In August (I'm about 100 mile N. of Jesse) we have to do every 3 hours from sun up to sundown. Soil blocks and cells just don't have enough capacity to keep up with water consumption. Ever hour seems excessive ... but might be believable. Once you take the time/$$ t9 set up sprinklers on a timer, it's really a non-issue. I propagate a metric ton of hardwood cuttings for perennial (think, like, blueberry) and some of those are set up to water (mist) every 10 minutes, 24x7. Again - a non-issue when fully automated ...
This is a serious farm and garden, an extremely well-used space, well organized in terms of the configuration of the terrain and the layout of the land and buildings. Whoever watches and listens carefully, learns a lot.🎉
This channel and Richard Perkins are both excellent for giving into. It's not detailed because it can't be for a UA-cam video and frankly the time he has available and the same thing applies for Richard, but between the two channels I get enough info to know what it is I want to try, what I need to educate myself on, etc..... Neither apply to my growing region but that's not really the point.
Jesse, Thanks for taking time to educate us. This is our first year at the Farmers Market and we are using your videos to help our overall experience and sales. We've gotten a ton of compliments on our setup which is the best looking at the market and that is because of your videos!
Hello! Very long time lurker who wears your hat. I have a very similar garden setup to yours in southern IN with the same soil/water problems (a large vein of clay runs straight through my property, preventing draining). I also built my bed into hill with intentions to catch water. Several years ago I got way too much rain in the spring and had the same problems as you (onions and garlic rotting, etc). I ended up combining a couple methods to control the water and the results have been good (two years later now). I dig a large trench in my pathways... sometimes 2-3 feet deep and 1.5-2 feet wide (think mini excavator bucket - I do it manually but wish I had a machine) and then fill it with carbon (I have unlimited woodchips from the power company tree trimmers, but you could use anything). The best part of this method is you get really nice compost after a few years. You do have to overfill the trenched walkways, maybe top it off after a year... but think of it as making compost instead of managing pathways. The trenches let the water drain from the bed the same way a french drain works, but really just soaks everything up (including the nutrients from the garden). I can elaborate or send pictures - not all of my beds required this, just where the water sits and doesn't drain. I really love it now because I'm capturing so much water / nutrients that were causing problems and / or running off.
Great channel, great video. I do not have a market garden but I do tend a large garden that feeds my wfe and I, a few neighbours and friends and our kids and grandkids! So we garden on a large enough scale to do that. I always gain a few tips that I can scale down for our use! Thank you! One of these days we would like to visit your place - we are in Kentucky several times a year visiting family! Have a great day! Mike 🇨🇦
Thank you for all of your videos! I'm starting a farm with a couple of friends. We've got our business plan basically finished and are on the hunt for land!
Your videos are great, and your personality and presentation really makes the info shine. I'm often scrawling notes while watching these videos. You should write a book! Oh, right. I should buy your book!
I love your videos and I know I’m late to the party, but the missing links when you say “this video here” is killing me 😂 probably good for slowing down my rabbit hole dive though
Shout out to all the good neighbors out there, after all that is what makes a settlement a true community, and not just a homestead. Being a good neighbor is just as important as finding one. When I trade away extra veg starts for which I have no room, good neighbor on my south side trades for them with tractor work; as we do not have a tractor or the know how to use it. Neighbor on the north has agreed to stop spraying their gravel driveway with pesticides in exchange for help with some projects and weeding. All good in this hood
14:00 I wonder if this system could end up introducing red wigglers to the larger ecosystem & what repercussions that might have as a non-native voracious & quickly reproducing decomposer? It seems to be in the middle of a relatively barren field, but I wonder if they might be able to migrate through the soil to other areas?
I’m starting a small garden at the local library and we are doing a weekly Pop Up Produce Pantry to gather and give fresh food out to people who need it. Keep telling everyone we’re doing a Free Farmers Market as an explanation , this is timely for me ❤
I have zero drainage on my land. And a north west facing slope. Could you do a video on irrigation and show where you stub off from to start your irrigation lines. In the house out of the house. Do you use a pump. Irrigation is very confusing to me.
If your compost doesn't have manure, you're not obligated to the turning and temp requirements in the organic rule. Or treat the compost as raw manure (90/120 rule) and you're golden.
