In continuation of our Summer Farm Tour series, we are joined today by Daniel Mays of Frith Farm in Maine to talk about how they manage fertility on 3 and a half acres of organic vegetables.
In this video, Daniel Mays discusses how to manage fertility, how to grow cover crops, how to fertilize after a rye cover crop, how to grow organic vegetables after a cover crop, how to sow carrots after a cover crop like rye,, and more.
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24 Comments
Happy belated birthday Jesse.
Great video with lots of info!
Hey Nerd! Thanks for another wonderful and informative tour ๐
Happy birthday, ๐thanks for the video.
Firstly, happy birthday, Jesse ๐ Second, I wanted to ask about something… So I recently got a copy of your book (great book btw) and I ended up having heated discussion with some of my friends about it. One of my friends also wanted to purchase it when she saw it. The thing is, I'm from Poland. I personaly don't have language problem but my friend said that her level of english isn't suficient to fully understand your book. So I just wanted to ask… Do you have any future plans to translate your book? Just asking ๐
311 lol๐can't wait to see that age…happy birthday ๐ ๐ฅณ ๐
Nice to learn of a farmer that is trying to keep it clean and grow naturally!
watch out for 24d persistent herbicides ! they hide in Compost!
Weed seeds must be eradicated before using these methods! Otherwise awesome!
I got a problem after covered corp that is I found a lot pest under the mulch I think because there is wet after watering. How can I fix this?
until people bring back their poop in a bucket, nice
Happy belated 30-11th Birthday!
Great video, lots of great info on the cover crops. Thanks for talking about the phosphorus issue. A lot of organic farmers using lots of compost miss this problem!!
I also turned 3011 this year!!!! Happy birthday
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Happy 30+11 Birthday, Farmer Jesse! We love what you are doing…great informative video on Firth Farm! I've read your book 3 times..still learning! Think I'll buy Daniel's book also! Jus wondering about tarps! I bought poly tarps & only after 18 mos they crumbling! What a ness! Where can i get 'silage tarps'? Weird but my local Co-op's & farm stores in Mid Tn have not been helpful and do not carry them! Help!
Happy belated birthday, Jessie!
Happy birthday! I need to look through your video to find good ways to kill covercrops in the south. In zone 9 and 9b frost is not reliable to kill anything. This is great information. I am starting to think here we need to plan cover-crop for the heat when nothing else grows and the heat terminates things for us!
Happy Belated birthday Jessie! 30-11th is a special b-day! I have 2 acres, my winter rye has been coming up for a week now. I did some mason jar soil tests and it looks like heavy clay, mostly no organic. I was going to plant watermelon on 1 of my acres, and not terminate the rye in the other 1 acre to harvest it. But I'm starting to think that doing a summer cover crop to improve the soil for maybe the following year for the watermelon patch may be better. Or I'll compost tea the crap out of it and go for watermelons,,will see. Thanks, happy birthday, I bought your book from you and,,bye.
Hi don't you have a lot of snails and ants with that straw/woodchips between beds? thanks
Love this video โค
QUESTION – how does the natural leaf litter impact this farm?
The ratio, of one man for 1/3 of an acre, is crucial information for all of us trying to plan and decide what to do. Thank you very much.
This summer series was fantastic. Y'all rock!