One tip that helps Morgan is to prune your pumpkins runners.. this way all of its energy is concentrated into growing the best/biggest pumpkins and not leaves.
Yeah, I didn't know that cos I live in northern Europe where the growing season isn't long enough for such things. It might not be the temperature, but the lack of light kills things. But thanks for the tip. I will remember it when global warming has done its thing lol
Trapping the flies earlier in the season, before numbers really have the chance to explode also helps. I live near a horse stable and start putting traps out before numbers start climbing. There are always going to be some around, but keeping on top of the traps from early in the season means they don’t become overwhelming.
Started with 12 traps around my property in 2021, last year that shrunk to 7 and this year I put out three in early Spring. So far, numbers caught have more than halved, each year.
@@GOAT_GOATERSONI am living in Paphos, Cyprus. I find that the yellow sticky traps only work for the fruit flies, but the house flies really flock to the bag traps (they have a lid and filter that allow flies to enter, but get smaller and smaller until they go into the bag and at that point, they'll never find their way out,) that are baited with fly lure. Put them really far from the house, because they reek! LOL!
How the different animals interact continues to be my favorite part of your videos: cows and dogs; ducks and geese; chicken and weird chickens, man and pigs, and especially dogs and barn cats. It's difficult to tell Toby and Abby apart when they are interacting with the cats though so an update video would be welcomed :)
Hey Morgan! A little tip about the irrigation system in your greenhouse. Soaker hoses (like the ones you have currently installed) are usually quite unreliable and are spotty when they water. The beginning of the soaker hose tends to water a lot, while the far end of the soaker hose tends to water very little. I would recommend installing a drip irrigation system instead; the watering is much more consistent and localized, and there are a slough of accessories you can add onto a drip system as well. You can even use different water emitters for plants that may need more or less water than others. I hope this helps! 🌱
Good to know because I bought a few of each from the dollar store. Just short, a line for each row of plants (like 5 plants) and a few drip systems for pots and bags I’m using outside our garden it’s just hooked up to a water catchment barrel. I guess it makes sense though 😂
Gardening is my main hobby. A tip about your pumpkins, you don't have to start them indoors. They actually do better direct seeded. Even in your climate because of your hoop house, you should have plenty enough time for them to grow and produce before you put the birds back in there. If you feel that you must plant transplants, try a larger pot. An absolute minimum of 3.5in pots (that's what will fit in your 1020 trays.) You may be able to get larger pots, but I can't remember the details atm. The point is that larger pots will give you better wiggle room when it comes to scheduling when you're able to get them in the ground. Plus with cucurbits (squash, pumpkin, cucumbers, melon, etc) they grow so fast, that initial tap root will want to shoot out so fast that it will quickly out grow the planting holes of those 72 cell trays. That will stunt their overall growth.
I love how you are giving Toby time with you alone, and how you made Abby wait when petting Toby. Toby sure watches the ducks and geese like he's taking responsibility , like he's uncle Toby 😊
You might consider eye protection for doing work like the hoop coop cleanout and maybe a respirator instead of just a mask. Love the videos, dude. Keep 'em coming.
Morgan that hoop house is a game changer for you. The amount of compost you have on that soil means that whatever you planted will do well even if the weather is crappy. Well done 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦
The Iroquois used to always plant Maize Squash and beans together Couse they would perfectly supplement each other... so chaos can be really good for the plants sometimes
I'm in the same situation here but on a smaller scale. I had to install a fence around my garden and take care of my newborn twins so I was late to plant my garden. You should try to add squash seeds on your pile of duck waste. It will grow like crazy without work.
The best pork I ever had was fed for the last couple months with kitchen/ garden scraps, whey from dairy processing and acorns ( at least a quarter a day per pig....it was DELICIOUS......
Morgan….I feel like I’m watching one of my kids growing up…you are so creative, such a good story teller, each time I watch one of your videos, I see that you your knowledge of what you want to accomplish has grown exponentially….love it and love you and Allison and Toby and Abbie and all your animals…every time I watch you all I get that warm fuzzy feeling…you make my day….every time….you kind of remind me of Garrison Keillor….with his story telling and his warmth and country charm he told all of us about. Keep living the dream! You are doing a great job!
you should plant your veggies with Miccorhizal fungi powder on the roots and the plant will be really strong and healthy. Helps with disease resistance too.
Agreed! Is use Espoma’s Bio-tone Starter Fertilizer (which contains beneficial Mycorrhizae fungus) and it works wonders on my newly-planted vegetable seedlings.
Hey Morgan! If you do decide to get a herding dog, I’d recommend you get an adult that’s already trained. That way you won’t have to learn how to herd and also train a dog at the same time. I would love to see a series of you adding one to the farm, when it’s time.