Hello everyone, I have a question, I am a software developer who hates his job and I think this industry is collapsing anyways. My friend has a 7000m2 (1.5 acre) land close to one of the rich districts of a big city. (Ankara Turkey) I got water and weekly farmers market 3 km away. For years I am talking about farming, for months I am watching farming videos and for a couple of weeks I am making plans. I got enough money to start and pay the bills like 9-10 months. Shall I do it?
This is one of the best, if not the best, market gardening channel due to Jessie's ability to both deep dive and get highly practical, including things are different on each farm. An added bonus is the ability of observe someone growing skills in content development over time. The emphasis on people and relationships is priceless, did I miss the video on who taught Jessie that?
Thank you! All credit owed to my wife Hannah who always keeps me seeing the larger perspective of what a farm is, and how it relates to its community. 💯
The CoolBot is the BEST for making your own freezer/store house!!! A friend of mine built on and used a CoolBot. I had never heard of one or what it even did. It takes that normal A/C unit and allows it to drop to freezing temps!! He uses it for hanging deer and wild hogs!
@@notillgrowers That’s all I have ever heard about them. Great product and simple to use/set up. It falls into the “ buy it once and never again” price but for great reason🤣
Love your videos! I mostly grew up on land with woods and fields and i love that your kids have easy access to a similar situation. I hear people say they were bored during their summer break from school but i was never bored!
I have a garden of 13 m by 13 m, there is a lot to do and it is never boring. I look forward to the potatoes that come and the other vegetables that I grow. This kind of farm does not allow you to get bored.😊
Trampoline tip! We dug a pit for the tramp, setting it up at ground level with as small a gap as possible. Makes it easier for little dudes and reduces the need for the safety net (use it or not, your call). We actually needed 10 yards of soil to help level out the yard, so the pit was great for the tramp and the yard too!
@@purdymarie9904we rarely get big rain events and the soil is sand and silt with fast drainage Early spring melts used to make a big puddle in the area and this has solved that too
Great video. The drainage is a real issue. I run 50x50 garden plots with 15' spacing around each. Each plot has its own draining plan you will notice as they are drying out after the big rains. Although the ground lays fairly even to my eyes, there are several of the plots that you wouldn't dare plant a potato crop in. Also, some look like a Superman "S" wet spot going through them where I would think they would drain and dry uniformly across. Just need to learn your garden ground and adjust as needed.
Great video. I can see the work it takes into planning your space. I'd really like to see a video of your recommended websites for items (silage tarps, insect netting, seeds, organic fertilizers etc). Keep the great content coming :)
Hi Thank you! I did one on seeds earlier this year, but netting I get from Johnny's selected seeds. Tarps I get from Farmers Friend. Amendments I get from a couple different places like Seven Springs Farm Supply and Ohio Earth Foods. If I can think of a way to fit that into a video I will but I hope that's helpful for now!
Hi, do you have a video explaining EXACTLY what is no till? For example, can you just broadcast seed over mulch? Or is using a simple hand-push cultivator, is that no till still? Or is that till? Exactly WHAT is till versus no till? Is there a depth difference? How deep does the soil ecosystem disruption cause a difference? I truly cannot find a video or article explaining this and more, and I want healthy soil on our weed infested 9 acres on the California coastline, I want to eradicate all the foxtails and invasive sticker-laden weeds, and I want to do this in a living soil way. Is there a video that explains all of this? Like No Till 101?
A big thank you from the deep south of New Zealand, for sharing all the amazing information in easy to watch videos. It is very much appreciated so thank you again ❤
Can anyone tell me what market gardens are? I now know that they must have a growing area, a washing area, etc. But what IS a market garden? I've been gardening all my life, and never heard of it.
Currently, the link to The Menoken Farm didn't work, but the channel is finable without issue, but you're not there yet... The wild corners - herbaceous mostly it seems. I am sure you have seen Stefan Sobkowiak's channel ( if not check it out - orchards a little different from your farm. BUT he has a great collection of bird nest boxes and occupiers too, and has found that the lack of evergreen trees has limited his 'winter' assistance from the feathered friends - so now often adds local conifers, when trees die off, as evergreen winter cover to encourage improved pest control. Plus bee hotels - and similar to get pollination and insect predators to do their bit in pest control - and just to boost the diversity a bit more. Good stuff there... nice channel and a frequent watcher... ... and a nice one on the trampoline. : )))))
55gs for aprox half a acre of production getting 2 acres would be perfect you can reach around 100grand a year get some labor you will be able to manage 2 acres it will cost you around 100grand maybe a bit more to buy and get those 2 acres to start rolling let's leave the finishing touches later😂
As someone with a few year experience designing and installing irrigation systems your issue with your root rinsing system could be solved with a small low pressure pump and a ploy pipe ran to your crops or your compost ! No more buckets
You are always pointing and saying click on this video that are suppose to be on the screen when you refer to them. I have never once seen the link to any video 😂
Have you considered having local lawn companies dump leaves there in the fall to compost?? We owned a lawn company and dumped the leaves in the backyard for about 15 years…. We have the best soil around 😂… my sister still lives at that house and I tell her all the time how she is cheating because I e been building my soil for two years and am not even close to the quality she has over there
@@notillgrowers there will be absolutely no shortage of companies that would love a free place to dump their leaves and you get leaves from many different species of trees, which helps with a little diversity.
