Im new to your channel but i seen the video where you set up the table for the farmers market and your celery looked amazing can you please make a video about starting and growing celery please
Hey Chef Mikey, your system looks really good. You might consider adding red worms to your nearly finished heap. Vermicompost is the very best organic compost/fertilizer. In the fall, I plan to build a heap with a hot core, cover with shredded leaves, and inoculate with redworms. The worms will find areas they prefer and will work well into winter. In the spring I should have a heap of really good vermicompost. 😊
Sweet man! Great recommendations! Do you know how a guy like me might get some red worms? There is a good amount of earthworms in the pile. Are red worms better?
@@chefsharvestfarm for the type of piles you’re doing they can be, definitely having both work together will enhance what’s happening in your piles. Red wigglers will still be working in temps from 36-90F, the earthworms (hard to consider now) are dead below 50F and prefer more moderate temps. I have a small worm farm just west of you in Crossville. I offer castings, worms in living bedding, and compost tea kits that can include my naturally raised cold manures. Let me know if that may work for you.
@@chefsharvestfarm thanks man. anything from soil amendments to infrastructure to processes im all ears. You have a smooth and clean operation and I know it wasn't easy and it didn't come without self reflection and some setbacks. You're a good solid dude and I'm all ears
Chef Mikey putting out some extra nice videos lately! Keep crushing. You might benefit from keeping the piles covered with some silage tarp, you're at a scale where it's still feasible.
@@chefsharvestfarm More control over moisture and temperature allowing you to hold and regulate them in the "sweet spot" for longer and better. Creating a more consistent finished product and snuffing out weed seeds completely. It will also speed up the process as the piles wont go through massive swings in temp and moisture. Letting them get rained on will also leech the nutrient and microbe density.
@@mikehunte398 cool man! Thanks for the feedback 🙏 I may try it sometime! My tarps are all tied up at my leased property right now… but might be worth a try this winter
@@chefsharvestfarmlook up the process of curing hay? I’m not an expert at all but the video made it seem as if salting the outside, or whatever it was, kept the moisture out alittle and created a bio shell if you will. Anyways amazing video Mikey and can’t wait for the next!!! You’re such an inspiration man!!🤙
Have you ever thought about setting up a small continuous worm bin? Your process is already really good just curious your thoughts on vermicompost. Thank you for the knowledge!!🤙
@@chefsharvestfarm I personally am maybe a few months in. Hobby level but cool how quickly you can multiply. Anyways knowing your skill so far, you’d take worm castings and look like a pro in a few days haha 😆 thank you for the hard work!!🤙
Great video and great job I do the same but on a lot smaller scale (no tractor yet) it’s make very good compost and about the worms the king of compost worms are red wigglers I have them and they work fast I ordered mine from -meme worms she is a great lady and has UA-cam videos
I've composted quite a few deer and all sorts of other varmints including and especially fish. It's amazing how fast whole entire deer will completely disappear when you bury them in the center of a big pile. Two to three weeks and they're gone, nothing left but bones. My garden is like a cemetery for wildlife.
Right?! I’ve never even found a bone in that pile! But I also buried a boatload of spent oyster mushroom blocks in it also. I’m thinking that’s probably what helped break down the bones 🤷🏻♂️ definitely fascinating!
@@chefsharvestfarm More than likely so, and it's definitely fascinating. If the pile stays hot enough for long enough they'll disappear quick. In that video were those guys who do it commercially composted those 300 hogs, the big ol bones on them were disintegrating way faster than I would have imagined. A big pile that has more than plenty nitrogen will do it to it real quick like and in a hurry. I'm going to make a really good pile this fall and it's going to be hotter than a firecracker now that I've got access to tons and tons of goat manure. I've got 60 gallons of fish emulsion that's already finished that'll go in the pile too. What I compost mostly is finely shredded fall leaves, somewhere in the neighborhood of ten tons worth. They require a lot of nitrogen in order to break down fast enough to have finished compost by spring. I'm feeling pretty optimistic about cremating deers even faster than I have in the past. lol
@@chefsharvestfarm Yes Sir, absolutely. I screen all of my compost twice as well as my garden soil, mixing them both together about 60/40. Once through a 1"X1/2" screen and then again through a 1/4" screen. About half of the deer that I use are roadkill. Those are a lot easier to come by. The other half is carcasses from the deer that I shoot.
Good looking pile. I've been signed up for a chip drop and no one ever came. I figured if it has been five years, no one is coming. So, how do you think you did this year, with sales, vs. last year? So proud of you.
