I'm astounded that Pauls "Back to Eden' has such a following. I guess it's a sign that so many folks have strayed so far from the land that the simple concepts Paul talks about seem revolutionary.
When I saw "Back to Eden" film it changed the way I did gardening too. We immediately bought compost, began to place newspapers and ended up with a 16x50. We'll be buying more compost this week and will do more in other areas. Can't wait to get our yard looking as good as Paul. I have been telling other about this way of gardening. It could revolutionize the way people work their vegetable garden. Less water and less work is awesome.
I live in Maine and just wintered over our six hens (1-2 year olds). We provide a smallish coop, 4x8 with two roosts in the back. They snuggled and did quite well. We have a mix, but our two New Hampshire Reds laid reliably even in well below weather. We recycled our goat bedding to toss onto the snow for their feet and they came out regularly. We also gave them a small 8x8 shed to "play" in with a deep litter system.
I had to pause it halfway through and run out and toss some scraps to my chickens!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to share, we really enjoyed it, in fact I've added moving my "compost pile" (if you can call it that) to the chicken yard this week. We can't let them run at this time over the whole yard due to neighbors dogs, but do let them run when we are out in the yard. Again, thanks so much, I really enjoyed this!
We did not provide heat or additional light, which did require a trip out with fresh water. We rotated large cans, the frozen one went on the stove to thaw and out again later. We live in an "Urban" area (nothing in Maine is as Urban as other States), and utilize foraging to provide whatever food scraps do not come from our table or our neighbors. They work hard, provide food and entertainment and are super easy to keep. We can only keep six hens, and wish we could keep some for others.
Wow! I've been "fungusing" (as I call it) all over your Back to Eden videos - thank you so much for taking and posting the videos! I always thought I wasn't supposed to give potatoes to my chickens, but I guess if I can get with the program and start - or revive, I suppose would be a better term - my garden with wood chips, the potatoes will be much healthier. Hm. My sister lives out on Vashon; next time I visit her, I'm going to have to see if I can visit Paul's place!
Most people want to do Dirt > Newspaper/Cardboard > Compost > Wood Chips. I do it in the order in which I get the stuff. The reason people do not want compost on top is that the weed seeds can land in it and grow. Another reason is that the compost will have to go through the wood chips to get to the ground. Nature doesn't care. You never see an animal pull back the woodchips in the forest, add their compost, then cover it back up. Just make sure that when you plant, you plant in the dirt.
Great thanks, the post is up. The strawberry hill is coming right along btw. Probably about 2 more truck loads and I'll have it all covered. Then just a matter of planting. We're dryer in climate here so I may need to water still, but likely only once a week with the wood chips. It will be great following your hill and the wetter climate vs our higher elevation dry climate. Thanks again.
I just saw this. Thanks for the information. I was thinking about, not space so much, as how anything that grows on my property gets taken when my head is turned. I guess if I had flowers, maybe it would hide things, but my pear tree seems to belong to the neighborhood...not just the people...LOL..but the birds and squirrels! Be blessed!
As they build up the soil, it gets high enough for them to hop out. That is when Paul knows it is time to add it too his garden. On one of my videos, you can see the birds hoping over the fence.
I made it about 8 minutes into his movie. You don't need an invisible friend to figure out the benefits of mulching and adding organic matter to a garden.
Paul has dogs that keep pretty much everything out of the garden. You can see in my videos that he doesn't even have anything covering his chicken pen. There are also a lot of trees on his property so, it is harder for his critters to be seen.
One thing I did forget about and in all the times I have been there he only mentioned it once. In the first few seconds of this video you see a trash can in his chicken coop. That is full of chicken feed. Paul said that he will only use it if it snows enough for his chickens to not be able to dig in the ground. I do not believe it was any special brand or type of feed since he only uses it maybe once a year if at all.
Yes and no. He does have a trash can full of feed in the chicken coop to be used in the winter during bad snow storms. So, he has something he can use. I was there last weekend as you can see from my newest videos. I know that it hadn't been touched since I was there four months ago when this video was made. I asked him about it both times I was there and this was what he told me. Check out the chickens feeding in one of my upcoming videos. They go nuts for his vegetables.
love this video had to come back. I have another question. Do you know what paul feeds the baby chicks when they arrive till they get old enough to scratch around for the adult feed?
I am going to build a tract-home-scale, backyard chicken coop, using the same principles you shared in this video. Thank you. I will video the idea-to-eggs process and launch it on my TH-cam channel.