Oooh lots of things going on, can't wait to see how everything grows in the hoop house. Goslings are too cute and it does seem like having them altogether helps the younger ones thrive. The piggies look almost twice the size and have adjusted well. Morgan, when are we going to see the finished results of the new barn, would really like to see how it's all come together. Thanks for taking us along, all is well at Gold Shaw Farm, see you soon!
I'll be interested to see how the broadcast seeds fare. Whilst you're obviously not going to go down the tilling or discing route on your plant patches given your philosophy, it might be an idea to look at a rake attachment for the tractor to clean out a lot of the rocks you have in your patches and help spreading the hay bales when you're mulching those in (and it'll also have the bonus of levelling the ground a bit - it sounds a bit weird, but flatter ground seemingly makes for a more consistent germination.)
My advice when it comes to pumpkins is to just direct seed them, even if that means planting them late. Heavily rootbound unhealthy pumpkin seedlings almost never recover and probably won’t produce well if at all. Unlike other plants such as tomatoes when members of the gourd family like pumpkins and melons become stunted they never really grow up properly. I would highly recommend you replace those pumpkins with fresh seedlings while there’s still time! Happy planting!
Possibly add direct seed midway between the seedlings, so as to give each kind the best chance? I'd also wonder how well watermelon and other melon (cantaloupe?) and squash would do in the hoop coop, with fall harvests of normally summer produce to make a nice addition to meals in an otherwise dreary fall season.
Who would have thought that farming could be such fun. I have to catch my breath when I look about the farm and see what you have achieved and be part of your daily activities.
Few great things in this video: Awesome way to dual-use the hoop house, really glad you started paying more attention to Toby and the trees have gained quite a bit of height. Honestly, I enjoyed this video more than a lot of other videos! If you have a spare video cam or heck even trail cam, it'll be nice to set it up in the hoop house for a time lapse over the growing season. An idea for moveable pool for the fowls: A raised pool on wheels with enough space on the underside to serve as shelter/shade. Front - A combined tow bar with handle and bird ramp. Back - The only side of the pool that's hinged to let you open and flash drain the whole pool prior to move. Sides - Might as well throw in feeding trays that can fold up or down. Inside - Just clip on a tarp or pond liner.
Good morning Morgan! You really are doing such great things and so much progress. So happy for your progress and it seems you are much more lighthearted. I'm also excited to see your hodgepodge garden in the hoop coop and look forward to its progress.
What Morgan needs is Rootcellar, especially if he starts to growfood for animals. Rootcellar is good space to keep also household food, that needs to be cool, but dosent need freezing.
I’d love to have a root cellar, but I live close to the ocean and the water table is too high. Maybe if I ever move somewhere with a higher elevation and also a larger build density on the land.
Your trees would love that compost. I'm sure your farm is a lot of work, but you make it look effortless. I can't wait to see the mystery garden take off.
It's a lovely time of year for those of us who grow things, isn't it? I'm loving seeing the animals enjoying the new growth that the warmer weather has brought. It's SO good to see happy, healthy, well-cared-for animals doing their thing, Morgan.
Looks like some great farm plans and projects. Yes, a herding dog can help but it is more cost and the guard pups may not like it. I have an English Shepherd that mostly guards like your guys and now a Border Collie. At 11 months old I called her to help me bring in the goat herd, a tough first herding job and she did perfectly, with the exception of a few barks. I hushed her and we completed the task in a short time, totally on her instincts and normal pup training like come, sit, wait, etc.
You might find that you have many more cats at your house visiting now you have planted the nip. 😊 Please be prepared. Thank you. May you please take care and stay safe. Louisa. 👏👏👏❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩 Oh, forgot to say can’t wait to see a finished barn.
I absolutely love the way you take care of the animals individual needs, like the new weird chicken 😁👍 just a funny note ,I'm actually from CT too , brought up in New Britain ,now live outside of Hartford, small world,😁
My experience with catnip is that it self seeds reasonably readily, so your bed/garden space for it is a great plan. Love seeing that energetic smile you have so often of late. So many of your long term hopes and plans seem to be coming to fruition in this video which is really a pleasure to see.
Border collies can have a high prey drive and some are definitely not good for smaller animals like chickens and ducks. They are a lot of training. The videos of them working sheep and other animals are wonderful to watch and I have had them for a herd of Holstein cows that we milked. The training was several hours of day for well over a year. It is a commitment.
