It's a lovely sunny day, and the transplants I put in the other day are doing fine under the covers. Today I've got 16 beds to prep and I'm going to use the Jang seeder, the Paperpot transplanter and also do a lot of hand transplants.What's your preferred way to seed...

It's that time of year when there's just so much to do! Onions and garlic to plant, picnic benches to build, a seabuckthorn forest to plant, an egg-mobile to automate, accommodations to get ready, a ton more seeding to do, mess to clean up, grass to seed, an attefalls...

I'm on the beautiful island of Gotland helping to prepare no-dig beds for a new farm here. The Ridgedale-style of no-dig market gardening has influenced tens of thousands of farms around the world, but I've never actually been able to show how I made them from scratch...

It's the first day of planting this spring and I'm super excited. It's a beautiful sunny day but it's still cold at night time and we do have a few days with frost anticipated in the next week. Because of the fair weather, though, I figure that if I treat them right...

Today I'm going to start potting out all the tomato plants. It's a homesteading year and we've got 600 plants. In the big tunnel I was prepping recently we're going to have tomatoes, English cucumbers, watermelons and melons.What are your favourite tomato...

Here's an update on what's going on in the seeding room and with other projects as we get ready: how the natural pool is coming along, ordering stuff for the hens, turkeys and pigs, as well as prepping for the arrival of the homesteading team.What's up in your seeding...

Finishing up the natural swimming pool dig as well as the water, sewage and electricity conduits to the new guesthouse. Time for me to order the components for the actual building of the pool!Have you built a natural swimming pool?Join the conversation in the comments...

Regular viewers will know I've been planning a natural swimming pool build for a couple of years now - and now's the time to get on with it! For that purpose, we're digging a deep hole in my front lawn, and we also need to do some digging in order to be able to...

We've seeded the cabbages now and prepped the beds in the big polytunnel for tomatoes, cucumbers, chilis, melons and watermelons. First time growing melons here - always nice to shake things up.What are you growing in your tunnel(s) this year?Join the conversation in...

I’m starting to sow the vegetables for the year. We’ve got 1000m2 under cultivation, and even though the beds are still snow capped and frozen, the lean-to greenhouse now has a nice temperature and it’s time to get the tomatoes in.What have you sown thus far?Join the...

This video is about the 2022 positions at the farm. I have one employed job to fill, which you can learn more about here. I’m also looking for like-minded folk who’d like to homestead together for the season; just have a beautiful summer, producing our own food and...

Happy New Year! It’s been a while - not much going on at the farm at the moment. I’ve been resting a lot and settling into my new life with Ragnar and Grace. School starts in a few days, including for me! I’ll finally be learning Swedish, so wish me luck… Today’s...

Today I thought I'd talk about the diet I’m eating and how I’m planning to live exclusively off my farm, hunting, fishing and foraging next year. Going forward, I’ll broaden the content of the blog to include all of that.Would you like to be able to live like...

Things got a little bit out of hand this summer in the market garden, so I’m dedicating the next month to putting things back in order. Today I want to talk about the poor economy of letting things get out of control, and how a stitch in time might save 15-20 in the...

My summer holiday has officially ended. Grace is back in the UK with her mum until Christmas, and I’m back at the farm for a month of packing down the farm as the season comes to an end. Next year I’ll be taking a break from farming in order to have more time for my...

Autumn is rolling in with misty mornings - my favourite time a year. I’m at Ridgedale for a brief spell, so if you’ve been missing updates from the farm, this video is for you! The grass is lush, the trees are heavy with fruit, the sky is blue, the sun is yellow… Song...

Today I’m taking you on a walk ’n’ talk around the farm! Due to on-going Covid complications, we’ve had to cancel all our on-farm trainings, which has led to a €100.000 shortfall in our economy. If you want to support us, then the best way is to get one of our books,...

The heat is on! It’s sweltering here, and we’re having thunderstorms. Today I thought I’d show you some of the metrics around packing eggs. This year we have 700 hens in two egg-mobiles, which only makes for 80 minutes of work a day - no wonder layers are a popular...

