A No-Dig CSA in One of Europe's Smallest Countries with Krautgaart
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Today, we are doing a podcast special with Max Epstein of Krautgaart in Luxembourg. We discuss his no-dig, pay-what-you can CSA and a whole lot more!
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really appreciate the branching of content for European viewers. Content on market gardening and no-till in central europe is rare, so greatly appreciate it! Thank you
I think the volume of vegetables he is able to produce is very good. Very interesting
Are you saying Central Europe’s market gardening is kin to their economics? 😂 (Austrian in particular)
Thank you, incredibly useful information. In the UK, trying to startup a small holding. Constantly told we don't have a farm as we only have 9 acres, it's just a hobby.
Max was very thorough on the difficulties of being near a standard farming operation which was certainly a major boon.
Thank you for the interview, thank you for all the information you share, as always!
Fantastic interview. Nice to get the European insight. Am faming in Ireland. No till. I started later, so at 51, I don't have the childcare worries . It certainly is a lifestyle benefit to have land close to home. I have a 5yr lease on 3 hectares. Will only grow for next couple years on 1 acre . Will experiment with cover crops and tarping on a bit more to see how it goes. My aim is to not be reliant on compost to expand.
Thank you for sharing. Interesting to learn about a csa with a slightly different twist.
Loved this and seeing how much food they are producing on a small amount of land. Great to see so many comments from around the globe and that the influence for this way of producing healthy food is reaching far and wide. Our local farmer laughs at our half acre, non-commercial no till plot. Your videos and podcasts keep me motivated. Thank you.
Very interesting. Liked it alot. Backyard gardener here.
A very informative and honest discussion. I love how he mentioned their CSA’s work and support each other. Thank you.
It was nice to see the videos and photos during the conversation. Thanks as always, Jesse and Jackson.
I would love to see the pod casts included into a longer show
Can you elaborate? You want to see more podcasts with footage like this?
Fantastic episode particularly the greenhouse tables and the germination chamber. Some great tips.
Loving your book. Same land access elsewhere in uk
Hello. This is a really cool interview. I live in Russia. Lately I have seen that people from different countries come to us: the Netherlands, Finland, the USA and many others. They come to us with their families. They take land and build farms. I talked to some of them. They say that in their home countries it is very difficult to run such a business. You two are great guys. I wish you and your families health and success.
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It doesn't hurt that there are many vacancies there, but the reason for that would be difficult to talk about in this context without it becoming a firestorrm
In the Netherlands the price for agricultural land is €75.000 to €200.000 per hectare. You need a serious business to run on such investments. Banks dont lend money for dreams and hopes.
Nice convesation, learnt a lot. Thanks
Great interview, look forward to your videos…
I loved this thank you 🙏 I’ve saved this video 😊
Haha lol we have our field right next to their garden
thanks so much for this conversation and supplying everyone with more information about permaculture, CSA, child care, etc etc!!! (we have a garden and buy a CSA!!) all the best--from Kansas
Amazing produce pic😊
Great episode. Love hearing different techniques in both gardening as well as the greenhouse propagation.
Love the content- keep''m coming!
Max, thank you so much for discussing neighbours who use standard practices, it is always in my mind about trying to get land and being able to say growing ecologically and sustainably without being able to register as organic.
I wish csa were more popular here in the UK, in Kent we are loosing our only market garden this year. Most opportunities for land are ex equestrian so no real chance of having a home on site and the few land owers willing to lease parcels definitely dont want even mobile homes.
Jessie, it would be fantastic if you could do some stuff in Europe and the UK. Here we do have a shift to no till commercially but its usually massive contract companies that "farm" the land for owners but the equipment is on massive machine scale and no equipment for 2 wheels or mini tractors like you have in the states.
As ALWAYS another great video. A lot of dedication and resilience by this gentleman. Especially when one thinks and him and his partner being very green and not much real hands on experience in farming. To our knowledge there are no CSA's anywhere even semi local where we live. Always been confused as to how they really work and how does the farmer make a profit? I will also say we kind of sympathize with the gentleman and not living on the farm. Sometimes and eating supper you are like did I forget to do this or I need to do that. Much better and finishing supper and walking a few feet to the garden to check on things. Thank you for the great work and we look forward to learning more via your sharing!
I would love a video about the European farmer protests I’ve seen on the news in the last few months. Do you have some contacts you can interview about that topic?
Great vidio, based on the realistic lifestyle of a market gardener and all the work and challenges.
What is the carpet material he suggests as an alternative to sand for heat coils? Would love to see a photo!
