For my tiny garden, I use a three trash can system; the first gets all the raw kitchen scraps (we keep it closer to the house for convenience). When full, this gets dumped into the second with shredded cardboard/wood chips/leaves layers. This second one gets dumped into a third (when the first is full again). Eventually the third one is dumped right into a cardboard layer in the corner of my garden. So far, so good! Love the video podcast and look forward to it everyday.
How big are the cans? How full are they when you transfer? Do you add to can 2 multiple times or just once and let it cook until you need to empty can 1 again?
I meant to say this yesterday, but one of the few things that AI is actually useful for is summarizing large volumes of text, for example scientific articles. You can provide the text and ask it to summarize it and if the results are too technical still, you can ask it to use more plain language. I often do this when I’m trying to learn new concepts for my job and has helped immensely. It won’t necessarily help you learn to read those articles but if you just need the information it could be helpful, plus accounts often have free tiers so there isn’t a financial burden to give it a try. Post note: I love the content and will be picking up the Living Soil Handbook soon, but your video help to keep the dream of having a farm alive while also delivering the realities of farming present. New format is also a total win, I listen on my nightly walk with my dogs.
Completely agree with your insights on the value of scientific findings being buried under obscure terminology! One thing that irks me to no end are the unreadable soil test results from my county extension (Orange County, NC). It'd be incredibly valuable to me if you did an episode on that!
I put a layer of cardboard at the bottom of my kitchen compost. Every time I put a good amount of scraps in my bin, I add a layer of shredded brown paper/ egg carton. Helps the smell and helps the carbon/ nitro balance when I take it out to the pile.
I compost in a plastic tote with the bottom cut out. I live in an urban area so I have to keep it under wraps from pests so it helps being able to use a removable lid. My trick is to keep a bit of carbon, leafy, woody material near my compost and layer/ mix it in whenever I add wet scraps or if it starts to get anaerobic, in which case I’ll pull it aside and bury more woody material. Compost has been coming out great 😊 I keep 2 going at a time and alternate so I can let one finish while I start a new one.
Not going to lie, this fits in about perfect with my schedule to sit down at eat lunch at work. I love them all, as I sit here in my tech office wearing my No-Till hat. Someday I'll have more than my little garden!
My two cents worth(which isn’t worth even two cents) as far as the new format goes- if this works for you then I would stick with it. You can’t please everyone even some of the time but I think you might get a good following with these daily podcasts. I know that I am enjoying them. Keep up the good work!
Bruh i wanna shout out thanks for all you do for really just about everyone and everything you are around. I've really have learned alot over the past 2 years of watching your content. You're my role model
I compost in a couple big like 35 gallon plastic trash cans. I have holes drilled up and down the sides and on the bottom and lid and bought a cork screw like compost turner on amazon. I’m always aiming for hot compost and to do that I end up putting in more greens than you normally would, but it works like a charm and I mix it up every other day. I know it’s done when the worms move in, but I let it go for a bit more so they can do their thing and make it even better plus they lay LOTS of eggs in there so bonus when I spread it out over my garden. I do occasionally get BSF larvae in there and the worms don’t generally care. I’m trying to get enough BSF larva to start their own area, but so far no go. (I did find out that decaying Spotted Lantern Flies are a great attractor for the wild BSF though! So those things are good for something. I gather them in a bottle and kill them with a little rubbing alcohol.)
Farmer Jesse: yes been loving the simulcast of podcast and YT video. Very good information that we can get quickly and act on. And totally agree about sharing research in lay terms so it can be used. Perhaps that can help forge an appreciation for science and research rather than distrust.
As a person with a degree in biochemistry... I will say that scientific journal articles are really supposed to be read 2-3 times... or even more if it is directly related to your own research. The first read you need to make quick notes, especially of specific jargon and acronyms. I always thought of them like good twist movies like the 6th Sense or the Usual Suspects, where you really have to watch it a second time to get all the clevel nuances out of it.
Please keep this coming. Love when you talk about the research. Had to laugh about the acronyms in research papers. In my "day job" I read tons of medical ones and they are even worse with the acronyms.😄
Love your shows! I think I have watched all of them at this point. The information has been very valuable, and with that info I have been in process of starting my own farm and mead brewing business. Legitimately could not have proceeded without what you have shared across all of your videos. Be proud, you’re in the same league as people like Geoff Lawton, Stefan Sobkowiak, and David the Good. Thanks for the hours and hours of entertainment and please, ignore the one jackass in the comments. Ants at a picnic.
