I have grown moringa from seed. N idaho, greenhouse is the answer. May bring them into the house in the dead of winter. I have grapefruit, oranges, pomagranite, and olive.
Seems like you could grow a massive crop of black oil sunflowers along a south facing fence or hedge row & have high protein, high vitamin feed for your chickens quite easily. No need to wait years for a trees to grow. A friend grow the sunflowers the along his chicken yard fence to provide shade as well. You have to bag the heads just before the seeds ripen to keep other birds from thieving. My guy uses old coffee bean sacks The heads store well over winter whole. He just hung them upside down in his dry barn.
That is a really good quick option. Love that idea. So it would be a good, but temporary solution. They’ll grow annually when they’re planted. But the trees will provide shade most of the year. We can also use them to feed the livestock. So we can get a bigger bang for our buck with this route.
Haha, can’t believe I randomly came across this video and heard my brothers name mentioned. You guys are living the dream! Currently located in Houston, TX and looking to end my rat race...
@@therealcatdied Your brother is a great dude with lots of awesome info. We're part of a lot of the same groups and run in the same circles. He sure loves his fodder trees lol.
I’ve never heard of Fodder trees before I’m so glad your video popped up! We’re about to move and we knew our first step would be getting fruit trees and bushes but now I have some thing else to add to our list 😊
throughout the ages fodder trees have always used more than grass. they found preserved tree from a wetland in UK almost 4000 years old from carbon dating. there is a method called pollarding/coppicing they chop the trees for feed and then let it regrow. It enrich the soil plus it is feed for the animals & you can have wood for making wood chips or fuel to burn in your home. The concept of cow eating grass is modern.
@@Adnancornerthere used to be a video on UA-cam of a cow getting on it's hind legs and standing upright momentarily so it could grab a hanging branch briefly with it's mouth so that a piece of fruit would fall.
Y’all are killing it. I know I haven’t commented in some time but I wanted y’all to know that we are leaving Idaho where I have always lived and moving outside of San Antonio and getting property in the Hill Country. I miss country life!!! I am either building our barndo or redoing a house on acreage. I am so excited. Taking a year off work.... I still would love to connect with you. Oh BTW we will be completely DEBT FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are places along the San Pedro River basin in Arizona that have plenty of water. We have some of the best weather overall in the USA. You should check out many areas before you make a decision.
me personally, every homestead when 1st starting out, even if you don't know where you're officially putting everything, should have food trees planted right away, you can always harvest the apples, put them in a bucket and carry them to your animals
Plant jack fruit tree we used to feed jackfruit leaves to cow and goat but we don't feed pigs the leaves but when jackfruit is harvest when we ate jackfruit it has a lot of seed so we boil the seed and feed it to pigs
We get most of our rabbit food from trees leaves grape leaves and berry plants. They love it. Then we pull weeds from the yard and they barely eat pellets. The really love dried leaves too
I’ve been giving my 2 rabbits mulberry twigs on the thick side. I cut the branches so they aren’t going to be injured chewing them but I’m thinking it will also serve to keep their teeth in check.
What about a soldier fly tub? The kids absolutely LOVE doing that! All you need is a bit of manure, so you’re set! The chickens go bananas for the larva.
@@MFaith777 try this website for instructions: www.communitychickens.com/build-black-soldier-fly-larvae-farm-zw0z2005zols/ You can also purchase a “farm” container pre-made, the same way you can buy earthworm “farms” and raise them that way.
lost last of below comment. but said the orchard is still producing well to date. And feel confident that you will have healthy, trees with a long life.
I have 1,000+ mesquite trees here for the goats and sheep. it does feed them at least seven month out of the year. This 55 acre goat farm is always working on how to feed them off the land.
@@BetterTogetherLife It is considered a weed here. In seven years they are like 5" diameter and 20' tall. the water table here is at 20' also. Arizona's largest water table. I'm focusing on solar water pumps and making this place a fish farm.
