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Komentáře • 55

  • @Rymorin4
    @Rymorin4 Před 3 lety +1

    JADAM also proclaims that crop rotation is not observed in nature and is not necessary as long as you are returning crop residues back into the beds. I believe your assessment is accurate. If you are operating a no-til system with intact mycorrhizal networks and diverse microbes - crop rotation is less an issue.

  • @Boxybox1
    @Boxybox1 Před 5 lety +1

    Super excited for this season.

  • @seanwrafter9730
    @seanwrafter9730 Před 5 lety +2

    Sound like a wonderful year ahead , cant wait . Thanks Richard for sharing

  • @fourdayhomestead2839
    @fourdayhomestead2839 Před 5 lety +2

    Lots of info. Sounds like an exciting year...

  • @stickyickyewe
    @stickyickyewe Před 5 lety +1

    Looking forward to the gardens, hope to see you rock out!

  • @Alternativesmallholding

    Great informative update, thanks Richard

  • @CluelessHomesteaders
    @CluelessHomesteaders Před 5 lety +4

    Glad I’m not the only one using spreadsheets to plan my garden!

  • @jennifernebraska9728
    @jennifernebraska9728 Před 5 lety +4

    Great timing. I have 6 different seed catalogues in front of me now.

  • @4philipp
    @4philipp Před 5 lety +1

    Excited you collaborate with Charles dowding, love his channel.

  • @matthewwebb7540
    @matthewwebb7540 Před 5 lety

    Thanks for all the content you've put out Richard, I've now caught up watching all your videos in full and gained a lot of insight into your methods. I'm not even a farmer but interested to learn and hope to start growing food in some context in my back garden, maybe an allotment one day. I discovered your channel because I ferment food and it was related.

  • @littlewhitedory1
    @littlewhitedory1 Před 5 lety +1

    Richard, good to hear from you, you seem well rested and organized in your thoughts. I look forward to the upcoming season of CZcams vlogs that capture your undertakings on the farm. Should be fun.

  • @andrewstacey4868
    @andrewstacey4868 Před 5 lety +1

    Great video w great info.if you understand the basics its very easy to follow.

  • @andybush368
    @andybush368 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks for a good update and good information regarding crop rotation, looking forward to seeing the new chickens arrive for this year. Hopefully moving to Malawi to start my little farm this year

  • @bodilheleneskumsrud6491
    @bodilheleneskumsrud6491 Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you,Richard! I sincerely hope that you'll continue posting videos throughout spring/summer/fall.Very inspiring!🙌

  • @Jasper2090
    @Jasper2090 Před 5 lety

    Thanks for the video! Intrested to see how the Paperpot goes.. I done mycorrhizal fungi in all my seedlings last year, I think it really helped.

  • @MagicIse
    @MagicIse Před 5 lety +1

    Great video. Love the reference to Charles Dowding. Interested to hear how it goes with the paper pot transplanter. I would like to get one as well.

  • @johannsmith5697
    @johannsmith5697 Před 5 lety +2

    An awesome low value crop you could try would be potatoes, they taste so good when you grow it organically in premium soil. You could also try using the same bed in consecutive years, to test the disease prevention traditions, by sewing before winter right after harvest and see if the potatoes sprout in the spring and you can just top dress with a mulchy compost.
    Cold climate summers are great for potatoes

  • @paxtianodirtfrog8947
    @paxtianodirtfrog8947 Před 5 lety +8

    Thank you for discussing low value crop, they are often demonized in today's intensive market gardens. In the rural context they are almost necessary as you stated.

  • @jefvanparijs7143
    @jefvanparijs7143 Před 5 lety +1

    Nice to see you got the energy back.
    Regarding the rotation, I have seen the video's of Charles his experiments. Very interesting experiments and good for the home growers but small scale and difficult to base a whole enterprise on this. However, J.M. is experimenting in "la ferme des quatre temps". It might be interesting to ask him if he experiments on crop rotation or if he would experiment on this in the future. If the crop rotation proves to be of lesser impotence if taken care of the soil, this might significantly change the whole crop planning process for "no dig, biointensive farming".
    Thanks for the video (Does Matt has a youtube channel or something? I'm curious how he is doing.)

  • @steveneason893
    @steveneason893 Před 5 lety +2

    We've had a similar experience with respect to crop rotation in our no-dig experiments. We grew brassicas four years in a row with no disease or pest problems beyond that experienced in the tilled (rotational) system.

