Not a vegan but I would definitely make the effort and support this guys business if Im in Zagreb. Really is a fantastic farm to table model with so many moving parts. He was also very respectful to the workers in how he mentioned them. Things like that make the difference. Massive respects to what they have built!
This guy is incredibly sophisticated he's made farming into something way Beyond just the business he's a teacher as well if that age he's younger than me and those that I'm 50 wow I wish I had learned this stuff when I was younger but we didn't have all these different kinds of ideas cuz the farming ideas that people use today had chemicals and fertilizers and things like that and we're using the mechanized ideas where the plowing always is it necessary or using a tiller....
Now that we know a little bit more and people like Richard are sharing what the cow, we can begin our gardens in a corner of our yards or find that land nearby and restore it to an agricultural fruitful state.
Hello Richard ! 32 from Israel ! Croatia ! I proposed last year in Croatia to my wife but mist out on farm tours (completely regret it), that being said Keep up the hard work with your intensive day to day work ethics. We truly appreciate the time and efforts you go through on a daily bases to create this content and getting it out ! I am still waiting for the next opportunity to get my hands on your new book
Very inspirational. I am very grateful to have seen it. Particularly useful to see the two systems side by side and to hear the pro's and cons from someone with direct experience.
What an uplifting episode, so good to see a young person have such commitment to a family business. I would have liked to have heard from his parents they sound like they were way ahead of their time and big thinkers. Also to see such diversity based on plant-based produce was also a bonus though if they integrated animal production with the same commitment to ethical production methods it could help with the compost inputs instead of having to truck it into the country. Great episode Richard I am looking forward to getting your book in the mail. Regards Russell
Very impressive, David. Love your work ethic and inventions. But most of all I felt the appreciation you have for your workers and this is really rare in today's world! All the best for your future endeavors :)
Very impressive and motivating; What a phenomenal system of complimentary components. Thanks so much for taking the time to make and post this awesome video.
The moment when you see your worker's realize that their actual hand labor is and can be efficient, and fruitful... That is the point where your worker take pride in the work they do. That is the point where your workers become your partners. Thank you for the great Croatian tour and looking forward to the Poland visit. God Bless.
Great video, interesting to see commodity crops along side of market garden crops. Glad to see you bring world together, life not so different than Midwest USA.
You've done it again with another fantastic presentation. Your video productions continue to provide great ideas that can be transcendent to so many different situations. I see opportunities all the time. Thank you my friend. Keep on doing what you do, and much success at it too.
Fantastic! I’m looking forward to your tour next summer and seeing more videos like this. That farm/business is such an inspiration. Thank you for introducing us to them. Safe travels
It's funny to hear the words 'organic pioneers' used together in the 21st century, when organic gardening was the original system used since gardening first began.
Richard Perkins Hi Richard, me and my wife had a disconnect somewhere about ordering your book RA. I thought she ordered it and she thought I did. This was very upsetting. We missed out on ordering. Part of the problem was our ignorance of how kickstarter works. Can you help me get your book? I’m soo upset I didn’t get the signed copy. Much appreciated
Fascinating video, Richard. I love Croatia, an amazing country and it is lovely to see up and coming business, leaders with vision and projects like this. I realise that you are about to tour Europe and I am not sure of all the people that you plan to visit, but have you heard of 'Crowdfarming.com'? I subscribed to them having seen them on German t.v. I have adopted 7 projects from Coffee to sea salt to fruit and olive oil. Again this is a group of young people trying to support projects that have permaculture/ organic growing as their core principles. The scheme supports people who are passionate about their work and ensure that they are rewarded appropriately. This may be of interest to you and some of the farmers that you visit. Thank you and looking forward to the next farm!
I really like that little seeder he has that yellow one... I haven't seen one like that here in the USA I'm sure they exist because agriculture is coming back fast here more in the production of things that people can eat quicker doing the small restaurants and people can grow stuff in culinary microgreens is a big thing right now...
Just recently I dove into direct seeding for large scale field crops. In Germany the two biggest UA-cam advocats for that practice are non organic farms and always ephesise that without Glyphosate that kind of soil regenerstivs production would not be possible. Im wondering ever since how big scale mechanised field crop production can be achieved without tillage... The benefits for soil life, water infiltration and crop quality are so obvious when direct seeded, even with herbicides. Can anyone who knows maye point out organic producers that successfully manage tillage free organic field crop production. Super inspiring 1h video! Thanks so much!
