Nate and Katie have plans of a food forest. 1 year ago they had the trees removed, now Nate starts preparing the field.
Part 1 : https://youtu.be/HPAD_MeOnxI
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Can’t wait to see the trees planted! Great job, Nate and Katie!
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Great job, you guys! Looking forward to part 3 😁
Y’all put a lot of thought into this. Looking forward to your progress. 💚
kul-tuh-pak-er. The purpose of a cultipacker is to pack/level/flatten soil AFTER planting small grains/seeds. You don't want ridges, rocks, sticks on top of the soil. Combines which harvest these plants have the head run 1-2 inches off the ground. If these items are on top of the ground they will picked up into a million dollar machine and destroy it. So the cultipacker helps prevent this by pushing all that debris down under or level with the surface of the soil.
Also the cultipacker you have has a tray on the top of it to put weights/bricks/rocks/sand bags into it to weigh the culitpacker down.
You could use that debri as the base of your swales curves berms
I'd definitely cover crop that area to reduce erosion and keep fertility in the soil/prevent other weeds from being the dominant plant in that area.
Rather than using the mini-ex to pull the dirt to the center of the swale (and then scooping it up and moving the dirt back to outside of the swale) you could have removed the bucket from the arm, turned it around, reattach it to the arm [pointing] away from you, and then used the bucket to scoop and push the dirt from the center outward. Usually the bucket mounting ears and pins are symmetric so the bucket can be attached to the arm facing in either direction.
You are the king of over complicating any project. You don’t need swales, you need grass aka natures erosion control.
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So much thought and work is going into this food forest. It’s going to add so much to your homestead. ❤
That will look so nice coming up the drive when you get it planted in. ❤
It is going to be worth all the effort. Getting great drainage into your berms. All set for #3. That was such a great idea getting the small excavator.
lots of work and soon you will have fruit tree's blooming hugsssss
Looks great and I am excited to see the trees in and the swale's working. I know they will and they did! Awesome plan!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
this is exactly what I need to do in a few spots. thanks for the ideas!
Hi Nate – great work on the field and the food forest. I know you're going to burn that massive pile of branches and debris from when you cleared the field of the trees. If you manage to burn that now you could use the wood ash as natural fertiliser for the food forest – great for fruiting trees. Anyway, you have enough on your plate and I thought to just chip in with that suggestion and to say how much I love the channel and all your work and projects. Well done.
You drive that tractor like a Zamboni 😂
The Oak tree shade will be great for shade loving plants that would die from the blazing sun away from the shade. Nice balance of options.
Way too much information on doing this field. Oh no you have that beard and mustache again 😢.
Don’t put soft fruits, peaches, cots, cherries in low frost zones, keep them up near the top. They are very suseptableto frost damage
With those spikes it looks like an aerator
Every man should have a digger
modern thinking and results prove half metre to metre best to establish new food forest,as the world wide soil web is needed for best results,and trees comunicate
Another term would be fish scale swales. Looking good!
It really does look quite a bit better though, so I don’t see how it was a waste of time.