I pay the $20 fee that the arborist has to pay. And I typically get it within 2-3 days. One week at the most. But when I first started I signed up and tried to get free wood chips and no one ever came… my sales are higher than last… but profit is down. But I’ve also taken on additional staff and we are building another farm. So I’ve been putting more in with no return. We are about to start harvesting 250 winter squash plants from the new property. And within 2 weeks we will be planting a quarter acre to fall brassicas, carrots, and beets… so hoping to make some money off the new property for the end of the year 🤞🏻 a couple prayers won’t hurt 🤣
I was wondering when we would get to see your amazing journey with composting! Wonderful thermophilic action you got going! // Breaking down paper and wood chips (lignan) is the job of fungi...and it takes time because they like cooler temps than bacterias. Tailoring your compost pile to break down these things might be achieved by collecting Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) such as the technique in Korean Natural Farming (KNF). See youtube channels by Pure KNF and Chris Trump. They present many other preparations as well that unlock your soils inherent minerals and fertility, make medicine, sprays to keep bugs at bay, or clean-up preps and foliar sprays for your plants. KNF has "no-odor solutions" and built infrastructure for pig sties, too! They are able to raise hogs indoors with no odor!
@@chefsharvestfarm Berkley university put all this time and money and effort into figuring out the best composting method in existence, and after figuring out a lot of information they developed their own method- the 18 day Berkley compost. hope u do check it out your method is already super on track and awesome, the Berkley method might just allow you to bump up production and easily hit your 40 yard goal. i have easily made 3- 5 yards at a time with just hand tools.
@@aylahughes9185 great! Thanks for the suggestion 🙏 just watched an Anne of all trades video on it 💪 while making more tomato sauce 🤣 I’m over tomato season 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah… I’ll probably just end up doing something like that just so I can use it. Ideally I’ll figure out something motorized. I use too much compost to do by hand.
The white spindley ones are just mycelium I believe (I’m not an expert though). And the brown ones are probably edible. The compost I purchase is used to grow mushrooms first. Then they sell the spent compost cheap. So there’s always all kinds of different mushrooms popping up in the garden! I figure it’s good for fungal diversity if nothing else!
Bigger bones wont break down that quick, but hair and the smaller bones definitely will for sure. Some of my ol lady's family owns a big ass goat farm and they let me go in their goat barn to shovel out manure by the truckloads. That stuff has an insane amount of hair in it and they were all concerned about me putting all of that hair in my garden. I told them that the hair would all completely dissolve within three weeks of being composted and then I showed them what I told them after the fact.
Amazing to see how you scaled up production in every aspect. Looks great 👏🏻
Thank you 🙏
Awesome video Mikey!! 👍🏻
Thank you 🙏
My favorite newer YT channel. Keep em coming chef.
@@JesseGrowsChannel thanks Jesse 🙏
Man I love these videos! I have a few small raised beds, but have dreams of transforming my back yard to all garden. Your videos are very educational.
@@toddmessina3105 that’s awesome! Glad you like the videos! Thanks for watching/dropping comments 🙏
Beautiful garden mate!
Thanks Dave 🙏
Great way to make your own compost that way u no what it’s made of 🇳🇿😎
Exactly! Buying compost is super risky! Thanks for watching/dropping comments 🙏
The holy shirt was a joke! 😂 Looks great. Thanks for sharing how quick your piles are working
Thank you 🙏
Im new to your channel but i seen the video where you set up the table for the farmers market and your celery looked amazing can you please make a video about starting and growing celery please
Here ya go! ua-cam.com/video/4asQG2c0iO0/v-deo.htmlsi=_ltdPZ4heL3w-hn7
Nice video
Thank you 🙏
Hey Chef Mikey, your system looks really good. You might consider adding red worms to your nearly finished heap. Vermicompost is the very best organic compost/fertilizer. In the fall, I plan to build a heap with a hot core, cover with shredded leaves, and inoculate with redworms. The worms will find areas they prefer and will work well into winter. In the spring I should have a heap of really good vermicompost. 😊
Sweet man! Great recommendations! Do you know how a guy like me might get some red worms? There is a good amount of earthworms in the pile. Are red worms better?
@@chefsharvestfarm for the type of piles you’re doing they can be, definitely having both work together will enhance what’s happening in your piles. Red wigglers will still be working in temps from 36-90F, the earthworms (hard to consider now) are dead below 50F and prefer more moderate temps. I have a small worm farm just west of you in Crossville. I offer castings, worms in living bedding, and compost tea kits that can include my naturally raised cold manures. Let me know if that may work for you.