We got our puppies from a local farm that the parents were working registered border collies with a very good bloodline. They were amazing dogs once trained. My husband took them every he went in the process of training them so the bond was with him. The commitment was more like training a child then a dog. I have watched how he is always working with Abby and keeping her out of areas that could get her into trouble. I think he is doing a great job to set her up to succeed. The Collies are different. They have to have space to run around they are high energy dogs and if they are pinned up they will get destructive. They need a job to do! This is the reason why I hate seeing them as pets unless they are with someone who knows how much energy they have and will run and spend hours working with them.
Hey Morgan, I have to say your video content is always really interesting. But your biggest achievement is the sound quality. I never have to adjust my volume or put on a headset to hear what you are saying. I love the little zen moments or the focus on the specific animal sounds. 👍👍👍
I am thrilled w/ your plans to turn the hoop coop into a garden for feed. Might have to keep both sides open to keep veg cool enough, and mesh covers for less bad bugs on the cole crops. Remember to use the composited material as side dressing in your and Allison’s kitchen garden.
I always used to use my gone off flax seeds. and just sow them with wild abandon. they make the most lovely blue flowers and the stems are very fibrous as it was what people used (obviously wool too) in Europe before cotton. Old lentils in the back of the pantry, throw that out there. lol You could grow some big sunflowers next year and dry and store the heads and give them as a treat to the birds during winter. I know you have bees and I wanted to say that I observed that obviously oregano flowers attract the bees. But if you have a winter hardy savory, when that is in bloom, the bumble bees may still be all about the oregano, but the professionals (honey bees), they are ALL about the savory flowers. And it's a lovely herb for humans too. Very overlooked. Now, I don't know if it will give a taste to honey, as it is a very potent herb (like a mix of rosemary, sage and something else). But they also look pretty, they make nice big pillows. You could really grow them for just ornamental purposes, if you wanted.
My parents, when rotating their grazing areas and spreading leftover bales would sow, clover, rye, oats, buckwheat, and barley. It made the area super lush and beneficial for the animals that would then take residence in that paddock
This is encouraging! I’ve broadcast a variety to seeds in a field to include einkorn wheat, legumes, corn, etc. I intend to keep a chicken tractor in that field and pasture them by day. The other flock that’s adult, they pasture around the goats and I make and ferment their grain. So true about managing springtime with livestock being born and gardens going in. I lost some plants as well.
One advice about pumpkins, you should really plant them in that big pile of cleaned out compost. They really thrive in it plus they take up A LOT of space so they shouldn't be mixed with other crops
Your chaos sounds like my kitchen garden. My corn is interplanted with melons and cucumbers surrounded by garlic. It will be a beautiful hot mess by August. Buckwheat! I make blueberry-buckwheat-walnut pancakes. My favorite!
I have 3 diff age groups of chickens right now that I'm slowly integrating into my big flock.. I tend to put the cart before the horse when I do things but I find it expands my comfort zone.. & also makes me a better improvisor 😂 Barn looks beautiful btw😊
Hey Morgan, I don't normally comment, but this was a great bit of story telling, and videography, you seem to be getting pretty good at this whole vlogging process :-) Your looking slimmer and healthier, good for you.
Morgan! You sound so happy. Like that deep heart happy. every video its been building these last few months. Insert gif from Hook "you're doing it peter! look you're doing it!"
You could let the pigs onto those bales. They will dig into them and add their 'bonus' to it. Then you can rake it out a bit more. That's just a thought though, the way you are currently doing it is great.
Morgan, you've come so far. You have evolved into a good farmer. Most learning comes from our failures which makes us so much more informed. You will have catnip!! The bees will love it when it blooms! The seeds will be broadcast by various creatures. You will find it growing where you didn't plant it. Not a bad thing. Keep up the good work!!
Really enjoyed this video Morgan! Really a chill vibe like a couple of friends having a conversation. And it is a fairly long video which i thoroughly enjoy. Watched while my food was on the grill and i was sitting outside watching it cook. Love the idea of the chaos garden. Ive dont that before with flowers and it turned out beautifully.
A major solution to the flies would be something you already strive to do; incorporate the wild fauna. Your pastures are perfect habitat for bluebirds if they have adequate housing along the edges of the forrest and they will eat half their weight in insects every day. In fact, many songbirds are insectivores during the warmer months. Put up a dozen bluebird boxes facing towards the pasture and maybe some shallow water sources that they can bathe in and drink from and you'll have all sorts of colorful, vocal and helpful birds flitting about gobbling up flies and mosquitoes.
Morgan it seems like your farm has so much going on now, expansions everywhere. Is the new barn finished, is there a video showing this, if so love to watch.😊
i really do adore having the comfort and familiarity of your videos of you, the animals, and the farm... and occasionally allison when she feels like it. lol. thank you just for being you! love you guys!
