Braving the Cold: Base Principles for Successful Winter Farming
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
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Farming in winter brings its own set of challenges and opportunities. In this video, Curtis Stone explore the base principles for winter farming, revealing valuable insights to help you succeed in cold climates. Don't miss out on these valuable tips that will revolutionize your winter farming experience. Watch now and unlock the secrets to a thriving winter farm!
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About Curtis Stone:
Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
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Curtis you're a content beast!!! Thanks man!
Another great video, Thanks! Another very important factor for spinach and kale season extension, is that they will survive the winter if they are simply PROTECTED FROM THE WIND. My crops survive and even stay green under just a heavy row cover. A thick layer of snow protects them even more. In the fall and spring, the same row cover extends the season if they are elevated with #9 wire.
I love these videos. You are the best educator I know of in the urban agriculture industry! Thanks, man!
Good info thanks! New to this and doing a winter experiment- trying to winter over lettuce, kale and herbs by backing a small bed up to a compost pile in my chicken run and covering with plastic. Was thinking about using mylar to increase sun exposure. Didn't really consider the slow growth in winter as compared to warmer seasons but it makes perfect sense. My plants are on the small side but still growing as its been unseasonably mild. Thanks!
Curtis, I am in Bozeman MT and am Primarily an Aquaponics grower. We are buying land this winter and will be working on a partial subterranean greenhouse. In other words I will be digging into the hillside and having a little less than half of the greenhouse with a back wall that will be either rock or cement (for radiant heat) as well as other radiant heaters and possible a rocket mass heater (as we will be 100% of grid) for the winter months. There is the background now Im trying to use what you are teaching for corps especially winter crops and have them applicable for Aquaponics. Your comment on the low tunnels and keeping the water off so it doesn't freeze, when growing in a media bed as opposed to a soil bed I need to have water available, Currently my lettuce and arugula, spinach, strawberries and basil are all in a float bed which means their roots are in a bed of water that is aerated and constantly moving, and in a greenhouse I also have the ability to put them in a low tunnel in the greenhouse as a double layer. If I manage to keep he water above freezing level How do you think this will effect the plants? Any ideas or thoughts?
If they're above freezing it should be fine. However, I'm no expert on hydro or aquaponics. It's not my thing.
Urban Farmer Curtis Stone thank you! I was just looking for your opinion!
Dude thank you, big help! Tunnel frames up, waiting on my poly
Thanks for all the info man!! I'm just now finding out about you, new subscriber right here!!
we are zone 4b. have our work cut out for us! good post.
I'm in the NW Arizona desert where we do get usually 1 day of snow, and 5 months of cold weather, 40-50 or so. Starting veg in July/Aug is very hard. Sep/Oct are still quite hot. I have a fruit orchard with citrus successfully, but I lived 60 years in San Diego weather where you can grow ALL YEAR LONG. The ground doesn't freeze here. But winter veg that must start in July/Aug are nearly impossible to keep alive 'til cooler weather. We have very sandy soil here and have to water daily. The most the soil will stay wet after a monsoon is 3 days, then it's bone dry again.
This vid has so much crucial info wow thanks a lot
Best explanation ever
your a stud man - thanks for your insight
Woot no snow for me in north Florida. Gets cold but not like up north. Brr
I'm planning to experiment with growing greens over the next winter. I've noticed that broccoli is VERY cold hardy and had a plant that lived for 4 years without any winter protection aside from the snow that covered it, here in Ontario (zone 5b).
Your English pronunciation is very clear. I listen to improve my English
Great Video Thanks for sharing !! ❤🇺🇸
Great stuff, Curtis! Where are you growing?
OneYardRevolution | Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening Canada
I didn't see that you were answered ... I believe he's in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
So well explained!
Links above to online course and book are not clickable.
Your season is ahead of mine going into winter. It's good to see beforehand what to expect. However, my spring season may be ahead of yours.
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Thanks. I'll look into it.
Eliot Coleman talks about growing Hakurei turnips and baby beets in the winter. Have you tried growing these?
YESSIR!
Curtis, have you grown peas shoots or micros in field during the winter with low tunnels? If so, have you done successions like in the gh? Or have you planted them early on to overwinter like you've explain about other crops like spinach?
Curtis, I just put a (stupid cheap) greenhouse up and I can't get it warm enough for what I want. What do you think of draping a sheet of plastic over it? I'll leave a place to enter so I can water etc.
How are you heating your greenhouse? What about humidity levels inside?
So my average frost date is Nov 24...I guess this really doesn't apply to me. I live in San Antonio Texas??
Gonna try it with our existing chard and see what happens.
Curtis, when you say it's possible to overwinter lettuce, are you talking about outdoors under poly low tunnels? Would you do this with salanova?
Yes for sure. As long as you don't get much lower than -10c.
Our local market is from May to October. I'm trying to figure out how to market winter crops with such a short market season. What do you think?
There are hundreds of farmers in your bioregion that do it. Storage crops, over wintered greens, microgreens just to name a few crops that work.
Is it just regular shop lights that you use for the microgreens?
Yep.
Can I overwinter Arugula, RR and Tatsoi in poly low tunnels?
If you get colder than I do in Kelowna, then no.
Do you ever have issues with your drip systems, pipes, valves etc bursting with freezing? Is there a place you spoke of this and I missed it? I'm so excited to try season extension in North Carolina! I think we have JUST the climate for it! Right now I use heat tape on my chicken & horse watering systems and I've used string lights to keep certain things from freezing on a frosty night. I've had many issues with spigots and water lines that aren't heat protected at all.
Bursting yes, but not from freezing. Yes, you have to be careful with main lines and spigots and things like that for sure.
+Urban Farmer Curtis Stone hmmm- still leaves me wondering how you keep things from having major freeze/damage issues. In my climate I will have to water in winter, yet we DO get feeezing..
Hey- I tried to search only your channel related to this, but couldn't seem to. It kept putting me in a general search of all pages. Is it maybe because I'm on a mobile device? Can you only search through your content with key words on a PC? TIA
I read online you can get 30 to 50 bucks a lb for microgreens, (usd) do you find this to be accurate, or could u tell me how much you sell yours for, I have an indoor greenhouse.
I dont charge that much. More like $15-$20.
Hi. Do you ever have problems with mice or their larger cusins?
+Colum O'Regan I have yes. I did a video on pests a while back.
Must you keep walking backwards and forwards... I think I'm going to be sick!
Not to get off topic but your structure is way overkill. Are you planning on driving a tractor on the greenhouse roof? 2x4s would be sufficient but you have engineered wood. Wow 😳
That’s old news dude.