    • @andrewstacey4868
      @andrewstacey4868 Před 5 lety +1

      It seems to be an issue w nutrient deficiency when it comes to rotation.if you feed the soil and not the plant.the fungi will help out alot.

  • @MrJFoster1984
    @MrJFoster1984 Před 3 lety

    Look at using MS Project Professional for your scheduling. A very clever tool that is used for planning and execution of work, jobs etc. Cheers Jerry

  • @nicholasmacinnis1486
    @nicholasmacinnis1486 Před 5 lety +1

    Will your new book cover the paperpot?

  • @caseG80
    @caseG80 Před 5 lety

    Thanks for the myco grow info. Where you sale all your crops does that exist in the US

  • @ingvildlien5255
    @ingvildlien5255 Před 5 lety

    2019 looking good! How do you make that calendar? Im struggeling with finding a way to export my crop-plan im making in excel into a calendar....

  • @rodkersjourneys3039
    @rodkersjourneys3039 Před 5 lety

    Thanks Richard. Great to have a spreadsheet geek out. Are you using excel or google sheets for your calendar? I'll probably be sharing a site with another grower this year so I'm wondering if google sheets is powerful enough for that. Or maybe a standard online calendar or shared calendar if we both use macs. What do other people use?

  • @initybl
    @initybl Před 5 lety

    I’m a super admirer of what you do. I’m from a northern climate and it’s beyond cool to learn from your CZcams videos. I want to farm. All in due time. My question though is, how was your go at growing rice? I just got home from a trip to Asia and it struck me that sooo many people grow rice when no one I’ve seen does in the US (rice is the best). Thanks for what you do!!

    • @mrnobody8540
      @mrnobody8540 Před 5 lety

      Rice is grown in the US, just not a good crop for profit

  • @justindellacanonica1896
    @justindellacanonica1896 Před 5 lety +1

    One of the things I think is hard to quantify is the value in low value crops (LVC's) in the case of customers buying more high value crops because of the LVCs.

  • @joelzdepski9884
    @joelzdepski9884 Před 5 lety

    Conor at Neversink said something similar about crop rotation in a recent video, but perhaps a bit more driven by economics than an observation on soil health. As he put it it was something like (I hope I don't miss-state here) if crop rotation gives x% improvement by itself, it may result in a y% degradation due to new operations. Even if x is greater than y, there may be some other improvement that delivers x-y improvement without changing production operations. This is especially true when he is growing in the greenhouse where the operational disruption is quite large. So he drives himself to look for those in-situ improvements first.

  • @rondianderson4402
    @rondianderson4402 Před 5 lety

    Amen to no need to rotate with no till!

  • @fibrowalker8639
    @fibrowalker8639 Před 5 lety

    Richard, where can you get the Myco Grow here in Europe, have been trying to get hold of some here in Spain but am struggling to find anywhere outside of the US to buy it from.

  • @ingmarmeley5494
    @ingmarmeley5494 Před 5 lety

    Hello, what is the use of "1 tray in bed" column ? And what is your bed length used for paperpot transplants ? Thanks in advance

  • @anna-marieogi1182
    @anna-marieogi1182 Před 2 lety

    Hello Richard, where can I find your shop for buying all the tools?

  • @55karly
    @55karly Před 5 lety

    I've just finished a class on soil fertility at uni and my professor was very determined on saying that tillage and cutting the mycelium threads doesn't not harm the fungi but that they can recover quickly, same being the case for rhizobium. He said that it works as an evolutionary process, pressuring the biota to be more resilient. I would really appreaciate to read some articles on this subject.

    • @regenerativeagriculture
      @regenerativeagriculture  Před 5 lety +7

      Hogwash, I'm calling that out. Tillage based farming is NOT improving mycelium in soils, it's destroying soils at a faster rate than ever before in human history. Nature does not do bare soil, unless there is flood, drought, earthquake, person with chainsaw, etc, except in PATCHY INTERMITTENT DISTURBANCES. That's nature's evolutionary approach right there; wild boar come through and trash a small area, move on and allow the forest to restart a small succession, thus ensuring the survival and benefit of all species. Same with a large grazing herd. Patchy, intermittent disturbances followed by rest. Tilling fields and planting monocultures is definitely not driving any kind of evolution! Modern tillage ag only affects (de)volution by waking up weeds (aka soil repair mechanisms) and plant pathogens (by oxidising soils, adding nitrates and killing a whole plethora of soil life), hence the ....icide industry being as large as it is. I brought back our internship specifically because ag schools seem to still be churning out so much crap and there's nowhere for peop's to study ecosystem-based knowledge and integrated farming that builds soil, gives healthy profits and the optimal food to local customers.