Love the comments about making time with the kids to enjoy the land. One thing as a new farm and business we could better at. Thanks for another awesome video
great content! i enjoyed the drone-view and the layout you have. i have a small flower farm in texas in the early stages, spending the first year just putting the house/cabin and the hardscape in place and working on the grow areas. so your video was timely, thanks
Turned our rows 90 deg to how they were for years. Just like you deal with in KY, here in Eastern MO, these sporadic heavy rains are the issue too. The ground can’t handle dryness for 6 weeks and then 2” in an hour.
6 dry weeks and the 2" in an hour is exactly what we deal with here. All that flooding in Eastern Ky last year was immediately following a 5 week drought here. What the soil is supposed to do with that I have no idea.
Thanks from the spanish pirynees. Awsome. I'll be starting this year ti prepare land for 2024 . Gratis vídeos and knoledge from you. Thank you. Gonna get your book too. No market garden or no dig or no till next to my area. Excepto my garden now.
Could you please do a video about augers and drills? A recommendation of quality gear and how to keep an auger from slipping in a drill chuck. THANKS VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR GREAT VIDEOS.
I always enjoy your videos, and your subtle humor! (that's me.) I'm a home gardener, produce more than I can eat, and share with the neighbors. I have 4. 4' x 10' beds and 2. 2' x 8' beds. The 2x8's use to be herbs. One of them is now strawberries. Annual herbs are now in the two Tomato plots. I have already t-planted 20 tomatoes. about to t-plant 5 peppers, and 5 melons into the tomato plots. I've had bad luck with radishes the past 4 years. I had a separate bed just for radish but got poor yields. It was in an area that didn't get enough sunlight. Last year I try'd them in the tomato plots and got a few good ones before they bolted. This year, I started planting lettuce and radish February 1, and transplanting onions, scallions, leeks, and bunching onions (started indoors). I did 2 rows lettuce and 3 rows radish every week. each row (4' deep), is a different variety. I have 25 varieties of lettuce and 35 varieties of radish. This year I got the most delicious radishes EVER!! Crunchy, juicy, and flavorful! The radishes are bolting now, so its a hunt to find a good radish. As of 5/20, tomatoes are 2-3 foot tall, a few are trying to flower. have to cut the flowers off for a few weeks so their roots can ger established. I can't believe how many flowers my peppers are putting out! I'm in Zone 7A, Westchester Co, NY. I'm curious where you are located. I wish you youtubers would state your Zone and geographical location (Zone, state, county). It would be much easier for me to understand your growing problems. We may be in the same zone, but conditions totally opposite! Zones only measure cold temperatures, not heat, water, soil conditions, global warming, or day length. I wish seed co's would give this kind of info- the environment where the seeds were grown. Some seed co's have stopped putting zone ranges on the seed packet. They think its superfluous! They will happily sell you the seed you want, but when you find out it won't grow in your area, they'll tell you, you planted it wrong. Jessie, I'm Impressed with your market garden! Wish you the best of luck! Oh, I should mention, I have a built an underground watering system. (nice way of saying 'a messy). I'm missing that magic little box that reads the current weather forecast and predicts how much to water each bed!! With your moles of irrigation to watch, I'm suprised you still have your hair! Warm wishes for a successful year! GardenerPete. .
Our great neighbours gave us their old trampoline. I whole heartedly agree, they are CRITICAL to my accomplishing absolutely anything with my 3 kiddos.
Counting down here... closer to selling current house and buying our farm.. Months now? This was fantastic and so timely for me. very helpful... Short response for what I need to know for what does a Market Garden need is “A Market”. Choosing were to move is our greatest debate as planning will require knowing what I have to work with. What is the "appetite" for a small (.5 - 1 acre) organic farm. How easily can we get reliable help, How far may we need to travel to find restaurants - Yes, we are trying to find the farmers markets and visit them. Living almost 3 hours away from our current home limits the exploration time (especially with current remediations... WaaaaWaaaaaWaaaa :) lmao. All a great adventure... Thank you so much for sharing and teaching!
