Great stuff, I love this guy, he's got it. Not only does he know what's up in terms of producing food, but he knows where most of the world is being taken and is showing us how to get right and avoid that abyss.
Have you looked into Paul's Back to Eden gardening? Same concept but with the wood chips it also diminishes the need to water so much. With our ever growing drout issues, using less water is a plus and covering the soil is a GREAT method. I started using this method 3 months ago and I noticed I do not need to water nearly as much as before. I also noticed the wood chips are decomposing into some good humus as well. Really enjoyed your vid.
Oh man, I loved the ending... "We got disconnected... we shouldn't ---" I got reconnected... Jesus saved me. Now I have a strange fascination with gardening.
I will check it out for sure, I may be in the area around then, if so will stop by, that would be great! BTW, you had a great message in your video's about the powers that be and how we need to protect ourselves.
I have been doing no till gardening for 4 years now and I do use cardboard when I start a new garden area or expand into new area. I have no tractor so everything I grow from corn to tomatoes to squash types is planted and taken care of by hand. I use alot of plasticulture by recycling the plastic the local farms use on their silage bunks. I also use alot of tires. I grow root crops in tire stacks like potatoes and peanuts and if you put a tire around a cuke plant they grow really well
Each individual has its own way or methods in doing their gardening works. With due respect to this video, I still believe and agree about his point of view and it is worth sharing for.
You are thinking way ahead of time s and that is great. I was thinking verge same and was really scarred of thinking what if we don’t hVe food to buy. Yes , the Eve story ought to teach us something. Be connected with nature..
very great video's - thanks for posting. you helped open my eyes to how easy it can happen and better all around - as in more natural! awesome job! where in Mass?
Another thing that works well if you can't get a lot of cardboard is the brown paper you can get in the construction dept of home dec stores, the stuff they lay down over carpeting to keep it clean while doing construction and comes on big rolls.
There's over ten minutes of pure cardboard delight and info on the new video we just posted! Check it out and see what you were kept from all this time.
How does this interact with Nematodes? Down south, I've had whole gardens wiped out by replanting with out burning them out over the summer. IS this an alternative to "tarping" the garden in the summer. Hate to tarp it over, cuz it's a growing season...granted not a great one for us down here, but a growing season just the same. BUT if the cardboard would do what the tarp would ...could we continue to grow in the summer? THAT....would be GREAT!!!
From what I have learned from various YT videos, biochar is great to add to your soil ONCE it has been activated or if not activated, the first season is bad for plant/food production...but after that --- it is good.
What about the glues and chemicals in the cardboard? Doesn't that get into the soil and uptake into the plants? Does that make the food non-organically grown?
Erika Nagy . Ants are worms with legs. They also create water channels and airerate the soil. Have a pile of logs or shallow pond for natural predators to ants like lizards and frogs.
Natural predators are a good idea, but depending on species of ants they may eat all your seedlings as the come up or with some types they kill the ground so that nothing will grow (fire ants 1 example). Go here www.wikihow.com/Kill-Ants there are several good non-toxic ways to kill ants.
can you please explain what toxic chemicals are in cardboard? If there are toxic chemicals, wouldn't we be exposed to these toxins every time we send or receive a package?
you're right about the money... the "currency" is what keeps you in the flow... seeds, tools, sustainable energy, tangible items that make your life more efficient. I'm building 16 acres into sustainable landscape using permaculture.
Composting & weed suppression are good ways to get rid of excess cardboard & paper - but have studies been done on chemical contamination of the soil from chemical residues in these materials? Paper is made from trees because chem companies can sell many times more chemicals to turn wood pulp into paper than it takes to make paper from other plant fibers like cotton, hemp, reeds, or rice straw - to name a few traditional materials. In fact, high quality papers were made from those materials...
Appreciate the post. But the mid-west farmers 'going to no-till' are drenching the land with chemicals in lieu of tillage. Minimizing soil disruption & fostering the life in the soil are important, but plowing & tilling have their place. Look into the history of Malabar Farms, for one. Subsoiling (a type of plowing) can bring up valuable minerals that have been leached from topsoil. Like any tool, it can be used, or misused.
