Market Gardening in January (A Day in The Life of a Farmer in January)
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You're living the life, beautiful farm.
Yes I am! Thank you!
This is great, I love the concept of a 12 video series detailing the chores and demands month by month. I subbed so I make sure to keep up with you every month.
Hey Michael thanks! Great to have you on board! If you have any suggestions as for specific things you'd like me to go deeper on, let me know;)
Love this! I'm a young engineer with a balcony apartment garden in the US now, but something like this is my dream for the future. Great information to help learn and prepare during the here and now. Thanks!
Hey there, thanks! Hope this information will help you out with you dream:)
Composting videos, chickens, cold storage, wash and pack station setup and maybe what a typical work day looks like. Really enjoy your videos! Looking forward to the growing season and more of your videos! I am starting a food forest and eventually a market garden. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. Take care "Dutch" 😁
Hey Tan, some great ideas! Thank you for your input :)
Thank you for your great wisdom.
I found your channel just a few days ago and it has been an inspiration. Thank you. We have a small farm in Brittany, France which I hope to be able to make a living from. The information you have shared so far gives me the encouragement that I can make it work.
Yes you can! It's not always easy and there will be obstacles, but stay positive, flexible and keep going! Good luck :)
Excellent videos! So thorough!! Thanks and God bless you and your family, From Nova Scotia
Thank you Heidi (again 😉)
I can say that your videos and information are the best with great quality and caring. You show the real things in action instead of other videos where they show only the face of who presented them...thank you very much for your neat and professionalism...inspired me so much...your work, content, and info are very valuable!!
And again a really nice video. Thank you Moreno!
Hey Jan, thank you! Appreciate it!
Love your hanging plants😍 will replicate that
you are so informative and straight to the point. short and nice videos, so inspiring keep it up
Another great video, thank you Moreno!!
Thank you! :)
Excellent video, Moreno! Thank you!
Hey Wanda thank you! :)
Great channel. Lots of good points. Thank you so much
Thank you! Hope it can help :)
another excellent video
Thank you!
Great information and food for thought on some early tasks to prepare for the upcoming season. Thanks for the great information
Thank you Bruce! :)
Love your videos, so full of really useful info! I'm a hobby farmer but dream of someday doing more and this is so inspiring.
Hi Hayley Ann, thank you!
Hoi Moreno! Ik ben totaal geen ondernemer maar het is altijd al mijn droom geweest om mijn eigen groenten tuin te hebben. Mijn man en ik wonen pas in ons nieuwe huis en ik was eigenlijk opzoek naar videos om in mijn tuin een klein moestuintje te beginnen... Mijn man is echter een echte ondernemer en heeft het al zo lang ik hem ken over het beginnen van een eigen zaak. Hij heeft al honderden ideen gehad maar laatst zei hij ineens dat hij een stuk grond wil kopen, ooit, gewoon voor kippen ofzo.. maar dit is misschien de perfecte combinatie voor ons! Ik ga het er eens met hem over hebben :) Sorry for the dutch, i assumed The Dutch Farmer speaks dutch but if you dont ill translate it :p
Hey Feline, uiteraard spreek ik ook Nederlands ;) Dit zou misschien de onderneming kunnen zijn die perfect bij jullie kan passen. Het is hard, maar eerlijk en voldoenend werk! Good luck with everything :)
@@TheDutchFarmer Het idee is "geplant" ;);) Het gaat sowieso een toekomst plan zijn aangezien ons spaargeld momenteel in het huis zit.. Maar ik ga in de tuin zeker wat test tuintjes maken dit jaar! kijken wat er groeit in dit grijze Belgische klimaatje. :)
@@FelineRM We zitten in een heel vergelijkbaar klimaat ;) Veel succes met alles !
Great video, very informative, cant wait for the next one.
Thank you!
