I dont see why people think Paul only said woodchips...? He recommends to put several inches of compost down with woodchips that still have green material on top as a COVER. He never said grow in only in pure woodchips. Now that his garden is established, he puts wood chips in with his chickens and adds green material in the coop and the chickens create compost from the fresh chips for him. He adds this to his bed to enhance the soil every year.
Yeah this... I started a new plot this year.... Put down a load of compost, covered with wood chips... Planted a peach tree from seed and it's already over 6 feet tall .....amazing
Paul (of Back to Eden fame) strongly emphasized wood chips, what most people missed was the ever present chickens where he had applied wood chips. As you note in this video chickens are somewhat like pigs depositing nitrogen rich fertilizer and rototilling it in to the soil. Good idea using Joel Salatin's 'Chicken Tractor' but in your case adapting it to rabbits. Again following Joel Salatin... follow your sheep, rabbits and large animal manure with chickens, to eat any bugs, to break it down and again-rototill it into the soil. What people need to be aware of is that many (commercial and non commercial) livestock owners feed their livestock with feed that has been treated with persistent herbicides or treat their livestock with persistent wormers. WHAT did you do to your Lawn??? The HOA is going to be after you now😀
Yes, exactly. It’s supposed to be “whole tree” chips; leaves, smallest branches, etc. He does not say to put on the bark or coloured chips from stores, etc. Also, it is recommended to be aged and mixed with compost. He has chickens and feeds them his old veggies/carrot tops/etc. He tells you to plant your seeds directly into the soil, not into the wood chips. So many things people have missed when they think they are “correcting” what he actually did say already. :)
If you listen to what is talked about in the film he clearly talks about hauling in truck loads of composted horse manure and that he uses his chickens manure. I think the problem with people thinking it only takes woodchips is that they haven't listened to what was said, they hear what they want to hear.
1) Add compost 2) Make a compost run for small animals [chickens & rabbits] 3) Large animal manure 4) food scraps 5) vermicomposting [worms] 6) grass clippings 7) garden scraps
Good compliment to the Back to Eden video. I watched BTE a few times preparing myself for this spring since winter. You make great points about adding nitrogen. I was thinking that blood meal would be a great help for such a large area. I tend to use grass clippings to get that extra nitrogen, but adding a garden just made the demand higher. I'm currently in search of finding aged manure. In a bind, blood meal would help a lot. I started a vermiculture bin! It's going great after a few months. It will never be enough for my small garden though. I'm thinking my bin with 1000 worms will be good for potting soil amendments at about the 6 month mark. It's been cold so it might go faster with the rising temperatures. But I wanted to comment on your suggestion about making a safe place: Make sure it's in the SHADE! If it's in sun you will just cook the worms! I'm thinking I might convert my mini worm farm to worm towers in my garden instead of the bin method. They'll be in a consistent temperature with freedom to roam and breed in a natural setting without me having to fret over their environment so much.
My goodness the level of people defending Paul for diverging from his methods is astounding. He's not the end all be all for how to do things folks. People have to do what works for their climate, not everyone gets 6 feet of rain per year like the PNW.
Thanks for the great tips! Also love the humor thrown in (maybe you didn't mean it but I was laughingso hard at, "But I'm super tacky so I use a machete".
If you’re breaking new ground walk me through the steps. Mechanical tillage to get rid of grass first? Then lay down chips? How deep? Can I plant small seeds into the chips? Like lettuce carrots etc
We'll the biggest advantage of this is to NOT break new ground, rather just build soil up. So if it's grass, just cut very low and get 6-8" of chips and you can plant directly into them.
I have used red clover for a bunch of stuff, but not for patches yet. I could see it creeping in it's second year, but I wouldn't expect it to crawl much it's first year. I've thought about using buckwheat too, but haven't yet.
@@homesteadingwithPJ I'm throwing a red clover mix behind my chickens as well. But I didnt put down,any straw so I'm afraid much of it won't germinate.
All chips are not created equal. The chips with a lot of green matter breaks down faster. I had two piles one broke down fast the other took much longer Not enough green matter in the slow pile. Adding organic nitrogen
It was really hard for us too. My wife looked for weeks and finally found someone like 3 hours away for our first set. Turns out even those ones were duds. Eventually I saw someone buying rabbit feed at the store and started talking with him. Turned out, he was rasing silver foxes too. So that's where out first buck came from. So lucky!
i guess your not one to watch how nature does it are u shame and Don’t be disrespecting Paul Gautschi you need to watch how nature does it and do what she does plan and simple
I dont see why people think Paul only said woodchips...? He recommends to put several inches of compost down with woodchips that still have green material on top as a COVER. He never said grow in only in pure woodchips. Now that his garden is established, he puts wood chips in with his chickens and adds green material in the coop and the chickens create compost from the fresh chips for him. He adds this to his bed to enhance the soil every year.
