'COMPOST' with NO TURNING | BOKASHI REVEAL | FOOD FOREST PERMACULTURE FARM & NO DIG MARKET GARDENING
Published 2021-10-25
Next we're preparing the goat shed for the goat's evening meal - feeding the goats hybrid willow tree branches and looking at how we manage the waste by building dead hedges with the tree branches.
Then we hook up the trailer to our BCS two wheel tractor and start removing the finished pumpkin plants in the polytunnel, finding some butternut squash amongst other varieties of pumpkins that we can use in the kitchen. We take the old veggies to the chickens who are in the straw yard, an area where all the waste from the farm is left to compost or be turned into eggs!
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden 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 goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
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CHAPTERS (jump to your point of interest!)
Intro 0:00
Goat silvopasture 0:11
Shetland sheep/nut tree silvopasture update 2:14
End of our CSA veg box shares 3:02
Bokashi compost reveal 3:44
Feeding hybrid willow/trees to goats 10:26
Tree branches/brash for dead hedges 13:01
Polytunnel clean out with BCS and trailer 14:08
Different pumpkin/squash varieties 15:17
Taking crop waste to the chickens 19:00
Chicken straw yard/compost area 19:50
#bokashicompost #permaculture #nodiggardening
Making bokashi
bokashi composting
Effective Microorganisms
EM
Soil food web
permaculture in Scotland
Scottish permaculture
agroforestry
All Comments (21)
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Oh wow I watched your previous Bokashi video this morning and couldn't wait to see the results and now look what pops up on my feed!
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Congrats, I know I’ve found the right folks when they’re giddy about compost!
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I love how you guys just project joy!! Especially liked how the tree hay makes the fence after the goats are done!
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Wow, I can't believe how well that's broken down after just 8 weeks! That's going to be a game changer for your no dig beds. Good stuff :)
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Geoffry Lawton has a thing he does with chickens that works pretty well. He gets eggs and hardly has to feed them so it's a win. I'll have to give this idea a try too. Thnx.
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Amazing results guys and weeds can be a pain and you want to enjoy and harvest your goods without a fight with the pesky weeds, when I started my allotment for my luck I stumbled into Charles you tube and never looked back and my fellow friends have a lot of it and it takes over their life and all I do it’s mulch my beds once a year and enjoy the harvest 😊
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I make bokashi with spent brewery grain. :) Free. Remember to use it fresh and also cool it down - both. Airtight for 2 weeks, then spread thin and air dry on a tarp. Use as you do bokashi bran. Stores great too. Keep airtight.
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Quite a beautiful place
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I've done my compost with LAB and yes it works wonders
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Would love to get some of my hardy Newburgh Worms into that pile! Im happy to supply the worms if you want to trial it
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Rate enjoyed this one dudes 🤟
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The Bokashi is amazing!
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Always a good idea to keep goats entertained or they get into mischief. Squash leaves are edible by people and livestock, composting is good but feeding the leaves to livestock(goats and sheep) as a green food full of nutrients they can use.
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A guy in Australia has a vlog on making your own EM and Bokassa…he calls it compassionate😊 his vlog is the Weedy Gardener….might be worth a look👍
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Great to see the bokashi worked! Very interesting!
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Always enjoy your videos. One of the best farm vlogs!
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Hi guys, bokashi is just the start, on your next pile try covering with local worms when you have the temperature right. Make a worm trap by mixing the bokashi liquid and paper. Mush the paper at the bottom of a tub, put some compost material in and cover with wet paper. Probably good if you cut holes in the tub first, about 5p size. Put the tub near your compost and you'll have some worms for composting in a few days. Breed enough worms and they could assist you in your 8 week window into making a soil so rich it may burn roots.
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Fantastic video. The farm still looks great before heading into winter. Can't believe that you designed the goat enclosure to have pallet walls, perfectly sized for inserting Chinese willow. Impressive!
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So inspirational! Gorgeous farm you have there!