TheCardboardMethod i do agree with the comments saying its a bit hard to follow but that doesn't mean you don't know what you're talking about. Though this was presented in the thumbnail in a way that set up a different expectation than what was delivered (less how to, more political content, etc) which is likely a source of a lot of the not so nice comments im seeing. You seem very passionate about what you do and it does show though.
Raised beds cost too much and they introduce temperature and water problems. No-till is not raised beds that I have heard about. Not that raised beds are bad or anything, or that I disagree with anything this guy is saying, but raised beds does not equal no-till gardening. No-till is more mulching and adding organic material, isn't it?
***** Always nice to hear I am right on the Internet, it so rarely happens! ;-) But, I thought I have seen no till and mulching mostly as integral parts of permaculture and the "Back To Eden" thing. It seems to me that whatever you do, when you plant veggies that you harvest and take something out of the ground, you have to find some way to put the nutrients back in fort the next generation of whatever you are growing. You can use deep rooted plants ... I think like Comfrey that send a tap root down into the ground and are reported to bring up nutrients, and then you cut them down and let them compost into the ground, ... ... or you can put wood chips down and let them compost year after year, assuming you have the right kind of wood and the right nutrients in the wood to amend the soil. The nice thing about permaculture is there is little labor, but what there is seems targeted imprecisely. The nice thing about raised beds is that the soil is all in the raised bed. The way some do it they allow the bed to fill up over time by adding compost or nutrients. But that also focuses and cuts off the soil from the rest of the yard. It is also more labor intensive as you have to dig up the soil in the raised bed. I have read a lot about gardening, but do not have much real experience except in my yard at home. I tried buckets, they worked sort of OK. I tried raised beds and they worked OK. The best plants and trees I see are in the ground. Really I am not sure if that is more a commentary on my gardening skills or those methods! ;-)
GOOD GOD have yall been smoking doobies out back? I am getting buzzed out just listening to you man. Its not amazing that one corn "Kernel" can produce a plant with the "ears" of corn. Professional Farmers who know proper nomenclature are shooting for ~ 5-6 "ears"/stalk. Now people who smoke all their cover crop will get less, especially if they pick and smoke it prematurely. WOW MAN its AMAZING!
Oh you don't till, you just got to dig a hole for each plant. So I have 20 tomato plants, 10 cucumber, 500 corn and bean, 2000 wheat oh hell with this, I've got a lot of holes to dig. See you guys in November.
Ink is made of mostly organic materials: Tannic acid is a form of tannin---a naturally occurring substance produced by plants Gum Arabic is a golden colored sap that is produced by Acacia trees. Phenol, or carbolic acid, is an organic substance Ferrous sulfate which provides the iron needed by the body to produce red blood cells. Dilute Hydrochloric Acid to break down the gum arabic So why would the inks be a problem if most of the properties of the ink come from organic material?
to pour as liquid manure on his existing growth beds...one need not worry about: 1) walking carefully anywhere, cause' the bark is full of air, fluffy and can't be compacted. 2) worry ever about watering, cause' the bark is hygroscopic and retains/releases water as God....YES GOD intended...there is only one GOD...he made things perfect. 3) This is a nearly automated system...if one just keep the nitrogen coming....all will grow well.
Isn't there a way to do this without the use of paper/cardboard? The chemicals used to make paper products is nothing I want in my garden. These chemicals will eat away at your skin if exposure happens and all these no-till videos base their techniques with the use of paper products. Fukuoka didn't use cardboard but there are no videos using his method in a step by step format that will answer my questions.
Okay I have to say a couple of things here. I am a Christian and I believe that all this amazing balance that's in nature is there because that's the way God created it. He made the tiny microorganisms that break things down. He made the earthworms... When we cooperate with the natural way that things are supposed to go, we are cooperating with God himself and his plan of how plants should grow. Also, many farmers have gone to what they call, no-till farming, but it's actually chemical farming. Instead of tilling they dump chemicals on to kill the weeds. That's worse than them going out and digging the field.