Absolutely amazing wonderful knowledge of the diversity a market garden can lead to. You both are extremely capable, experienced leaders in this field. My heart is so glad to see the prosperity that people are building from treating our resources responsibly. Thank you!
Wow, Richard this is so inspiring. I'm looking forward to your journeys next season and to learn of all the different farms you visit. I'd love to see one of la ferme du bec hellouin or others doing similar orchard market gardens :) Thanks for all that you do!
@@HladniSjeverniVjetar Shure thing! In the european small field diversified farming landscape mild tillage is far away from "US to the horizont" desert producing "food" production.
Absolutely amazing to see this farm business a super video Richard thank you. On the question of green manure and cover crops, I understand that a roller/crimper could be used to lay them down to die followed by directly drilling through as per Gabe Brown in the USA, which would get rid of the plough, or am I missing something. They deserve to be very very successful.
Also I understand that green manure is utilised by the worms etc., more efficiently laying on the surface than by burying it causing putrefaction below the surface.
Hi Brian, this is something we’re gonna do for soy but it doesn’t help with vegetables where the required soil prep (beds, plastic mulch etc.) doesn’t tolerate plant remains.
@@davidpejic1 point taken, I was thinking more on the large fields for direct seed drilling than your "market gardening" portion of the operation, which has more planting of pre-grown young plants, also no mention of beans pole/runner, dwarf, or broad bean fava etc
Brian Gable That’s the thing, we grow a lot of vegetables on our large, mechanized fields as well. Most of those from transplants. If you check out the 5 year mechanized rotation i mention in the video, you will notice that only one plot of it is soy. So the crimping method would be of use on only a fifth of the mechanized rotation. We can’t use it for our grains plot and we can’t use it for any of our remaining 3 vegetable plots. Different solutions are needed there if we wanna get rid of ploughing.
@@davidpejic1 on a small scale one would cover the land with a non-water resistant tarp, the green manure would die out due to lack of sun and get eaten by earthworms, on this you'd put compost and start planting. Is this in any way applicable to your mechanized fields? Also, digging animals such as pigs are typically recommended for this purpose, but I understand that it might not be your context. I'm a big fan! Truly remarkable! Best of luck and greetings from Stari glog! :-)
This is a very impressive man and a great operation. While they acknowledge that there was some luck in how things turned out for his parents, it is inspiring to see what their vision has produced in the various avenues that they have sought to explore and capitalise on. It demonstrates the benefits of adding value at the farm gate in so many unique and yet complimentary ways. Thank you Richard for producing such an insightful video and every success to all those associated with this farm and associated businesses. Sean in Dublin
They cover the beds in plastic and there are holes in the plastic for the little guys from the greenhouse to do their thing! 😄 this is a strategy to keep the weeds and other things from growing in the beds while the plants are still small. These can be seen at 24:20!
The field scale production could be improved. If a multi species cover crops, to harness the desired nutrients, were grown and multi-roller crimped down. Followed by a disc drill sowing the correct cash crop for cover crop used. I am trying this in England. But are experiencing some issues. But will hopefully get there sometime soon.
AndrewWoof1 We will do this too, but it only works reliably for soy. Most of our crops on the field scale are vegetables and you can’t do crimping witht those.
@@davidpejic1 OK. However, I think, you mentioned producing you own flour i.e. growing a cereal. Due to my trials, I am coming to the conclusion that one requires a double Cover Crop (CC) year. That being a winter CC followed by a summer CC followed by the cash crop. But it is still very much in the early years on No-till organic cereals. One has to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. I wish I had assistance. But hopefully soon I will get there.
Absolutely loved the video and absolutely love the model of that farm. I wonder if they have considered no till roller crimping for thier field crops? could that be an option to optimize thier soil conditions for the mechanized bit?
Greg Gunter We’ve considered it and it’s something we plan on doing for our future soy production. However, that only solves one fifth of our mechanized production, given that roller crimping does not work for other groups, i.e. vegetables.