Love the baby geese footage! Glad to see the little goslings on some fresh greens at the end there. They certainly made an impact quite quickly! What a great idea to have a little area for them like that. I'd love to see how it holds up over the next 2 weeks, and to see what clutch 4 has in store.
Hey Morgan! I love your videos where we get an update on all the animals and the new developments happening on your farm. Please feel free to make longer videos😁, I really enjoy watching long form farm content. Also, have you considered planting some bee friendly native wild flowers in the garden and in and around the hoop coop? I highly recommend it! Your bees will thank-you! 🐝 🌻
Dear Morgan, it is better to water the pumpkin seedlings the day before planting. I hope you don't change the watering method for them because they may suffer severely from wilt disease/Mildo when watering and wetting the leaves. For them the drip method is excellent. Regarding the oak plant, when they grow the seeds, the seeds get caught in the dog's fur and penetrate in a rotary fashion like a screw, into the skin or ear and cause a skin wound and damage to the ears as well as an infection. We in Israel suffer a lot in the summer season because all the areas are infected with this plant. I once lost a puppy because we couldn't completely clean her of the seeds that caused her a high fever of *42. And she died on the table at the vet.😭
Gardening is fun and relaxing. It will be interesting to watch everything grow. Hope the pumpkins will be really big! It was nice seeing all of the animals.
Hope those squash and all do well in the greenhouse. We've not had good luck with those. The soil in there should be better than what we grew in. If you have not yet, might want to tarp that nice pile of poultry manure and straw. Otherwise ran will leach some of the goodness out and weeds will colonize. Love watching Toby dog watch the poultry. Sweet!
The current systems you have in place appear to be working really well. Like the “rapid movement-chickens-fly traps” and the 3 tier gosling pens. I have loved watching the journey to get to these functional systems.
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in that hoop house greenhouse setup! If I had the land, thats exactly what I would do. Honestly, I did broadcast a bunch of random seeds to create chaos in one part of my yard. I will see if anything comes up 😂 I highly recommend a sprinkler... I couldn't do with those hoses you have!
One tip that helps Morgan is to prune your pumpkins runners.. this way all of its energy is concentrated into growing the best/biggest pumpkins and not leaves.
Omg I learned how to grow weed and now I find all that information is pretty applicable in other ways. Amazing
couldn't you make the vines grow up the sides of the hoop coop so you don't have to plant next year?
@@franzlubeck9669 Might need trellis/supports for that, which might have to be taken down when the poultry use it in the winter.
@@franzlubeck9669 the vines won't overwinter regardless, they are cold sensitive.
Yeah, I didn't know that cos I live in northern Europe where the growing season isn't long enough for such things. It might not be the temperature, but the lack of light kills things. But thanks for the tip. I will remember it when global warming has done its thing lol
Trapping the flies earlier in the season, before numbers really have the chance to explode also helps. I live near a horse stable and start putting traps out before numbers start climbing. There are always going to be some around, but keeping on top of the traps from early in the season means they don’t become overwhelming.
Started with 12 traps around my property in 2021, last year that shrunk to 7 and this year I put out three in early Spring. So far, numbers caught have more than halved, each year.
What kind of traps do you use and where do you live?
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@@GOAT_GOATERSONI am living in Paphos, Cyprus. I find that the yellow sticky traps only work for the fruit flies, but the house flies really flock to the bag traps (they have a lid and filter that allow flies to enter, but get smaller and smaller until they go into the bag and at that point, they'll never find their way out,) that are baited with fly lure. Put them really far from the house, because they reek! LOL!
I almost stood up and clapped when you made Abby sit and wait to let my Toby get his love time in. It’s OK for you to wait miss. ❤
So nice to see an update! Nothing clickbaity. No stupid billionaires. Just a good day on your farm. Thank you!
The diversity of plant life you've got going is going to be fun to watch. Diversity is awesome
How the different animals interact continues to be my favorite part of your videos: cows and dogs; ducks and geese; chicken and weird chickens, man and pigs, and especially dogs and barn cats. It's difficult to tell Toby and Abby apart when they are interacting with the cats though so an update video would be welcomed :)
Love how the big white farmdogs completely melts into sleep behind you in the hoop coop. They trust you are on guard.
Hey Morgan! A little tip about the irrigation system in your greenhouse. Soaker hoses (like the ones you have currently installed) are usually quite unreliable and are spotty when they water. The beginning of the soaker hose tends to water a lot, while the far end of the soaker hose tends to water very little. I would recommend installing a drip irrigation system instead; the watering is much more consistent and localized, and there are a slough of accessories you can add onto a drip system as well. You can even use different water emitters for plants that may need more or less water than others. I hope this helps! 🌱
Best to watch the whole video, save me and you some typing 👋
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Good to know because I bought a few of each from the dollar store. Just short, a line for each row of plants (like 5 plants) and a few drip systems for pots and bags I’m using outside our garden it’s just hooked up to a water catchment barrel.