    • @55karly
      @55karly Před 5 lety

      @@regenerativeagriculture Thank you for the reply Richard! The professor in question is actually one of the pioneers of org ag in Europe and has done really extensive research through more than 30 years career, that's why I considered his opinion to be at least partially valid. What I see as biggest setbacks in comparing systems is the scale - almost all of the research is based exclusively on large scale agriculture and the models proposed will inevitably be different than for small scale farming (e.g. crop rotation). Another thing is that there is too much focus on chemical processes ( this professor's favourite word was mineralisation) and not enough on biological and the interconnection of the two, but that seems to be slowly changing. Do you have any problems with perennial weeds in you farm and if yes how do you deal with them? And how about heating the soil up in the spring? You find it to be sufficiently done with the compost?

    • @55karly
      @55karly Před 5 lety

      @@regenerativeagriculture This is the type of articles that we are exposed to www.researchgate.net/publication/267778654_Possibilities_and_limits_of_reduced_primary_tillage_in_organic_farming

    • @lauramonahan9343
      @lauramonahan9343 Před 3 lety

      @@55karly Too many variables in no till systems (ie, planting density) to know if this is valuable information when compared to traditional plowing snd cultivating systems, AND it didn't compare yields in relation input (the plowing system requires much greater time and fossil fuel inputs). It's a slanted incomplete study.

  • @hunterray6509
    @hunterray6509 Před 5 lety

    Can you run layers behind pigs?

  • @rochrich1223
    @rochrich1223 Před 5 lety +2

    Rotation of crops adds diversity in time. Since Richard has diversity in his
    space he needs less in time. The main disadvantage I see to not rotating
    is the absolute requirement to rotate to be certified organic in the US.
    (The organic bureaucrats act like they know better than us how to grow.)

    • @latvian_homestead
      @latvian_homestead Před rokem

      3 year old comment. We have new regulations in EU as certified organic farm. We have to do grow into ground and many more. So really no dig method isn’t even possible (it is but lot more expensive and labor intensive), but also new regulation - they say - do more no dig and do this and do that - but in the end - where I live , nearly impossible, so yeah crop rotation is must. Now doing my education hours for certification - so learning and trying to finds best options.

  • @2quick4u84
    @2quick4u84 Před 5 lety +1

    hi, I thought you didn't like the paperpot for ecological reasons, what has changed?

    • @user-hr2bi4oh5g
      @user-hr2bi4oh5g Před 5 lety +4

      He found out that they do not contain fungicides. They have a small amount of acetone, but he does not consider that a problem. He made a video about that.

  • @estanciaperseverancia5840

    I would love to be an intern. Pitty Argentina Is so far away 😖

  • @chantallachance4905
    @chantallachance4905 Před 4 lety

    On the web jonnhys seed have a spreadshet and you work on it planning succession
    Check on web Korean Natural Farming M. Cho for homemade for liquid fertilizer (Chris Trump explan the recipes)
    The Indian take mushroom in forest put it in a tea bag and put in a big tub with hot water and let it there for few days (mushroom tea)

  • @roberthayes2027
    @roberthayes2027 Před 5 lety

    I so wish I had the funds to camp w you and learn from Anders Lerberg Kopstad too. Do your apprentices get to volunteer & attend those Holistic Mgmnt trainings too? Wish me luck, I'll buy a lucky lottery ticket in a few minutes. :-)

  • @thelittlepotcompany
    @thelittlepotcompany Před 3 lety

    Did you say you're growing mescaline?

  • @rungus24
    @rungus24 Před 5 lety

    I was sure you kept saying you were growing 'mescaline'. Are you mispronouncing mesclun?

  • @suzymeyer648
    @suzymeyer648 Před 5 lety +1

    Completely off topic, I watch your vids all the time, I am a proponent of your philosophy but here is the big question, you purchase organic grains for your chicks, the farmers who grow your grains are doing so on a large scale, so how do you reconcile your philosophy of no dig when the grains you buy are agro farmer, just tryin to put all the pieces of the puzzle together