@@davidpejic1 does it not work for the vegetables because you must use starts instead of direct seeding? if that is the case if there was an equivalent of a no-till seed drill for starts would that then solve your problem?
@@davidpejic1 Check out Wild Hope Farm They are doing some interesting things with no-till vegetable production on a large scale using a lot of cover crops
Wow! That’s great. Seems they really hit the ground running. They’re missing the animal input. He should really check out Gabe Brown. Gabe’s fields are resistant to heavy rains. I think also Allan Savory shows how to implement animals just before drilling seeds, then again just before the seeds bust to the surface. I’m sure it’s scary moving from one time honored method to something that you know your going to take a hit at at the start.
Templar if they sprayed defoliant how could anything grow afterwards? They have a feller that pushes the grass over, crimping it. Then they come behind with a disk row seeder.
JG Lee 🤔? There’s more than one way to farm that’s beneficial to the world. They don’t have to use animals. Animals take tons and tons of time to care for. You also have to grow their food or buy it. It’s a huge input. You can farm without them 🙄
Ok guys Animals aren’t the only way to improve soil I understand that it’s become the NEW hot thing, but how many « experts » here really know anything about soil... allow me to express a polite level of doubt. The absolute positive angle to use here is : young people are returning to the land and they’re gonna hash it out as best they can. We’re in a new paradigm.
15 years old starter, vegan and a amazing farmer. I'm in love. Thanks for this beautiful video Richard. Always learning something new.
Not a vegan but I would definitely make the effort and support this guys business if Im in Zagreb. Really is a fantastic farm to table model with so many moving parts. He was also very respectful to the workers in how he mentioned them. Things like that make the difference. Massive respects to what they have built!
That was amazing, thanks to all and Richard for taking the time to share.
What a treat to be taken on this marvelous tour with you, Shalom.
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This guy is incredibly sophisticated he's made farming into something way Beyond just the business he's a teacher as well if that age he's younger than me and those that I'm 50 wow I wish I had learned this stuff when I was younger but we didn't have all these different kinds of ideas cuz the farming ideas that people use today had chemicals and fertilizers and things like that and we're using the mechanized ideas where the plowing always is it necessary or using a tiller....
Now that we know a little bit more and people like Richard are sharing what the cow, we can begin our gardens in a corner of our yards or find that land nearby and restore it to an agricultural fruitful state.
Hello Richard ! 32 from Israel !
Croatia ! I proposed last year in Croatia to my wife but mist out on farm tours (completely regret it), that being said Keep up the hard work with your intensive day to day work ethics.
We truly appreciate the time and efforts you go through on a daily bases to create this content and getting it out ! I am still waiting for the next opportunity to get my hands on your new book
Very inspirational. I am very grateful to have seen it. Particularly useful to see the two systems side by side and to hear the pro's and cons from someone with direct experience.
Croatia is full of suprises. First Rimac, now this amazing company. Greetings from Slovakia!
What an uplifting episode, so good to see a young person have such commitment to a family business. I would have liked to have heard from his parents they sound like they were way ahead of their time and big thinkers. Also to see such diversity based on plant-based produce was also a bonus though if they integrated animal production with the same commitment to ethical production methods it could help with the compost inputs instead of having to truck it into the country. Great episode Richard I am looking forward to getting your book in the mail. Regards Russell
Very impressive, David. Love your work ethic and inventions. But most of all I felt the appreciation you have for your workers and this is really rare in today's world! All the best for your future endeavors :)
I love your longer videos! Its raining today so I could take the time and watch it.
Thank you for your commitment.
Great farm, also smart other businesses/enterprises. Kudos for David and his family and all the lovely employees.
Very impressive and motivating; What a phenomenal system of complimentary components. Thanks so much for taking the time to make and post this awesome video.
That was a really superb and awe-inspiring video. Thank you.
i am from Pakistan and i am also a farmer i like your ideas
The moment when you see your worker's realize that their actual hand labor is and can be efficient, and fruitful... That is the point where your worker take pride in the work they do. That is the point where your workers become your partners. Thank you for the great Croatian tour and looking forward to the Poland visit. God Bless.
Great video, interesting to see commodity crops along side of market garden crops. Glad to see you bring world together, life not so different than Midwest USA.
