I am glad you decided to support your local butchery , a family owned business, as that builds community that supports each independent and distinctive part of agriculture based lives. It was impressive how the chickens leveled that compost making it inoculated for next season. Wonderful.
I watched this video with your book, "Making Small Farms Work", on my desk. I can't stop reading it. Dense information with no permaculture rehashing. So many BEAUTIFUL images and clear information that it is like I walking through the farm while you explain each concept. Truly a learning experience. It is worth every dollar and more. Thank you.
You may be already planning this, but a manual gable vent at the top of each end wall on the high tunnel, operated by an automatic vent opener, will save you labor and help keep livestock or crops at good temperatures. The vent openers have a wax cylinder that expands from the heat of the solar gain, opening and closing without a need for motors or power.
You've inspired me yet again. We rent some land for the horses and I have a growing area in the small field up from that, plus 2 allotments elsewhere, but you've inspired me to look into buying land again as we want to have more ducks and chickens than we already do and I want to grow more and start selling produce and eggs etc. I'm going to put some oyster mushrooms into my fresh wood chip pile this weekend to hopefully get crops of mushrooms as well as help the chips break down. I'm working on a smaller scale than you at the minute but want to scale up. I do film what I'm up to too. Thank you.
It’s been a great treat watching all your videos this season, big thanks for all the inspiration and knowledge. Next year i’m starting my own little farm outside varberg. And you are one of the reasons i got started thinking about it in the first place. Keep up the awsome work!
Thanks for all the invaluable content Richard, I appreciate it. I'm looking forward to the arrival of your book any day now, and for the online training. When you can, could you please post a video outlining a process one could use for assessing a potential property? You mentioned in one of your early videos that you had had around 50 criteria that a property needed to possess (specific to your personal context), before settling on Ridgedale. Could you perhaps share what that process was like for you? Maybe some of the steps you took? Or how we might develop our own process and clarify our own criteria for investigating potential sites? My wife and I are looking for a property and planning to begin our enterprise in the next year or two. Thanks again and best wishes.
It's crazy how much less things like vehicles and trailers cost in the U.K. We moved from bath in the U.K. To the Rhône Alpes région of France.... hopefully doing something like you guys... on a much smaller scale. Good work!
Water box on a palette - stop the straw jumping in? Q: when you apply a sheet over the permanent raised beds, what consideration is given to the cover as a casing for all your mychorrizal species?
Hey Richard, winterized 20 of my chickens a few weeks ago. Put 20 cm of fine straw in it. The coop is about 5,25 square meter. They are digging their manure very good but the straw becomes damp - on top as well. Their feet are starting to become bad. Any suggestions? Thank you from Germany
How do you market your eggs in the winter if the birds are no longer on pasture? Barn raised? Do you have an obligation to number your eggs when doing direct sales?
We don't really market eggs, we could likely sell 150-200% of current productions. Customers generally sign up for 6-month subscriptions, and know what we do at the farm. I think due to the climate here, people are aware that hens can't live outside here in winter
Wow, they level the stuff so quick. Love your videos! Will use some hens to prepare my beds...My issue is not being able to find any human help to work at the farm. America has produced the most lazy folks on the planet. Even though the work is not difficult, it is extremely difficult to find anyone to to anything. I am twice the age of most who want to come work. They can not handle the heat and I am working along side them. I work full time and farm full time. If you all could work out how to deal with interns, even when one is at a job, that would be golden. The farm no way makes as much money as my job. So where do we go from here... One of your guys looks like an American. I maybe wrong, but has his act together...
I have had geese, but boy, spent several hours plucking them... I ended up just roasting them and pulling off the skin. Never got all the feathers off them. But they were tasty. Ducks I hate the dirty buggers. They make such a mess. The only way I could keep water clean was to use nipples... I kept an area they could get into, because that is how ducks roll. Their dirty pig pen. My ducks laid eggs like monsters and the Buff hatched 10 before I knew it, hid under a bush. Duck eggs are a bit to rich for my personal taste and processing them is a PIA. These are going to the sale barn and will be done with them. I love my layer hens and have some American Bresse. They are great meat and layers. So done with these ducks. I ate all the geese.
Spencer Heaps but what you propably wanted to know is what it is, its a way for producers sell ther produce in advace and drop it off at a pick up point. It's a group in facebook, started in Finland and spread from there.
excited for the new training and next year's season. going through your book intensively now. it's really helping frame my goes for the next 1, 3, 5 years...
I am glad you decided to support your local butchery , a family owned business, as that builds community that supports each independent and distinctive part of agriculture based lives. It was impressive how the chickens leveled that compost making it inoculated for next season. Wonderful.