@@TrickleCreekFarm sweet! Tell me more! How do I buy stuff?
@@TrickleCreekFarm can you email me? contact@chefsharvestfarm.com I don’t always see the comments. I’d love to chat about it more.
@@chefsharvestfarm even better, will do!
Great hello I'll always watching and supporting you, waiting for new videos from you
Thank you so much 🙏 I appreciate your support 🙌
Nice process you have there! I'm still trying to figure out where I'm going to put the pile! LOL
Thanks 🙏
You're my favorite channel man. Can you do a video on your failures/setbacks/tough lessons etc, and what went wrong, and what you learned from them?
Heck yes! That is a great idea 🙌
@@chefsharvestfarm thanks man. anything from soil amendments to infrastructure to processes im all ears. You have a smooth and clean operation and I know it wasn't easy and it didn't come without self reflection and some setbacks. You're a good solid dude and I'm all ears
Chef Mikey putting out some extra nice videos lately! Keep crushing. You might benefit from keeping the piles covered with some silage tarp, you're at a scale where it's still feasible.
Thank you 🙏 I think I like them to get rained on 🤷🏻♂️ what is the benefit of tarping the pile?
@@chefsharvestfarm More control over moisture and temperature allowing you to hold and regulate them in the "sweet spot" for longer and better. Creating a more consistent finished product and snuffing out weed seeds completely. It will also speed up the process as the piles wont go through massive swings in temp and moisture. Letting them get rained on will also leech the nutrient and microbe density.
@@mikehunte398 cool man! Thanks for the feedback 🙏 I may try it sometime! My tarps are all tied up at my leased property right now… but might be worth a try this winter
@@chefsharvestfarmlook up the process of curing hay? I’m not an expert at all but the video made it seem as if salting the outside, or whatever it was, kept the moisture out alittle and created a bio shell if you will. Anyways amazing video Mikey and can’t wait for the next!!! You’re such an inspiration man!!🤙
Can you do a video on your irrigation system? Loving the channel!
Absolutely! Thanks for following along! 🙏
Have you ever thought about setting up a small continuous worm bin? Your process is already really good just curious your thoughts on vermicompost. Thank you for the knowledge!!🤙
I don’t have experience with worms but definitely interested.
@@chefsharvestfarm I personally am maybe a few months in. Hobby level but cool how quickly you can multiply. Anyways knowing your skill so far, you’d take worm castings and look like a pro in a few days haha 😆 thank you for the hard work!!🤙
@@NoOneAnyMore4You awesome! Thank you 🙏
Great video and great job I do the same but on a lot smaller scale (no tractor yet) it’s make very good compost and about the worms the king of compost worms are red wigglers I have them and they work fast I ordered mine from -meme worms she is a great lady and has UA-cam videos
@@brettkennedy8832 that’s awesome! Thanks for the feedback and support 🙏
I've composted quite a few deer and all sorts of other varmints including and especially fish. It's amazing how fast whole entire deer will completely disappear when you bury them in the center of a big pile. Two to three weeks and they're gone, nothing left but bones. My garden is like a cemetery for wildlife.
Right?! I’ve never even found a bone in that pile! But I also buried a boatload of spent oyster mushroom blocks in it also. I’m thinking that’s probably what helped break down the bones 🤷🏻♂️ definitely fascinating!
@@ozarksbuckslayer2484 cool! If I can get my hands on a deer I’ll definitely do it again! Definitely trying to get some more mushroom blocks.
@@chefsharvestfarm More than likely so, and it's definitely fascinating. If the pile stays hot enough for long enough they'll disappear quick. In that video were those guys who do it commercially composted those 300 hogs, the big ol bones on them were disintegrating way faster than I would have imagined. A big pile that has more than plenty nitrogen will do it to it real quick like and in a hurry. I'm going to make a really good pile this fall and it's going to be hotter than a firecracker now that I've got access to tons and tons of goat manure. I've got 60 gallons of fish emulsion that's already finished that'll go in the pile too. What I compost mostly is finely shredded fall leaves, somewhere in the neighborhood of ten tons worth. They require a lot of nitrogen in order to break down fast enough to have finished compost by spring. I'm feeling pretty optimistic about cremating deers even faster than I have in the past. lol
@@ozarksbuckslayer2484 wow! Sounds fun! And do you use the finished compost for gardening?
