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Curtis Stone started Green City Acres, a commercial urban farm called Green City Acres out of Kelowna, BC, Canada, in 2010. His mission is to show others how they can grow a lot of food on small plots of land and make a living from it. Using DIY and simple infrastructure, one can earn a significant living from their own back yard or someone else’s.
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I don't understand how tilling can be harmful. Other than a little dust, that will mostly settle back onto the ground right next to it. I thought it was important to turn it over, loosen it up, and of course turn compost etc…into it.
Why not cut the grass as if your marketing Sod, then run stone picker just before you Lay cardboard and compost on top.
Aim is to min. the top soils damage and provide protection.
Of course your acreage is to small, but it would be neat if you could use animal power to do the tillage work.
If you could put potato’s on that ground and use a small harvester you would get a lot of the rock out
I am getting, you bore me
I have an enormously rocky New England soil we've removed tons of large stones (lots of rock walls) but we still have more, we use a pick axe, haven't used a rototiller b/c honestly the rocks are just too big & too packed (think rocks as big as a truck tire all over). We have just dumped several tons of top soil where we wanted to level out ground some & grow grass. For a garden we have no choice but to do raised beds.
After tilling I mark pathways and late season planting beds and pile on the leaves, hay or whatever organic matter and wet it down and let the worms do their job. I learned years ago that worms till more than ANY tractors ever will
A turkey in every oven and rottotiller in every yard. Together we can live long in the land that has been given to us, doing well for our parents and our children, taking our place in creation. Walking with God in the land of the living. Putting no faith in the workings of the devil in a bad disguise. The true city of light not smart not a graven image. Just plain and simple neighbourliness. God blesses this holy work you are doing.
Hey Curtis what are you doing to keep animals out of your garden like rabbits etc?
Your left wing, don't have a clue, is showing 🙂 You plow (lots better if you have an actual tractor) or till to loosen the ground up deep. This allows moisture to come up from deeper to the roots, it allows much easier growth to the plants, and it kills nemitodes, bugs, and cutting worms. No till, without harsh chemicals (think Monsanto) only feeds the bugs, not you 🙂 We use to have Land Grand Colleges that developed the strongest hardiest seeds possible!! Monsanto, and this worthless Government shut all those down!!! All you now got is a few heirloom varietes which aren't near as good for yield as the old hybrid seeds from the land grant colleges. Such as Monsanto have just about destroyed farming!!!
Tillers work great just after the rain in the desert – otherwise it's like trying to till desert cement – not fun and the tiller skips along the way. And, it makes planting/growing much easier – the black mustard, white clover, and millet seeds I planted last week are already coming up – added no amendments.
On top of the game thanks for the content man
If the soil is really dry, the biology has move deeper for humidity, so you'll do less arm.
What would happen if you just used sod removing tool and broadforked the compact soil? I know that’s a lot of work, but is it worth it?
You're allowed outside?
Stop ruining the soil.
It will take you 10+ Years to get that bottom soil to be back to how it was before you tilled.
Great "light till" discussion. Transitioning to mulch or cardboard/straw/fungi, down the centers of your rows can also offset nutrient run off to help your soil stay built up (and establish a mycorrhizial association to further bio remediate and fruit, if you consider it).
With your carbon sink (that'll keep your boots clean), you have a way to make your compost and soil remediation more efficient and possibly offset the carbon footprint of this video.
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Curtis from the field videos are freezing while the audio is continuing. Cant watch the videos. Checked my wifi. 168mb so aint that. Any idea whats up?
Smart questions. Clean the table before you prepare the next meal
Why didn't you put the organic matter on the soil first and till it into the soil….
Furthermore when you post videos with bad farming practices in them regardless of if you justify it or not you have to remember that the intellect of the people watching this in majority isn't going to be equal to your intellect in other words more lazy stupid people watch this then educated people…. We must always remember what the road to hell is paved with
Good content
I agree Curtis. I am in the "not Till, unless it's the initial one" school.
One of the things you will learn, is why Farmers have sooooo many different implements and lots of HP laying around, moving soil and rocks is labor intensive, they've done all the hard work in years past it's up to you as you are becoming a bigger farmer to relearn WHY they chose so much HP and so many different specific implements for each task. Good Luck Grasshopper!
Weed seeds and exposure to light! Years ago there was a study made on weeds seeds and exposure to light and germination. Some weed seeds just need a second of light exposure to get going! Others take laying on the surface to germinate. So for a while there were farmers using night vision goggles and no headlights working at night, or putting covers on there plows and discs to not expose the weed seeds to light. Interesting stuff. Try tilling after dark with night vision to reduce weed population!
@curtis stone. Please, did you install the wire fencing, if so, what supplier, manufacturer?
Im seriously in need of more detailed information Curtis. Watching you for years on YouTube. I will be signing up for your farm to the field whatever it's called Channel thank you. Especially more interested now in shtf Garden as I am doing the same. Started last fall. NC, USA
If you're getting dust when rototilling, the ground is still too dry and the ground will not crumble properly when you till it.
Ideally you should be able to push a hand shovel into the ground without too much trouble and when you pull up that shovel full of dirt and turn it over it should crumble fairly easily, no hard chunks.
And by rototilling grass and weeds back into the ground it adds nitrogen to the ground which is beneficial for growing the next crop. Naturally you don't want the organics To be too tall or it will just clog up your trailer.
I will say that you have a lot of guts to do a piece of land that big with a tiller that small. I have done a few acres myself with a walk-behind called a Howard Gem, by far the best walk behind tiller ever made. Between my dad and I, we did over 45 years in commercial weed abatement with a big tractor rototiller.
Good video and I wish you well.