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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Starting a perennial veg business
2:26 The business set up
4:13 Perennial kales and collards
7:50 Babbington leeks
About Us.
Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, being designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving husband, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep a few sheep and Aylesbury ducks.
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Perennial veg are fascinating and I have to admit it's not something I really grow here. I'm gonna have to do something about that! Perennial veggies here I come!
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Great video ❤️ I started my perennial veg journey about three years ago starting with babington leeks which are still coming up every year ….this year I really went for it and grew nine star broccoli, Welsh onions, sea kale and minutina from seed… and I bought cuttings of several several other perennial kales.. Next year I am going to grow skirret and any other type of perennial veg I can find as I think it's the way forward for filling hungry gaps and growing all year around 🙂
I was very fortunate to get hold of a few Taunton Deane cuttings from Mandy three years ago, i've propagated many more plants from them since, and shall be enjoying a serving of them for my dinner tonight. This highly productive perennial has become one of my absolute favourite veg plants to grow.
I don’t comment often but I wanted you to know, Liz you teach me so much, and make me smile with every video. Sending so much love from Singapore.
Always interesting. Thank you
I grow a lot of perennial stuff, my favorites also. It's not as easy here in US zone 6b but great fun in spring when you get to see what lived. I have several kales as well as 9 Star b and managed to track down a taunton dean kale this summer. Quite rare in the US. Next on the hunt is Babbington leeks and potato onions. Wish me luck!
Fantastic, as many people don't know some last.
great ill have to have a go
The Leek quandry explained, thank you.
Can your perennial plants survive in our Upper Midwest, USA? Temperatures can get severely cold.
Thanks so much for sharing. Been looking for Good king Henry seeds and finally found a reliable source.
I'm glad my leeks are not dead! I hope to see them again soon.
Tremendous video Liz. Definitely going to get into perennial veg, I was much taken by your onions a few days ago. I will head over to Mandy's website now!
I have Mandy (and you!) to thank for perennial celery, Taunton Deane kale, and Poireau Perpetuel leeks. We are so fortunate to have Mandy and her incredible vegetables 💚
Incredible vegetables are the best! Have bought many things from them, always carefully packaged (with minimal to no plastic), healthy plants, lots of information on propogation as well as care. Have also been very helpful with questions too. We are so lucky to have them don't know how I would be stocking my food forest without them!
Perennial veg are definitely top of my list for this year as physical health restrictions mean having only an annual garden is being rather short sighted and may end up being too much work. So purposefully choosing more perennial varieties means we can still have an edible garden without causing major upset and injury when it may be a little neglected at times xox
Your flowers are so you, you look so happy and in your favorite place “the garden”
Wonderful to learn about more perennials!