Thank you fir the great vids I am experimenting with putting my bio char through my worm farms . So hopefully it be nicely charged by the time I use the castings
Have to shoutout Farmer Jesse and Rimol Greenhouses. Just opened the Nor'easter high tunnel we got from Rimol today and when I opened the manual binder a copy of the Living Soil Handbook was right there! Thanks for the book, and all the work you do, its my second copy so I'll have to pass it along to another farmer in need of a good read.
"Activated" When referring to biochar means adding a nitrogenous source of some type. If you "inoculate" then itb is adding any biological component to your biochar
I nerded out on no till and organic farming last year and came across a few videos on making biochar and also inoculating it. I tried some crushed up plain wood charcoal for grilling. Soaked it in some very strong fertilizer and microbe solution for a few days. Then amended into the garden. Still don't know if it actually helped but I think there was some benefit in some way..or would like to think so 😂
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your comments on scientific papers. I attempt to read them, but my background does not include organic chemistry or biology. I can usually understand the thesis and methods paragraphs. But I skip all of the alphas and beta and standard deviations and go to the Conclusion/Discussion paragraphs. But you are correct, my dollars support public universities and I would like to be able to understand what I paid for.
My understanding of the biochar terms is as follows. Activated = char that was dowsed with water/fluid to distinguish, rather than cool down naturally. This fractures the structure of the char, and makes it far more easy to absorb an inoculate. There’s an Irish TH-cam channel called “way out west” who demonstrates the difference between activated (dowsed char) vs char that has been cooled down dry. As far as I’m concerned, inoculated means that the char has been soaked in something that would benefit the soil web. Nutrients, minerals, microbes, or all 3 in my case. I always assumed that charged was the same as inoculated, but maybe I’m wrong.
👏👏👏For the researchers, science writers, and editors who publish in plain language in down-stream outlets, journals, trade magazines. Wow! That puts the science where it can be put into practice.🎉🍾🍾🎈🎈
Unfortunately, event biochar can be in bad quality and can cause more harm than good. In Europe, we have an European biochar certificate (EBC), which provides some quality assurance. We use biochar in combination with our Bokashi (a kind of compost ferment), which does currently a great Job to bring some life back to our heavy sandy clay soil (it was before a conventional grain field). However, it is currently pretty time consuming process for us. Therefore, we apply this kind of procedure only to new bed. The booster and the improvement in soil structure is just great for us. We would like to scale it more into our market garden. Does anyone know a good practice/workflow to dealt with the Bokashi approach within a market gardening / small-farm context? Especially, the steps of chopping greens, produce own micro organisms, and the storage for fermentation are very interesting for us. Thx, in advance! :-)
In regards to the comment about fermented compost, I'll give a breakdown of how I've made it for several years. I decided to try making compost in an anaerobic, no holes, system. Here's why.... No loss of nutrients draining away Ease of moving the compost to where in the garden I want it Ease of assembling the compost right outside my kitchen door I too worry about plastics leaching but a lidded, 35 gallon glass container on wheels has been unsourceable I ferment the compost the same way I ferment other foods, dill pickles, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, keifer My starter is a strained blend of yeasts fermented by a mix of milk, molasses and rice The compost is built in the garbage can in multiple layers of paper, greens, soil and drizzled with yeast starter It takes 12 months to fill a 35 gallon can and the finished is buried in trenches in the center of my beds I top the beds with chop and drop weeds that are readily broken down by the bioactive soil Garden plants thrive Fruit trees, grapes vines and berries are summer pruned to a short stature and set heavily the following summer (kiddos to David the Good for the pruning info) Also....it doesn't smell bad. It smells like any other fermented product.....heavenly! 😊
For my tiny garden, I use a three trash can system; the first gets all the raw kitchen scraps (we keep it closer to the house for convenience). When full, this gets dumped into the second with shredded cardboard/wood chips/leaves layers. This second one gets dumped into a third (when the first is full again). Eventually the third one is dumped right into a cardboard layer in the corner of my garden. So far, so good! Love the video podcast and look forward to it everyday.
How big are the cans? How full are they when you transfer? Do you add to can 2 multiple times or just once and let it cook until you need to empty can 1 again?
This format is so chill and extremely informative
I absolutely love your podcast. I look forward to them!! Thank you!!