Pumpkin, squash, or any other cucurbits work great as ground cover, goat and chicken feed, and parasite control on the goats. On the edge of west Texas desert I need as much ground cover as possible. As a bonus the copious quantities of organic mater from the vines are helping the hard pack clay. The goats will eat 100% of the plant fed to them. Cucurbits have a natural antiparasitic compound. Parasites are by far the biggest issue with goats. Any little bit helps. Chickens will go ham on a squash or pumpkin chopped in half with a shovel. Willow trees are also excellent tree hay for goats. Edit: always add a little native soil to your tree soil mix.
Absolutely Joseph!!!! You are so right, we really need to up our “ground cover” game. I probably need to think less about “cover crops” and WAY MORE about GROUND COVER!!!!! Thank you for motivating me to get back to the basics!
I ran across something for more tropical areas. A chicken grower used Water Hyacinths, as a high protein leaf. Water Hyacinths are "considered a problem" in a lot of places. He takes the leaves, chops them fine with a machine and then mixes some feed with water, mix the two together and greatly reduced his feed cost. He says the best for is to ferment the chopped leaves and then they keep for months and become even more nutritious. The hedges in England were natural fodder trees for animals to browse on. Another thing I ran across was that Guinea Pigs can be raised on fodder and make a rapid growing meat crop.
On the topic of fodder trees .. Eastern Cottonwood is just shy of %30 protein in the leaves, and if you are zone 7 and North, try Caragana Arborescens - the Siberian Pea shrub (Like Pigeon peas, but for cooler climates. in TX, use pigeon peas) Good job moving towards horticulture 👍
When you drill the holes in your buckets/tubs for your plants/trees, do NOT put holes in the very bottom, but instead drill a few holes in the side an inch up from the bottom. What this does is still allows the bucket/tub to drain the excess water, but retains a small amount in the bottom so your soil never dries completely out. Also when you water the tub, add water until you see it coming through one or more of the side holes. I also put course wood chips in the bottom (before adding soil) because these chips will absorb water and hold it much longer. Growing these tees for fodder is a fool's errand! They will not produce enough unless you plant acres of them; in the winter they go dormant and are deciduous (loose their leaves). A better alternative is Azolla (a small water plant). I grow it in several recycled above ground pools - it is extremely nutrient dense and will double itself in 24 to 48 hours. It can also be dried and even pelletized.
Definitely try growing pigeon peas! They are trees that make a pea/bean great for the chickens and human consumption. Plus the leaves are great fodder for your rabbits. 10-12 ft trees are drought tolerant as well. I have 3 trees myself and my chickens love the peas. Papaya is a great tree to have too. Takes very little space but produces an insane amount of fruit for the chickens and human consumption. Longevity spinach and sweet potatoes are a great edible ground cover. I don’t have enough land to be self sustaining but I can at least get my chickens supplemented and stretch their feed out for a bit longer this way.
I cannot wait to see these trees in just a couple of years. Your kids will be climbing in them if you let any grow free. Excellent choices! Food and possibly more importantly - FAST-growing SHADE... Even pollarded or coppiced specimens can give shade to shorter livestock, like tiny umbrellas all over the place. I always enjoy watching my Mulberry trees grow fast enough to outpace the the rising thermometer every year! Trees absorb (and when needed, release) humidity, too. Cooler days on the Brotherton homefront, coming up!
We grow banana tree leaves, because they do not fruit here in Central TX, and shred the leaves with a small sun Joe shredder meant for small branches, it works really well, and we supplement with them after all grass and other greens die off in our Evil heat😅 Our chickens & ducks love them.
The best trees for tree hay are elm, ash, maple, oak, and black walnut. Probably some others I'm missing, too! Coppice, or pollard them, and you're good to go, each year!
What are the protein values of those? And also what are the growth rate? Because I would argue that those are not better than what I spoke of in this video.