This video is kind of a snapshot diary of what we’ve been up to. As might be expected this time of year, it contains elderflower cordial, strawberries, blooming flowers, bountiful crops and thriving animals. For those inclined to excitement, pay attention about two...

So, it’s been a while since I last put a video out. I’ve been busy getting another tipi up, getting various other jobs around the farm done, taking time out at Klätta to check on our sheep - and we’re now prepping for our second slaughter week, where we’ll be doing...

We finally had a bit of very welcome rain. I’m taking you on another tour around the farm in this video, both on the ground (cows, broilers, polytunnel and other bits) and from the sky. I’m also answering a couple of questions about my Masterclass that I keep getting...

In today’s video I’ll take you around the farm. You’ll se us moving the cows back on our land, I’ll tell you a bit about how we run the layers and broilers, you’ll get a glimpse of the pigs, the sheep and the gardens, and you’ll se me turning the dunk tanks in the...

The pigs have arrived! After some years without pigs, I’m excited to have 4 of them in the forest, so that we can fill  our freezer later in the year (bacon is one of my favourite foods). Likewise, we’re planting rice for the first time in years. Join our mini series...

Today we’re starting slaughter week. We’re splitting 1000 broilers into 3 batches and doing back-to-back slaughtering and packing over a 6-day period. It’s the first time for this year’s team, so whilst a 330 bird slaughter normally takes around 5 hours, it’ll...

The day just got way better: We got an exemption to get our birds out on pasture! We live in an area of Sweden that is considered low risk, and we applied for wellfare reasons because it’s getting too hot in our tunnels for the birds. The exemption means that only...

After some awesome days out on the West Coast with Ragnar, I'm back on the farm and we’re getting the cows out on pasture today - they're going onto the neighbours property first, then coming back to our farm. The second batch of broilers has been moved from the...

Ragnar and I are at Klätta, putting up the gates we built to finish off the fencing job. Today I want to talk a bit about the reality of farming as a small family with kids, because in this age where the small farm movement is booming, it’s easy to get idealistic and...

After a mix of sunshine and rain, everything is greening up. In this video I’ve included some aerial footage so that you can see how the landscape is coming back to life. Marta, one of our cows, had her one bad day, and while we knew she was big she actually weighed...

Today marks a special day for me. Not only are the sheep coming out onto pasture for the first time this year, but I’m also finally switching from the Swedish postal service PostNord to FedEx, which will hopefully mean that I can get my books to you faster and more...

1000 new broiler chicks have arrived, the sheep have been sheared, the water pump has been fixed, and the other egg-mobile now also features the original nest boxes again. The voles are still trashing the place, including eating our kale and making holes all over our...

I’m exhausted and feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things to do. We’ve been having issues with the hens laying eggs in a corner of one of the egg-mobiles, so I've decided to swop it out for the egg-mobile that still has the original nest boxes. There goes that...

New cases of bird flu means the birds are staying in the tunnels for at least another few weeks and that we have a tough decision to make; do we pick up the next batch of broilers or not? The new lambs are doing good, soon we’ll have pigs arriving, and the transplants...

So, we finished the fencing at Klätta and are back at Ridgedale. Today is a big day; the broilers are leaving the brooder, but for the first time ever they’re going into a polytunnel instead of onto pasture. We’re also doing more transplanting and direct seeding.Are...

We're on the West Coast farm, enjoying lovely spring weather. We've come to fence off the pasture so that we can keep the sheep here for the summer. Because there are no predators on this side of the big highway, we're just using sheep netting with top wires and...

Tired, but happy: We finally got three healthy lambs. We’ve also been doing a bit of direct seeding, putting up a 20m caterpillar tunnel, making predator poles and taking the yurts up to the forest, and we've started building the new decking. We're looking at about 15...

We’d just transplanted the first kales and then it snowed again… We also stayed up late for lambing, sadly only to welcome two more bad lambs. Eggs have started coming, so we’ve been ironing out the last nest box kinks, and we’ve also prepared the second tunnel for...

