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Small Scale Revival
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2023
Small Scale Revival is dedicated to demonstrating methods that work to make small farms return ecologically, socially, and economically. We showcase methods from our home farm Wild East Farm as well as take you to other small farms that are earning a decent livelihood while benefitting their community and the soil. Join us in this adventure!
Our home, Wild East Farm, is a 44-acre beauty in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The landscape is a diverse mix of open pastures, flowing streams, and woodlands.
We envision a contiguous farm ecosystem that will take decades to develop. In the early years, we are producing crops that are familiar, reliable, and economically viable for a new farm business including annual vegetables and pastured poultry.
All the while, we have established agroforestry plantings over 12 acres and are preparing the land to holistically graze ruminants- with intentions to transition to these forms of production over time.
Our home, Wild East Farm, is a 44-acre beauty in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The landscape is a diverse mix of open pastures, flowing streams, and woodlands.
We envision a contiguous farm ecosystem that will take decades to develop. In the early years, we are producing crops that are familiar, reliable, and economically viable for a new farm business including annual vegetables and pastured poultry.
All the while, we have established agroforestry plantings over 12 acres and are preparing the land to holistically graze ruminants- with intentions to transition to these forms of production over time.
Wrapping up Year 2 at Wild East Farm
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Keyline Design in Western North Carolina
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October Farm Walkabout
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The Pigs are In The Woods!
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How I Got Into Farming
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Silvopasture Developing and a Summer Break
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June Walkabout
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Introducing 500 Chicks To The Brooder
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Lessons From A First Year No-Till Market Garden
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Benefits Of Having A Forest Management Plan!
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Come to Our Trainings in 2024!
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Transitioning From Homesteading To Full-fledged Farming
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Transitioning From Homesteading To Full-fledged Farming
The Ultimate Broiler Pen: A Game-changer For Your Poultry Farm!
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The Ultimate Broiler Pen: A Game-changer For Your Poultry Farm!
Spring Has Sprung: Planting Trees And Happy Chicks!
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Spring Has Sprung: Planting Trees And Happy Chicks!
March Musings On Lambs, Rivers, And Lettuce
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March Musings On Lambs, Rivers, And Lettuce
Rainy Day Planning: A Look into 2024 at Wild East
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Rainy Day Planning: A Look into 2024 at Wild East
Testing The Best Ways To Prepare Garden Beds For Winter
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Testing The Best Ways To Prepare Garden Beds For Winter
Flipping Beds The No-till Way At Wild East Farm
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Flipping Beds The No-till Way At Wild East Farm
Winter Growing: Setting Up Caterpillar Tunnels And Reflections
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Winter Growing: Setting Up Caterpillar Tunnels And Reflections
Improve Your Quality Of Life With Mixed Farming: Quick Tip
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Improve Your Quality Of Life With Mixed Farming: Quick Tip
Boost Your Sales: The Power Of Multiple Enterprises And Sales Outlets
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Boost Your Sales: The Power Of Multiple Enterprises And Sales Outlets
Take A Bird's Eye View Of Our Farm In August 2023!
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Take A Bird's Eye View Of Our Farm In August 2023!
Discover The Joy In Your Journey: How To Prevent Burnout And Stay Fulfilled
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Discover The Joy In Your Journey: How To Prevent Burnout And Stay Fulfilled
Yinz are impressive. It's the first time I've ever looked at somebody's website based off of the TH-cam video. Anyway I'm impressed with your systems and I'm stealing some of them and shrinking them down to fit my own needs in southwestern Pennsylvania😂
Your creek trees 🌳 would offer great tree hay for chickens 🐓 , cattle 🐄 , sheep🐑 and goats 🐐. They like poplar, hickory, maple, willow, etc
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Wow thuks for teaching us
Great insight, thank you.
Where did you get the pasture waterer?
Where do you sell your produce? What state are you in?
What seeder did you use to plant the kale?