Hi Ricky and Deb....had trouble "literally hearing" at times in the video...what was being said....I know you're not professional videographers...but you have passion...that's more important. Doesn't the fellow from Garden of Eden have it figured out.?? He doesn't till,...he doesn't use cardboard....he does nothing but use 4-5" of woodbark, and then uses his chickens to clean up his waste carbon (scrap or spoiled food), then simply take this "fertilized chicken produced fertilizer" to pour
I'm sorry but this is the worst camera work I have seen to date on youtube. The cameraman is coughing and making nasty mucus sounds, then scrolling forward to get past all the bs and get the info, you can't even hear the guy talking because the sound quality is so bad. Frustrating. Try again. This sucks. On to the next video and will avoid this channel in the future.
Dude doesn't like the 'television addiction,' but he wears the kerchief on his head straight out of Survivor No one 'farms' with cardboard - farms are many acres large This is gardening - not farming And there is no 'cardboard method' of gardening - it's just a way to start a garden on top of turf grass without digging it up first
Lost me at the carbon thing must be one of those....nice to keep the carbon in the ground.....for the plants....but obviously a a believer in the global warming crap...
This was my issue when attending college in Western MA. The message is very real and important, but the teacher is a rambling, inefficient windbag to the point where you start tuning him out and never take home the lesson he meant to teach. I wasted so much time with the same touchy-feey nonsense... Just tell me the cold facts: Commercial foods cripples the availability and development of small-scale farming. Instead he skirted 25 different subjects within 10 mins.
I thought this would be an interesting video about gardening. Have you ever considered doing a video WITHOUT the politics. I am sorry you didn't consider the view more, and less about your politics............Do we need this type of video on youtube?
Great stuff, I love this guy, he's got it. Not only does he know what's up in terms of producing food, but he knows where most of the world is being taken and is showing us how to get right and avoid that abyss.
thanks for your support! We have a great new video which will offer some continued teachings from farmer rick. happy farming!
Have you looked into Paul's Back to Eden gardening? Same concept but with the wood chips it also diminishes the need to water so much. With our ever growing drout issues, using less water is a plus and covering the soil is a GREAT method. I started using this method 3 months ago and I noticed I do not need to water nearly as much as before. I also noticed the wood chips are decomposing into some good humus as well. Really enjoyed your vid.
I really enjoyed this video including all of the commentary.
Oh man, I loved the ending... "We got disconnected... we shouldn't ---"
I got reconnected... Jesus saved me. Now I have a strange fascination with gardening.
Build on that fascination with our new video! Your soil will be praising both you and the lord. happy farming!
People have been telling me for 30 years that I'm crazy for using cardboard. I is nice to see someone that thinks like I do. Keep the good work
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In the Pumpkin Patch I sow lots of oilseed radish to offset the trampling from volunteers picking bug eggs and weeds.
I will check it out for sure, I may be in the area around then, if so will stop by, that would be great! BTW, you had a great message in your video's about the powers that be and how we need to protect ourselves.
wood chips, leaves and old hay are just a few of the alternatives.
I have been doing no till gardening for 4 years now and I do use cardboard when I start a new garden area or expand into new area. I have no tractor so everything I grow from corn to tomatoes to squash types is planted and taken care of by hand. I use alot of plasticulture by recycling the plastic the local farms use on their silage bunks. I also use alot of tires. I grow root crops in tire stacks like potatoes and peanuts and if you put a tire around a cuke plant they grow really well
I use paper bags from grocery store that offer it. I have been using card board for a long time now. It does works great.
Each individual has its own way or methods in doing their gardening works. With due respect to this video, I still believe and agree about his point of view and it is worth sharing for.
I love this concept, I am trying it this season, I have been told by a lot of people to use straw and not hay. Why do you suggest hay vs straw? TYI 🙏🙏
This smarty pants strongly resembles the reason we left New England for NC and TN!
+Jennifer Lord Yeah, if I had lived there I would be right behind you
Thanks! Lovin' my TN farm and garden! Be well.
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whatt type of ancient grains do you grow?