You've done it again with another fantastic presentation. Your video productions continue to provide great ideas that can be transcendent to so many different situations. I see opportunities all the time. Thank you my friend. Keep on doing what you do, and much success at it too.
Wonderful work. Congratulations.
Good job ,good video from East-Africa
What an amazing young man and set up in Croatia.
He speaks such common sense with perfect English.
Amazing works 👍
Fantastic really loved this type of videos thanks very much.
Great example for a Entrepreneur 💪
Fantastic! I’m looking forward to your tour next summer and seeing more videos like this. That farm/business is such an inspiration. Thank you for introducing us to them. Safe travels
It's funny to hear the words 'organic pioneers' used together in the 21st century, when organic gardening was the original system used since gardening first began.
I see your point, but re-pioneers still!
@@regenerativeagriculture Re-pioneers, I like it! The world needs more re-pioneers.
Richard Perkins Hi Richard, me and my wife had a disconnect somewhere about ordering your book RA. I thought she ordered it and she thought I did. This was very upsetting. We missed out on ordering. Part of the problem was our ignorance of how kickstarter works. Can you help me get your book? I’m soo upset I didn’t get the signed copy. Much appreciated
Agreed.. it's a reassurgance of an old method..
Ross Temple probably should email someone from their website. So this gets seen by the right ppl.
very impressive with the multiple businesses :-)
I hope you had a good time here in Croatia :D, nice to see someone from my part of the woods :D
Great business. Congrats and great content Richard. We'll done.
Fascinating video, Richard. I love Croatia, an amazing country and it is lovely to see up and coming business, leaders with vision and projects like this. I realise that you are about to tour Europe and I am not sure of all the people that you plan to visit, but have you heard of 'Crowdfarming.com'? I subscribed to them having seen them on German t.v. I have adopted 7 projects from Coffee to sea salt to fruit and olive oil. Again this is a group of young people trying to support projects that have permaculture/ organic growing as their core principles. The scheme supports people who are passionate about their work and ensure that they are rewarded appropriately. This may be of interest to you and some of the farmers that you visit. Thank you and looking forward to the next farm!
I really like that little seeder he has that yellow one... I haven't seen one like that here in the USA I'm sure they exist because agriculture is coming back fast here more in the production of things that people can eat quicker doing the small restaurants and people can grow stuff in culinary microgreens is a big thing right now...
If you're talking about the multi-row seeder, it's a Jang seeder. Available here in the U.S.
Just recently I dove into direct seeding for large scale field crops. In Germany the two biggest UA-cam advocats for that practice are non organic farms and always ephesise that without Glyphosate that kind of soil regenerstivs production would not be possible. Im wondering ever since how big scale mechanised field crop production can be achieved without tillage... The benefits for soil life, water infiltration and crop quality are so obvious when direct seeded, even with herbicides.
Can anyone who knows maye point out organic producers that successfully manage tillage free organic field crop production.
Super inspiring 1h video! Thanks so much!
Really good video, thanks for sharing.
This is a man after my own smart. Clever dude...how to expand your revenue through branching off of the main farm
Absolutely amazing wonderful knowledge of the diversity a market garden can lead to. You both are extremely capable, experienced leaders in this field. My heart is so glad to see the prosperity that people are building from treating our resources responsibly. Thank you!
Fantastic video - really interesting
When are you going to print more books? I wish I had picked up a copy when the kick-starter was happening...
Josh Humphrey I think he said the book will be available again when he gets back from vacation in March/April
a+ content .. love it
amazing project! the only thing that bothers me is plastic mulch.. hope to see more farmers switch from plastic to hemp mulch.
Thank you!
It would be fun for a revisit here someday :)
Great stuff.
made it. well worth it. thank you
What exactly is the winter fabric David is covering his beds with ?
A tidal rising automated watering table would be beautiful there, what a propagation house ! :)
Hi David, where did you get that shorter and ergonomic broadfork? Thanks!
Dario Cortese From Glaser
Zrno means "grain" in Czech. As it is slavic language as Croatian it might be related. :)
same here
Also wondering if your maintenance guys have ever made anything to help roll up those 30 metre bed covers?
excellent video!
crazy beautiful, thank you for sharing
Pretty impressive 👍
What are they using to kill the grass around the edge of their bed blocks?