Your awesome rain water system could use a second bulkhead fitting/spigot so you can draw 5 gallon buckets easier. That or a stubby hose that can stay on the outlet you have.
I pick pounds of young growth of of our thirty year old grape myrtels every week for my goats and pigs in the spring and summer, they love it. Weeds are great for them as well. Good job, it is a great plan.
I was looking forward to buying some trees and clicked link....SOLD OUT for 2021. What an amazing thing to see. I know sounds wired but lets me know that the trees must be AMAZING!! I'll just have to wait.
You may want to think about getting some elderberry bushes going. You can't use the wood or leaves for food but the ripe berries your chicken will love and can also be taken as a juice for humans too. Elderberry is nature's flu shot. Very extremely healthy for your animals and yourself. And once you have one you can use cuttings to root more and the birds will spread the seeds and before you know it you will have a jungle of food going. Moringa and elderberry are my 2 big go tos.
Texas would suit Ascerola fruit trees, Ascerola THRIVE in hot weather. pretty little flowers and fruit that hangs down looking exactly like the size and colour of a red traditional cherry. I think the fruit tastes like an apple. A relative disagrees and said it tasted like an apple with a tinge of citrus.
Love the idea of raising plants to feed my animals on my property. It closes the food loop. If you have rabbits put totes under your pen so soldier fly larva will begin to compost the manure and your chickens love them. The hens will pick them out and then you will get the most you can out of the feed you offer your animals.
when you say take them in if weather gets too cold. Do you have a greenhouse to? or have you tried covering them with sacks or winter material my Granddad was an apple orchardist and for young trees he would plant when winter snows came in hard during winter/cold winds to protect the young trees he'd cover then with a insulating sack and for older trees he'd set out smudge pots if temps got really like 40 below 0. So you may find some of his methods helpful. The orchard was first planted in the late 1800's and my Glong, good
Very informative video. Just a consideration on the Poplar; don't know about your hybrid. Do know that a neighbor's Poplar grew its roots more than 70 feet under the foundation of my home and sprouted up on the other side of my foundation. I had a Poplar on my own property approx 200 feet from my house in the border of a road and more than 1/4 acre from a neighbor. It invaded almost to my neighbor's property and most of my fruit trees and gardens within 150 feet, robbing all water and nutrients. After having it removed, it was a 2 year battle against hundreds of Polar trees, as the remaining roots sprouted vigorous poplar trees for two years. I had to remove sprouting Poplar and cut out vast sections of the roots. The last few of the Poplar sprouts, were three years out from the removal.
Northern middle Tennessee here....tons of poplar....almost invasive....did not realize how far their roots could grow.....it is not the Tulip Poplar....never any flowers that I can tell.....guess my goats would like whatever I can give them?
1. Where did you get your used molasses buckets? 2. How will you use the Passion Flower? Have a ton of volunteer Passion Flower in my compost pile, which covers part of an old tobacco farm patch....a ton. Thank you.....
Hey! We have some rancher friends who offered us a few and other barrels we picked up from the feed store for about $3 each! Passion flower will get plucked and out into tea!
You guys are exactly like my husband and I but in reverse. I’m the one who wants all the permaculture things. He’s still not quite sure. Earth moving is a big deal! It’s pretty serious stuff!
Try planting some Moringa trees...One of the most nutritious trees on the planet Note: Every part of this tree is edible and or usable to humans and all animals! Cut a piece and plant it in the ground and walla you have more trees! They will die back in cold climates but will come back in the spring.
@@BetterTogetherLife Awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I didn't realize willow could be used as fodder. What animals do you feed it to? I got ducks, chickens, sheep, goats and rabbits. Just wondering who i can feed it to...
You are in Aromas, baby! You have hit the mother lode! Everything grows great there. Unfortunately, those Eucalyptus trees are a wild fire just waiting to happen.
