MILKING GETS EASIER | WHAT is the STRAW YARD? | FRESH GRASS for the NEW COWS | PERMACULTURE FARMING
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
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Milking our Dexter house cow gets easier now she comes to be milked without having to catch her and convince her to come to the stanchion. While her milk yield is still low it is going up.
We look at the design of our silvopasture grazing system and set up our electric fencing to make a new grazing cell for the cows as well as one for the chickens to come out and follow the cows on their rotation.
We look at the straw yard, a permaculture designed area for our laying hens which uses a polytunnel as a hen house. James comes up with some ideas of how to keep the hen house cool in this hot weather.
We finish the day by heading up to our beautiful swimming pond and cooling off in the water.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy cows and goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
FOOD FOREST BERRIES
2024 sees work begin in establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
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love the wee Dexter!
Looks fantastic. Great that we got some beautiful hot days in before heading back to cold, wintery June!
Dung beatles for cow pat control
One way to reduce the fly pressure in the pasture is to move a posse of the chickens in a moveable chick shaw 3 days after the cows leave and they go right to the cow patties and eat the larvae and spread the manure.. win win.... improves pasture, less flies, less bought feed for the chickens, less moving of chicken manure...
oh my goodness you just said you plan to do that very thing!
the difference in damson! Amazing how she goes to the stand herself now!
Yeah she has very quickly learned the drill!
What a fantastic evolving system. Thanks for sharing your journey. Watching your vids from Australia and interested to know what temp is 'hot for Scotland'? Beautiful blue sky. I'd love to come and WOOF with you guys one day.
Thank you! Mid twenties we all start feeling the heat, verging on 30 would be very hot for us! Although, after living in Oz for a while, I miss the heat!
@@TapoNothFarmdid the bentonite fix the ponds?
The fence system looks great. Is the lower wire not live? It didn't look as if you are strimming or scything the grass around the base of the fence. I also wondered if Rosa was moving the wire away from the shrub but maybe not. You don't have issues with the fence shorting? Inspirational and entertaining as always, thank you.
Hi there! We often do cut the grass below the bottom line as it is electrified. In this instance we just trod the grass down which we felt was enough but now, a month later, we'll most likely have to scythe/strim etc before putting up the fence as the growth is a lot more. We also carry a pruning saw to cut back branches that are touching the lines or at least hanging close that might temp browsing which will then pull the branch onto the fence. It's different every grazing cell, every month really. Thanks so much for the support!
@@TapoNothFarm Thank you for the reply. I visited The Inkpot farm in Lincolnshire at the weekend and saw their cell grazing system. Animals are missing from my site, for some good reasons, but I'm always interested in seeing how folks like yourself integrate cell grazing with other systems. Great videos!