You are thinking way ahead of time s and that is great. I was thinking verge same and was really scarred of thinking what if we don’t hVe food to buy. Yes , the Eve story ought to teach us something. Be connected with nature..
very great video's - thanks for posting. you helped open my eyes to how easy it can happen and better all around - as in more natural! awesome job! where in Mass?
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What happens with the inks???? Are they a problem?
Another thing that works well if you can't get a lot of cardboard is the brown paper you can get in the construction dept of home dec stores, the stuff they lay down over carpeting to keep it clean while doing construction and comes on big rolls.
Is the cardboard organic or filled with heavy metals?
Ok! Ok! Get to the cardboard part!!!!!
There's over ten minutes of pure cardboard delight and info on the new video we just posted! Check it out and see what you were kept from all this time.
How does this interact with Nematodes? Down south, I've had whole gardens wiped out by replanting with out burning them out over the summer. IS this an alternative to "tarping" the garden in the summer. Hate to tarp it over, cuz it's a growing season...granted not a great one for us down here, but a growing season just the same. BUT if the cardboard would do what the tarp would ...could we continue to grow in the summer? THAT....would be GREAT!!!
I wonder if adding biochar to this no-till system would help...
From what I have learned from various YT videos, biochar is great to add to your soil ONCE it has been activated or if not activated, the first season is bad for plant/food production...but after that --- it is good.
So i have to put new cardboard down in Fall? Cant start with new cardboard in Spring?
The cardboard will disintegrate. Just compost the plot out, cover with some hay and it'll be ready for you come next season.
You're soil building
What about the glues and chemicals in the cardboard? Doesn't that get into the soil and uptake into the plants? Does that make the food non-organically grown?
Could u also add wood chips as well. When the wood chips break down they form a wonderful organic rich humus!
Starch(usually corn) is the glue used to make cardboard not hide glue. But yes worms like it just the same. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, Tony! We've got a new video for you to enjoy.
These videos are great. Thanks a lot. My question is, why make a raised bed, why not just make a permanent pass? I think that's what I'm going to do.
Can you use cardboard with printing on it? Ink has toluene in it and is very cancerous. Is it transferred (chemical toluene) to the food?
Isn't carbon good for plants?
A neighbor said they had tried this and had tons of ants underneath. What do you do if that happens?
DE
+Erika Nagy just pour gasoline on them
Erika Nagy . Ants are worms with legs. They also create water channels and airerate the soil. Have a pile of logs or shallow pond for natural predators to ants like lizards and frogs.
Natural predators are a good idea, but depending on species of ants they may eat all your seedlings as the come up or with some types they kill the ground so that nothing will grow (fire ants 1 example). Go here www.wikihow.com/Kill-Ants there are several good non-toxic ways to kill ants.
4 minutes until you get to the first mention of cardboard...
Yup. Like a lot of these videos there's too much preaching and not enough teaching.
We have a great new video that gets right to the point, dj.
TheCardboardMethod - link?
I have tried this method, but wind kept blowing it away. Suggestions?
rocks or wooden stakes maybe, just guessing.
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masanobu fukuoka ftw!
good message, thanx
no till
If you use hay won't you get weeds?
can you please explain what toxic chemicals are in cardboard? If there are toxic chemicals, wouldn't we be exposed to these toxins every time we send or receive a package?
He talks like Duffy from Scary movie
At 4:30, sound disappears through the ending.
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Shorter version focusing on cardboard, no-till method. czcams.com/video/9SE8RjyTq3A/video.html
Funny how prescient he seems today, isn't it? I'm looking at you, Great Reset.
No sound for me during the section ~5mins.
Great new video will not disappoint! check it out and happy farming
you're right about the money... the "currency" is what keeps you in the flow... seeds, tools, sustainable energy, tangible items that make your life more efficient. I'm building 16 acres into sustainable landscape using permaculture.
"This money thing is done". lol ok.
Composting & weed suppression are good ways to get rid of excess cardboard & paper - but have studies been done on chemical contamination of the soil from chemical residues in these materials? Paper is made from trees because chem companies can sell many times more chemicals to turn wood pulp into paper than it takes to make paper from other plant fibers like cotton, hemp, reeds, or rice straw - to name a few traditional materials. In fact, high quality papers were made from those materials...