Andrew, we are talking tree hay propagation. Sure, these tiny trees in this single video would be a small snack for your two cows. But check out our updated video. They grew to 12 feet tall. And then WIDE!!! So each tree became another 50+ future trees as cuttings. And then in a couple of years those 50x3= 150 trees would each turn into another 50 trees in the next couple of years = 7500 trees producing tree fodder. Does that make sense?
ua-cam.com/video/4csTdrvvWL8/v-deo.html It was common practice in Austria until after WWll to feed treehay, especially when the summer was dry and the grass did not grow well.
Moringa, if you’re blessed to live where there are no hard freezes. Most nutritional plant on the planet.
I have grown moringa from seed. N idaho, greenhouse is the answer. May bring them into the house in the dead of winter. I have grapefruit, oranges, pomagranite, and olive.
Knight Beast - Not according to some scientific studies:
real-leaders.com/meet-moringa-the-most-nutrient-dense-plant-on-the-planet/
Debra Kessler - It’s certainly worth it!!
Do nettle if you don't have warm weather. Also there's less negative side effects
@@debrakessler5141 so do I plant moringa in a pot then so I can bring it in the house or in my garden and dig it up? I’m in MN...
Seems like you could grow a massive crop of black oil sunflowers along a south facing fence or hedge row & have high protein, high vitamin feed for your chickens quite easily. No need to wait years for a trees to grow. A friend grow the sunflowers the along his chicken yard fence to provide shade as well. You have to bag the heads just before the seeds ripen to keep other birds from thieving. My guy uses old coffee bean sacks
The heads store well over winter whole. He just hung them upside down in his dry barn.
That is a really good quick option. Love that idea. So it would be a good, but temporary solution. They’ll grow annually when they’re planted. But the trees will provide shade most of the year. We can also use them to feed the livestock. So we can get a bigger bang for our buck with this route.
@@BetterTogetherLife When you get chickens to eat dried tree leaves/ small branches in the winter, please video that & post.
Haha, can’t believe I randomly came across this video and heard my brothers name mentioned. You guys are living the dream! Currently located in Houston, TX and looking to end my rat race...
🤣🤣🤣🤣 That is SOOOOO cool!!!!! Very nice to meet you Lucas! You must be a cool guy like your bro. Nick is awesome! 😁
@@BetterTogetherLife He's alright I guess ;P
Let me know if you both ever decide to do homestead tours. I'd love to see your progress one day!
@@therealcatdied Your brother is a great dude with lots of awesome info. We're part of a lot of the same groups and run in the same circles. He sure loves his fodder trees lol.
In Australia we grow a thing called salt bush, wonderful to feed the animals and gives a really good flavour to the meat
That sounds great! It would be so cool is folks made the comments a spot for forage crops in their area. Great share, Sharon!
I’ve never heard of Fodder trees before I’m so glad your video popped up! We’re about to move and we knew our first step would be getting fruit trees and bushes but now I have some thing else to add to our list 😊
That is awesome Melissa! So glad it helped!!
throughout the ages fodder trees have always used more than grass. they found preserved tree from a wetland in UK almost 4000 years old from carbon dating. there is a method called pollarding/coppicing they chop the trees for feed and then let it regrow. It enrich the soil plus it is feed for the animals & you can have wood for making wood chips or fuel to burn in your home.
The concept of cow eating grass is modern.
@@Adnancornerthere used to be a video on UA-cam of a cow getting on it's hind legs and standing upright momentarily so it could grab a hanging branch briefly with it's mouth so that a piece of fruit would fall.
Y’all are killing it. I know I haven’t commented in some time but I wanted y’all to know that we are leaving Idaho where I have always lived and moving outside of San Antonio and getting property in the Hill Country. I miss country life!!! I am either building our barndo or redoing a house on acreage. I am so excited. Taking a year off work.... I still would love to connect with you. Oh BTW we will be completely DEBT FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wahooooooo!!!!!!! Huge congrats Joshua!!!