Hi Moreno! Do you use the same soil or compost for everything, that you grow? Next week I get a ton of compost and I plan to put it everywhere about 15cm high and I want to plant a lot of different things this year. I tried a lot before, but some plants just did not grow, like beans, onions or carrots. Hopefully it will be a better year. Thank you for your videos, you are living a lot of people’s dream and will inspire a lot to get started! ♥️
Hey there. Yes, we use the same compost for everything. We don't grow beans or onions, but the carrots do extremely well in this system. Spring onion, which is closely related to the 'normal' onion, do also really good in this system!
Thank you for your kind words!
wow very wonderful 👍️👍️👍️👏👏👏
SO from holland, nice job over there !
Very good very helpful content, just finished my degree and started to work on a farm with a mix of agriculture and a small vegetable garden and you are litterally saving me hundreds of hours of experiencing and failing. Keep the good attitude! If you are planning on installing new greenhouses or tunnels even if they are small i would love to see you building it step by step including do's and don'ts. Thank you so much
Got it! :)
Thank You. Very Informative.
Thanks!
Bravo Moreno !
Merci Julien!❤
Very informative... thanks for sharing!
Awesome! Thanks! :)
Also if you wanted ideas for more videos you could make I'd love to see a video that lists all the things you grow and the quantities of them, or if you did individual or group plant videos detailing how to grow them and facts about them that would also be really cool if you had the time
Great idea! I'll do my best to create videos like that!
Thanks so much, very informative.
Thanks! :)
Love it! Thank you. I have 4 hectare and am looking at all your videos and have really learned so much already. Please could you discuss compost (type and is it sieved, how long should it stand before using etc)
Hey Louise! I'll make sure to include it into one of the videos in this series, or in a specific video!
wow amazing i like that
Thank you:)
Hi, I am a new subscriber, I found you because your channel popped up at the end of another video I had watched. I thought I would take a look and I am very glad I did. I found your video very interesting and informative, I have subscribed so I don't miss any future videos and will now settle down in front of the fire to catch up with you past videos. :-)
Great to hear! Thank you for the kind words :) Enjoy the rest of the videos!
Love your channel. If you can, could you show a video on making compost. Thank you
Great content. You have gained a sub.
Thanks! :)
Hi Moreno, Great video! Can you do a video about your chickens! Do you sell the eggs or are they just for you and the family? Thanks.
Very beautiful
Thank you:)
I am so happy I found your channel. Your farm was featured by another channel and when I learned that you are in France, I became very interested as I do not speak good French and you do speak English. I am from the west side ( Britanny). You mentioned in one of the comments that you ordered your compost from a company, do you happen to know where else I could find wood chips in big quantity aside from the ‘déchetterie’ ? I only have a small home garden but I found out that wood chips really retain water so well that I do not have to water my veggies often. I had some wood chips once but the person who provided us for free had passed away so I do not know where to buy them. Thank you so much for your time.
Hey there! You're right! The wood chips really retain a lot of moisture. Ever since we've applied it we've noticed reduced needs of irrigation :) We get our wood chips from a local tree service company. We looked for these companies in our area and simply called all of them. One was kind enough to allow us access to their property and we're allowed to grab it whenever we need it. We could also get it delivered here at a delivery cost. Hope that helps! Happy gardening :)
Your Videos are fantastic, you bring so much Information to us viewers which is really unterstandable. Thank you! I love your farms set up especially the trees! I think you mentioned in a previous video the plot was an old orchard? I just have one question, don‘t the trees cast too much shade onto your crops? This fascinates me because I love trees and want to incorporate as many into my plot as possible :)
Thank you again and I look forward to many more videos from you.
Best wishes from Austria
Hey! Thank you for the kind words :) We love the trees too! It was a small family style orchard. Most people back in the day had one in this area. At arrival we've made sure to give the trees a heavy prune since it was simply too dark under them. Now it's a lot better and much less shady. Even though it works really great, I would personally put more thought into the actual placement of the trees and the actual species. It lacks support species (e.g. nitrogen fixating trees). Also we have a large walnut tree on the east side of the plot which does create lots of shade at a small section of the production. Here the crops tend to take much longer to reach maturity. These things can easily be avoided with a proper farm design before implementation ;) Hope that helps!
