FARMING: 2 WEEKS OF SPRING IN 20 MINUTES

FARMING: 2 WEEKS OF SPRING IN 20 MINUTES

I don’t have nearly as much time for making videos as I thought I would, so here’s two weeks’ worth of Springtime farm life rolled into a 20-minute video! How’s your schedule holding up so far? Join the conversation in the comments below....
SOME IDIOTS STOLE OUR BROILER CHICKS

SOME IDIOTS STOLE OUR BROILER CHICKS

It’s so busy this time of year, with a hundred different jobs all taking my attention at once. So today’s video is a little catch-up, one that’s also a bit tragic since someone stole all our broiler chciks from our brooder last night. Have you had...
THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY…

THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY…

The season has offically begun and life at the farm is very different this year as we’re a group of 7 children and 5 adults just homesteading and having fun. We’ll get stuff done, too, obviously, and I’ll bring you along for both work and play. Are...
JANG, PAPERPOT AND HAND TRANSPLANTS

JANG, PAPERPOT AND HAND TRANSPLANTS

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...
ALL IN A DAYS WORK…

ALL IN A DAYS WORK…

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,...
BUILDING NO-DIG/NO-TILL BEDS

BUILDING NO-DIG/NO-TILL BEDS

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...