WAY.TO.GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳
There are places along the San Pedro River basin in Arizona that have plenty of water. We have some of the best weather overall in the USA. You should check out many areas before you make a decision.
We grow Mexican sunflower and the rabbits love the leaves.
Good Mexican Sunflowers are perennials and produce plenty of biomass for mulching.
Love it! We're growing dwarf Moringa this year for the rabbits! It's a small tree/bush type thing. It's supposed to be super good for them.
It's good for you also! Anti inflammatory and good to protect from C*V*!*9* It's what they eat in the Philippines.
If you are in colder climate please have Morus alba - commonly called Mulberry it is equivalent of Alfalfa.
me personally, every homestead when 1st starting out, even if you don't know where you're officially putting everything, should have food trees planted right away, you can always harvest the apples, put them in a bucket and carry them to your animals
So true!
My chickens, and rabbits, love hackberry... branches, leaves and berries.
You’re in Texas, you’ve gotta have hackberry.
Absolutely, hackberry is the perfect fodder tree as well!!
We gotta get some of that for sure!
Prob will grow good in AR.
Plant jack fruit tree we used to feed jackfruit leaves to cow and goat but we don't feed pigs the leaves but when jackfruit is harvest when we ate jackfruit it has a lot of seed so we boil the seed and feed it to pigs
How exciting...thanks for sharing 💕💕 I love watching "stuff" grow and prosper
You bet!
We get most of our rabbit food from trees leaves grape leaves and berry plants. They love it. Then we pull weeds from the yard and they barely eat pellets. The really love dried leaves too
The grapes grow so much every time we take a branch
I’ve been giving my 2 rabbits mulberry twigs on the thick side. I cut the branches so they aren’t going to be injured chewing them but I’m thinking it will also serve to keep their teeth in check.
What about a soldier fly tub? The kids absolutely LOVE doing that! All you need is a bit of manure, so you’re set! The chickens go bananas for the larva.
I do want to give it a try, just lower down on the priority list.
But it would absolutely be worth it!
I have chickens...how do you do this?
@@MFaith777 try this website for instructions: www.communitychickens.com/build-black-soldier-fly-larvae-farm-zw0z2005zols/
You can also purchase a “farm” container pre-made, the same way you can buy earthworm “farms” and raise them that way.
lost last of below comment. but said the orchard is still producing well to date. And feel confident that you will have healthy, trees with a long life.
I have 1,000+ mesquite trees here for the goats and sheep. it does feed them at least seven month out of the year. This 55 acre goat farm is always working on how to feed them off the land.
Oh wow, that’s a lot of mesquite for sure!!!
@@BetterTogetherLife It is considered a weed here. In seven years they are like 5" diameter and 20' tall. the water table here is at 20' also. Arizona's largest water table. I'm focusing on solar water pumps and making this place a fish farm.
It's great to hear you talk about Nick and Jack and Justin... These are all guys that I have benefited so much from. Very cool.
We are sooo grateful for them teaching on the interwebs!
Pumpkin, squash, or any other cucurbits work great as ground cover, goat and chicken feed, and parasite control on the goats.
On the edge of west Texas desert I need as much ground cover as possible. As a bonus the copious quantities of organic mater from the vines are helping the hard pack clay.
The goats will eat 100% of the plant fed to them. Cucurbits have a natural antiparasitic compound. Parasites are by far the biggest issue with goats. Any little bit helps.
Chickens will go ham on a squash or pumpkin chopped in half with a shovel.
Willow trees are also excellent tree hay for goats.
Edit: always add a little native soil to your tree soil mix.
Absolutely Joseph!!!! You are so right, we really need to up our “ground cover” game.
I probably need to think less about “cover crops” and WAY MORE about GROUND COVER!!!!!
Thank you for motivating me to get back to the basics!