I have been following you for a while, your slightly jumpy word - sentence formulation adds to the farm style. Todays over view share of current & intended & Intergrated farm components is excellent. I like the neighbor -soil comment. Great stuff😊
Agreed on the good neighbors. The good ones don't always offset the crummy ones and neighbors are like family, you can't usually pick them. You just get what you get.
Thank you so much for sharing! This was rich with ideas & creativity!! I’d like to use my property for a market garden, but for now, I’m experimenting to feed my family and extras for friends. This video is so helpful to see the “big picture”
I would like to hear more thoughts about a compost next to the sink. I literally was just telling my wife tonight dumping a five gallon bucket becomes to much. Thank you for your many videos and tips. I always watch and learn so much! Keep up the good work!
Laugh, I did, because it did my heart good to see the crooked beds in the aerial view😊 I *try* to get everything as parallel and straight as I can to maximize space, but eyeing a straight line when there are hills, trees, and low areas is not humanly possible.
Have you ever considered adding a rain garden to your drainage issue areas? Prevents erosion, retains water and slowly releases ! The way they work is natures beautiful solution! Thanks for the video :)
You hit the the proverb on the head regarding neighbors. Invaluable is a good neighbor. If people based their real estate decision more on neighbor quality there would be few for sale signs littering the country side
Fabulous! Thanks for all your great videos and jokes! Because of you, I'm able to put into practice so many of market garden practices. An acre of garden is a lot of work and you make it look easy. I, too, keep it organic and tree and shrub lined for beneficial life. Living the dream! Hope you can visit Boise Nampa area soon!!
Just a gentle suggestion from an idealist (not a recomendation): Why not keep a cover crop on your "out of production" beds? I know you said it could be needed in an emergency to boost production-> you could plant something like legumes that you can mow-kill at the drop of a hat. @keep soil life fed with plant root exudates @more biomass for composting @nitrogen fixing bacteria at work with legumes @green
You water every HOUR??
I had the same thought... I can't imagine that's right but maybe?
Oh haha to clarify: we water about every hour *from around 10am-6pm if the sun is out or as needed.
@@notillgrowers haven't watched it yet but saw the comments... do you water by hand or have an automated system with a timer?
In August (I'm about 100 mile N. of Jesse) we have to do every 3 hours from sun up to sundown. Soil blocks and cells just don't have enough capacity to keep up with water consumption. Ever hour seems excessive ... but might be believable. Once you take the time/$$ t9 set up sprinklers on a timer, it's really a non-issue. I propagate a metric ton of hardwood cuttings for perennial (think, like, blueberry) and some of those are set up to water (mist) every 10 minutes, 24x7. Again - a non-issue when fully automated ...
Aye, even with bottom watering, I tend to fill up the trays a couple of times a day for most things even in June (zone 6b).
This is a serious farm and garden, an extremely well-used space, well organized in terms of the configuration of the terrain and the layout of the land and buildings. Whoever watches and listens carefully, learns a lot.🎉
This channel and Richard Perkins are both excellent for giving into. It's not detailed because it can't be for a UA-cam video and frankly the time he has available and the same thing applies for Richard, but between the two channels I get enough info to know what it is I want to try, what I need to educate myself on, etc.....
Neither apply to my growing region but that's not really the point.
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Jesse, Thanks for taking time to educate us. This is our first year at the Farmers Market and we are using your videos to help our overall experience and sales. We've gotten a ton of compliments on our setup which is the best looking at the market and that is because of your videos!
Oh amazing to hear! Thanks for sharing. Best of luck!
Hello! Very long time lurker who wears your hat. I have a very similar garden setup to yours in southern IN with the same soil/water problems (a large vein of clay runs straight through my property, preventing draining). I also built my bed into hill with intentions to catch water. Several years ago I got way too much rain in the spring and had the same problems as you (onions and garlic rotting, etc). I ended up combining a couple methods to control the water and the results have been good (two years later now). I dig a large trench in my pathways... sometimes 2-3 feet deep and 1.5-2 feet wide (think mini excavator bucket - I do it manually but wish I had a machine) and then fill it with carbon (I have unlimited woodchips from the power company tree trimmers, but you could use anything). The best part of this method is you get really nice compost after a few years. You do have to overfill the trenched walkways, maybe top it off after a year... but think of it as making compost instead of managing pathways. The trenches let the water drain from the bed the same way a french drain works, but really just soaks everything up (including the nutrients from the garden). I can elaborate or send pictures - not all of my beds required this, just where the water sits and doesn't drain. I really love it now because I'm capturing so much water / nutrients that were causing problems and / or running off.
