Former Market Gardener Plans for Self Sufficient Future on 3/4 Acre
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, we travel to County Roscommon in the west of Ireland, where Odhran Crowe and his family have recently moved after running a small no-dig market garden in France. Using his experience as a market gardener and inspired by permaculture techniques, he is now designing a partly self sufficient homestead on a 3,000m2 (3/4 acre) site.
The design includes hugulkultur beds, food forests, a reed bed system, swales, wind barriers, ponds, chickens, bees, and habitat for wildlife.
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All squashes you can grow up a trellis, then it won't be one huge mess of vines, definitely try the trellis idea, the fruit will grow down through the tunnel and hang over your head and you can just pick them. You can also grow any vines, around your chickens coops, I have all of my berries in my coop. Of course the chickens eat the lower ones, and I get the high up stuff, and the birds leave them alone because they don't get near the chickens. 😆
Just some suggestions, take it or leave it
Thanks for sharing this. Interesting and easy to listen and watch. I hope you’ll be able to go back and share how this homestead is coming along in different seasons, and different years.
Thanks for watching and commenting! We will definitely be back over there in a year or so to see how things are progressing. I think it will start to become something very special once everything he has planted starts to grow out.
that was absolutely amazing I have to say
Thanks Declan, glad you enjoyed it. Odhran is doing some really great work.
agreed 👍
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Another excellent video bro, i love to see how other people are applying the principles of permaculture to thier garden/smallholding in the Irish context. I’m looking forward to see some of your videos in the summer.
Heya Barry, Thanks man! I have actually been meaning to get in contact with you wondering if you'd be interested in giving us a tour of your own place?? Looks like you have some really great stuff going on over there.
@@BoscosGarden thanks man, i’d defiantly be up for that at some stage, i love the idea for sharing info and different perspective’s on organic horticulture/permaculture especially here in Ireland. Your doing amazing work with your channel, i really enjoy learning from other peoples experiences and how your videos have focused on people around ireland sharing information on small scale food production. Would love to chat more and share ideas with you bro.
@@BarryFresh Amazing! My number is 0876149002 if you want to text or Whatsapp me and we can set up a date sometime soon if you're up for it.
I don't know if you guys have dollar general stores where you're at, but you can get all the cardboard you want from them, completely free of charge, and it's nice and thick cardboard so weeds don't go through, also it doesn't have color. So just go to a store, back by the dumpsters, and they should have a cardboard dumpster, and just get your cardboard from that
We don't have that particular store but I do my dempster diving at large appliance stores, bike shops etc. And get lots of free cadboard from those.
Really enjoyed this thanks for putting it together, nice to see some Irish Permaculture projects on TH-cam. Good luck with your plans, I love the house to.. I get cardboard from a pet shop, very large pieces. Try bike shops and electric appliance shops too for large heavy cardboard. They'll be only too happy to give it to you believe me, the pet shop where I get it now give me a staff discount on dog treats! I've been stock piling it all winter. They're also happy for me to take pallets. Stock piling the card board that is!
Hi Ciaran, glad you enjoyed it and thanks a lot for the feedback. Good call on the pet shops, I hadn’t thought of those... and you're right, anywhere I've asked they have been delighted to get rid of it. I've been stocking up over the winter too so we have enough there now to open a small packing business at this stage. 😅
Thanks for another great video.
You are most welcome and thank you for commenting.
We too had a pile of wood by our chickens coop, and we thought the same thing, we'll just let it decompose itself and animals will live in it, it will be great. Well that was until about 2 years in, then we started noticing rats, mice and snakes in the pile, the pile was a breeding ground for mice and rats, because our chickens coop was so close, so the creatures would run into our chickens area when we weren't around, eating their feed. We eventually burned the pile down, because the infestation kept getting larger, and used the ashes on our garden, and we built a garden where the pile was. A herb garden to be exact. But yeah get rid of that pile Hun, your just drawing rodents to your property, unfortunately not hedgehogs.
A fair point with it being so close the chicken house, however we do NEED mice and rats as well to feed large the raptors if nothing else. I think Odhran had a cat if I remember rightly so populations shouldn't get too out of hand. And we have no snakes in Ireland so no worries there.
@@BoscosGarden no snakes in Ireland!! Oh man I need to move! That's awesome.
Can an American, a non citizen of Ireland, buy land there? We're tired of the united states. It's getting way too bad over here with the control and manipulation from the government. It's absolutely horrible. And the way their feeding our people, something is majorly wrong there. It's factory made meat. For example they're starting to process bugs in the meat, because there's not enough meat to feed us all. So my family and I are really considering moving somewhere out of country.
However we want to be truly free. We want to live completely off our land, and build our house ourselves from our own land, without the government getting involved telling us how to build our house. We want to move somewhere where we can truly live free off of the land without any outsiders interfering with our lives. Unfortunately in the united states, the government wants their hands in everything. For example I couldn't even build my chicken coop, on my own property, without getting approval 1st from the government. I think that's just wrong.
What's it like in Ireland? Can you truly live freely from the land, without interference from government officials?
@All Natural Homesteaders A non EU member state citizen can't live here unless they have a work residency or are married to an Irish citizen, so you might be out of luck.
However, it's not all peaches and cream here either. We have very strict planning laws and regulations too. And being a small country compared to the USA, there are very few places that are untouched and truly wild for one to get away from it all.
My only advice is to try looking on the bright side. Rather than focusing on what you can’t do, do what you can. If the rules don't make sense, bend them and see what happens. If someone puts up a small chicken coop and provides their neighbours with delicious eggs, I doubt anyone is going to come and forcibly take it down!
@@BoscosGarden that's actually exactly what I'm doing. I opened up a community chicken coop and garden, and got taken to court by the town board for not having a zoning permit for the coop. Which I didn't need anyway because it's smaller then the amount needed for a permit. 😆 Besides the point. The towns people, love me, it's the politicians that's the problem. So I'm running for mayor now! 😂 I absolutely loved it when we 1st moved here, but hopefully we can change something since I have a lot of residents on my side.
However I am certainly looking forward to moving in a year or so, to a state without zoning laws. Just have to deal with everything until then. Lol
Keep up the great work with your videos, I truly enjoy them!
Btw I always thought Ireland was beautiful! I'm Irish, my father's family is from there. But I didn't realize that it was so built up. Thanks for the information! I appreciate it
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Would love to watch this but 1h22m is a bit much 😢
Where did you purchase your tunnels? Can I get them online somewhere? And what did you pay for them? I've seen them here in the states, and they want $2500 for one that size. And that's a lot of money, who can afford that besides the rich. So I'm looking for cheaper alternatives.
I think Odhran said he got that one in France and brought it home. They are quite expensive here too but worth it in our climate.
Maybe I missed it, but how much land is there?
He has about 3000m². 3/4 acre roughly.
@@BoscosGarden wow really, looks like a lot more land then that. I thought he had at least an acre and a half or so. Half a hector or so. But he's definitely set it up nicely, guess that's why it looks so large is because how he has it set up.
Thanks for sharing with us, I truly enjoyed watching this video! Thank you!
@@allnaturalhomesteaders You're most welcome.
@@BoscosGarden hold up is that 3/4 of an Acer or 3 to 4 ACERS? I just realized that I don't think that's 3/4 of an acre. There's a lot more there than that. 😂 I'm blonde. 😆 Sorry. If I can't laugh at myself then who can I laugh at! 🤦
@@allnaturalhomesteaders It's three quarters of an acre.