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00:00 – Intro
00:42 – Space
02:20 – Design
05:00 – Methods/Approach
06:48 – Security
08:18 – Chickens/Animals
10:40 – Composting
12:15 – Watering System
13:38 – Seed Starting
14:47 – Harvests
16:30 – All Seasons Growing
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49 Comments
Also, every bit of squash or tomatoes that start to climb the fence get pruned by deer also.
Can you replace wood chip with leaves to make the compost?
The first year I did a garden, i thought i did everything by the book . Stuff did not do that well. The only thing that flourished was swiss chard and i dont even prefer. We recently moved to arizona and its a whole different ball game down here. The growing seasons are all backwards 😂😂
Thank you! This was precisely the encouragement I needed right now. I'm in year two of my urban/deck garden, and while I've been smart about the money invested, it feels like my harvests should be much bigger by now – but I've recently watched all the brassica I've started for the last three months disappear to pests. I'm hopeful again though. Thanks for the shot of inspiration.
I find it interesting that you say chickens aren't worth for the price of eggs. I bulk buy my chicken feed and its $40. Then I mix in different feed that has a variety of seeds that's about $20. Those two mixes last me about 2 months. My two hens (unless they're broody) will lay about an egg every day every other day so I get somewhere between 50 to 60 eggs a month. Including the fact that I let them go broody to hatch out more eggs so that I can eat the excess roosters. I find it a lot cheaper. On average I spend somewhere between 30 to $40 a month? Where I'm at I could easily spend that much on three cartons of eggs which is only 36 eggs. Plus I get fresh homegrown chicken for dinner, I know they weren't abused I know they're not full of steroids or antibiotics. For the most part they eat off the land and whatever scraps I give them.
If I could like this video 1000 more times, I would!. Great information! Thank you so much! Wheels are turning ⚙️
This is great when you have tons of money or go deeply into debt. Oh, and also have lots of free time on your hands.
I disagree. If you have a big garden, you have a lot of waste in things you can feed your chickens to offset the feed cost.
Just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean chickens aren't viable. You think everyone that kept chickens since the dawn of time up until like 80 years ago was buying feed?
I want start a little garden on the roof of our house in Buenos Aires. Already have some compost and of course the climate should help.
Excellent! It is so fun to grow your own food! It is great for your physical, mental, and spiritual health! There is a danger- you know what food is suppose to taste like when you grow your own. You become a produce and food snob!
Will you try growing winter strawberries like in Japan? 😃
Love this video bro 💯💯💯 More like this please!!!
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I want to grow my own food, but i live in an apartment
Getting rid of that black walnut probably saved your fruit trees. That juglone is a bad neighbor!
This right here is why Mike is a certified Pro Home Cook. The entire point is that it's not anything super ridiculously fancy like, say, Joshua Weissman's many cooking videos, but to show that at home you can have a nice garden and also cook with just about anything you may have laying around and still have quick, delicious, and filling meals. Amazing channel and much love!
Have you read Elliot Coleman's Four Season Harvest?
This is awesome. Congratulations for you and your family. Just another example that Rome was not bu9ilt in a day. With patience and hard work you can create something amazing!
I live in South Carolina. You barely even see anyone gardening in the south. I remember a friend of mine saying that me growing food was a revolutionary act. I laughed it off, but I kinda see what he was hinting at some odd years later. Anyways, I have a little acre of family land that I farm on. I had to build a 7 ft deer fence around the entire property with chicken wire on the bottom to stop rabbits.
Thankyou so much. At last a real world view of how difficult it is to succeed. I have a nemesis:the fox. I cannot easily explain the enormous destruction that this creature has wrought. I planted 400 onions and shallots. Good harvest? No, not at all. It was f***ed by compost containing weeds and nasty grass and the fox running up and down smashing the emerging plants so they did not grow properly. Tomatoes? They don't grow when the fox goes up the whole row biting through the stems. Seed trays, buckets, trees in containers? All dug out and destroyed. My outbuilding? Got in through a window and dug out all the seed trays, bit through electronic cables and shit everywhere. This is not all though. I have found other foreign destruction brought into my garden by this beast. Expensive women's shoes, wallets, balls, kids shoes, dog leads and harnesses, a bag of tobacco, lighters and skins, beheaded rats, a metropolitan police pin and god knows what. Recently I have found limited success by covering a huge area with bird netting. I suppose its only a matter of time before it figures how to circumvent that.
This used to be one of my dreams. It's awesome to see the reality of it coming to fruition.
Your dad did an amazing job with the furniture
Epic gardening is my favorite
What is your seed growing system called?
It looks amazing, but I recently learned that volcano mulching trees is really bad for them.
Loved the weed plant at 13:52😂
When I was a kid my mom would take me to the local woodworker to ask for sawdust as a bedding material for my hamster. To them it's a byproduct so they really don't mind you taking it. I think that woud work for chickens too.
Wow! ❤your cooking videos but had no idea you were gardening and raising chickens too I like the same gardening channels as you and also practice no dig in my garden. Do you have a link to the food scrape compost bins you use I currently use tumbler bins but they’re too hard for me to turn and would like to try a different type It took me about three years to get my soil just right and now I have a “food jungle”🌱💚❤️
I understand there’s a science to composting but you can literally just throw food, leaves and brown cardboard or paper towels and you’ll eventually get nice rich soil. I do it on my balcony and turn it whenever I remember, the soil its given me is full of life. And its “free” it also helps decrease the amount of methane gases we produce via food waste. We’re giving it back to nature in a good way and it gives us something in return 🫶🏻
Nothing is more rewarding than going out to the garden to harvest your dinner.
For those lacking space, vertical gardening with Green Stalk planters (or a similar system) would produce many varieties of food and is beginner friendly! 😊
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you're living the dream! hope I can have a little land like yours some day 🙂
Great video!
The most frustrating thing for me trying to garden is the non-beneficial bugs. Spider mites were the death of me this year. My peppers have some fungal or bacterial thing happening. Its so frustrating.
What zone/ state are you in?
I’ve been growing my own food for a long time and I used to do all of that work until I had an idea that changed everything!
Those of you who don't have space well, get space. Damn, ableist much? Unfollow.
No female influence? I’m at the_mothercookergarden. Your story is inspiring and you’ve done great.
With milions you get from you tube its piece of cake tostart self sufficent garden etc.
Congratulations, Mike! How great for you guys.
Put your garden and kitchen waste in for your chickens. Save feed money and super charge your compost Back to Eden style. Paul swears by this system and his results are mind blowing.
Our chickens were free range, they had the run of the veggie patch, their coop connected to it directly, they scavenged there for incects, and we fed them kitchen scraps as a supplement growing up. They didn't cost a cent in upkeep, and were definitely financially worth it.
More videos like this please!! More video involving the garden please .
Enjoyed your clip, seeing that you have the space and using your space so well. Like your chickens, create an area where you can raise guinea pigs for meat. They eat 90% grass, their manure is great for plants aswell, they don't dig, don't jump, they don't bite, multiply quick and easy to raise. It's just a tip. It's worth it to add to any backyard food forest. They keep the grass down very well.
So why not give the food scraps to reduce feed cost of the chickens? You have compost from them right?
Wow your property is impressive! I would love to have a similar situation but I don’t have that much yard space. Thx for sharing!
I am on 12.5 acres and planted like 10 peach trees so far. I am in south Texas so it gets a bit hot so I made rows between peach trees so plants dont get cooked in summer.