I’m down at my West Coast farm to map out the fencing. That will allow me to purchase the materials needed, and I’ll then bring a small team with me to set it up. We’re mostly going to follow the edges of the pasture and then add a bit of fencing up on the giant rock,...

We’ve been tweaking the new automated nest boxes which need to be ready to receive the first eggs in about ten days, mulching the paddy ponds to get them ready for rice (with our home-produced compost), and brainstorming the Ridgedale Eats book that we're finally...

After a series of unusually warm winters, the vole population has exploded. They’ve completely taken over the pasture and destroyed more trees than ever before, including some of our 6m tall oaks. We’ll be implementing a range of vole control strategies to try and...

So, since we suddenly have a bit of snow on the ground again, we’re not planting trees today as planned. Instead, we’re getting the caterpillar tunnel up, clearing out the barn, moving the grain mill and building a staircase. The first lamb of the season seems to be...

We’re getting on with the many spring tasks. We’ve put in the majority of the bare root plants now, and this time we’ve put them in wire baskets in the hopes of protecting them from voles. The layers and broilers are doing well, and since the ground is starting to...

We’ve picked up our new kitchen wagon and chef Elin is happy! It was quite the investment, but we feel confident that it will be worth it. As of this season we’ll not only be cooking for our training participants but also for our camping guests, plus it means that we...

1000 day-old chicks have arrived. They’ve just hatched this morning and never had water or feed before, so we’re monitoring them closely during this initial stage to make sure that they drink and that they’re warm enough. It’s also time to get up the giant tipi! Quite...

11 pallets of trees just arrived (berries, nut trees, oaks, birch trees, spruce) - what luck that we just cleared the yard so there’s space for them!  We’re also setting up the brooder so that it’s nice and warm when 1000 birds arrive on Monday. It’s been a couple of...

There’s so much to do right now! The newly arrived layers seem relaxed and some of them have ventured outside and into the polytunnel. We’ve finished the first big deck in the yard that will seat up to 134 people, cleared up the herb garden and tidied up the yard a...

I was pretty worried about how the chicken delivery would go down, now that we have the new nest boxes installed and the space is much more limited than in previous years. When birds just arrive, they tend to huddle together, and so they could risk getting squashed....

This is probably the most hectic start to a season we’ve ever had at Ridgedale! Contrary to our reputation for being super organised, this year the yard and the workshop are a mess, the egg-mobiles aren’t ready yet, and the next few weeks are going to be super busy;...

What a productive week! Today it was a challenge to get the timber to the sites and we also had to spend time putting in extra support on the 9m decks to stop them from bouncing. We're starting to feel pretty worn out and sore, but it's all worth it, as tomorrow all 5...

So, today we were feeling all set up for getting started with decking in terms of tool kit; camo decking tool, long bits, screw drivers, special decking screws, a drill, spare batteries, a chalk line, a jigsaw, a circular saw… A few screws in, though, we realised that...

The platform project continues! In today’s video we’re building the two 9 meter platforms and taking down one of the old ones. We’re also, now that we're finally the official owners of the forest patch, cutting down the four trees that are in the way of the new...

The new forest platforms are coming along nicely, and we’re taking down the old yard platforms. It’s bittersweet to remove the 9m deck for the old yurt. It’s one of the first structures I built at the farm, and we must have served over 60,000 meals on it. But, it’ll...

The first calf of the year is here, courtesy of Clover May. Combined with a spell of warm weather, it’s felt very much like spring, so we've been eating apple sauce in the sun and putting up the hammock. I took the weekend off, which means I was able to make...

Aquascaping part two! A bunch of beautiful plants arrived in the mail, so it was time to get planting. First we started filling the tank to saturate the medium, then we arranged the plants from the ground cover plants at the front to higher plants in the back, and...

After seeing the last video, some of suggested I build a bridge over the stream to be able to drive the platform timber all the way. Upon checking the stream, I realised I can drive on the ice today, so no bridge will be needed. I’ll be marking out the positions for...

The snow is starting to melt, so I’ve got the saw bench out and have started cutting down the yurt and tipi frames. It’s still a little difficult to access the designated spots in the forest, but I’ve managed to get some of the timber up there. In total I’ll be making...

