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… Do you need extra farm hands in NZ? I'd like to… not… be…. in America.
so awesome! love the drone shots!! looks like eden.
That place is spectacular! It looks a little like my place but they have seperated garden spaces where I really just have to large plots!
Chuck
man that is a nice place.
what a beautiful farm, can you give us a tour and interview w the owner? I'd be interested to know about how it's run. thanks for the great videos! I'm enjoying ur book too 🙂
any chance of getting some Arial still shots of the farm
Awesome farm!!
@Curtis, I love the reuse-here, But your buying fertilizer is more efficient, No matter how much 'free' manure they are getting, Its not free. The cost/time of managing that animal husbandry likely far exceeds the benefit when it comes to time and money. Minute-Calories burned per Gross Dollar income I think your current model is hard to beat.
I don't want to knock on the husbandry, but one of the things I like most about your content is that you practice a animal-less system with limited space. I have much respect for the farmers who have the time/space/money and inclination to deal with animals in they're systems. However coming from a strong-small-scale-farming region I seldom see it work out. What usually happens is good people, toil and suffer (the animals too) for years and at the end of it they have built no equity or gotten ahead a cent.
A neighbor of mine structures her entire life around 1 milk cow. No vacation longer than 1 night in over a decade, Wakes up at 5:30, 365d/year. The single cow typically produces 1-2 gallons a day, during the 9 months they milk it (they let it 'rest' for winter) They have a 2-5 acre pasture for the cow. From a land-use, cost-benefit analysis It seems kind of insane to me! There is a medium sized, organic dairy 10 miles down the road, and presumably well-run. I estimate they are paying 5x more in actual dollars for the homestead cow milk AND doing all the work and giving up a huge amount of land.
Its the same story over and over again everywhere I look. After seeing your systems, in such detail I believe that, that single cow of my neighbors is occupying the space that could feed every person with-in a mile in all directions with produce if it was managed as you do your urban farm. Feeding the world is easy, if we just use our space properly!
Keep making the great content!
Curtis are there any concerns with transmitting diseases like salmonella with this method? Here in the U.S. usda organic rules say you must heat the manure to a set temperature for a set time or have it in the ground for a set number of days before you plant.
What's the name of the song? I looked through 50 of his songs and I still can't find it.
Great video Curtis, as always, informative. Looking forward to the next ones!!
How long before they actually use the dried/mowed/tilthed manure for their crops?
Always love how pretty Roebuck farm is
Such a wonderful set up. We use a mix of sheep, goat & rabbit manure and put it in a bucket fill with water and make what we call a "barn yard tea" we let it steep and then water it where it is needed.
what about weed seeds in the poop? i had horrible weed pressure after using not properly decomposed animal manure.
Love your video but please put on some sun tan lotion. You are too young for skin cancer. Thanks Curtis.
Hi Curtis, looks like you need a bigger hat or more sunscreen your nose is as red as a radish LOL.
Welcome to New Zealand, try some pineapple lumps.
Can you raise rabbits or/and chickens in your garden for fertilizer and some meat?
Don't you have to wait for a while with manure? If you sprinkle around plants splashing rain can infect the leaves with bugs (ecoli).
Was seeing a few videos of your channel and they are really great. Loved and Subbed
Great Videos Curtis, have you ever thought about rabbit or worm farming they both don't take up that much room and they're both great fertilizers.
Forget sunscreen? lol
Not a safe practice on your "high rotation crops" Curtis. E. coli, etc….dangerous and irresponsible.
One thing I would strongly advise is to know what’s going in to the animal.
Around here all the farm animals eat hay because the grass is to short during winter, the hay farmers here all spray a herbicide that kills everything but grass.
You put that in the ground, you won’t be growing anything good in that spot for some time.
Why isn't it to hot for the plants, causing high nitrogen growth, since it's not broken down? Does mixing it heavily with soil make the difference?
The new zealand sun leaves its mark quickly, been burned in 1 or 2 hours. Love all your matter to fact content so far. Ain't having any experience whatsoever gardening yet, but comign years will grow gardening experience and then start a farm like your style. Your an inspiration to me. More truthful, than all my hippy ideological ideas that I am going to write in my book, I'll use some of your matter on hands in the book, for planning projects of whatever type
In the UK the manure must be subjected to a 70’C for at least 60 minutes if you want to sell or use this manure to grow crops for sale.
Bare feet in manure….