Appreciate the post. But the mid-west farmers 'going to no-till' are drenching the land with chemicals in lieu of tillage. Minimizing soil disruption & fostering the life in the soil are important, but plowing & tilling have their place. Look into the history of Malabar Farms, for one. Subsoiling (a type of plowing) can bring up valuable minerals that have been leached from topsoil. Like any tool, it can be used, or misused.
...says Jose Blanco...
4:30 If you want to skip to the cardboard part.
yay worm poop!
this dude is high as a kite.
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TheCardboardMethod i do agree with the comments saying its a bit hard to follow but that doesn't mean you don't know what you're talking about. Though this was presented in the thumbnail in a way that set up a different expectation than what was delivered (less how to, more political content, etc) which is likely a source of a lot of the not so nice comments im seeing.
You seem very passionate about what you do and it does show though.
Raised beds cost too much and they introduce temperature and water problems. No-till is not raised beds that I have heard about. Not that raised beds are bad or anything, or that I disagree with anything this guy is saying, but raised beds does not equal no-till gardening. No-till is more mulching and adding organic material, isn't it?
*****
Always nice to hear I am right on the Internet, it so rarely happens! ;-)
But, I thought I have seen no till and mulching mostly as integral parts of permaculture and the "Back To Eden" thing. It seems to me that whatever you do, when you plant veggies that you harvest and take something out of the ground, you have to find some way to put the nutrients back in fort the next generation of whatever you are growing.
You can use deep rooted plants ... I think like Comfrey that send a tap root down into the ground and are reported to bring up nutrients, and then you cut them down and let them compost into the ground, ...
... or you can put wood chips down and let them compost year after year, assuming you have the right kind of wood and the right nutrients in the wood to amend the soil.
The nice thing about permaculture is there is little labor, but what there is seems targeted imprecisely.
The nice thing about raised beds is that the soil is all in the raised bed. The way some do it they allow the bed to fill up over time by adding compost or nutrients. But that also focuses and cuts off the soil from the rest of the yard. It is also more labor intensive as you have to dig up the soil in the raised bed.
I have read a lot about gardening, but do not have much real experience except in my yard at home. I tried buckets, they worked sort of OK. I tried raised beds and they worked OK. The best plants and trees I see are in the ground. Really I am not sure if that is more a commentary on my gardening skills or those methods! ;-)
I know newspaper ink is mostly soy based. Im not sure about cardboard.
We knew the reasons... Just tell us how to do it!
GOOD GOD have yall been smoking doobies out back? I am getting buzzed out just listening to you man. Its not amazing that one corn "Kernel" can produce a plant with the "ears" of corn. Professional Farmers who know proper nomenclature are shooting for ~ 5-6 "ears"/stalk. Now people who smoke all their cover crop will get less, especially if they pick and smoke it prematurely. WOW MAN its AMAZING!
Oh you don't till, you just got to dig a hole for each plant. So I have 20 tomato plants, 10 cucumber, 500 corn and bean, 2000 wheat oh hell with this, I've got a lot of holes to dig. See you guys in November.
baldwin1e Who ever said farming was easy work? LOL!!!
Ink is made of mostly organic materials:
Tannic acid is a form of tannin---a naturally occurring substance produced by plants
Gum Arabic is a golden colored sap that is produced by Acacia trees.
Phenol, or carbolic acid, is an organic substance
Ferrous sulfate which provides the iron needed by the body to produce red blood cells.
Dilute Hydrochloric Acid to break down the gum arabic
So why would the inks be a problem if most of the properties of the ink come from organic material?
to pour as liquid manure on his existing growth beds...one need not worry about:
1) walking carefully anywhere, cause' the bark is full of air, fluffy and can't be compacted.
2) worry ever about watering, cause' the bark is hygroscopic and retains/releases water
as God....YES GOD intended...there is only one GOD...he made things perfect.
3) This is a nearly automated system...if one just keep the nitrogen coming....all will grow well.
plant green (bushs-trees) fence for protection .. adjust technology to your environment .. there is no global solution .. ;)
Less doomsday, more soil coverage and using cardboard please
Doomsday is in the past. What's up now is the new video we just posted. Check it out and find what you came for. happy farming.
