.
Any chance you could show the CSA member page, I would love to see how it's done and made. discussed here: 12:39
Please come to Denmark! 46:46
Very inspiring. Thank you again, Richard, Pit and Marko!
all you guys are so cute. I enjoyed this video a lot. I'm considering places to visit once I retire in Aug 2022. This is a definate possibility.
very nice work Richard and hat's off to Marko, Pit and Sophie .. et al, I really like that a cooperative model was chose. It is the future of humanity and it takes courage and insight to think outside of the capitalist, individualist box. Also, the drone footage in all these videos is so awesome, and crucial in order to appreciate the over all design and relationship between beds, buildings, fields and the outlying environment. sweet
Drinking mate! genious. Great information, thnaks from El Bolson, Patagonia Argentina
Awesome Farm, thanks!
Just amazing farm !!! It is so inspiring.
Beautiful farm, great advice. I struggle with the idea of how to get people to work with? Gotta figure this out. Starting up early next year. Working on business plan to submit to a property owner.
Awesome people. .Awesome farm.. brilliant Video..thank you
Don’t walk under the water tank scaffolding. Did you see that bent corner support post?
Great video. Beautiful farm and great suggestions.
Lovely video and farm, very inspiring, keep up the good work.
Another great reason for growing annual veg in an orchard, or with other perennial stuff like herbs and shrubs, would be the presence of mycorrhizae?! Hugely beneficial for the annual crops, providing the tilling is minimal.
Carefully selecting trees whose roots and canopy wont interfere w veggies?
Tree roots in your beds aren’t what they are sometimes made out to be. Everyone in town is gardening around tree roots. Suckering trees and those that make tons of seed could be troublesome.
such an incredible work and info!. thank you for sharing
What an inspiration! Very good job.
Amazing farm, great job. I have a question though, you (Richard) mention 600kg of tomatoes = 8.000 euro of revenue out there...is this correct? Tomatoes are barely 1 euro / kg in Italy and we are talking b2c sale...counts don't seem to add up! Thanks for explaining
Really interesting thanks. Great to see people doing stuff for their community, for nature and the future rather than just themselves. But ultimately they have to make a decent living and have a sustainable workload to survive and thrive. Do you mention in the video (I haven't watched to the end) whether they rent or own the land and what the costs of that are?
Great stuff mate. Keep them going.
It must be expensive acquiring land close to a major city. What does it cost and how do new starters manage to get going. You say a 40,000 Euro initial costs but including paying for the land it must be much more?
They could feed those chickens off the veg waste like Geoff Lawton & produce their own compost at the same time. See his Chicken Tractor of Steroids video.
They need to raise rabbits or hogs to eat the trimmings of the garden and add a cannery to create value added products from the fruits and vegetables.
I knew you had a Brighton vibe!!
Great video. Regards from Serbia
What about if they had the chicken between apple trees and moved all small greens beds to the outer area were you suggested for chickens? You think this will be better as for the system!
Where are all the promised links for the terra farmers interviewed here? Am I missing them?
Nice garden 👍looks like the soil are suitable for vegetables 👌are they doing organic gardening?
So after all the amaizing stuff, im wondering TOMAN MATE los muchachos por allí?? 42:00
I love this...so inspiring
Just rented my own 2 acer plot with natural spring...
Thanks Richard for your videos, they have truly inspired me. Would it be possible to get the name of the German seedling supplier. I am in north Germany and wanting to set up a small project of my own in Dithmarschen. It would be interesting to see what they do..
@Richard Perkins Any updates on this place. How did it go ?
1.5 hectares = 3.7 acres for those still using farm-based land measures.
Why is an acre used for farms?
you mean US farm based land measures? In the EU its all about Hectares
one acre = the amount of land one healthy man and one healthy horse could till in one day
@@peanutbear Right, that's what I meant by farm-based, only as I was taught it was a yoke of oxen, not a horse. The hectare is a unit of measurement based on a calculation (close for the time) of the size of the Earth so it is not based in agriculture.
Did you do an update to this farm and did they heed your advise ? What were the results ?
Where did he get his drip irrigation? Thank you.
When growing 31 different tomato species, how do you prevent cross pollination?
My guess is because tomatoes are primarily not wind-pollinated or even animal-pollinated, it probably doesn’t matter so much. The reason why bees help us the buzzing vibrates the plants at a suitable frequency for the pollination to occur.
The second thing would be that they’re going for the best tasting tomatoes, so I think as long they have good quality, I think the “purity” of the strain may not matter as much haha.
But this is all conjecture
Would it not be worthwhile to consider making their own compost? They could give some land over to growing compost material and maybe even collect green waste. I used to buy compost from a farmer who had a contract with the council to handle their green waste - he reckoned it was a win-win-win as he was paid to take the waste, paid for the finished product and had improved his own land whilst ceasing fertiliser inputs.
We basically paid him delivery plus a small amount and he delivered using a friend's skip wagon and a 12 cubic yard skip. The wagon tipped it out.
I wonder if it is easy to harvest the fruit from the trees above the gardens?
These videos are really insightful, I appreciate what you are doing a lot!
I have been thinking about perhaps starting a market garden enterprise myself on just a 1000sqm but the climate here in the South of Portugal is quite challenging, summers are long, intense and there is not a drop of rain 5-7 months on end and on top of that the borehole water is full of calcium that would clog up driplines super fast.
Do you happen to know any examples of this system/methodology being done in the Mediterranean?
what variety of cabbage was that? beautiful! :-)
charlie hobson it's called 'Filderkraut' a traditional sauerkraut variety
Cheers :-) love this video, love the way you got the community involved and crops look great
Must have mate :)
Wow
Nearest thing to the practical maintenance of Enlightenment at the Centre of Humanity.
👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿 very good
Whats suspended on the white string at 21.45 ? Aubergines? Thanks for the vid! (Rory - on Elsas UA-cam ! hehehe)
Hi richard i am not good in inglish I want to purchase
Farm in Luxembourg can you do video for
Put a roof on the water tower to collect water...
Can you please write the name and/or company were you can get the irrigation hose/stings?
Gravity based would work wonderfully here in Austria
Thank you for your videos
Sidniler Poritex from Andorra
Thank you!
Instead of buying machinery for the compost and then working really hard to compost everything, why don't they just integrate some meat animals with a land rotation system, during which quarters are fertilized and planted upon consecutively? What you do is the cows, pigs and chickens doing the composting for you, and you even make a profit from the animals.
Wonder if its really an equivelant option because compost is consolidated to spread it evenly and deter weeds
You make it sound like integrating animals would be easy.
Won't the fruit trees shade the vegtables growing right under to much?
Maybe but they can solve that by planting shade loving plants like their salad mixes, even kale, under the trees instead or things prone to bolting in the summer like broccoli and cauliflower. - jacob
Leafy greens only need about four hours of sunlight per day, so in the morning and evening with low sun angle under the tree would be enough
Slug control with duck patrol
Who makes the polytunnel
do you have the adress or there web site i am passing through there ( was born in Luxembourg) now in Namibia
Hi there Patrick! Still live in Namibia? I am a young farmer just starting out here after studying in Germany for some time...and I am absolutely devouring all these videos. A lot of my produce will come to Windhoek next year 2021. Already producing quite a bit for ourselves. I am trying to show people that this is possible in Namibia as well. Even with little water!
Didn't see links to these guys...
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Dear sir I want to purchase a 50 acre agriculture land in Luxembourg please guide me. I'm from India
Why don't they sell their eggs with the veg boxes?
A pond without fish is irrigation water without fish poop.
(Not a Chinese proverb) hahahaaa
If poultry is processed on farm, maybe fish can utilize the innards
At 42:00 he talks about easily paying wages of 50,000 euros after taxes from one hectare.
22:04 8000 € values for 600Kgs of tomato? Isn't that too expensive?
We dont need no more a lot of compost when we do One liquid fertilizer recipes Korean Natural Farming M Cho (UA-cam Chris Trump for recipes)
what is he drinking at 41:59?
Cà chua, mà làm, mức, đường phèn, không có ngọt nhiều, còn không thì, ,, xoáy khô hết cát loại trái cây tươi,, những trái cây tươi nào mà ngọt, thì khỏi để đường, người lớn tuổi, hoạt trẻ em, ăn ngon hơn
I want agriculture jobs Luxembourg any one help me
8000€ for 600kg tomatoes ? whos gonna buy tomatoes for 13€ kg?
My bad, I had meant to say Eur 10/kg, which is what I had in mind from the previous day in Denmark. I'm used to Scandinavian prices and costs! I think they would get Eur 7 here... Still, numbers are quite high in Lux, as are costs, and the pattern of the thinking remains the same...
One of the things that really give me pause when parsing the feasibility of those models in germany.
The competition seems to be a lot harsher by means of a lot lower prices for organic produce, with the cost of living not that much lower in proportion.
I´d love to see actual numbers from someone trying it here, seeing their margins (or lack thereof, as i fear).
Keep in mind that if you are doing things the right way like Richard is you are not just another organic grower, it's also your story that sells and I'm sure enough people would gladly pay a little bit more to buy produce from people they can actually approach directly rather than some faceless organic brand found in the supermarket (that most likely is growing on depleted soil).
Richard talks about someone who is starting in Germany. I think a lot of people, especially Germans (I am from Scotland living in Germany) are very nervous about regulations and the issue of supermarket bio. The difference to what you are getting in the supermarket and what Richard and other similar farmers are producing products of a much higher quality. I would love some type of scientific studies to really check this claim but I really believe that. I will do some digging (pun intended) to see if this is the case
Loving the videos Richard, thank you. I'm interested how you calculate €8000 profit from 60 laying hens. I'm based in the UK and I calculate roughly £4,000 gross profit using organic feed @ £0.45 per kg and selling eggs for £0.30 each (retail). I estimate that 60 hens would eat 2.5 tons and lay roughly 290 eggs each per year.
Rechard. If you would crunch these chicken egg numbers? Super curious.
I would be wanting 50 eggs/day on av. Depends on breed, but I'd get enough hens to get that. They can sell boxes of 6 for Eur 4. Thats over 12k. Feed at your price would be just over 1k. Boxes, other bits and bobs, not a lot. You guys need a nation wide egg price overhaul, it's too cheap a source of protein. I know its a very sensitive issue, and not so easy, but UK egg prices suck.
Wow, €4 for half dozen is double what we pay here in the UK. Interesting, thanks
Have you heard about the recent egg scandal in The Netherlands? A banned chemical called fipronil ended up in the eggs because a supply company of cleaning materials was cutting corners and added it in their product most likely for economical gain purposes.
Turns out fipronil contaminated eggs have now been found in 15 European countries, Sweden included.
Permaculture Playground Yea man, there were a few UK retailers who had to dispose of something like 700,000 eggs. Classic
please upgrade your mic. most of your videos are low in volume and i have difficulty hearing it, thanks :)
He said he doesn't have time nor will to bother. He runs a farm, this is just for our sake.
good one but the vedio was too long. make short . excellent.
sound sucks
Hi Richard. (Or anyone reading this) I have some land in the uk and would be interested in the idea of partnering with one (or more) of your graduates who has ambition skill and enthusiasm but lacks land and needs an opportunity………… feel free to contact