Dutch Farmer Moreno yes this helps very much! Thank you and good luck for all your future endeavors. Always look forward to future videos :)
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This is soo magnificent, soo inspiring, i am from Kenya motivated by you vlogs all the way from here. I wish to make my new garden right to your vlog advice. God bless you so much. One day welcome to Kenya and you will see how you inspire pple from whole world.
Hey there! Thank you for the kind words. Just a small word of advice, just because I do things this way doesn't mean you can literally translate my approach to your own climatic conditions. In the more arid and tropical regions of Kenya you'll have to work with more mulches on top of your garden beds to prevent too much evaporation. In the mountainous regions of Kenya where lower temperatures are normal, you could possibly translate the approach we use to that situation. Good luck!
@@TheDutchFarmer here from Zimbabwe would appreciate your knowledge & tips
@@TheDutchFarmer I think you're missing the value you are providing. I live not a million miles from Chiko. Sure, our climate and day to day challenges are different, but you are covering aspects I haven't seen elsewhere. What to keep on top of in Winter, keeping the place tidy, looking after natural pest predators. As well as the detailed stuff you give a holistic overview that's valuable to new small scale farmers no matter where they are. That is particularly valuable in Africa where many new farmers are taking over the once huge farms.
Great work.
@@chikotapfumaneyi6838 You have any specific questions?
@@davebox588 Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for the vid. Curious about your farm. If you ever have the time and like the idea yourself I would like to learn more about the farm itself. How many square meters are you farming? How wide are the beds? How is the soil? How and where do you get the furtilisers? just a basic introduction helps to bring the place more alive. Sorry if this info is out already, you don't have to present it twice. Just stumbled upon your channel and will watch the other videos soon. Good Luck!
Hey Peter, you can see more about our farm here: czcams.com/video/HAZwj23DxVE/video.html
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Great video. The compost you put down on your beds looks very woody, is that the same quality you used over the growing season? If so, did you have any germination issues with direct seeded crops in it? Thanks!
Hey Steve, sharp eye! The compost is indeed a bit on the woody side. The company we bought it from actually delivered a coarser screening end product to our farm. Normally the organic material we use is much finer and completely decomposed. On the other hand we got an extra truck and we could also amend the beds with a bit of pelleted chicken manure for extra fertility. It shouldn't give any direct seeded germination issues though. Thanks for watching!
Wonderfull videos as usual :) I'm planning to move to France (don't know where yet) for starting Garden Market with a friend. What area/region/department do you recommend to start a business? How to choose a good place to start a business? Thanks
Excelente...debes ponerle subtítulos en español...por favor.
Hallo, wat doe je met de bedden die niet gevuld zijn in de winter? Enige voorzorgen tegen het dichtslaan van de grond?
Zeer interessante videos!
Hi Moreno
Thank you for posting about you farming methods it's inspired me to start my own farm.. I just have a small question you put bird house and feed the birds dont the birds eat ur crops like fruits
Great videos. I am from South Africa and I enjoy your content. Unfortunately our growing season differ. Would you tell me where is your farm ...
Hey there, thank you. Eastern France. Close to the border of Swiss / Germany.
I from Russia. You super
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Can u do a video on making compost? Do u make all your own or do u get your compost from outside sources? Also, please make a video on growing and marketing mushrooms. 😊
Hey there. We do both. We make our own compost, but we also buy in large quantities. I'll definitely make a video about how to make your own compost!
Hi moreno love what you done in your farm. I was wondering what sort of tomato are you growing. Where did you buy your seeds?
Hey Nuuh Moussa. Thank you :) We grow all sorts of varieties. Cherries, saucing/canning, beefsteak, heirlooms. A whole bunch of them. We get our seeds from a diversity of places here in France.