Hi! I meant those sheets made out of shredded rags that painters use to protect the floor from color spilling. You should get them in every hardware store. Sandwich the heating cable between two layers.
Appreciate the content.
Very interesting that Max said Luxembourg only produces 5 percent of the vegetables that the nation consumes. Seems like nearly anyone with land would want to have at least a small garden for a little bit of food security.
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15 tons of food from less than acre... Holy moly
Potatoes bring 45 to 70 tons per hectare..
What biome/microbiome do the stronger medicinal varieties of magnolia occupy?
So does he still purchase now or make his own compost 😊
Max das ist ja toll was ihr euch da aufgebaut habt 😊
But it's not Sunday, what's with that?
Our podcasts are released every Monday so... surprise!?
@@notillgrowers Might be timezones
Great ideas for us noobs
I culled the 15min drive by buying the farm on the other side of the road from where I live and when relistening this podcast for a 2nd time, this was so obvious to me. Someone has to live on site or walking distance imo. Certainly when you start from seed and not just buy seedlings in soilblock.
....1/2 time parental leave even as an entrepreneur!! 🤯
Like your content but spending over an hour while doing my own work plus other content I watch is not
Going to work for me.
Love this interview, thanks ! On the topic of farming while raising kids, and whether living on site truly would be better, and on animals vrs. plants. I grew up on a dairy farm, and helped care for especially the 5 much-younger of my 6 younger siblings, while also working a LOT on the farm, so I have some idea of this. #1: I HIGHLY agree that living on site makes a HUGE positive difference in a lot of ways. I nearly always did, myself, but we were off the farm completely for 1.5 years, working on others, and I also worked on theirs and others after I was married, and have had gardens several miles away from my home a few times.
I'm guessing the trade off is that when you live on-site, it becomes potentially exponentially a challenge to not mix work and home life, quality family & personal R&R time with business. You have to create some fairly rigid limits for yourself. While you are stuck being off site, I hope you can afford a Bluetooth/internet way of controlling things like lights and heat... ? I myself am not super comfortable trusting what I can't see, esp. with anything that's a potential fire hazard, but supposedly people do this.
On animals vrs. plants. Mostly true, imo, your view, as animals #1 move around and can get into trouble like stuck on their backs and bloat or open gates or etc. etc. so ideally should be checked on daily at least. However, you CAN also stock them up on food and water and pasture area and they can ( hopefully) be fine for a few days without you, whilst seedlings usually cannot go a day without you ( I'm not a professional tho). Yes, if a flat of seedlings die you're at least prob. not out as much $ as an animal, besides the life of the animal being more tragic to lose, and any serious suffering they may endure being unacceptable. Then there's the potential for risk to neighbors if they escape. I definitely don't want to have animals that aren't where I live, myself.
As to day care and kids getting sick etc. : We didn't do day care so, yeah, I can imagine that's super tough. My mom didn't work out often after us kids were born. I think there was a time when my older sis and I were toddlers when she waitressed some, in the evening. She did go back, substitute teaching, when we were in school age ourselves. She worked on the farm a lot, although a city girl herself. She milked cows and drove tractor a lot in spring and fall. She gardened, sewed, cooked from scratch and us kids helped with it all. Not as extreme when I was young as later, but we helped very significantly while still having a lot off free/play time. We did have family around at the time, Aunts or neighbors who'd babysit, or hang out with grandma in the farm house ( she was a teacher and was home in evenings) while mom was still milking (must have, back when she waitressed), after we'd done our bit. But other times we had the play pen in the barn even, or a stroller, or were left with grandma or aunt or sometimes a babysitter. Or played or helped in small ways such as handing those milking a paper towel or teat dipper, etc. .
Sorry you have such trouble getting land there. Prices here have been extremely high in recent years, and (larger acreage) farmland in many areas even before then. I don't think dairy farming is quite a subsidized, but yeah... . Here, as far as them being willing to sell a bit, it's mainly that they want more as it is/it's highly competitive to access more in most areas, so they don't want to lose even an acre. Often, the county zoning regulations are the main prob. barring them from being able to sell only an acre or less, as well. Often it has to be 5 or 10 minimum. Or other rules and regulations, meant to keep developers ( of sub-divisions/many homes) from taking over farmland, but I forget details. For anyone wanting only an acre or so, those are still cheaper in the form of just general raw land ( not already being farmed/open field), and if not in a major development area. You can still be within a decent drive of decent sized towns, and get what's nowadays fairly cheap raw ( nothing done to it) land, within a 2 or so hour drive of St. Paul, Minnesota ( I'm in Wisconsin, nearby).