I ran across something for more tropical areas. A chicken grower used Water Hyacinths, as a high protein leaf. Water Hyacinths are "considered a problem" in a lot of places. He takes the leaves, chops them fine with a machine and then mixes some feed with water, mix the two together and greatly reduced his feed cost. He says the best for is to ferment the chopped leaves and then they keep for months and become even more nutritious.
The hedges in England were natural fodder trees for animals to browse on.
Another thing I ran across was that Guinea Pigs can be raised on fodder and make a rapid growing meat crop.
On the topic of fodder trees .. Eastern Cottonwood is just shy of %30 protein in the leaves, and if you are zone 7 and North, try Caragana Arborescens - the Siberian Pea shrub (Like Pigeon peas, but for cooler climates. in TX, use pigeon peas) Good job moving towards horticulture 👍
When you drill the holes in your buckets/tubs for your plants/trees, do NOT put holes in the very bottom, but instead drill a few holes in the side an inch up from the bottom. What this does is still allows the bucket/tub to drain the excess water, but retains a small amount in the bottom so your soil never dries completely out. Also when you water the tub, add water until you see it coming through one or more of the side holes. I also put course wood chips in the bottom (before adding soil) because these chips will absorb water and hold it much longer.
Growing these tees for fodder is a fool's errand! They will not produce enough unless you plant acres of them; in the winter they go dormant and are deciduous (loose their leaves). A better alternative is Azolla (a small water plant). I grow it in several recycled above ground pools - it is extremely nutrient dense and will double itself in 24 to 48 hours. It can also be dried and even pelletized.
Definitely try growing pigeon peas! They are trees that make a pea/bean great for the chickens and human consumption. Plus the leaves are great fodder for your rabbits. 10-12 ft trees are drought tolerant as well. I have 3 trees myself and my chickens love the peas. Papaya is a great tree to have too. Takes very little space but produces an insane amount of fruit for the chickens and human consumption. Longevity spinach and sweet potatoes are a great edible ground cover. I don’t have enough land to be self sustaining but I can at least get my chickens supplemented and stretch their feed out for a bit longer this way.
Great advice!
Awesome! Tree hay will be a thing for me definitely.
Absolutely!
Nothing more satisfying than digging your hands into pots of rabbit poop!🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇😏
Really ?!? Nothing more ?…
I cannot wait to see these trees in just a couple of years. Your kids will be climbing in them if you let any grow free. Excellent choices! Food and possibly more importantly - FAST-growing SHADE... Even pollarded or coppiced specimens can give shade to shorter livestock, like tiny umbrellas all over the place. I always enjoy watching my Mulberry trees grow fast enough to outpace the the rising thermometer every year! Trees absorb (and when needed, release) humidity, too. Cooler days on the Brotherton homefront, coming up!
We grow banana tree leaves, because they do not fruit here in Central TX, and shred the leaves with a small sun Joe shredder meant for small branches, it works really well, and we supplement with them after all grass and other greens die off in our Evil heat😅 Our chickens & ducks love them.
Yup, banana leaves are fantastic fodder!!!!
Function Stack! Like it.
The best trees for tree hay are elm, ash, maple, oak, and black walnut. Probably some others I'm missing, too! Coppice, or pollard them, and you're good to go, each year!
What are the protein values of those?
And also what are the growth rate?
Because I would argue that those are not better than what I spoke of in this video.
Definitely doing this! Thanks for the content! Grace & Peace!
Yay!!! Thank you for watching!!
Your awesome rain water system could use a second bulkhead fitting/spigot so you can draw 5 gallon buckets easier. That or a stubby hose that can stay on the outlet you have.
Yup!!!!
I learned something new today! Thank you!
I pick pounds of young growth of of our thirty year old grape myrtels every week for my goats and pigs in the spring and summer, they love it. Weeds are great for them as well. Good job, it is a great plan.
I was looking forward to buying some trees and clicked link....SOLD OUT for 2021. What an amazing thing to see. I know sounds wired but lets me know that the trees must be AMAZING!! I'll just have to wait.