I meant to say this yesterday, but one of the few things that AI is actually useful for is summarizing large volumes of text, for example scientific articles. You can provide the text and ask it to summarize it and if the results are too technical still, you can ask it to use more plain language. I often do this when I’m trying to learn new concepts for my job and has helped immensely. It won’t necessarily help you learn to read those articles but if you just need the information it could be helpful, plus accounts often have free tiers so there isn’t a financial burden to give it a try.
Post note: I love the content and will be picking up the Living Soil Handbook soon, but your video help to keep the dream of having a farm alive while also delivering the realities of farming present. New format is also a total win, I listen on my nightly walk with my dogs.
Completely agree with your insights on the value of scientific findings being buried under obscure terminology! One thing that irks me to no end are the unreadable soil test results from my county extension (Orange County, NC). It'd be incredibly valuable to me if you did an episode on that!
I put a layer of cardboard at the bottom of my kitchen compost. Every time I put a good amount of scraps in my bin, I add a layer of shredded brown paper/ egg carton. Helps the smell and helps the carbon/ nitro balance when I take it out to the pile.
Love these always learn so much
I compost in a plastic tote with the bottom cut out. I live in an urban area so I have to keep it under wraps from pests so it helps being able to use a removable lid.
My trick is to keep a bit of carbon, leafy, woody material near my compost and layer/ mix it in whenever I add wet scraps or if it starts to get anaerobic, in which case I’ll pull it aside and bury more woody material. Compost has been coming out great 😊
I keep 2 going at a time and alternate so I can let one finish while I start a new one.
Not going to lie, this fits in about perfect with my schedule to sit down at eat lunch at work. I love them all, as I sit here in my tech office wearing my No-Till hat. Someday I'll have more than my little garden!
Science writing... always difficult, but doesn't need to be. Nicely done.
My two cents worth(which isn’t worth even two cents) as far as the new format goes- if this works for you then I would stick with it.
You can’t please everyone even some of the time but I think you might get a good following with these daily podcasts. I know that I am enjoying them.
Keep up the good work!
Bruh i wanna shout out thanks for all you do for really just about everyone and everything you are around. I've really have learned alot over the past 2 years of watching your content. You're my role model
I compost in a couple big like 35 gallon plastic trash cans. I have holes drilled up and down the sides and on the bottom and lid and bought a cork screw like compost turner on amazon. I’m always aiming for hot compost and to do that I end up putting in more greens than you normally would, but it works like a charm and I mix it up every other day. I know it’s done when the worms move in, but I let it go for a bit more so they can do their thing and make it even better plus they lay LOTS of eggs in there so bonus when I spread it out over my garden. I do occasionally get BSF larvae in there and the worms don’t generally care. I’m trying to get enough BSF larva to start their own area, but so far no go. (I did find out that decaying Spotted Lantern Flies are a great attractor for the wild BSF though! So those things are good for something. I gather them in a bottle and kill them with a little rubbing alcohol.)
Farmer Jesse: yes been loving the simulcast of podcast and YT video. Very good information that we can get quickly and act on. And totally agree about sharing research in lay terms so it can be used. Perhaps that can help forge an appreciation for science and research rather than distrust.
I try never to miss your videos! I have learned a lot!
As a person with a degree in biochemistry... I will say that scientific journal articles are really supposed to be read 2-3 times... or even more if it is directly related to your own research. The first read you need to make quick notes, especially of specific jargon and acronyms. I always thought of them like good twist movies like the 6th Sense or the Usual Suspects, where you really have to watch it a second time to get all the clevel nuances out of it.
That can be said of any material when there is a lack of familiarity.
Repeating will increase awareness of what is not noticed before
Please keep this coming. Love when you talk about the research. Had to laugh about the acronyms in research papers. In my "day job" I read tons of medical ones and they are even worse with the acronyms.😄
Love your shows! I think I have watched all of them at this point. The information has been very valuable, and with that info I have been in process of starting my own farm and mead brewing business. Legitimately could not have proceeded without what you have shared across all of your videos. Be proud, you’re in the same league as people like Geoff Lawton, Stefan Sobkowiak, and David the Good. Thanks for the hours and hours of entertainment and please, ignore the one jackass in the comments. Ants at a picnic.
Hi from Florida! I understand the assignment, and proud to be the Enemy Within.💙🇺🇸
I make my own. I assumed everyone else did too.
