GIY- Grow It Yourself - Know what you are eating…
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Bunny shows how she has arranged her animals around her garden so they contribute to the ambience, and embellish the views while at the same time help maintain the meadow, and woodland.
Chickens, sheep (Soay), Cattle (Dexter), Pigs (Gloucester Old Spot but the breed varies each year), and bees are all selected for being hardy and easy to care for.
The Soay are self shedding (ie no shearing needed), never get foot rot, stuck on their backs or caught in brambles as modern breeds tend to do and are idiosyncratic to look at - many confuse them with deer or goats!
The Dexter cattle are extremely hardy and capable of thriving on poor grassland so need little extra feed in winter. As they are a small breed they make the meadow look bigger. Their beef is second to none.
The pigs have big personalities and are happy just foraging for food from the earth but are given meagre extra rations to keep them really easy to handle. This more natural diet and slower growth improves their flavour immensely. They are finished on apple, quince and pear windfalls plus together with the other livestock have surplus fruit and veg from the garden.
The veg garden is done in easy to manage, raised beds and the brassicas are all grown under netting in a cage.
#growyourown #home
Please note this is the last video that we took before we sorted the sound - Навчання та стиль
Beautiful vegtable garden love the piggies just running around Free.
So interesting and very rewarding
Love your enthusiastic and intelligently balanced approach to your fabulous garden! Thank you.
Thanks Bunny, always love your videos, the over processed food we’re eating is killing us, if we can grow our own, the benefits are well worth it for our health , thanks for inspiring us, to think about what we can do.
Gorgeous video.
Great video , thanks.
Fabulous as always! We have dairy goats and a bunch of horses oh and chickens that are so old they lay one egg every I think seven days. 😅
Love this Bunny! I am hoping for more land so that I can grow a larger garden! Very inspirational!
Love following you around. Nice seeing the finished watercolor of your whole backyard with all the different areas. It looks great !🤩
I have been very very interested with your 'growing vegetable' tips.
I remember taking notes for the best temperatures for ultimate germination for various seeds.
I would love to have your recommandations for vegetables turnover during summer.
What should I plant when I'm finished harvesting my spinach and so on ... ?
I'm sure you have plenty of innovative ideas to make the most of raised beds !
Thank you so so much.
Marie
Bunny you look fantastic!!
Eating your own, home grown, organic produce really is showing great health & vitality on you.
Bravo 👏
I did not realize that you are homesteading practically! Really, I think you should reach out and ask someone to help set up the harvesting and preservation of your small fruit. There ar so many folks who have these skills but do not have access to a supply of organic. Fruit. You could even video that and help educate people in preserving their fruit. I for one would learn from it. I am, like you only interested in growing what I and my family needs - I just do fruits, herbs and vegetables. But it is truly so rewarding to do it - at any level.
I would love to develop an app that local people to you can barter/give/swap produce amongst each other, any one who grows has surpluses and gluts it would be really helpful. At the moment the birds enjoy them so not all lost 🐇
@@bunnyguinnessthere is already an app for that, it's called Olio - although it's not exclusively for surplus produce.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge with us, I look forward to your videos 😃
Great to see, but it would be enormously helpful to understand some of the logistics; how much space to you provide for the pigs? For the chickens? For the orchard? Without some context of some basic metrics, its hard to get a grasp on viability for anyone considering doing this.
It is so variable how much your land can support, depending on soil type, climate, how much supplementary feeding, type of breed, how quickly you want them to mature etc, how much space you can afford to give them. Not helpful, but our pigs have two per quater acre which is masses, cows we have between 2-5 on 6 acres but this very sparse, and on the same 6 acres there are between 6-20 sheep and sometimes we supplementary feed with hay in a hard winter. We have very light, unproductive land. Hope this helps, the best way is to start with a few and see a) what you need b) how much your grass can sustain throughout the year.🐇
Sound is still hideous- your first videos were great - what happened?
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As we mentioned in video blurb, this was filmed before we sorted the sound problem. Apologies.🐇