I'm so glad I found your channel and this subject and information. Thank you for this
Thank you!!! We are so glad you found us too!!!
You may want to think about getting some elderberry bushes going. You can't use the wood or leaves for food but the ripe berries your chicken will love and can also be taken as a juice for humans too. Elderberry is nature's flu shot. Very extremely healthy for your animals and yourself. And once you have one you can use cuttings to root more and the birds will spread the seeds and before you know it you will have a jungle of food going. Moringa and elderberry are my 2 big go tos.
May want to google that.
Have you looked into black soldier flies? Great for chickens and so EASY to “grow.”
Can you link a vid on how to do it properly? Everything I've seen so far doesn't give the full how to.
Dwarf Moringa seeds are easy to sprout and grow quickly. Baker Creek carries them. Echo seeds in FL used to carries the reg Moringa seeds for like $5
Texas would suit Ascerola fruit trees, Ascerola THRIVE in hot weather. pretty little flowers and fruit that hangs down looking exactly like the size and colour of a red traditional cherry. I think the fruit tastes like an apple. A relative disagrees and said it tasted like an apple with a tinge of citrus.
Oh! I’ll look into those. Thank you so much!
Love the idea of raising plants to feed my animals on my property. It closes the food loop. If you have rabbits put totes under your pen so soldier fly larva will begin to compost the manure and your chickens love them. The hens will pick them out and then you will get the most you can out of the feed you offer your animals.
Hi..... Thank you 🏡🎥👍👍👍
Willow, hybrid poplar, mulberry
Correct!
You can plant acorn plants for animal
Yup!
Awesome info and content I'm wanting to get some trees started for our property
Moringa is on top for fodder after that river tamrind, gliricidia, sasbania grandiflora are the best fodder trees
Is Tamarind a Nitrogen fixer because the other trees are?
@@estebancorral5151 no its not nitrogen fixer
when you say take them in if weather gets too cold. Do you have a greenhouse to? or have you tried covering them with sacks or winter material my Granddad was an apple orchardist and for young trees he would plant when winter snows came in hard during winter/cold winds to protect the young trees he'd cover then with a insulating sack and for older trees he'd set out smudge pots if temps got really like 40 below 0. So you may find some of his methods helpful. The orchard was first planted in the late 1800's and my Glong, good
Thank you for the information! Do you think you might just say upfront what a fodder tree is and what the benefit is?
Looks like that works so much better
I've never understood why homesteaders go crazy for chickens on pasture but will very quickly jam a rabbit in a cage it's entire life.
Protection
you had me at "function stack" :-) 0:14 and subscribed
Hahaha, that’s awesome! Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!!!
Three fodder trees and no mudder trees? What is this world coming to?
Ha!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very informative video. Just a consideration on the Poplar; don't know about your hybrid. Do know that a neighbor's Poplar grew its roots more than 70 feet under the foundation of my home and sprouted up on the other side of my foundation. I had a Poplar on my own property approx 200 feet from my house in the border of a road and more than 1/4 acre from a neighbor. It invaded almost to my neighbor's property and most of my fruit trees and gardens within 150 feet, robbing all water and nutrients. After having it removed, it was a 2 year battle against hundreds of Polar trees, as the remaining roots sprouted vigorous poplar trees for two years. I had to remove sprouting Poplar and cut out vast sections of the roots. The last few of the Poplar sprouts, were three years out from the removal.
Northern middle Tennessee here....tons of poplar....almost invasive....did not realize how far their roots could grow.....it is not the Tulip Poplar....never any flowers that I can tell.....guess my goats would like whatever I can give them?
This is a very self serving tale. The tree is the villain. No. What ever happened to due diligence?
@@norxgirl1 The trees were there first. You are the invader. You are waisting a valuable resource. Bee hives should be in your future.
