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I'm interested in the compost tea. I would love to see them raise a crop fed with the tea vs one done with manure. I'd love to see a video on the results and process.
How do the different enterprise deal with shareing common equipment JMF and the Veggie operation use BCS tillers etc and I assume the cut flower enterprise would use one also
does the Veggie enterprise Rent their BCS to the cut flower enterprise ?
Also do the differant enterprises coordinate land/building uses?
For instance does the Veggie enterprise let the layer chicken enterprise use the high tunnels to winter over the layers ? Is there cash movement between them does one enterprise loan workers to another when one of them is slow ?
Could You ask the Forrest pig operation people to post a vid about how they work ?
This type of ponds were built by the Swedish/EU state after 2000 to reduce the nitrogen leakage into the ocean. The excess fertilizer is trapped in the ponds. Nitrogen will slowly go into gas form and evaporate, while P and K will become sedimented at the bottom. We are not allowed to take water from the ponds but we have to seek approval from the state when enough sediment has accumulated and we are allowed to spread it on the fields. Why recirculate water directly when you can wait for approval by a pdf pusher in the executive branch?
Similar ponds existed naturally before but were covered up to create more farmland.
What is compost tea? It is compost without the carbon parts. Either slow decay in a compost heap or faster extraction of the nutrients in tea. With compost the roots have to seek out nutrients, while compost tea overflows the roots directly.
If you water sallad to much initially the roots become shallow, if you allow some initial drought the roots goes deeper.
For those of you who understand french, you can watch JM's tv show on unis.tv
Curtis,JM and Diego you're all such an inspiration in so may ways. Thank you for all you do!
would about ramial wood chips?
if your going commercial, I think you will always need the netting, the hedgerows should lessen the insect pressure and its cyclic, so years into this project, the farm should have significantly less insect pressure in the way of "plagues" lol. Each stage of the pests lifecycle is continuously interrupted, and over time this has the same effect as preventative weed control measures. The weed seed is still there or blows in, but has less of a chance to become a dominating force in your field than the one that don't have the hedgerows.
Just attended your talk in Ottawa. I had some questions, but they didn't directly pertain to what you were talking about and I hate when people pester me when Im trying to eat my lunch as well so I didn't want to bother you outside your venue heh. Is there a way I can posit say, 3 very short inquiries in an email to you? (I like winning multiple games over long periods of time, I will respect the "short" part.)
Awesome update Curtis thanks for sharing mate
What you have snakes in Canada? 🙂
Tell me more about this 25K CSA, how would one go about approaching investors, and is it like a grant or are they share holders?
Wow.. that is such an amazing organic farm… wow /!!/!
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You have been a huge inspiration to me and I’m starting my own urban farm in Bc Vancouver. It’s been very difficult putting together the business licence. I tried finding videos if u discussed this but they dint go into heavy detail. Can you make a video the heavily details the legal process of getting a urban farm license
I like the balanced update! I remember when you first made a video about this farm, very cool to see how things are progressing!
great plot and great video 🙂
Food Forest and you still have to spray to keep control of pest.
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Haven't made tea but vermi-compost has worked for me! What about using a Frass?
Great video, thanks for speaking to relevant points and procedures on the farm. There is enough 'theory and thought' behind the growing aspect of things. it is interesting to hear what is effective, could be effective (even if its on long term). Thanks for getting to the point too! Would be cool if you were able to make a follow up video like you were talking about but I'm sure it was a jam packed trip. I'm interested on the compost tea stuff too…I don't want to say anything else or people will freak out. Interested in results, specifically relating back to time and resources. Compost tea vs. compost. I always like to think of what the settlers did to grow crops effectively. Thank you Curtis!
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I'm farming in Tennessee and you said watermelon is a really low value crop , I'm starting with nothing right now and hand tilled everything , I planted 56 watermelon from seed and have 52 left, that will bring me 1000$ to 2000$ US dollars from my web of customers , I plan on using any money made to start my green houses and get a good tiller, in this scenario is it still low value? And do you have any suggestions for a start up crop I have 1.5 achres , about .5 achres can be reached by my garden hose ( no irrigation yet ).
Permaculture's ideology is an extreme devaluing of the short term. The short term will always be meaningful to short-lived creatures.
0:29 "I'm going to make a video, it's going to be relatively quick" – looked at the video length, 15 minutes.. woohoo!! 15 mins of "cc" (double entendre, 'Curtis content' ~ 'Creative Commons')
Hey man, have you talked to Jordan Marr about his discussion with Chalker-Scott and her stance on tea? Might need to do a video with him. I'd like to hear that discussion.
There is merit to some of what you say indeed. However I find it really interesting that you use a non-Permaculture designed farm to criticize Permaculture design. Just because you have some elements of permaculture on a conventional market garden dosent make it a permaculture system, therefore you cannot use it as a foundation to evaluate the success or failures of permaculture. You say that this farm has pest problems! but you’re using tillage and monoculture and plastic mulching. All of which stress the plants, stress the soil, and increase susceptibility to pasts. You name drop Elaine Ingham as if all you need is one visit from her to have a living soil system, are you doing what she recommended, are you testing soil for fungal bacterial ratios. Is the soil ecosystem balanced in the areas you have pests? If not then its not permaculture the problem, its an unbalanced soils system. And recommending drainage in quebec has gotten allot of farmers into trouble as drought continues to increase, what permaculture recommends is whole system water-management that can keep the water when in a drought year and drain the water in a flood year. I would be curious to know who is the permaculture designer responsible for this farm’s design? And where you took your Permaculture certificate and training in permaculture? Its one thing to criticize a failing system its another to blame permaculture because of a lack of whole systems design.
5:14 where is she running to with that baby? What is she running from??
What do they do to prevent rodents and deer?