Great channel, great video. I do not have a market garden but I do tend a large garden that feeds my wfe and I, a few neighbours and friends and our kids and grandkids! So we garden on a large enough scale to do that. I always gain a few tips that I can scale down for our use! Thank you!
One of these days we would like to visit your place - we are in Kentucky several times a year visiting family!
Have a great day!
Mike 🇨🇦
Thank you for all of your videos! I'm starting a farm with a couple of friends. We've got our business plan basically finished and are on the hunt for land!
Your videos are great, and your personality and presentation really makes the info shine. I'm often scrawling notes while watching these videos. You should write a book! Oh, right. I should buy your book!
Great video Jessie, thanks!
You are so entertaining and informative!
I love your videos and I know I’m late to the party, but the missing links when you say “this video here” is killing me 😂 probably good for slowing down my rabbit hole dive though
Just got the Living Soil Handbook! I'm loving it so far!
Awe thank you! So cool to hear
Shout out to all the good neighbors out there, after all that is what makes a settlement a true community, and not just a homestead.
Being a good neighbor is just as important as finding one. When I trade away extra veg starts for which I have no room, good neighbor on my south side trades for them with tractor work; as we do not have a tractor or the know how to use it. Neighbor on the north has agreed to stop spraying their gravel driveway with pesticides in exchange for help with some projects and weeding. All good in this hood
Thanks!
Great content. Love love love it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Awe, thank you so much! Super appreciated!
14:00 I wonder if this system could end up introducing red wigglers to the larger ecosystem & what repercussions that might have as a non-native voracious & quickly reproducing decomposer? It seems to be in the middle of a relatively barren field, but I wonder if they might be able to migrate through the soil to other areas?
I’m starting a small garden at the local library and we are doing a weekly Pop Up Produce Pantry to gather and give fresh food out to people who need it. Keep telling everyone we’re doing a Free Farmers Market as an explanation , this is timely for me ❤
Yay!! This is awesome! I want to do similar in my area too 🤩❤
That’s amazing!!!
I really like your videos
Looks fab, you videos are aways so informative
I don't see the usual SAVE so I can add this great video to my collection ? What am I missing here please?
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U R awesome!!!!
Wait you water your propagation plants once an hour??? Anymore details please?
I have zero drainage on my land. And a north west facing slope. Could you do a video on irrigation and show where you stub off from to start your irrigation lines. In the house out of the house. Do you use a pump. Irrigation is very confusing to me.
irrigation is confusing even to seasoned pros so don't feel too bad, but yes I'll try to get to one this summer!
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If your compost doesn't have manure, you're not obligated to the turning and temp requirements in the organic rule. Or treat the compost as raw manure (90/120 rule) and you're golden.
Did you meet the neighbors before buying the property?
How large is your farm?
Hello everyone, I have a question, I am a software developer who hates his job and I think this industry is collapsing anyways. My friend has a 7000m2 (1.5 acre) land close to one of the rich districts of a big city. (Ankara Turkey) I got water and weekly farmers market 3 km away. For years I am talking about farming, for months I am watching farming videos and for a couple of weeks I am making plans. I got enough money to start and pay the bills like 9-10 months.
Shall I do it?
I'm just a home gardener, what I pickup I'm most thankful. This video, my critical criticism is not enough dad jokes, so a fail for me ......
Poor soil and great neighbors! That is a recipe for Great soil and Greater neighbors lol
Emergency.. Lolzzzzzzz what like Star warzzz or Forest fire uhhhWHAAA
This is one of the best, if not the best, market gardening channel due to Jessie's ability to both deep dive and get highly practical, including things are different on each farm. An added bonus is the ability of observe someone growing skills in content development over time. The emphasis on people and relationships is priceless, did I miss the video on who taught Jessie that?
Thank you! All credit owed to my wife Hannah who always keeps me seeing the larger perspective of what a farm is, and how it relates to its community. 💯
Agreed!!!
