Other videos mentioned:
Creating A Perennial Vegetable Garden – https://youtu.be/BHue7qtEJbM
Harvest Potatoes BY MAY !!! PLANTING to HARVEST – https://youtu.be/4zicZr-KLPo
Dan’s Music Channel – Meranti – https://www.youtube.com/@UCGu-zE6hpbbFpb2dM1TRsDg
Sow THESE Seeds in MARCH – https://youtube.com/shorts/JK60bcecmas
Dan’s LATEST SONG – Light It Up 🔥 https://youtu.be/Yj4pK7o6Uk4?si=YZSrNn4rhoZ7fVRC
@PremierPolytunnels https://youtu.be/GChVOXS3szg&t=20m00s
This video shares our Garden plans and preparation for this season – we hope you enjoy the tour.
We are Dan & Laurie and our land is called Freedom Forest – Its 3 acres in the South of England where we are creating an edible oasis and trying to provide as much for ourselves, from our land as possible, where we are completely off grid.
Our food growing journey began together in 2017 when we created our first No dig lasagne bed. Every year we grow more and more and now we are currently around 60-80% self sufficient in our food needs.
Our style and methods are inspired by permaculture and we try to be thoughtful about how and what we do, to be as gentle on the planet as possible.
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HI Folks, Hope you enjoy hearing our plans for the season ahead. You can find links to all the other videos I mentioned and to Dan's music channel at the top of this video description. Enjoy the tour and let us know what NEW things YOU are trying this year in the comments 💚✌🌿
nice trackers 😉 thanks for sharing the garden. I am in a totally differet climate but when i start carrots as late as possible for a fall harvest the carrot fly didn't seem to be around.
2:40 how do you manage the blueberries in ground as I been told to grow in pots due to the soil?
Some advice would be great as may change my way to do it if it’s better for the plants.
Thanks for the full tour😊
Chickens will be interesting especially with composting etc, now hope you don’t get the other critters, 1/4 inch wire for those rats😊
You can use big plastic tarps to protect blossom from frost. Use long poles to help you get them up and over the trees. I use them in my orchard in Scotland, and I don't loose any blossom to frost.
do you have any reccomendations for someone who wants to do something similar but is concerned about microplastics on their farm? every farm ive been on ive seen those black plastic tarps fray on the edges and get little plastic bits into the environment. but they’re so useful that its hard to get rid of them
I caught your reference to buffalo bird woman’s garden. It was an interesting read. I suggest you keep your dog out by the corn to chase the squirrels away. Glad to hear about the chickens. I have chickens and rabbits, and they really help balance out the cycles on the homestead. They will eat your scraps and turn them into high quality protein, as well as generate tons of manure.
Iam going to try growing some sorghum and millet not just for my chickens but also to add some to my bread baking
Chicken’s 👍
That's so funny, at the beginning of the video I was thinking how cool it would be if you had chickens! I'm vegan and have ex battery hens. They are the best animal for gardening, making compost and because they are so delightful. Feed the eggs back to them, they love them. It's not normal for them to lay an egg a day, they've been bred that way. They are a lot of work if you're committed to them and don't just ignore them like most people. Maybe make a little jungle for them with their own food forest. Can't wait to see how you go with self sufficiency for them. I'd hope to do that but they eat so much.
I’m just making my new no dig beds. Looks like your long beds are shaped on contour – is that better than facing east-west? Also, how wide is each bed and path please? Thank you 💚
Thanks for the great video and tour.
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We are plant based too (over 10 years now) but I still have a battle in my mind with the vegan vs self sufficiency thing. I suspect I will get chickens/ducks eventually and I probably will never eat the eggs (it feels so so wrong), but it does cross my mind!
lookin' good …@westcoastgrandma
Why do you feel the need to have chickens if you are plant-based? Are you going to be eating the eggs and/or the chickens? As a vegan I'm trying to understand why you feel getting chickens would help with self sufficiency. Thanks
Love your gardens! What is yhe name of your hedging that surrounds your property and separates one garden from another?
Looking forward to watching your Self-Sufficient Chicken journey ! It's so frustrating seeing people feed their 'free-range' chickens GMO corn feed and any grain in general.. .
HI, our family's diet is also largely plant based, except for butter and honey. But we also keep chickens, they are our main generators of homemade compost.
Each spring we change out their deep bedding in their run, we use two tonne bags of woodchips and always get back three meters square of compost, which we let sit for a year and then use it to redress our beds the follow year.
Our chickens run is approx the same size as yours and we keep 4 chickens, sometimes up to 6 birds but no more. Our chickens are rescued rehomed ex commercial birds.
We give a couple of our neighbours the eggs and they look after the chickens when we are away on holiday.
For the tomatoes, which you said were disappointing in the previous season, do you have some form of fertiliser to give them when watering.
Great update, you guys have been busy. For the broad beans, if you want to maximise nitrogen in the soil you should probably cut them down before they produce the beans. I tend to harvest the edible leaf tips multiple times throughout winter and spring, then sacrifice those plants and leave the roots in the ground. Obviously you lose out on the bean harvest for those plants, but looks like you have more than enough growing.
Chickens should be great, and they should produce loads of quality compost for you!
Love the video, great information and inspiration
Those few days in August were the best few days of your life! I love the scatter planting, my kids have been great at that since they were born 😂 can't wait for the chickens!❤
Why chickens for self sufficiency? Animals consume far more calories than they supply. Seems a waste to me.