I guess it makes sense though 😂
Gardening is my main hobby. A tip about your pumpkins, you don't have to start them indoors. They actually do better direct seeded. Even in your climate because of your hoop house, you should have plenty enough time for them to grow and produce before you put the birds back in there.
If you feel that you must plant transplants, try a larger pot. An absolute minimum of 3.5in pots (that's what will fit in your 1020 trays.) You may be able to get larger pots, but I can't remember the details atm. The point is that larger pots will give you better wiggle room when it comes to scheduling when you're able to get them in the ground. Plus with cucurbits (squash, pumpkin, cucumbers, melon, etc) they grow so fast, that initial tap root will want to shoot out so fast that it will quickly out grow the planting holes of those 72 cell trays. That will stunt their overall growth.
I love how you are giving Toby time with you alone, and how you made Abby wait when petting Toby.
Toby sure watches the ducks and geese like he's taking responsibility , like he's uncle Toby 😊
You might consider eye protection for doing work like the hoop coop cleanout and maybe a respirator instead of just a mask.
Love the videos, dude. Keep 'em coming.
Morgan that hoop house is a game changer for you. The amount of compost you have on that soil means that whatever you planted will do well even if the weather is crappy. Well done 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦
The Iroquois used to always plant Maize Squash and beans together Couse they would perfectly supplement each other... so chaos can be really good for the plants sometimes
A Chaos garden !
It’s brilliant and in the hoop coop !
Golds Shaw farms well done 👍 !
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I'm in the same situation here but on a smaller scale. I had to install a fence around my garden and take care of my newborn twins so I was late to plant my garden. You should try to add squash seeds on your pile of duck waste. It will grow like crazy without work.
The best pork I ever had was fed for the last couple months with kitchen/ garden scraps, whey from dairy processing and acorns ( at least a quarter a day per pig....it was DELICIOUS......
Morgan….I feel like I’m watching one of my kids growing up…you are so creative, such a good story teller, each time I watch one of your videos, I see that you your knowledge of what you want to accomplish has grown exponentially….love it and love you and Allison and Toby and Abbie and all your animals…every time I watch you all I get that warm fuzzy feeling…you make my day….every time….you kind of remind me of Garrison Keillor….with his story telling and his warmth and country charm he told all of us about. Keep living the dream! You are doing a great job!
you should plant your veggies with Miccorhizal fungi powder on the roots and the plant will be really strong and healthy. Helps with disease resistance too.
Agreed! Is use Espoma’s Bio-tone Starter Fertilizer (which contains beneficial Mycorrhizae fungus) and it works wonders on my newly-planted vegetable seedlings.
I am looking forward to seeing what grows in the hoop coop, I love the chaos garden idea.
Hey Morgan! If you do decide to get a herding dog, I’d recommend you get an adult that’s already trained. That way you won’t have to learn how to herd and also train a dog at the same time. I would love to see a series of you adding one to the farm, when it’s time.
Also, keep in mind that border collies can be a bit crazy.
Oooh lots of things going on, can't wait to see how everything grows in the hoop house. Goslings are too cute and it does seem like having them altogether helps the younger ones thrive. The piggies look almost twice the size and have adjusted well. Morgan, when are we going to see the finished results of the new barn, would really like to see how it's all come together. Thanks for taking us along, all is well at Gold Shaw Farm, see you soon!
I'll be interested to see how the broadcast seeds fare. Whilst you're obviously not going to go down the tilling or discing route on your plant patches given your philosophy, it might be an idea to look at a rake attachment for the tractor to clean out a lot of the rocks you have in your patches and help spreading the hay bales when you're mulching those in (and it'll also have the bonus of levelling the ground a bit - it sounds a bit weird, but flatter ground seemingly makes for a more consistent germination.)
My advice when it comes to pumpkins is to just direct seed them, even if that means planting them late. Heavily rootbound unhealthy pumpkin seedlings almost never recover and probably won’t produce well if at all. Unlike other plants such as tomatoes when members of the gourd family like pumpkins and melons become stunted they never really grow up properly. I would highly recommend you replace those pumpkins with fresh seedlings while there’s still time! Happy planting!
Possibly add direct seed midway between the seedlings, so as to give each kind the best chance?
I'd also wonder how well watermelon and other melon (cantaloupe?) and squash would do in the hoop coop, with fall harvests of normally summer produce to make a nice addition to meals in an otherwise dreary fall season.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Yes, I think that is a good idea. I strongly believe he should put pumpkins seeds in now.