The CoolBot is the BEST for making your own freezer/store house!!! A friend of mine built on and used a CoolBot. I had never heard of one or what it even did. It takes that normal A/C unit and allows it to drop to freezing temps!! He uses it for hanging deer and wild hogs!
I've had no issues in 7 years (8?) and they've got every bit of troubleshooting you need on their site. Nothing but good things to say, really.
@@notillgrowers That’s all I have ever heard about them. Great product and simple to use/set up. It falls into the “ buy it once and never again” price but for great reason🤣
Love your videos! I mostly grew up on land with woods and fields and i love that your kids have easy access to a similar situation. I hear people say they were bored during their summer break from school but i was never bored!
I have a garden of 13 m by 13 m, there is a lot to do and it is never boring. I look forward to the potatoes that come and the other vegetables that I grow. This kind of farm does not allow you to get bored.😊
Trampoline tip!
We dug a pit for the tramp, setting it up at ground level with as small a gap as possible. Makes it easier for little dudes and reduces the need for the safety net (use it or not, your call).
We actually needed 10 yards of soil to help level out the yard, so the pit was great for the tramp and the yard too!
How do you keep it from filling up with water when it rains?
@@purdymarie9904we rarely get big rain events and the soil is sand and silt with fast drainage
Early spring melts used to make a big puddle in the area and this has solved that too
Trampolines are no joke! Wrap some chicken wire around the base and you have a chicken tractor with built in shade.
Great video. The drainage is a real issue. I run 50x50 garden plots with 15' spacing around each. Each plot has its own draining plan you will notice as they are drying out after the big rains. Although the ground lays fairly even to my eyes, there are several of the plots that you wouldn't dare plant a potato crop in. Also, some look like a Superman "S" wet spot going through them where I would think they would drain and dry uniformly across. Just need to learn your garden ground and adjust as needed.
When were you in North Dakota???!!! Give a fanboy a warning jeez!!
Oh haha, my bad! I think I'll be back at some point. Really enjoyed it and would love to explore more of the local farms there.
I freakin love being able to watch your videos right as im drinking tea for farmers market
Great video. I can see the work it takes into planning your space. I'd really like to see a video of your recommended websites for items (silage tarps, insect netting, seeds, organic fertilizers etc). Keep the great content coming :)
Hi Thank you! I did one on seeds earlier this year, but netting I get from Johnny's selected seeds. Tarps I get from Farmers Friend. Amendments I get from a couple different places like Seven Springs Farm Supply and Ohio Earth Foods. If I can think of a way to fit that into a video I will but I hope that's helpful for now!
Thanks dude.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Can you go over what it takes to become Certified Organic?
Yes, please!
You can fix poor soil ghbourswith good soil/land management practices/knowledge, but you can't really fix bad neighbours, only mitigate. :)
Hi, do you have a video explaining EXACTLY what is no till? For example, can you just broadcast seed over mulch? Or is using a simple hand-push cultivator, is that no till still? Or is that till? Exactly WHAT is till versus no till? Is there a depth difference? How deep does the soil ecosystem disruption cause a difference? I truly cannot find a video or article explaining this and more, and I want healthy soil on our weed infested 9 acres on the California coastline, I want to eradicate all the foxtails and invasive sticker-laden weeds, and I want to do this in a living soil way. Is there a video that explains all of this? Like No Till 101?
A big thank you from the deep south of New Zealand, for sharing all the amazing information in easy to watch videos. It is very much appreciated so thank you again ❤
I'm super grateful for all of your videos as I navigate my first year market farming!
Can anyone tell me what market gardens are? I now know that they must have a growing area, a washing area, etc. But what IS a market garden? I've been gardening all my life, and never heard of it.
Currently, the link to The Menoken Farm didn't work, but the channel is finable without issue, but you're not there yet...
The wild corners - herbaceous mostly it seems. I am sure you have seen Stefan Sobkowiak's channel ( if not check it out - orchards a little different from your farm. BUT he has a great collection of bird nest boxes and occupiers too, and has found that the lack of evergreen trees has limited his 'winter' assistance from the feathered friends - so now often adds local conifers, when trees die off, as evergreen winter cover to encourage improved pest control. Plus bee hotels - and similar to get pollination and insect predators to do their bit in pest control - and just to boost the diversity a bit more.
Good stuff there... nice channel and a frequent watcher... ... and a nice one on the trampoline. : )))))
❤ I love your style. Will buy your book next month (budget constraints:). Inspiration!