Awesome Video!
Wow, Richard this is so inspiring. I'm looking forward to your journeys next season and to learn of all the different farms you visit. I'd love to see one of la ferme du bec hellouin or others doing similar orchard market gardens :) Thanks for all that you do!
Hes making Sauerkraut and Ajvar. When do i move in? Seriously great thing to see, softens my view on field scale mechanized production somewhat.
Imho a lot of it also depends on the scale. Up to certain point it's ok but above that it becomes desert like.
@@HladniSjeverniVjetar Shure thing! In the european small field diversified farming landscape mild tillage is far away from "US to the horizont" desert producing "food" production.
Absolutely amazing to see this farm business a super video Richard thank you. On the question of green manure and cover crops, I understand that a roller/crimper could be used to lay them down to die followed by directly drilling through as per Gabe Brown in the USA, which would get rid of the plough, or am I missing something. They deserve to be very very successful.
Also I understand that green manure is utilised by the worms etc., more efficiently laying on the surface than by burying it causing putrefaction below the surface.
Hi Brian, this is something we’re gonna do for soy but it doesn’t help with vegetables where the required soil prep (beds, plastic mulch etc.) doesn’t tolerate plant remains.
@@davidpejic1 point taken, I was thinking more on the large fields for direct seed drilling than your "market gardening" portion of the operation, which has more planting of pre-grown young plants, also no mention of beans pole/runner, dwarf, or broad bean fava etc
Brian Gable That’s the thing, we grow a lot of vegetables on our large, mechanized fields as well. Most of those from transplants. If you check out the 5 year mechanized rotation i mention in the video, you will notice that only one plot of it is soy.
So the crimping method would be of use on only a fifth of the mechanized rotation. We can’t use it for our grains plot and we can’t use it for any of our remaining 3 vegetable plots. Different solutions are needed there if we wanna get rid of ploughing.
@@davidpejic1 on a small scale one would cover the land with a non-water resistant tarp, the green manure would die out due to lack of sun and get eaten by earthworms, on this you'd put compost and start planting.
Is this in any way applicable to your mechanized fields?
Also, digging animals such as pigs are typically recommended for this purpose, but I understand that it might not be your context.
I'm a big fan! Truly remarkable! Best of luck and greetings from Stari glog! :-)
Great content man thanks!
This is a very impressive man and a great operation. While they acknowledge that there was some luck in how things turned out for his parents, it is inspiring to see what their vision has produced in the various avenues that they have sought to explore and capitalise on. It demonstrates the benefits of adding value at the farm gate in so many unique and yet complimentary ways. Thank you Richard for producing such an insightful video and every success to all those associated with this farm and associated businesses. Sean in Dublin
did you try double seed density corn on 60'' rows interseeded 10 days later with soy?
amazing work
Love the content so glad you're doing this. What is plastic mulch?
They cover the beds in plastic and there are holes in the plastic for the little guys from the greenhouse to do their thing! 😄 this is a strategy to keep the weeds and other things from growing in the beds while the plants are still small. These can be seen at 24:20!
Or at least I think that’s what he means? Lolol
Love it!
Great, thanks Richard. Do you have a link for the salad spinner?
During heavy rain could work in no till beds only
Great video
Can you share the supplier in Croatia of the tunnels?
Great video, hello from your regular viewer from Bjelovar - Croatia!
Fantastic. ..I'm also doing farming in punjab India if can I like to work there. ...
Amazing. I hope to incorporate a lot of these ideas in Shelter Farm's production systems. Thank you for sharing this
Plantbased, dobra yedan!!
Zrno
The field scale production could be improved. If a multi species cover crops, to harness the desired nutrients, were grown and multi-roller crimped down. Followed by a disc drill sowing the correct cash crop for cover crop used. I am trying this in England. But are experiencing some issues. But will hopefully get there sometime soon.
AndrewWoof1 We will do this too, but it only works reliably for soy. Most of our crops on the field scale are vegetables and you can’t do crimping witht those.