Shut the fuck up you dumb pest
I watched this video with your book, "Making Small Farms Work", on my desk. I can't stop reading it. Dense information with no permaculture rehashing. So many BEAUTIFUL images and clear information that it is like I walking through the farm while you explain each concept. Truly a learning experience. It is worth every dollar and more. Thank you.
thank you for all you're video's richard they have helped me so much and thank you for sharing
You may be already planning this, but a manual gable vent at the top of each end wall on the high tunnel, operated by an automatic vent opener, will save you labor and help keep livestock or crops at good temperatures. The vent openers have a wax cylinder that expands from the heat of the solar gain, opening and closing without a need for motors or power.
You've inspired me yet again. We rent some land for the horses and I have a growing area in the small field up from that, plus 2 allotments elsewhere, but you've inspired me to look into buying land again as we want to have more ducks and chickens than we already do and I want to grow more and start selling produce and eggs etc. I'm going to put some oyster mushrooms into my fresh wood chip pile this weekend to hopefully get crops of mushrooms as well as help the chips break down. I'm working on a smaller scale than you at the minute but want to scale up. I do film what I'm up to too.
Thank you.
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It’s been a great treat watching all your videos this season, big thanks for all the inspiration and knowledge. Next year i’m starting my own little farm outside varberg. And you are one of the reasons i got started thinking about it in the first place. Keep up the awsome work!
Thanks for all the invaluable content Richard, I appreciate it.
I'm looking forward to the arrival of your book any day now, and for the online training.
When you can, could you please post a video outlining a process one could use for assessing a potential property? You mentioned in one of your early videos that you had had around 50 criteria that a property needed to possess (specific to your personal context), before settling on Ridgedale. Could you perhaps share what that process was like for you? Maybe some of the steps you took? Or how we might develop our own process and clarify our own criteria for investigating potential sites? My wife and I are looking for a property and planning to begin our enterprise in the next year or two.
Thanks again and best wishes.
It's crazy how much less things like vehicles and trailers cost in the U.K. We moved from bath in the U.K. To the Rhône Alpes région of France.... hopefully doing something like you guys... on a much smaller scale. Good work!
Water box on a palette - stop the straw jumping in? Q: when you apply a sheet over the permanent raised beds, what consideration is given to the cover as a casing for all your mychorrizal species?
Hey Richard, winterized 20 of my chickens a few weeks ago. Put 20 cm of fine straw in it. The coop is about 5,25 square meter. They are digging their manure very good but the straw becomes damp - on top as well. Their feet are starting to become bad. Any suggestions? Thank you from Germany
Put in more/new straw ?
Ty for sharing this!
How do you market your eggs in the winter if the birds are no longer on pasture? Barn raised?
Do you have an obligation to number your eggs when doing direct sales?
Curious too!
We don't really market eggs, we could likely sell 150-200% of current productions. Customers generally sign up for 6-month subscriptions, and know what we do at the farm. I think due to the climate here, people are aware that hens can't live outside here in winter
so what do you do with all the eggs you get in the winter?
thank you for doing this
Why not do a "Jean Pain" composter for frost-free water? Free heat and you've got inoculated soil after it's finished. Any thoughts?
Wow, they level the stuff so quick. Love your videos! Will use some hens to prepare my beds...My issue is not being able to find any human help to work at the farm. America has produced the most lazy folks on the planet. Even though the work is not difficult, it is extremely difficult to find anyone to to anything. I am twice the age of most who want to come work. They can not handle the heat and I am working along side them. I work full time and farm full time. If you all could work out how to deal with interns, even when one is at a job, that would be golden. The farm no way makes as much money as my job. So where do we go from here... One of your guys looks like an American. I maybe wrong, but has his act together...
could you show the geese and duck house? do you feed them?
Do you provide roosts for your laying hens or do you find they don't need them?
Are the chickens in all day and night or do they get out side in the day ?? Thanks for sharing
I have had fox take my grrse an ducks in fact 1 of each this summer then a wolf kill on a 5 month old steer in the hears witch met a 30-06
I have had geese, but boy, spent several hours plucking them... I ended up just roasting them and pulling off the skin. Never got all the feathers off them. But they were tasty. Ducks I hate the dirty buggers. They make such a mess. The only way I could keep water clean was to use nipples... I kept an area they could get into, because that is how ducks roll. Their dirty pig pen. My ducks laid eggs like monsters and the Buff hatched 10 before I knew it, hid under a bush. Duck eggs are a bit to rich for my personal taste and processing them is a PIA. These are going to the sale barn and will be done with them. I love my layer hens and have some American Bresse. They are great meat and layers. So done with these ducks. I ate all the geese.
What is that word, Reko? Rico? Is it an acronym? Please explain
Spencer Heaps reko is a word close to fair or such.
Spencer Heaps but what you propably wanted to know is what it is, its a way for producers sell ther produce in advace and drop it off at a pick up point. It's a group in facebook, started in Finland and spread from there.
*advance
How many chickens are that
他蛮帅可牙齿很 糟糕
soo much bureaucracy.
excited for the new training and next year's season. going through your book intensively now. it's really helping frame my goes for the next 1, 3, 5 years...