I have a lot of heavy lifting to do with my new tractor, so I’ve got myself a tractor weight. Its tractor mounts not being the right size, I had our friend Vind come by to weld new ones. Tree seeds have arrived (nuts, apples and others) as well as rice, which I’m...

Here’s a bit of a different video for you about... aquascaping! Up here at 50 degrees north, we don’t see green plant growth for 6 months of the year. And so, inspired by Ragnar’s interest in creatures, ecology and ecosystems, we figured we’d make our own habitat and...

It looks like temperatures might peek above zero next week. This is good news for someone who has 7 massive wooden platforms for yurts and tipis to build, and in today’s video I’m laying out measurements and getting the spaces ready. I also have a couple of updates...

When we got the keys to Ridgedale 7 years ago, it was an empty piece of land with rundown buildings. It’s amazing what we’ve been able to accomplish in those 7 years, and really fun to look back at what we started out with. This video is a trip down memory lane to the...

Our 7th winter on the farm features beautiful blue skies, -20C and a lot more downtime than in previous years. In this video you’ll see the sheep being brought up to the barn in preparation for lambing and hear about some of our upcoming projects (partial perimeter...

(Re-)announcing the 2021 Ridgedale Farm trainings! We had to take the previously announced trainings down due to the COVID situation and new Swedish laws coming into place, giving the government unprecedented power to affect small businesses. After looking into the...

It’s book time! I’m currently working on the Ridgedale Build book, which I’m falling in love with, and simultaneously running the Kickstarter for the Human-Scale Regenerative Farming book, which I also have a very soft spot for. You can have a look at the Build book...

I’ve enlisted Cathal Mooney of Heather Hill Farm in Ireland to help with the automation of our egg-mobiles. He pioneered a low-tech, robust way to automate various functions, like turning the lights on and off, opening and closing the nest boxes, levelling the nest...

An ode to the beautiful winterscape we've been gifted (at long last). Has winter arrived where you are? Join the conversation in the comments below. Thousands of people come here to learn, so please share if you have  knowledge or experience that might benefit others....

It’s a wonderful day here at Ridgedale. The sun is shining for the first time in weeks, and we just had the best Christmas gift ever: our neighbours have decided to sell us the land that our no-dig market garden is placed on as well as the forestry behind it, which...

I haven’t made videos for a while, as we’ve been very busy preparing for next season, and so in this video I’ll show you some of the developments that have been happening in the last couple of weeks. We’re currently spending a few days at our new farm Klätta, so I’ll...

This video is a mash-up of what we’ve been up to during the last week: dropping the beef off in our rented freezer space, looking at mobile kitchen units, making broth, checking out telescopes, buying timber for 7 new decks, levelling the barn floor… I’m also sharing...

Today is Tentipi day. Our old tipis could seat around 40 people, whilst the new ones can accommodate twice as many, and three times as many when the sides are opened up. I’ll be building a bigger platform right next to our new farm kitchen, so that we can host some...

I just had a really silly idea, and I thought you might enjoy following along from a safe distance. It’s 4 degrees Celcius and pretty rubbish weather here, so I figured there’s no better time to have a look around my pond and perhaps say hello to a trout. It’s also...

I’ve just bought a farm on the beach. I’ve always dreamt of living by the sea, I’d much rather have my money invested in property and possibilities than sitting in the bank, and I can have my sailing boat moored here whilst I work toward realising my dream of...

This winter, without the hens, our chores are down to ten or twenty minutes a day looking after the cows and sheep. It’s a fantastic time for financial planning and detailed planning of next season as well as for taking on a whole bunch of other projects (there's a...

I’m excited to announce the roles and positions that we offer at Ridgedale next year. It’s going to be an exciting year with lots of innovations and new things at the farm. We’ve got 4 paid positions available as well as 3 support apprentice roles. Working at...

Our season will be over in a few weeks. The mornings are frosty now and we’re prepping for winter, draining the water lines down and covering up the garden beds. In order to free up time, we plan to make quite a few changes on the farm next year - more about that in...