Who would have thought that farming could be such fun. I have to catch my breath when I look about the farm and see what you have achieved and be part of your daily activities.
I love the longer videos. It brings me peace to watch you and your animals
As a horticulturist I am fansinated by your chaos garden and looking forward to seeing the results.
I really appreciate how often you post videos. Thanks 💗
Few great things in this video: Awesome way to dual-use the hoop house, really glad you started paying more attention to Toby and the trees have gained quite a bit of height. Honestly, I enjoyed this video more than a lot of other videos!
If you have a spare video cam or heck even trail cam, it'll be nice to set it up in the hoop house for a time lapse over the growing season.
An idea for moveable pool for the fowls: A raised pool on wheels with enough space on the underside to serve as shelter/shade.
Front - A combined tow bar with handle and bird ramp.
Back - The only side of the pool that's hinged to let you open and flash drain the whole pool prior to move.
Sides - Might as well throw in feeding trays that can fold up or down.
Inside - Just clip on a tarp or pond liner.
Good morning Morgan! You really are doing such great things and so much progress. So happy for your progress and it seems you are much more lighthearted. I'm also excited to see your hodgepodge garden in the hoop coop and look forward to its progress.
What Morgan needs is Rootcellar, especially if he starts to growfood for animals. Rootcellar is good space to keep also household food, that needs to be cool, but dosent need freezing.
I’d love to have a root cellar, but I live close to the ocean and the water table is too high. Maybe if I ever move somewhere with a higher elevation and also a larger build density on the land.
It's wonderful to see your plans come together! I can tell how much you have grown as a farmer too. LOVE IT!!! Thanks for sharing and God bless you.
Your trees would love that compost. I'm sure your farm is a lot of work, but you make it look effortless. I can't wait to see the mystery garden take off.
It's a lovely time of year for those of us who grow things, isn't it? I'm loving seeing the animals enjoying the new growth that the warmer weather has brought.
It's SO good to see happy, healthy, well-cared-for animals doing their thing, Morgan.
Wow have you achieved sooo much this year already!! It is so dreamy to see your birds on the open land!!
So nice that Toby dog has his Toby dog cuddles uninterrupted by Abigail muscling in...
Looks like some great farm plans and projects. Yes, a herding dog can help but it is more cost and the guard pups may not like it. I have an English Shepherd that mostly guards like your guys and now a Border Collie. At 11 months old I called her to help me bring in the goat herd, a tough first herding job and she did perfectly, with the exception of a few barks. I hushed her and we completed the task in a short time, totally on her instincts and normal pup training like come, sit, wait, etc.
You might find that you have many more cats at your house visiting now you have planted the nip. 😊 Please be prepared. Thank you. May you please take care and stay safe. Louisa. 👏👏👏❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩 Oh, forgot to say can’t wait to see a finished barn.
Who else sings, My Buddy Alfred, right on cue as soon as Morgan mentions him..... he he
I absolutely love the way you take care of the animals individual needs, like the new weird chicken 😁👍 just a funny note ,I'm actually from CT too , brought up in New Britain ,now live outside of Hartford, small world,😁
Loving the big long farm based videos. The barn looks fantastic! When will the final barn tour video be released?
I absolutely love the videos 20+ min.
When it ended I was still wanting more 😂
@@MichaelSheeley Like a rock star. Always wanting more.
I love the sound of happy goslings. That must make you feel really good Morgan.
"MY BUDDY ALFRED!"
Thank you so much for giving the musical guitar que before the clip played so I could scream-sing along with it lol
Perfect episode to create right now. Had a good mix of everything and even a bit of your Toby dog voice overs for characters in it. Great job.
Best wishes for you and your huge family farm is looking amazing!
My experience with catnip is that it self seeds reasonably readily, so your bed/garden space for it is a great plan. Love seeing that energetic smile you have so often of late. So many of your long term hopes and plans seem to be coming to fruition in this video which is really a pleasure to see.
Right as you started planting at the beginning of the video, I was wondering if catnip was going to make an appearance. Good choice!
Border collies can have a high prey drive and some are definitely not good for smaller animals like chickens and ducks. They are a lot of training. The videos of them working sheep and other animals are wonderful to watch and I have had them for a herd of Holstein cows that we milked. The training was several hours of day for well over a year. It is a commitment.