There are lots of hybrids that don't travel just do homework. Get the. From neighbors I'd possibly. They aren't rare.
1. Where did you get your used molasses buckets?
2. How will you use the Passion Flower? Have a ton of volunteer Passion Flower in my compost pile, which covers part of an old tobacco farm patch....a ton.
Thank you.....
Hey! We have some rancher friends who offered us a few and other barrels we picked up from the feed store for about $3 each! Passion flower will get plucked and out into tea!
The leaves in tea are powerful human sleep-inducers, but I hadn’t heard of how safe they might be for my newbie flock of chooks!
Chickens love the hop hornbeam
Rare plants are expensive
Check out burnt ridge nursery
You guys need to get cow's too for dairy products and their poops is really good for vegetables.
Those Idaho pasture pigs forage and graze more than you think. Do it right with padics etc you dont have to buy feed.
Looks good
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Nice 🙂👍
Sold out
Correct, but definitely email him to get on a waiting list!
I would avoid hybrid trees. I also prefer weeds and pine trees and bunch of other things like fruit trees
Why would you avoid hybrid trees?
You guys are exactly like my husband and I but in reverse. I’m the one who wants all the permaculture things. He’s still not quite sure. Earth moving is a big deal! It’s pretty serious stuff!
Super cool!!! And yes you are so right!
Try planting some Moringa trees...One of the most nutritious trees on the planet
Note: Every part of this tree is edible and or usable to humans and all animals!
Cut a piece and plant it in the ground and walla you have more trees!
They will die back in cold climates but will come back in the spring.
So if I planted dwarf moringa in Mn, it won’t die during winter and will still come back?
What types of trees are they? Can you give me a list of names please. Thanks a lot. Peace and love from Aromas California!
1. Willow
2. White Mulberry
3. Hybrid Poplar
@@BetterTogetherLife Awesome! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I didn't realize willow could be used as fodder. What animals do you feed it to? I got ducks, chickens, sheep, goats and rabbits. Just wondering who i can feed it to...
You are in Aromas, baby! You have hit the mother lode! Everything grows great there. Unfortunately, those Eucalyptus trees are a wild fire just waiting to happen.
check out the book Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture its what inspired Mark Sheppard. nick is awesome on TSP, glad its working out for you !!
Oooo, yes I would love to read that!!
Did not upload for very long
Could you put the clink down in the comments.
Oops, thank you I am so sorry!
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Are we talking feed for rabbits or something? My 2 cows would run through that in minutes.
Andrew, we are talking tree hay propagation. Sure, these tiny trees in this single video would be a small snack for your two cows. But check out our updated video. They grew to 12 feet tall.
And then WIDE!!!
So each tree became another 50+ future trees as cuttings. And then in a couple of years those 50x3= 150 trees would each turn into another 50 trees in the next couple of years = 7500 trees producing tree fodder.
Does that make sense?
@@BetterTogetherLife yes thanks. what type of tree was it?
Adjust, learn, grow... As a Kosher (according to Scripture, not man) eater, I'd suggest clean animals, except for pets.
Ferment the leaves
Are there any good video that people that are using this method
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It was common practice in Austria until after WWll to feed treehay, especially when the summer was dry and the grass did not grow well.
… I’m confused … you are surrounded by a forest … why can’t you just harvest from them … ?
The forest is oak, yaupon, and mesquite. The cows might eat the tiniest amount of those, but not nearly the nutrition that these trees can produce.
@@BetterTogetherLife … that makes sense … but typically there is a vast diversity of underbrush …
Sure. But why not add MORE diversity? 😁
@@BetterTogetherLife … that’s great … as long as it isn’t harmful to the indigenous vegetation …
Maybe I’m now missing something.
Why would it be harmful?
sound would be nice right now
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@@BetterTogetherLife when viewed the episode there was no sound
First 500 views
Wasting my time. Goodbye!
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James, I am sorry that you are having such a bad day.