@@chefsharvestfarm Yes Sir, absolutely. I screen all of my compost twice as well as my garden soil, mixing them both together about 60/40. Once through a 1"X1/2" screen and then again through a 1/4" screen. About half of the deer that I use are roadkill. Those are a lot easier to come by. The other half is carcasses from the deer that I shoot.
Good looking pile. I've been signed up for a chip drop and no one ever came. I figured if it has been five years, no one is coming. So, how do you think you did this year, with sales, vs. last year? So proud of you.
I pay the $20 fee that the arborist has to pay. And I typically get it within 2-3 days. One week at the most. But when I first started I signed up and tried to get free wood chips and no one ever came… my sales are higher than last… but profit is down. But I’ve also taken on additional staff and we are building another farm. So I’ve been putting more in with no return. We are about to start harvesting 250 winter squash plants from the new property. And within 2 weeks we will be planting a quarter acre to fall brassicas, carrots, and beets… so hoping to make some money off the new property for the end of the year 🤞🏻 a couple prayers won’t hurt 🤣
I was wondering when we would get to see your amazing journey with composting! Wonderful thermophilic action you got going! // Breaking down paper and wood chips (lignan) is the job of fungi...and it takes time because they like cooler temps than bacterias. Tailoring your compost pile to break down these things might be achieved by collecting Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) such as the technique in Korean Natural Farming (KNF). See youtube channels by Pure KNF and Chris Trump. They present many other preparations as well that unlock your soils inherent minerals and fertility, make medicine, sprays to keep bugs at bay, or clean-up preps and foliar sprays for your plants. KNF has "no-odor solutions" and built infrastructure for pig sties, too! They are able to raise hogs indoors with no odor!
@@allonesame6467 thank you 🙏 definitely looking forward to learning more!
@@chefsharvestfarm UA-cam Pure KNF Channel has OFFICE HOURS--Drake takes questions in the chat Live with amazing wisdom at the beginning.
@@allonesame6467 awesome! I’m am familiar 🙏
dude- check out the Berkley compost method and the research that went into it! im sure you will dig it!
Awesome! Sounds familiar! I’ll check it out!
@@chefsharvestfarm Berkley university put all this time and money and effort into figuring out the best composting method in existence, and after figuring out a lot of information they developed their own method- the 18 day Berkley compost. hope u do check it out your method is already super on track and awesome, the Berkley method might just allow you to bump up production and easily hit your 40 yard goal. i have easily made 3- 5 yards at a time with just hand tools.
@@aylahughes9185 great! Thanks for the suggestion 🙏 just watched an Anne of all trades video on it 💪 while making more tomato sauce 🤣 I’m over tomato season 🤦🏻♂️
Chef, I saw another youtuber make a frame and staple on rabbit fencing to screen her compost. Like panning for gold...over a wheel barrow.
Yeah… I’ll probably just end up doing something like that just so I can use it. Ideally I’ll figure out something motorized. I use too much compost to do by hand.
Can you identify the mushrooms growing around the 6 minute and 7 minute mark in the video? Are they edible? What would you cook with them?
The white spindley ones are just mycelium I believe (I’m not an expert though). And the brown ones are probably edible. The compost I purchase is used to grow mushrooms first. Then they sell the spent compost cheap. So there’s always all kinds of different mushrooms popping up in the garden! I figure it’s good for fungal diversity if nothing else!
Bad ass tractor you got Chef, what's the make and model?
It’s a rural king rk21. It’s bout the cheapest tractor money can buy 🤣 but it’s better than shoveling 🙌
Perfect the smelly slimy smelly stuff... That stuff grows shrooms huh
Sure thing!
I have like 10 truckloads of mulch from chip drop for composting. my dad raids my pile.
@@mathgasm8484 nice! I love chip drop!
@@chefsharvestfarm I mostly farm honey bees but I am building a peach orchard and do have a good sized tomato field.
@@mathgasm8484 nice! 👍
Damnnnn hes hotttt 😍
Thank you 🔥🔥🔥
Impossible. Bones and hair……not going to break down that fast.
Unbelievable 🙌
Bigger bones wont break down that quick, but hair and the smaller bones definitely will for sure. Some of my ol lady's family owns a big ass goat farm and they let me go in their goat barn to shovel out manure by the truckloads. That stuff has an insane amount of hair in it and they were all concerned about me putting all of that hair in my garden. I told them that the hair would all completely dissolve within three weeks of being composted and then I showed them what I told them after the fact.