Interesting that Abby was raised with poultry but seems to do better with the cattle, IMO. Maybe it's that Herding instinct, kicking in 🐮
We got our puppies from a local farm that the parents were working registered border collies with a very good bloodline. They were amazing dogs once trained. My husband took them every he went in the process of training them so the bond was with him. The commitment was more like training a child then a dog. I have watched how he is always working with Abby and keeping her out of areas that could get her into trouble. I think he is doing a great job to set her up to succeed. The Collies are different. They have to have space to run around they are high energy dogs and if they are pinned up they will get destructive. They need a job to do! This is the reason why I hate seeing them as pets unless they are with someone who knows how much energy they have and will run and spend hours working with them.
Amazing content as usual, thanks for everything you do!
Hey Morgan, I have to say your video content is always really interesting. But your biggest achievement is the sound quality. I never have to adjust my volume or put on a headset to hear what you are saying. I love the little zen moments or the focus on the specific animal sounds. 👍👍👍
I am thrilled w/ your plans to turn the hoop coop into a garden for feed. Might have to keep both sides open to keep veg cool enough, and mesh covers for less bad bugs on the cole crops. Remember to use the composited material as side dressing in your and Allison’s kitchen garden.
I always used to use my gone off flax seeds. and just sow them with wild abandon. they make the most lovely blue flowers and the stems are very fibrous as it was what people used (obviously wool too) in Europe before cotton. Old lentils in the back of the pantry, throw that out there. lol You could grow some big sunflowers next year and dry and store the heads and give them as a treat to the birds during winter.
I know you have bees and I wanted to say that I observed that obviously oregano flowers attract the bees. But if you have a winter hardy savory, when that is in bloom, the bumble bees may still be all about the oregano, but the professionals (honey bees), they are ALL about the savory flowers. And it's a lovely herb for humans too. Very overlooked. Now, I don't know if it will give a taste to honey, as it is a very potent herb (like a mix of rosemary, sage and something else). But they also look pretty, they make nice big pillows. You could really grow them for just ornamental purposes, if you wanted.
My parents, when rotating their grazing areas and spreading leftover bales would sow, clover, rye, oats, buckwheat, and barley. It made the area super lush and beneficial for the animals that would then take residence in that paddock
Thanks Morgan. This is my favorite kind of Gold Shaw video. Newsy farm updates.
The last scene with the baby geese eating and making baby geese noises would make such a peaceful screen saver lol.
This is encouraging! I’ve broadcast a variety to seeds in a field to include einkorn wheat, legumes, corn, etc. I intend to keep a chicken tractor in that field and pasture them by day. The other flock that’s adult, they pasture around the goats and I make and ferment their grain. So true about managing springtime with livestock being born and gardens going in. I lost some plants as well.
Can you try netting over your berry trees to keep the bugs and birds off them? That's what the apple orchards do accross the lake in NY.
Captain Janeway?! Just when I think I cannot love your channel anymore. Best name ever!
One advice about pumpkins, you should really plant them in that big pile of cleaned out compost. They really thrive in it plus they take up A LOT of space so they shouldn't be mixed with other crops
14:25 ITS BRUCE!
MORGAN GOLD What a relief to see nothing happened afterall. you scared me. BUT BRUCE THE GOOSE IS STILL ALIVE.
When I was a kid our school gave all the leftover food and scraps from the school canteen to a local pig farmer, that’s such a small town thing 😆
Your chaos sounds like my kitchen garden. My corn is interplanted with melons and cucumbers surrounded by garlic. It will be a beautiful hot mess by August. Buckwheat! I make blueberry-buckwheat-walnut pancakes. My favorite!
Abby demonstrating the bedding had me ROLLING!!!❤❤❤
I have 3 diff age groups of chickens right now that I'm slowly integrating into my big flock.. I tend to put the cart before the horse when I do things but I find it expands my comfort zone.. & also makes me a better improvisor 😂 Barn looks beautiful btw😊
I LOVE THE BABIES, the soft squeeky sound they make is so CUTE.
Busy, busy, busy! Glad to see things coming together
Hey Morgan, I don't normally comment, but this was a great bit of story telling, and videography, you seem to be getting pretty good at this whole vlogging process :-) Your looking slimmer and healthier, good for you.
Morgan! You sound so happy. Like that deep heart happy. every video its been building these last few months. Insert gif from Hook "you're doing it peter! look you're doing it!"
I love seeing pictures of the two of you from your younger years!
You could let the pigs onto those bales. They will dig into them and add their 'bonus' to it. Then you can rake it out a bit more. That's just a thought though, the way you are currently doing it is great.
Once again Morgan, pure Gold. Pun intended.
Morgan, you've come so far. You have evolved into a good farmer. Most learning comes from our failures which makes us so much more informed.
You will have catnip!! The bees will love it when it blooms! The seeds will be broadcast by various creatures. You will find it growing where you didn't plant it. Not a bad thing.
Keep up the good work!!
