The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
Nothing Beats An Epic Harvest. It feels good to know all that hard work finally paid off and we have reaped the rewards. But the work isn’t over. Our soils need our help to recover. For crops like tomatoes and peppers and even peas where we simply pick the fruit leisurely and cut the plants…
Cover Crops Are An Amazing Tool For Organic Gardeners! The use of Cover Crops in a modern organic garden is both easy and fruitful. These living mulches condition and enrich spent soils, break up hard-packed clay mixes, prevent pests from laying their eggs, add nutrients back into the top layers of the soil profile, and…
Fertilizers…Do We Need Them? In my experience with organic backyard gardening and farming, no, we really don’t. The concept of synthetic chemical fertilization of food crops is a modern construct, yet farming has existed successfully for thousands of years. Chemical fertilizers solved a need that was created by modern agriculture destroying the very land it…
Mulching 101: Here Is Your Comprehensive Guide To Mulching! Mulching is easy and basically involves simply covering the bare soil of your garden in and around your plants with an organic shredded mixture. This mix can be anything from green grass clippings to shredded leaves to coarse straw mixes of those components and much more.…
Growing Beets Is Both Fun And Easy! Beets are a superfood root vegetable that should be in every backyard garden. Harvested for both the taproot and the leaves, Beets are a cool weather crop than can be sown and harvested in 60 days or less. Grow Beets in transition areas of your garden where you…
Fastest Way To Seed and Sow A Carrot Row! In this video, I show you how I sow a row of carrots for a winter quick crop before the spring and summer veggies take over the beds. From preparing the beds to actual sowing, this video will show you just how easy and fast no…
Time To Sow Your Winter Pea Crops! In this video, I show you how I sow my Sugar Snap Peas using the no till, no dig method of gardening. Watch as we cover all the basics from bed preparation, seed spacing, actual planting, and mulching. No till gardening is one of the best ways to…
I never thought this day would come. I woke up in London with a fever, missed a train (or two), but eventually made it 100 miles to Charles Dowding’s EPIC market garden, Homeacres. The sky opened up for about an hour, and Charles shared the deep wisdom behind his garden. Charles Dowding is the godfather…
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Fall garden cleanup. Phase 2 of my continuing project to clean up my garden in preparation for fall and winter production. Join me in this video as I show you a few techniques and tips to clean out your most messy of raised beds, while not disturbing the soil and working around pristine rows of…
No till seeding, easy and quick! In the third video in the No Till Farming series, I show you how to weed a raised garden bed and then plant the bed with seeds, lettuce and snow peas, using the no till method of gardening. The no till method of gardening involves the conscious effort to…
In this video, I show you how I weed a severely overgrown bed using the no till style of weeding. Essentially, leaving the soil untouched and unscathed, preserving that soil profile like any good permaculture farmer would! The method relies heavily on mulching layers upon layers of organic matter through the season(s) to ensure that…
On my vacation to Northern California, I found myself in Reno, Nevada with serious gardening withdrawal. I looked up some farms in the area, and messaged Zach of Prema Farms out of the blue. He agreed to have me out to check out the farm, which is in Zone 5b just outside of Reno, Nevada.…
Many of you remember my first video with Steven Cornett of Nature’s Always Right. His farm, located in his 1/4 acre backyard, is a well-thought out and beautifully run market garden here in San Diego, CA. The first time I went to his place was the first time I’d seen someone farming in backyards, or…
In this video, I show you how I clean out two summer raised garden beds and completely replant them all within about a half hour using Lasagna Gardening and No Till farming methods.
Gabe Brown of Brown’s Ranch in Bismarck, ND, shares his transformative journey of cultivating his farm from modern conventional use to a thriving living ecosystem. Through no-till and extensive cover crop usage, Gabe and his family are able to support a diverse array of farm and ranching enterprises that are both profitable and models of…
In part 2 of this presentation, we hear from Russell Hedrick of JRH Grain Farms in Catawba county, NC. Russell has gone from being a beginning farmer just 5 years ago, to rapidly expanding his grain production operations. He is an advocate of soil health, no till methods and utilizes a diversity of cover crops…
Gabe Brown of Brown’s Ranch in Bismarck, ND, shares his transformative journey of cultivating his farm from modern conventional use to a thriving living ecosystem. Through no-till and extensive cover crop usage, Gabe and his family are able to support a diverse array of farm and ranching enterprises that are both profitable and models of…
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Conservation Agronomist, Ray Archuleta with the National Resources Conservation Service presents this workshop on the use of diverse cover crops to build life and fertility in the soil. Produce abundant yields while implementing the best organic and sustainable methods of establishing and maintaining maximum biology. Build aggregates and grow your best crops year after year…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn from Dr. Mark Schonbeck as he teaches all about cover crops and their relationships to the soil and plants at the Mills River Educational Farm. Dr. Schonbeck is also a foremost expert on soil test analyses and understanding the…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn from Dr. Mark Schonbeck as he teaches all about cover crops and their relationships to the soil and plants at the Mills River Educational Farm. Dr. Schonbeck is also a foremost expert on soil test analyses and understanding the…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn from Dr. Mark Schonbeck as he teaches all about cover crops and their relationships to the soil and plants at the Mills River Educational Farm. Dr. Schonbeck is also a foremost expert on soil test analyses and understanding the…
Visit our website for workshops and many free resources for growing food organically at http://www.livingwebfarms.org Learn from Dr. Mark Schonbeck as he teaches all about cover crops and their relationships to the soil and plants at the Mills River Educational Farm. Dr. Schonbeck is also a foremost expert on soil test analyses and understanding the…