@@davidpejic1 OK. However, I think, you mentioned producing you own flour i.e. growing a cereal. Due to my trials, I am coming to the conclusion that one requires a double Cover Crop (CC) year. That being a winter CC followed by a summer CC followed by the cash crop. But it is still very much in the early years on No-till organic cereals. One has to crack a few eggs to make an omelette. I wish I had assistance. But hopefully soon I will get there.
Absolutely loved the video and absolutely love the model of that farm. I wonder if they have considered no till roller crimping for thier field crops? could that be an option to optimize thier soil conditions for the mechanized bit?
Greg Gunter We’ve considered it and it’s something we plan on doing for our future soy production. However, that only solves one fifth of our mechanized production, given that roller crimping does not work for other groups, i.e. vegetables.
@@davidpejic1 does it not work for the vegetables because you must use starts instead of direct seeding? if that is the case if there was an equivalent of a no-till seed drill for starts would that then solve your problem?
@@davidpejic1 and by 'starts' i mean transplants
@@davidpejic1 Check out Wild Hope Farm They are doing some interesting things with no-till vegetable production on a large scale using a lot of cover crops
Incorrect, no till roller crimping is working for many many farmers. do your research. and when you do get back to me. thanks. have a nice day sweetie
Wow, Amazing, Richard and David. Inspiring!
👍super
Very impressive. Value added at every level. Does Croatia have value added tax (VAT)?
We do yes
25%
Hi Richard, it's a pity you didn't ask him how they manage so many enterprises.
Please visit some Slovak farms too
Wow! That’s great. Seems they really hit the ground running. They’re missing the animal input. He should really check out Gabe Brown. Gabe’s fields are resistant to heavy rains. I think also Allan Savory shows how to implement animals just before drilling seeds, then again just before the seeds bust to the surface. I’m sure it’s scary moving from one time honored method to something that you know your going to take a hit at at the start.
Templar if they sprayed defoliant how could anything grow afterwards? They have a feller that pushes the grass over, crimping it. Then they come behind with a disk row seeder.
Richard, you should of brought some of your bacon to put on their sandwiches :) Quite the operation. Thanks!
How do you manage to grow anything with the sun being covered by sprayed white smoke? Did you ask yourself where the blue sky has gone?
Hey Richard I would have liked it if you asked him why they have no animals on the farm to rotate and improve the land as you do?
Because they are vegan by belief as was demonstrated by the embarrassment shown in the book shop at the end of the video.
Check out Roledale Institute if you have not heard of them.
Bakery field processing restaurant
16 stores
200 employees
Wonderful vertical business
20 ha
28 work in farm
(7 crop)
Scale is big
What is the on the ground experience regarding the perspective of Grand Solar Minimum, is it a matter of concern ?
Sheng Sun he mentioned mild weather
You might want to read restoration agriculture by Mark Shepard or everything i do is illegal Joel Salitan.
Interesting they have no animals on their Farm not even chickens they can use the eggs in their restaurant and store
Sadly they decide to have vegan produce..
my_permaculture there’s nothing wrong with a vegan approach to farming
@@marcsimard2723 No its not wrong, but its alien to me.
JG Lee 🤔? There’s more than one way to farm that’s beneficial to the world. They don’t have to use animals. Animals take tons and tons of time to care for. You also have to grow their food or buy it. It’s a huge input. You can farm without them 🙄
JG Lee
Watching a bunch of youtube videos isn’t a substitute for good sense
Kindly Fuck Off
hello neighbor
Notice the second time im watching this that they only work vegan .. i think there compost situation would improve with some chickens :)
Dun
impressive effort, unfortunately its really only about profit making... Money, money, money
, must be funny...
This age thing is shit, im 40 and start my farm now... Its easy for the young, we oldis have kids, jobbs and so on.
Leave the tofu for the soy boys..
But soy, come on 😂
Štěpán Vácha 🤔 ??? Soy seems to trigger ppl but it’s an amazing protein
This is not a regenerative Farm.
Ok guys
Animals aren’t the only way to improve soil
I understand that it’s become the NEW hot thing, but how many « experts » here really know anything about soil... allow me to express a polite level of doubt.
The absolute positive angle to use here is : young people are returning to the land and they’re gonna hash it out as best they can. We’re in a new paradigm.
@JG Lee Check out Elaine Ingram’s work.
Wages must be low
Awesome video!