Just found your channel/farm through No-Till Growers. Glad they chose to feature you. My husband and I are very akin to y'all in our views and goals and agrarian ideals. Maybe we can visit someday!
So glad that you made it through Helene without catastrophic damage, and that's incredible to know that you were able to feed the community with such high quality food in a time of such need. Looking forward to seeing more regular videos again!
Very cool. Good to see and hear the farm is doing well. That warms my heart to hear you were able to put your chickens to good use with folks in need after those storms.
As Salatin says, you have to respect the chickenness of the chicken and the cowness of the cow
Have you reached out to local NRCS officials? Their high tunnel initiative and EQUIP programs among others could give you access to some real funding for improvements (cover crops, free consultations, high tunnels, fencing, water points, etc)
I love your understanding of, “building community through agriculture.” Those who value agriculture as simply a means of economic output miss entirely the deep connection we are supposed to have to the land, our food, and each other. I firmly believe that relocalizing food production through small-scale, decentralized, aggregating models is the single most important step to improving health, education and equity outcomes in our society. As Geoff Lawton says, “All the world’s problems can be solved in the garden.” I truly hope you’re safe from Helene
Wonderful video, Noah. I love how you showed the many influences you had on your decision to farm. What caught my attention was your realization of how family, sports, school, and so on are present in who you are today! Thank you!
Great video, Noah! I loved seeing your farm and learning about your journey to farming. Wonderful and inspirational. Take care.
Be careful with non native plants!
Such as?
we make a permanent training pen with hard panel on the outside and poly wire on the inside and keep the pigs in for ~ 2 weeks. Since its permanent, we use a deep litter system with woodchips and refresh per batch of pigs and at the end of the season we put the entire pen's worth of woodchips in windrows to compost for a year then spread on the fields. Also, we put hog panel beneath the waterer so they don't root and make wallows at their waterer. We put rebar into the ground and bend the end to hold the hog panel in the ground.
Sounds like a great set up! I'll have to use that hog panel under the waterer.
@@smallscalerevivaljust trying to make it easier on us, the land, and the animals. I love what you’re doing brother!
Cheers to you, your story, and your team, good stuff. I resonate with this so much.
That was great. It's been clear from the start that you look at farming as your true calling. Hearing a bit about your background and life's journey not only confirms it but also provides some excellent context for your videos. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for sharing your story! Great food for thought.
I bought 1.5 acres to grow food at 75 +. I have lots of gardens , carpot//greenhouse, 3 fruit trees and many berries. I have 2 hens for eggs. Wonderful neighbours and not on the city.
Wow! Beautiful! I like this style.
Loved your story!
Well narrated story what bought you here😁🇦🇺
Great video. Many thanks for sharing.
Love hearing the intention to maintain the market garden with hand tools only. It seems so big for that! When clearing beds at the end of a crop and also planting starts, are you doing that all by hand?
Love hearing the intention to maintain the market garden with hand tools only. It seems so big for that! When clearing beds at the end of a crop and also planting starts, are you doing that all by hand?
With baby greens we use a black silage tarp, for thicker stalked plants like brassicas, tomatoes, etc we cut out the stem just below the surface, leaving the roots and then add a bit of compost for the next crop, and for root crops the whole crop is removed leaving a fairly ready planting surface. We transplant all by hand
Love your transition of the pasture to forest, and forest to pasture. Nice turn of phrase that captures so many layers of meaning. And, your woodchip pile is glorious carbon wealth. The kind money will never buy.
how do you like the richard perkins style broiler pens vs a schooner or salatin style pen? specifically in terms of ease of movement, durability, chicken safety (predation, winds etc)?