I like this channel a latte ☕️
Thank you fir the great vids I am experimenting with putting my bio char through my worm farms . So hopefully it be nicely charged by the time I use the castings
Have to shoutout Farmer Jesse and Rimol Greenhouses. Just opened the Nor'easter high tunnel we got from Rimol today and when I opened the manual binder a copy of the Living Soil Handbook was right there! Thanks for the book, and all the work you do, its my second copy so I'll have to pass it along to another farmer in need of a good read.
Hi from Poland❤
Hi from Oregon..😊
Thank you.
"Activated" When referring to biochar means adding a nitrogenous source of some type. If you "inoculate" then itb is adding any biological component to your biochar
I nerded out on no till and organic farming last year and came across a few videos on making biochar and also inoculating it. I tried some crushed up plain wood charcoal for grilling. Soaked it in some very strong fertilizer and microbe solution for a few days. Then amended into the garden. Still don't know if it actually helped but I think there was some benefit in some way..or would like to think so 😂
Jesse this podcast rocks!!! Duhhhh everyone knows that!
Ty again Farmer Jesse
I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your comments on scientific papers. I attempt to read them, but my background does not include organic chemistry or biology. I can usually understand the thesis and methods paragraphs. But I skip all of the alphas and beta and standard deviations and go to the Conclusion/Discussion paragraphs. But you are correct, my dollars support public universities and I would like to be able to understand what I paid for.
I soak my biochar with my own blend of stuff and I have had great results. :D
I'd love to know more about inoculating bio-char - I know next to nothing
Worms love Compost 🇳🇿🪱
"Laymenised" - a great word and perfectly understandable- did you invent it???
My understanding of the biochar terms is as follows.
Activated = char that was dowsed with water/fluid to distinguish, rather than cool down naturally. This fractures the structure of the char, and makes it far more easy to absorb an inoculate.
There’s an Irish TH-cam channel called “way out west” who demonstrates the difference between activated (dowsed char) vs char that has been cooled down dry.
As far as I’m concerned, inoculated means that the char has been soaked in something that would benefit the soil web. Nutrients, minerals, microbes, or all 3 in my case.
I always assumed that charged was the same as inoculated, but maybe I’m wrong.
Tim! Love him and his fun machines.
You could add raw bio char to your compost bin to reduce the smell.
And, at the same time, inoculate and activate the biochar with nutrients and microbes.
👏👏👏For the researchers, science writers, and editors who publish in plain language in down-stream outlets, journals, trade magazines. Wow! That puts the science where it can be put into practice.🎉🍾🍾🎈🎈
Unfortunately, event biochar can be in bad quality and can cause more harm than good. In Europe, we have an European biochar certificate (EBC), which provides some quality assurance. We use biochar in combination with our Bokashi (a kind of compost ferment), which does currently a great Job to bring some life back to our heavy sandy clay soil (it was before a conventional grain field). However, it is currently pretty time consuming process for us. Therefore, we apply this kind of procedure only to new bed. The booster and the improvement in soil structure is just great for us. We would like to scale it more into our market garden. Does anyone know a good practice/workflow to dealt with the Bokashi approach within a market gardening / small-farm context? Especially, the steps of chopping greens, produce own micro organisms, and the storage for fermentation are very interesting for us. Thx, in advance! :-)
In regards to the comment about fermented compost, I'll give a breakdown of how I've made it for several years.
I decided to try making compost in an anaerobic, no holes, system. Here's why....
No loss of nutrients draining away
Ease of moving the compost to where in the garden I want it
Ease of assembling the compost right outside my kitchen door
I too worry about plastics leaching but a lidded, 35 gallon glass container on wheels has been unsourceable
I ferment the compost the same way I ferment other foods, dill pickles, sauerkraut, sourdough bread, keifer
My starter is a strained blend of yeasts fermented by a mix of milk, molasses and rice
The compost is built in the garbage can in multiple layers of paper, greens, soil and drizzled with yeast starter
It takes 12 months to fill a 35 gallon can and the finished is buried in trenches in the center of my beds
I top the beds with chop and drop weeds that are readily broken down by the bioactive soil
Garden plants thrive
Fruit trees, grapes vines and berries are summer pruned to a short stature and set heavily the following summer (kiddos to David the Good for the pruning info)
Also....it doesn't smell bad. It smells like any other fermented product.....heavenly! 😊
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Black soldier fly large will eat everything so quickly that they starve out the worms….here in east texas.
Bring back the cat!
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