Isn't there a way to do this without the use of paper/cardboard? The chemicals used to make paper products is nothing I want in my garden. These chemicals will eat away at your skin if exposure happens and all these no-till videos base their techniques with the use of paper products. Fukuoka didn't use cardboard but there are no videos using his method in a step by step format that will answer my questions.
I didn't enjoy this video. It was very hard to follow and not very informative.
We've got one you will enjoy! All the information you're seeking on the subject is there. Be well and Happy Farming.
REMOVE THE TAPE AND STAPLES. DONT TRASH THE BEDS
The narration is vague and we are unable to catch what he is telling.
???
wood chips.
This guy is so all over the place, I'm sure he has good intentions, just really hard to follow his train of thought.
There is a new video made by a film editor (yours truly) who made his thoughts coherent just for you. Come by and check it out.
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Okay I have to say a couple of things here. I am a Christian and I believe that all this amazing balance that's in nature is there because that's the way God created it. He made the tiny microorganisms that break things down. He made the earthworms... When we cooperate with the natural way that things are supposed to go, we are cooperating with God himself and his plan of how plants should grow.
Also, many farmers have gone to what they call, no-till farming, but it's actually chemical farming. Instead of tilling they dump chemicals on to kill the weeds. That's worse than them going out and digging the field.
90% of soy is GMO. So - mostly organic materials are not an option for organic growers.
The carboard method vithout carboard and whithout method.
More politics than instruction. If you're looking for a how-to video, this is not it.
We just uploaded a new video sans politics and with the real info you're looking for. Happy farming!
Hi Ricky and Deb....had trouble "literally hearing" at times in the video...what was being said....I know you're not professional videographers...but you have passion...that's more important.
Doesn't the fellow from Garden of Eden have it figured out.?? He doesn't till,...he doesn't use cardboard....he does nothing but use 4-5" of woodbark, and then uses his chickens to clean up his waste carbon (scrap or spoiled food), then simply take this "fertilized chicken produced fertilizer" to pour
Hi Frank- There's a great new video up made by our son, who made sure things were easy to hear- the passion is even more evident! Be well
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I'm sorry but this is the worst camera work I have seen to date on youtube. The cameraman is coughing and making nasty mucus sounds, then scrolling forward to get past all the bs and get the info, you can't even hear the guy talking because the sound quality is so bad. Frustrating. Try again. This sucks. On to the next video and will avoid this channel in the future.
There is a new video up that you will prefer. As the maker of this new video I can assure you my mucus was not audible.
Dude doesn't like the 'television addiction,' but he wears the kerchief on his head straight out of Survivor No one 'farms' with cardboard - farms are many acres large This is gardening - not farming And there is no 'cardboard method' of gardening - it's just a way to start a garden on top of turf grass without digging it up first
Seriously lay off the caffeine. I wanted to know about gardening not your theory on oil
Ricky is high on life! put your mug down and come check out or newly posted (and much more informative) video on the cardboard method.
Lost me at the carbon thing must be one of those....nice to keep the carbon in the ground.....for the plants....but obviously a a believer in the global warming crap...
This was my issue when attending college in Western MA. The message is very real and important, but the teacher is a rambling, inefficient windbag to the point where you start tuning him out and never take home the lesson he meant to teach. I wasted so much time with the same touchy-feey nonsense... Just tell me the cold facts: Commercial foods cripples the availability and development of small-scale farming. Instead he skirted 25 different subjects within 10 mins.
The cold facts are here now. In just over ten minutes our new video will give you absolutely everything you were looking for. happy farming
I thought this would be an interesting video about gardening. Have you ever considered doing a video WITHOUT the politics. I am sorry you didn't consider the view more, and less about your politics............Do we need this type of video on youtube?
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get to the point...
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yak yak yak and more yak yak... Nothing much.. waste of time
I don’t want a lecture on your political perspective. Just because you can’t think straight doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t.
climate change....its called 4 seasons. As soon as I heard that BS term in this video i shut it off.