Ease of movement 10/10 Durability better than the Salatin pens by far. We also built them out of 2x2 lumber and even though considerably more weight the bike tires makes it so even a very small person can easily move them Wind pressure probably about the same as a Salatin pen. We had a couple that were built with 1x2 blow over (no chicks under them) so that is why we went heavier. Winds can pick them up if they are too light Predation is more of a risk inherent to this. I think the #1 plus of the salatin pen is how safe they are, but there are a lot of compromises with that model in my opinion. We would not have gone with the perkins model if not for having a guardian dog present because the predation risk is so high. Aerial predators have been a minor issue so far but only when the pens were close to the woodland edge, so that can be mitigated I believe.
@smallscalerevival thanks for that. We’re running schooners and it’s just a hassle frankly, more infrastructure is more things that can break. Havent don’t the Perkins pens but totally makes sense to have a trained guardian dog present. I like what you’re doing with the channel
Where did you source that many blueberry plants from? What variety are they?
We got them from a local whole saler. Varieties are tifblue powderblue premier and brightwell. All good southern adapted rabbit eye blue berries that are staggered in production from early season to late season
@@smallscalerevival Thank you for the info!
Love to see the progress, keep up the hard work!
Thanks for the walkabouts/tour😁
I'm super impressed with your plans and progress towards your goals! I'm curious why you didn't interplant your long term nut field with faster producing woody crops like black locust, hazelnuts, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, and honey locust? It seems like the natural way to get an earlier return while proceeding to your long term nut production goal. Most local SWCD offer very inexpensive bareroot native tree and shrub saplings or seedlings in the spring. In my area, bundles of 25 saplings cost between $35 and $50.
We've been interplanting with faster growing trees this year, but initially cost was a limiting factor in having high intensity plantings. The poorer soils in this pasture also don't facilitate us deciding to plant many high value perennials in here, but the nut trees can thrive nonetheless.
@smallscalerevival Thank you for your reply. Cost is always a huge factor. Perhaps in years to come NFTs can help speed the nut growth.
Sorry, but your understanding of natives and invasives is entirely wrong. I know what you are saying is the scientific consensus, but that consensus is dangerous flawed. I could go on endlessly about why, but I'd rather just refer you to the work of David Theodoropoulos until I have my own articles available. Don't let bad science inform your good intentions.
Part of embracing complexity in my mind is understanding that different viewpoints on topics like this have value. The pendulum swing of “invasive plants are totally benign” makes sense in the face of the broad scale chemical warfare. I think there is nuance to the conversation, but for our goals of converting this woodland into a shaded pasture with woody perennials that produce mast for native wildlife, privet, multiflora rose, and bittersweet don’t really have a role. I appreciate your comment but I don’t think anyone knows who is right or who is wrong on this topic, it’s just a sea of opinions. The important part is that any action or inaction towards managing land and the plants on them is done with intention and skillful touch
Good job
Nice set up
Nice video!
Nice set up for the chicks in the Brooder.😁 They are so cute❤ What type of Chicks are they?
So glad No Till Growers turned me on to your channel and farm. It's quickly becoming one of my favorites on TH-cam!
Thanks so much!
Great video I am curious how do you hold the plastic up on the caterpillar tunnels?
I have a video explaining it, check it out!
Thanks I watched the video
Good luck, love your videos and explanations.
Thank you for sharing! I am planning to start my own market garden in probably a year and it helps me a lot all your information. I am trully inspired!
Good job and good luck
great video! whats your thought on living pathways like clover? and do you ever use a BCS in the market garden? Very impressed by all you are accomplishing
We aren’t currently considering living pathways, but could be an option in the future. We don’t use a bcs at all. Our bed flips just use broadfork, tilther, bed rake
Great explanation wish you the highest success this season!
Another great video. We grow on a residential garden plot in Wales UK. Using straw on paths in our setting seemed to favour slugs. We went back to Woodchips. But as you say adapt to circumstances!
Good points about the wood chips. I’ve also had this issue particularly with lower lying beds. I’d not really thought about using straw but do have quite a bit of it. Looking forward to seeing the “jungle” that will develop in your caterpillar tunnels. Hope this will be a great and productive year for you!