55gs for aprox half a acre of production getting 2 acres would be perfect you can reach around 100grand a year get some labor you will be able to manage 2 acres it will cost you around 100grand maybe a bit more to buy and get those 2 acres to start rolling let's leave the finishing touches later😂
As someone with a few year experience designing and installing irrigation systems your issue with your root rinsing system could be solved with a small low pressure pump and a ploy pipe ran to your crops or your compost ! No more buckets
You are always pointing and saying click on this video that are suppose to be on the screen when you refer to them. I have never once seen the link to any video 😂
Have you considered having local lawn companies dump leaves there in the fall to compost?? We owned a lawn company and dumped the leaves in the backyard for about 15 years…. We have the best soil around 😂… my sister still lives at that house and I tell her all the time how she is cheating because I e been building my soil for two years and am not even close to the quality she has over there
Oh that's an interesting idea. I would take all the leaves I can get, for sure!
@@notillgrowers there will be absolutely no shortage of companies that would love a free place to dump their leaves and you get leaves from many different species of trees, which helps with a little diversity.
Love the comments about making time with the kids to enjoy the land. One thing as a new farm and business we could better at. Thanks for another awesome video
At first I took umbrage to "hey nerds" then I realized yeah he's right.
Great explaination. A lot of work went into getting this video up! Thank you for all your hard work.
great content! i enjoyed the drone-view and the layout you have. i have a small flower farm in texas in the early stages, spending the first year just putting the house/cabin and the hardscape in place and working on the grow areas. so your video was timely, thanks
the link to the Menoken Farms youtube seems to be down?
Waiting for my book from you ordered last week
How do you keep squash bugs out of the summer squash?
Ohhh, I know it now! I need a trampoline! 🤣
Definitely gotta have a trampoline!!!
So where do you keep your copper rods for electroculture? Lol
A little frog pond or water garden is always a great addition to the garden space 😊
Combien mesure de surface en M2 la ferme ?
How do I control the weeds seems impossible
Turned our rows 90 deg to how they were for years. Just like you deal with in KY, here in Eastern MO, these sporadic heavy rains are the issue too. The ground can’t handle dryness for 6 weeks and then 2” in an hour.
6 dry weeks and the 2" in an hour is exactly what we deal with here. All that flooding in Eastern Ky last year was immediately following a 5 week drought here. What the soil is supposed to do with that I have no idea.
very good video. by looking at the plants that grow fertile the heart feels happy.
The neighbor thing, DITTO!!!
Thanks from the spanish pirynees. Awsome. I'll be starting this year ti prepare land for 2024 . Gratis vídeos and knoledge from you. Thank you. Gonna get your book too. No market garden or no dig or no till next to my area. Excepto my garden now.
Could you please do a video about augers and drills? A recommendation of quality gear and how to keep an auger from slipping in a drill chuck. THANKS VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR GREAT VIDEOS.
Vegetable emergencies. :)
I always enjoy your videos, and your subtle humor! (that's me.) I'm a home gardener, produce more than I can eat, and share with the neighbors. I have 4. 4' x 10' beds and 2. 2' x 8' beds. The 2x8's use to be herbs. One of them is now strawberries. Annual herbs are now in the two Tomato plots. I have already t-planted 20 tomatoes. about to t-plant 5 peppers, and 5 melons into the tomato plots.
I've had bad luck with radishes the past 4 years. I had a separate bed just for radish but got poor yields. It was in an area that didn't get enough sunlight. Last year I try'd them in the tomato plots and got a few good ones before they bolted. This year, I started planting lettuce and radish February 1, and transplanting onions, scallions, leeks, and bunching onions (started indoors). I did 2 rows lettuce and 3 rows radish every week. each row (4' deep), is a different variety. I have 25 varieties of lettuce and 35 varieties of radish. This year I got the most delicious radishes EVER!! Crunchy, juicy, and flavorful! The radishes are bolting now, so its a hunt to find a good radish. As of 5/20, tomatoes are 2-3 foot tall, a few are trying to flower. have to cut the flowers off for a few weeks so their roots can ger established. I can't believe how many flowers my peppers are putting out!
I'm in Zone 7A, Westchester Co, NY. I'm curious where you are located.
I wish you youtubers would state your Zone and geographical location (Zone, state, county). It would be much easier for me to understand your growing problems. We may be in the same zone, but conditions totally opposite! Zones only measure cold temperatures, not heat, water, soil conditions, global warming, or day length.
