Amazing Micro Dairy Makes Tiny Farm Viable
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- Learn how this amazing micro dairy makes a tiny farm viable while building fertility and reducing inputs. Discover the secrets to sustainable farming success in this inspiring video!
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This is hands-down the best on-farm video you've done. Educated, observant and erudite interviewees sharing how the greater landscape can be shaped for healthier water cycles and fertility at minimal cost. Thanks Tim! Great Saturday morning watch!!!
I agree. From little things, big things grow!
I agree
This is SERIOUSLY INSPIRATIONAL. I'm a city living girl who takes changing how we care for our planet, passionately.
I grew up with family that farmed marginalised country with depressingly diminishing returns back in the 1980s-90s and saw how that not only tore the land apart but also two generations of farmers.
I watch and learn so much from intelligent, thoughtful land stewards like yourselves, proving that healing the land, even as smaller landholders, can be profitable. AND THE IMPACT ON LOCAL COMMUNITIES... wonderful. Well done. This is our future 🎉🐨😎
Im a 30 minute drive from Kilmore, its awesome to see local farms are really investing into this way of thinking and planning on their land, ive been getting dad into it for his big veggie patch
Fantastic to hear!
Would love to see a video on someone using biological foliar fertilizer. Like worm tea or something along those lines. Bonus points if they’ve converted a conventional spray unit to putting it out. (I’m trying to avoid buying one of those flash tow and ferts even tho that’s my dream to have one)
Very informative. Thanks for sharing😊
Tim, I agree with the previous comments. I had to watch it in increments as my day was busy. But I learned so much from the people you interview. I will be getting a copy of the book. Cheers
The focus on building soil and therefore carrying-capacity is much needed. Nevertheless I would have loved to see more of the actual micro-dairy and their operations.Maybe you could do a follow-up at some point where you could also show how the pasture develops.
Thank you for your work!
I'll be up for that if you have a chance Tim!
Paddocks on my place are effectively a monoculture. Setaria grass outcompetes everything. Setaria grows quickly, reaching a height of around two meters in less than six weeks. Nothing can compete against this. Even macadamia trees I planted struggle. It’s an eternal struggle against this grass. My flail mower mulches the stuff up which has to be good for the soil.
Hi Tim great video, so much good value in this video and the farmer was very good at explaining as well.
Interesting discussion. I was always under the impression that swales, leaky weirs ala Peter Andrews and P A Yeoman's plough on contour were all about water slow down and down and storage so that it could infiltrate and disperse through the soil. This to me seemed to part of the video story.
Yeah. Both have the same objective but different construction. Often confused
A great vid once again Tim. You should really have more subs.
A helpful video for sure.
A Kiwi speaking; I couldn't help smiling in the beginning at the Aussie salute ;)
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Great video Tim. All the discussed concepts were explained very well.
Also try compost tea. Has worked for many farmers to increase yields. Addition of biochar into the tea may be beneficial.
Small electrified areas with cattle then pasture chickens seem to yield good results if you have the time and resources. I've seen a video of a fairly large operation, where the farmer claims to make more from the pasture chooks sold as meat birds from the farm.
Look up the following video on TH-cam. I watched it two years ago, and was really impressed.
Compost on a large scale: Regenerating 1000 acres
With Cory Miller and Kevin
Really, really good video here. Thanks!
Beneficial, high-growth soil microbes require carbon, amino acids, available calcium, and phosphorus to build strong cellular envelopes (skin) and proliferate. These core nutritional requirements must be available and/or applied throughout the growing season to maintain proper cellular development and resilient microbial communities.
Agreed. It's deceptive to call this sustainable or that he is improving the soil, without admitting he is just buying the nutrients and lignin from another farm then using the deception to get the customer to pay a a premium for it. He has a sound knowledge and plan. I just have an issue with the marketing.
When they describe the soil as depleted, is that due to repeated cropping leaving the topsoil flogged out, or is it more of a geological term for the area and would have applied from the beginning when the land was first cleared?
The farming history was one of cropping, ploughing and fertilising. The soils became compacted as organic material diminished and could no longer effectively hold water
@ thanks for answering this question. All very interesting to learn.
Great video
Are Leaky Contours the same as Swales?
No. They work slightly differently.
There was a time not that long ago where this would've been considered loonatics antics or just not financially viable
Its just break fencing, every farm in NZ does it, not revolutionary but good on you.
That’s one element of many in the video. I’m always interested to see how people fixate on what they do themselves
@@FarmLearningTim😂 it's not a competition, hey! Share knowledge, help people learn to innovate, improve... end of story💕🐨
He probably got this land cheap and told the soil is decayed but he's made it viable....yes a good investment but don't but a sandpit and promise roses it can't be done!
You can say, “Root” rather than “Rout”. You’re Aussie.
I’m Aussie, so I’m gunna say what I want matey
This is all common sense and been done for a long time, youre just using fancy words to make it sound scientific intelligent and new. The contours are called swales. Nothing new here at all for those that havnt come down with the last shower of rain.
Swales hold water. Leaky contours are designed to redirect water, not hold it. They are very different. There’s nothing new under the sun, but you can always learn something if you keep an open mind and treat people with respect.
@FarmLearningTim swales are for water infiltration instead of runoff. Not to dam it . Contours are commonly understood to redirect to dams or prevent erosion. So still a swale and this particular method is thousands of years old.
New to some people. We should celebrate people willing to learn and apply this knowledge. Again, it's not a competition.😊