OMG IVE NEVER BEEN THIS EARLY I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SO MUCH. LOTS OF LOVE FROM AUSTRALIA
Really enjoyed this video Morgan! Really a chill vibe like a couple of friends having a conversation. And it is a fairly long video which i thoroughly enjoy. Watched while my food was on the grill and i was sitting outside watching it cook. Love the idea of the chaos garden. Ive dont that before with flowers and it turned out beautifully.
A major solution to the flies would be something you already strive to do; incorporate the wild fauna.
Your pastures are perfect habitat for bluebirds if they have adequate housing along the edges of the forrest and they will eat half their weight in insects every day. In fact, many songbirds are insectivores during the warmer months.
Put up a dozen bluebird boxes facing towards the pasture and maybe some shallow water sources that they can bathe in and drink from and you'll have all sorts of colorful, vocal and helpful birds flitting about gobbling up flies and mosquitoes.
I still remember when you slept in the hoop coop with the pups. Time flies, that was the day I subscribed.
Morgan it seems like your farm has so much going on now, expansions everywhere. Is the new barn finished, is there a video showing this, if so love to watch.😊
i really do adore having the comfort and familiarity of your videos of you, the animals, and the farm... and occasionally allison when she feels like it. lol. thank you just for being you! love you guys!
You have come a long way Mr. Gold , thank you sir .
When i heard the Banjo string, my brain was like " OHHH HERE THE ALFRED PART!" and i sang along like i always does, haha, i love this channel so much
Honey bees love canola. It is easy to grow. Makes lots of honey.
Morgan, you've become Mr. Rogers for adults. Thanks for stepping up!
Love the chaos garden. If you need seed for one next year just send out the word. Im sure you would get enough to plant the farm twice over.
Love the baby geese footage! Glad to see the little goslings on some fresh greens at the end there. They certainly made an impact quite quickly! What a great idea to have a little area for them like that. I'd love to see how it holds up over the next 2 weeks, and to see what clutch 4 has in store.
Hysterical you got Joey back there with treats!
Love all that you are doing lots of work you have a great farm . LOVE WATCHING . You are looking great too .
Make a movable platform to put the pools on that you can move them to where you want them.
I really enjoyed your video today. It felt very authentic.
Make a hardware cloth cover for the catnip garden to keep dogs off and cats from mauling it, similar to your chicken water stands.
Hey Morgan! I love your videos where we get an update on all the animals and the new developments happening on your farm. Please feel free to make longer videos😁, I really enjoy watching long form farm content. Also, have you considered planting some bee friendly native wild flowers in the garden and in and around the hoop coop? I highly recommend it! Your bees will thank-you! 🐝 🌻
Dear Morgan, it is better to water the pumpkin seedlings the day before planting. I hope you don't change the watering method for them because they may suffer severely from wilt disease/Mildo when watering and wetting the leaves. For them the drip method is excellent. Regarding the oak plant, when they grow the seeds, the seeds get caught in the dog's fur and penetrate in a rotary fashion like a screw, into the skin or ear and cause a skin wound and damage to the ears as well as an infection. We in Israel suffer a lot in the summer season because all the areas are infected with this plant. I once lost a puppy because we couldn't completely clean her of the seeds that caused her a high fever of *42. And she died on the table at the vet.😭
@_officialGoldshawfarm Thank you very much, but I don't have Instagram
Gardening is fun and relaxing. It will be interesting to watch everything grow. Hope the pumpkins will be really big! It was nice seeing all of the animals.
It's so nice seeing all the animals 😊
Hope those squash and all do well in the greenhouse. We've not had good luck with those. The soil in there should be better than what we grew in.
If you have not yet, might want to tarp that nice pile of poultry manure and straw. Otherwise ran will leach some of the goodness out and weeds will colonize.
Love watching Toby dog watch the poultry. Sweet!
The current systems you have in place appear to be working really well. Like the “rapid movement-chickens-fly traps” and the 3 tier gosling pens. I have loved watching the journey to get to these functional systems.
Always love an Alfred nod
New barns looking great!
Yes Toby, what a good boy. I'd love to see a video just following him now that the birds' routine is different to what he's used to
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in that hoop house greenhouse setup! If I had the land, thats exactly what I would do. Honestly, I did broadcast a bunch of random seeds to create chaos in one part of my yard. I will see if anything comes up 😂 I highly recommend a sprinkler... I couldn't do with those hoses you have!
Looking good Morgan. Your health and happiness are showing in this video 👊💪
I will definitely be a catnip customer! My kitty goes crazy for it and having it come straight from Pablo Escobar will be hilarious. 😂
A gosling moment of zen at the end as an added bonus ❤