I wish seed co's would give this kind of info- the environment where the seeds were grown. Some seed co's have stopped putting zone ranges on the seed packet. They think its superfluous! They will happily sell you the seed you want, but when you find out it won't grow in your area, they'll tell you, you planted it wrong.
Jessie, I'm Impressed with your market garden! Wish you the best of luck! Oh, I should mention, I have a built an underground watering system. (nice way of saying 'a messy). I'm missing that magic little box that reads the current weather forecast and predicts how much to water each bed!! With your moles of irrigation to watch, I'm suprised you still have your hair!
Warm wishes for a successful year! GardenerPete.
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Our great neighbours gave us their old trampoline. I whole heartedly agree, they are CRITICAL to my accomplishing absolutely anything with my 3 kiddos.
Thanks for sharing!! Knowledge is powerful 🙏☕🌱💐
Counting down here... closer to selling current house and buying our farm.. Months now? This was fantastic and so timely for me. very helpful... Short response for what I need to know for what does a Market Garden need is “A Market”. Choosing were to move is our greatest debate as planning will require knowing what I have to work with. What is the "appetite" for a small (.5 - 1 acre) organic farm. How easily can we get reliable help, How far may we need to travel to find restaurants - Yes, we are trying to find the farmers markets and visit them. Living almost 3 hours away from our current home limits the exploration time (especially with current remediations... WaaaaWaaaaaWaaaa :) lmao. All a great adventure... Thank you so much for sharing and teaching!
Just earned my subscription ! Love your garden. 👍👍😍 Best wishes with your endeavors.
I have been following you for a while, your slightly jumpy word - sentence formulation adds to the farm style. Todays over view share of current & intended & Intergrated farm components is excellent. I like the neighbor -soil comment. Great stuff😊
Agreed on the good neighbors. The good ones don't always offset the crummy ones and neighbors are like family, you can't usually pick them. You just get what you get.
Thank you so much for sharing! This was rich with ideas & creativity!! I’d like to use my property for a market garden, but for now, I’m experimenting to feed my family and extras for friends. This video is so helpful to see the “big picture”
I would like to hear more thoughts about a compost next to the sink. I literally was just telling my wife tonight dumping a five gallon bucket becomes to much.
Thank you for your many videos and tips. I always watch and learn so much! Keep up the good work!
Agricultural knowledge is the BEST knowledge! Thank U
Laugh, I did, because it did my heart good to see the crooked beds in the aerial view😊 I *try* to get everything as parallel and straight as I can to maximize space, but eyeing a straight line when there are hills, trees, and low areas is not humanly possible.
Have you ever considered adding a rain garden to your drainage issue areas? Prevents erosion, retains water and slowly releases ! The way they work is natures beautiful solution! Thanks for the video :)
You hit the the proverb on the head regarding neighbors. Invaluable is a good neighbor. If people based their real estate decision more on neighbor quality there would be few for sale signs littering the country side
I really liked this video , would like more farm anatomy videos... all the things you said you will make a video over - I look forward to seeing it
How many man hours does it take to maintain 1 acre in peak season?
All of them, trust me...
Fabulous! Thanks for all your great videos and jokes! Because of you, I'm able to put into practice so many of market garden practices. An acre of garden is a lot of work and you make it look easy. I, too, keep it organic and tree and shrub lined for beneficial life. Living the dream! Hope you can visit Boise Nampa area soon!!
I am setting up irrigation on our farm and an in-depth discussion on this topic would be highly appreciated guys!
Awesome video! Love how you approach your work with joy, humor and thoughtfulness 😍
once an hour?!! wow
Never seen those irrigation head what are they called
They're wing sprinklers from Drip works. They use very little water and are great for what we need which is mostly misting lettuces in the summer.
Thanks Cuz
Thanks for sharing! Good to have these visual overviews of the whole, rather than the parts(beds) we normally see
thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. This is the kind of stuff I really need at this stage.
Very good
Cheers for good neighbors. That was profound.
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Dedication ..................................... congratulations!
Thanks for the videos homie! Stay awesome
Just a gentle suggestion from an idealist (not a recomendation):
Why not keep a cover crop on your "out of production" beds?
I know you said it could be needed in an emergency to boost production-> you could plant something like legumes that you can mow-kill at the drop of a hat.
@keep soil life fed with plant root exudates
@more biomass for composting
@nitrogen fixing bacteria at work with legumes
@green
Oh they are in cover crop! They stay that way. The chickens you see briefly are currently on those cover crops as well