Autumn is here, with beautiful colours on the trees and pumpkins ready for harvest. But on a less idyllic note, we had to get the rodenator out. We’ve had lot of vole activity this year due to the mild winters we’ve had in the last few years. The voles have been...

I got really inspired doing the Farm Like a Hero Experience, seeing how many people are doing amazing stuff and taking stock of the influence we’ve had on small-scale farming over the years through our innovations. I find that really touching, and I thought I’d make a...

Autumn is coming. Colours are changing in the landscape and everyone seems to have a cold. Things are really slowing down here: whilst many of the farmers I’m interviewing on the Farm Like a Hero tour are still in mid-season, we’ll be wrapping up our season in a...

Here’s a little farm update for you as the season slows down. We’ve slaughtered the last batch of broilers and also had the first light frost a bit earlier than usual, so it’s time to harden off the pumpkins. I’ll be spending the coming weeks getting a hunting license...

I’ve been a bit absent, so there’s lots to tell you about. In today’s video I’ll announce the winners of the 100,000 followers competition, show you how we home slaughter a lamb, tell you about the Joel Salatin workshop that had no Joel in it, and talk a bit about...

I’m feeling pretty sun kissed after spending the morning painting the roof of my little cottage. It’s a lovely summer evening, so I figured I’d take you on a walk around the farm. It's been a very unusual year for me and I'm just amazed at how quickly the weeks have...

While 100,000 subscribers on Youtube means nothing nowadays where you have channels with tens of millions, it still feels like a milestone worth celebrating up here on our little farm in the middle of nowhere. Especially for someone who never intended to be a...

Ridgedale has become one of the most renowned regenerative agriculture farms and training centres in Europe. We demonstrate a bunch of solutions, e.g. pasture raised livestock moved daily onto fresh forage, agroforestry, Keyline design, slaughtering on-farm, meeting...

The farm is quiet again now that the training participants have headed home, and I felt like taking you on a stroll round the farm. Everything is nice and lush this year thanks to lots of rainfall. We’ll look at compost, the market gardens, berries, windbreaks, nut...

People are arriving from all over to participate in our Farm Scale Permaculture Design Course and we’re very much looking forward to it. Meanwhile the veg and the animals are doing their thing. We still haven’t cut haylage because it’s been too wet, and this affects...

After the dry start to the year, we’ve enjoyed a good amount of rain in the last couple of weeks. The grass is over the cow’s backs and beautiful veg is coming out of the garden. We have a surplus of salads because restaurants are still closed and our private customer...

As is suitable for a diversified farm, a diverse bunch of items have arrived in the last couple of days: this year's last batch of baby broilers; some new packing crates for veg; pipe and fitting that will make irrigating the market garden so much easier; and tents...

I thought I’d take you on a tour around the farm on this wonderful rainy day. Lots of different veg is ready or almost ready to ship, animals are thriving, wildlife is abundant, trees are growing nicely, and everything just has an overall lush feeling after the much...

Today we put up the yurts (well, technically gers) at the farm. It's always a special day when we put these beautiful structures up, there is something just so elegant and pleasing with their design, which has remained unchanged for over 1000 years. It's fun to think...

I figured it was high time I gave you a proper update on the market gardens. Things are starting to pop, insect pressure is so far low and sales are going well despite (and partly because of) covid-19. I’ll take you on a tour through the garden, point out some changes...

First an update from the farm where we have the youngest broilers ever out on grass, and then I'm taking you on a rock pooling + fishing adventure on Sweden's west coast! I've also made you a free mini course that will help you get the fundamentals of your farm right....

It's been a big week! The first batch of broilers has been slaughtered and packed, and it's finally been warm enough to get the tomatoes out in the greenhouse. Egg production is getting going, the new chicks are growing well, salad crops are doing great this year,...

Glorious spring is here, and this video is a mishmash of fun and relaxing times as well as hard work from the past week. We've finally fixed the hot tub that was gifted to us by the digger-driver when we made the pond, and all I can say is; get one! Some of the week's...