Yeah this... I started a new plot this year.... Put down a load of compost, covered with wood chips... Planted a peach tree from seed and it's already over 6 feet tall .....amazing
Paul (of Back to Eden fame) strongly emphasized wood chips, what most people missed was the ever present chickens where he had applied wood chips. As you note in this video chickens are somewhat like pigs depositing nitrogen rich fertilizer and rototilling it in to the soil. Good idea using Joel Salatin's 'Chicken Tractor' but in your case adapting it to rabbits. Again following Joel Salatin... follow your sheep, rabbits and large animal manure with chickens, to eat any bugs, to break it down and again-rototill it into the soil. What people need to be aware of is that many (commercial and non commercial) livestock owners feed their livestock with feed that has been treated with persistent herbicides or treat their livestock with persistent wormers. WHAT did you do to your Lawn??? The HOA is going to be after you now😀
Don’t be disrespecting Paul Gautschi, he said you need leaves in your mixture of wood chips.
Yes, exactly. It’s supposed to be “whole tree” chips; leaves, smallest branches, etc. He does not say to put on the bark or coloured chips from stores, etc. Also, it is recommended to be aged and mixed with compost. He has chickens and feeds them his old veggies/carrot tops/etc. He tells you to plant your seeds directly into the soil, not into the wood chips. So many things people have missed when they think they are “correcting” what he actually did say already. :)
If you listen to what is talked about in the film he clearly talks about hauling in truck loads of composted horse manure and that he uses his chickens manure. I think the problem with people thinking it only takes woodchips is that they haven't listened to what was said, they hear what they want to hear.
1) Add compost
2) Make a compost run for small animals [chickens & rabbits]
3) Large animal manure
4) food scraps
5) vermicomposting [worms]
6) grass clippings
7) garden scraps
Good compliment to the Back to Eden video. I watched BTE a few times preparing myself for this spring since winter. You make great points about adding nitrogen. I was thinking that blood meal would be a great help for such a large area. I tend to use grass clippings to get that extra nitrogen, but adding a garden just made the demand higher. I'm currently in search of finding aged manure. In a bind, blood meal would help a lot.
I started a vermiculture bin! It's going great after a few months. It will never be enough for my small garden though. I'm thinking my bin with 1000 worms will be good for potting soil amendments at about the 6 month mark. It's been cold so it might go faster with the rising temperatures. But I wanted to comment on your suggestion about making a safe place: Make sure it's in the SHADE! If it's in sun you will just cook the worms!
I'm thinking I might convert my mini worm farm to worm towers in my garden instead of the bin method. They'll be in a consistent temperature with freedom to roam and breed in a natural setting without me having to fret over their environment so much.
Paul gauchi makes it very clear you need wood chips with leaves or needles mixed in with it as it breaks down.
My goodness the level of people defending Paul for diverging from his methods is astounding.
He's not the end all be all for how to do things folks.
People have to do what works for their climate, not everyone gets 6 feet of rain per year like the PNW.
Thanks for the great tips! Also love the humor thrown in (maybe you didn't mean it but I was laughingso hard at, "But I'm super tacky so I use a machete".
Continuing to learn so much from your videos. Thanks so much!
Thanks for watching. It means a lot to hear this kind of thing!
If you’re breaking new ground walk me through the steps. Mechanical tillage to get rid of grass first? Then lay down chips? How deep? Can I plant small seeds into the chips? Like lettuce carrots etc
We'll the biggest advantage of this is to NOT break new ground, rather just build soil up.
So if it's grass, just cut very low and get 6-8" of chips and you can plant directly into them.
Do you place compost on top of preexisting chips the following year?
I try to! Better is to put the compost on and rotate my laying hens all of it to get more nitrogen into the wood chips.
So I can easily do this with my chicken manure. Thanks!
Yes! Chicken manure is really hot (meaning lots of nitrogen) so that's a perfect application for it!
I've been thinking of putting red clover in my paths, too. Will it take over the garden? I also have buckwheat that I'm going to try.
I have used red clover for a bunch of stuff, but not for patches yet. I could see it creeping in it's second year, but I wouldn't expect it to crawl much it's first year. I've thought about using buckwheat too, but haven't yet.
@@homesteadingwithPJ I'm throwing a red clover mix behind my chickens as well. But I didnt put down,any straw so I'm afraid much of it won't germinate.
All chips are not created equal. The chips with a lot of green matter breaks down faster. I had two piles one broke down fast the other took much longer Not enough green matter in the slow pile. Adding organic nitrogen
My lord where do you find the silver fox rabbits? I'm having no luck & I've been looking since last year.
It was really hard for us too. My wife looked for weeks and finally found someone like 3 hours away for our first set. Turns out even those ones were duds. Eventually I saw someone buying rabbit feed at the store and started talking with him. Turned out, he was rasing silver foxes too. So that's where out first buck came from. So lucky!
@@homesteadingwithPJ well whenever/if ever you breed & sell I'm 100% interested!
@@bigbrew5750 We will let you know!
I love the tips but it's still beyond me how can anyone have a heart to kill and eat a rabbit 💔
i guess your not one to watch how nature does it are u shame and Don’t be disrespecting Paul Gautschi you need to watch how nature does it and do what she does plan and simple
Poor Bunnies. 😥
Please tell me you don't eat the rabbits 😭😭