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Do u as a family ask anyone outside your immediate family for help? it's OK to ask, even the general public in lue of cuddling the bunnies. Just a suggestion 😂

you can definitely graft!

mulch your banana stems makes awsum compost

Great video as always. Would love to see some of Deb's sunday weekly food prep as well.

Bananas a shining. Good job cleaning them up.❤

We fell banana trees with a cheap saw. Either a folding pruning saw or just a bog standard 550mm wood saw you can grab from Mitre 10/Bunnings for around $20. As much as I'm sure the kids love swinging the machete around, a saw is much safer for cutting side to side. Enables you to control the direction of the fall more as well which can be a god send in tight spaces. Saves the sticky sap going everywhere too as you cut into it. They can still go hard with the machete once it's fallen to split it up for compost, it's actually better than the saw for that part. When they're swinging down into the ground far less chance of them glancing off and catching someone else or themselves. Especially with the younger ones generally not being too spatially aware, they can be prone to getting into places they shouldn't be and scaring the lights out of us older folk while we're doing dangerous work. Good to see your son respects the blade with that wide stance! He'll be sure to have all his toes by the time he's 21 haha. We have a separate set of tools for garden stuff and a set for woodwork. Might be worth picking up a couple cheap garden tools. Matilda using a pair of scissors to cut banana leaves gave me a good laugh. Very resourceful! Some cheap plastic fencing to make temporary circles around the trees may be a good call to prevent pruning at ground level with the mower ;) A more utilitarian solution is to do what we do and plant cover crops at the base of them. Our favourite is Comfrey since there's so many ways you can use it. Liquid fertiliser as well as give some of it to the chooks to chew on are our two go-to uses. That way the Comfrey gives you the natural barrier while you're mowing. You could also look into NZ native renga renga lilies to go underneath your evergreen fruit trees if you didn't need the utlity and just wanted something pretty (even though they can be pulled for their tubers if you really want). Other plants like Plantain lillies are great for underneath deciduous trees since they flower early before the canopy above develops. Looks to be heating up for you in Northland as it is for us on the Hibiscus Coast. Look forward to seeing how the market garden develops alongside the new Emu and Ostrich enclosure :)

Far too much talking. Sometimes quiet is best.

How are you storing all your produce.

Chooks: "He's dump'n shit on our food pile!! yum!" (??😝)

Where in new Zealand are you.

smart letting the cuttings refeed.

Food Forest is really comming along.

Great job with the mowing and clearing in the food forest.Homestead looking really good.Wondering if Debs would be interested in doing any vlogs on her food prep to inspire others?

Those girls of yours are hard workers! Love to see them chipping in.

re the walk ways, if you know of any aborist in the area chipping wood up, tell them you can take any unwanted loads, load the walkways up with wood chips about 6" deep and the weeds will not get through, and any new seeds will pull out so easy as they dont have a great rooting.

you got good kids. i suspect that is the result of good parenting. good on you both :-)

where do you get your compost from?

Great job Luke and the children.Even Evelyn was doing her bit.The pigs sure liked the broccoli. Have a great week guys.

Love seeing Evelyn “helping” as best she can. Jasper’s great on that wheelbarrow. The girls did a fantastic job clearing the brassicas. They’re great kids!

omg i love the pig family.

man the kids are getting stuck in,good on them!

3.67K subscribers! Great job

awesome, a new video!

whole family has been crushing it,cant wait to see the new stall.

Louis is so cute!

Been looking forward to this video. Awesome work team!

Hey guys, what breed do you use for meat birds? Cheers for the content

Love your family how they pull together and get the job done and at a young age too. The world 🌎 needs more of it. I'm glad I'm a hard working kiwi and growing up was the same way. 😊

TODDLERS helping out /in "Boots 'n All" // Take Note all "SILK WORM" Parents // Just wait till these little Critters "take Wing". // (US) Monarch butterflies, fly (migrate) THOUSANDS of kilometers) each year.// Who would believe it.... // Silk Worms?? ...well!! ...check it out.

great job keeps looks bloody awesome!

love the food forest!

Tamarillos have kicked off here, however we don't get frosts ( coastal subtropical) it's funny, i envy people who can grow stone fruits, apples, pears etc whilst taking for granted mangoes, bananas, jackfruit, macadamias etc... have just finished bottling jabotica cordial and jams after picking buckets and buckets and buckets from 3 trees, froze the mulberries for summer sorbets, have a fridge and freezer full of limes ( as well as lime marmalade) oranges and lemons... so rewarding after years of propagation, soil prep and maintenance nurturing the trees to abundance... i love watching your progress and dedication. Super stoked to learn Joel Salatin has accepted a position on the Advisory Board of the incoming Cabinet of the soon to be restructured USDA. His organic and regenerative knowledge and practises will be an asset for the future of farming.

Do you grow kiwis? Most of the ones we get in the USA come from New Zealand. They're the best!

You guys are awesome. TOTALLY!😊

Love your videos. Just getting gardens established near Maungatapere and wonder if you would mind sharing where you are buying your commercial compost from. Thanks.

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The sunrise bubble bee are one of our family faves too. If you haven't tried Pink Brandy wine tomatoes you should! Big beefsteak ones, really good growing and make amazing sauces and chutneys etc We use primarily Roma, sweet 100, money maker, pink brandy wine. So good! Well done you guys are an amazing team!

You must have a warehouse cool storage to store all the veg bounty

Man those emus have grown quick!

every new video you post makes me look forward to the next one more.

man putting in the hard yards going to pay off for you guys this season!

Which part of NZ is this in?

You will work it all out Luke, you always do (with the help of your fantastic family ) 😀

where do you get your meat chickens from?

❤️ You are all super motivational, and your efforts and work ethic is exceptional, we're already baking hot over here in Qld. i'm envious of your damp earth as you till. 😂

Great stuff

I netted all my brassicas as protection from the white cabbage moth. It works for that, but ot doesn't stop aphids. Are they in the soil?

Hey there, have you guys got any chicks or fertilized eggs for sale ?

is painting a greenhouse white a semi normal thing?! i have hoop houses that get WAY too hot (like as soon as the sun pops up in the morning they are at 100f), does light still penetrate the paint?

Gardens are looking awesome. Can’t believe how much the food forest has grown 🍺🍺