learn to raise, feed and care for healthy, resilient runner ducks. find out what ducks need and see the whole process from brooding day-old ducklings to free-ranging an egg-laying flock, with all the tremendous benefits that ducks bring to a small regenerative food forest, permaculture farm or large organic garden.
whether you’ve considered keeping ducks or just adore these happy creatures, it’s delightful to see the whole process from brooding ducklings to managing them in a silvopasture system that could, with the ducks’ help, become more and more closed-loop, increasing our resilience to ecological and economic uncertainty, particularly food and fertiliser security. keeping runner ducks is such a great shift to a more reciprocal vision of how we might live regenerative, relocalised, simplified lives.
— even without the ecosystem benefits of adding fertility to the gardens, cleaning the orchard, reducing slugs and pests that trouble everything from trees to veg gardens to milk goats or sheep, transforming overproductions and food-waste into eggs, into compost, and into a new generation of laying ducks, a flock of ducks is just plain happiness in your garden —
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9 Comments
Love your videos, very heart warming.
Love Love Ducks🥰🦆
Thanks for sharing this incredible,wonderful,elaborately and sensitively filmed DuckMovie👏🤗
Awesome video. I love this one and the one about the goose house. When I built my goose house this past summer I did it very similar to yours. Thanks for posting these videos.
Thank you for this beautiful film. Your ducks are gorgeous and are living a wonderful happy life.
Thanks for the video. Your property is beautiful and seems perfect for the ducks!
The ducks and the appleturnover farm are lovely! 😀
Very interesting to see, would love to have ducks if I get the opportunity! I was wondering do the nutrients build up in the pond? Or maybe the duckweed sucks them out?
Our compliments on some really beautifully shot and edited videos. We watched the goose house video twice through! 🥰
Finally got a chance to sit with you tonight and oh what a treat. A beautiful film! And I learn so much every time I watch one of these. So much to dream of, to aspire to, to envision. Your little piece of earth is a blessed place. 💚🙏🏽