I want to start a farm really bad, but I’m not too knowledgeable when it comes to planting / growing / repairing sandy soil. Also, growing in shady areas. These are the problems I am facing at the moment.
Bravooo! U are very organised in youre speach as well in youre work!
I am from Romania and I have my own land in a rural town, but I live in the capital at 50 km away.
How can I make this work in the weekends and spring and summer breaks?( not for selling, just for my family)
Can U give me un advice?
Thx a lot!
Hey there, thank you! If you're only able to be there in the weekends and breaks, I recommend you focus on crops that don't need a lot of attending. Leeks, onions, winter squash, potatoes. Things like that. On the other hand, you might have to install an automatic watering system for the warmer periods of the year.
Hope that helps, good luck! :)
@@TheDutchFarmer thank u very much!
What veggies really need greenhouse to grow all the time??
Thanks for the good work yr doing iam asmall horticulture farmer in Uganda looking for a friend in the same field such that we can share experience and knowledge thanks
Thank you for those inspiring videos, i'm trying to build my farm here in US 2 hours away north from NYC hopefully i can make it.
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dose the wood chipes are affected by termites
Where do you get the compost from and what cost? So far I haven't found anything less then 50 euros M3 which on a large scale doesn't go that farm and certainly not cost effective. Btw, I am in France too.
Hey there! We get ours from Agrivalor (Alsacienne company), at €23 euro / ton + transport costs (about €300 euros)
So ur January in Europe would be our June in South Africa if am not mistaken
Hey Moreno. What do you think is the bare minimum land you need to farm/ to grow veggies for the market? In m²? Thanks
Hey Jan. I wish I had an easy answer but it depends on several things, including distance to market, the type of market streams that are available, experience of the farmer and his/her ability to market the crops, the quality of life you're looking for, your customs, and a whole bunch of other things. We're on about 1500m², but another 1000m² would be optimal for us (we also do microgreens and have fruit trees). To start off, I wouldn't recommend you start with more than 1000m². It's a great starting point to learn all the different aspects of farming. Hope that helps!
@@TheDutchFarmer That helps man. thanks a lot. that's what I had in mind.
@@janr5608 Great! Good luck with everything!👍
Hey Moreno just wondering your thoughts on regular ground gardening vs raised beds. Obviously you don't use raised beds so just curious about your pros and cons.
Hey Erik. With the approach we take to market gardening, the 'no dig' approach, you're automatically raising your beds through the large initial application of compost. You can't see that my beds are raised because of the wood chips in the pathways. I guess it all depends on climatic conditions and the approach of the farmer. I know that when I had my raised beds without the wood chip mulch application in the pathways, we had some issues with the sides of the beds drying out too fast during the hot months of the year. If you have for example very clay-ish soil, you could benefit of raised beds by improving the overall drainage. If you're in an arid, desert type climate, your production might benefit of 'sunken beds'. There's not one perfect universal application.
@@TheDutchFarmer Thanks for the advice, much to think about!!
I have a question that might be complicated, if you were to, let's say, sell to a restaurant, how do you keep them as customers year after year when you have a dead zone at the beginning of each year where you cant grow the plants they would usually buy from you?
Most of the chefs we're working with love the seasonality of produce. They don't buy tomatoes in January or Spinach in July. Find chefs that change their menus based on seasons and you'll be all set!
@@TheDutchFarmer that's a good point! I didnt think there were that many chefs that did that but if you're making it work then I guess there are!
@@Apollo6166 Just because it works for me doesn't mean it will work for you. I recommend you make a list of restaurants and call them up. Nothing more valuable than doing market research! Good luck :)
No snow yet this year?
A couple of days only. They expect new snow this upcoming week!
Do you know what US growing zone is comparable to yours?
Hey there! It's zone 7B / 8A.
Tulips and daffodils are pretty, but unfortunately very little value to pollinators. They have been bred to produce large flowers, but very, very little nectar/ pollen.
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Complimenti peccato non capisco molto bene la tua lingua