Hey! I love and appreciate your videos with Paul - please thank him, and thank you. I have a question Im wondering if you'd ask him: How does he care for the chicks he orders? Can you find out the details, where he keeps them, what he keeps them in, for how long, what he feeds them, water, etc. Thanks!
In this video, Paul says that he doesn't feed any type of grain, seed, etc to his chickens, but in your video of Paul's chicken coop, you show footage of a large pail filled with some sort of grain. Does Paul feed grain now, and if so, what kind and how much? Thanks for all the videos, they are amazing, and we've loved watching them!
From time to time is snows in Washington. Paul will give that seed to his birds when the ground is covered and they cannot dig. In the two years I have known Paul, I haven't seen the level of seed in the can drop once.
This is awesome!! thanks for all the video taping. Please answer, why newspaper? what is the purpose, could carboard be used instead - i have a ton of boxes from moving. the paper barrier has what purpose - I'm very new to gardening, not so knowledgeable.
The reason for using newspaper is that there is a lot of it out there for free. I use both because I have access to both. If you have a lot of cardboard, use it. Make sure you overlap the cardboard and wet it down as you go so it does not move.
Check out my video, Back to Eden Chickens. While I was there talking to him, he was taking clippings from his garden, the stuff that was over grown or out of place, and putting it into a bucket. About a min or so into this video he dumps it into his chicken pen and they go nuts for it. As for the audio, I know it sux. Try using headphones or plugging in some external speakers. It works for most people.
Keep hope alive, I could not afford to buy any, after a tear and a half, of looking, I had a large tree cutting compnay working in my area, and I asked if they would drop off a load, I now have over 12 loads, for free. I canonly suggest you watch your area, for any tree cutting. Tree companies are looking for local dump places for their chips. Best of luck 507.
The backtoedenfilm was not a movie from Paul, it was a movie about Paul. While Paul is very religious and speaks of it a lot while talking about his garden, it is not as much as the movie made out.
My favorite chicken bread is Black Australorp and production red...they are calm friendly, egg laying machines and lay all winter as well with nice large brown eggs. Chickens do better with broad leaf greens added to their diets (contains calcium) and an inch or two of hay or straw once a month too (cuts the smell).
In the movie Back to Eden. It shows people just putting news paper down on top of the lawn, then the Yard waste, leaves, chips of wood, ect. on top of the news paper. No labor.
The name of the chicken hatchery was muffled. Could you please tell me that the name of that hatchery that Paul uses. Thanks Paul for listening to God.
I have called two tree services near me.. which is 23 miles away! And they never some here.. the secretary says she will give him a note.. I have called at least three times.. I even offered to pay for their gas.. So, I guess it will be sawdust... I am seriously tired of waiting! Thank you for your response!
I did nit hear the video but wanted to know what he feeds his chickens? Did he say he does not give them feed? I was very interested....would have loved to hear it
So just to confirm, since I have lawn in my backyard, I have to take up the grass, right? Then I till or turn over the soil and then the newspapers or cardboard, wood chips and compost? I'm sorry for being so annoying but there's labor involved and I want to get this right .. Thanks so much for responding so soon!
So what does he do in the chicken run to get the chicken poop compost? Does he lay out woodchips in there too, and just let the chickens till it all until it turns to compost?
Fantastic information. Love knowing the dog can keep wild animals from taking the chickens. Where did we lose the basics of survival? It's frightening to know that most of us depend on buying store bought foods & the very best we can do is to buy the LEAST dangerous stuff available. Knowledge SHOULD be power, but it's frightening when you're not in a position to grow your own food. Ah well, the knowledge, at least, allows for more discernment when purchasing the poison at the grocery store.
I am trying to find Pauls ideas on chicken coops, and nest boxes. Can anyone tell me which video he may discuss that topic?, seen most if not all of the video on this channel
I seem to have missed something along the way. I can't seem to find what is done in the very beginning. Do I buy compost and work it into my bad soil and then cover it with wood chips? Or... what do the first step since we cannot plant in wood chips and our soil is hard and dry..
Does anybody know what Paul recommends for a ground covering for gravel driveways? There is a product in my area that is recycled concrete tape material that they claim sticks together better than class 5, but than that stuff has toxins in it.. Any help would be appreciated
Has Paul ever had problems with lice or mites on his chickens? What does he do to prevent it? Also does he ever worm his chickens? I'm planning on getting chickens and want to know what can be done to prevent these problems before I get them! Thanks
I am wondering- when the compost from the chicken coop is removed to spread on the garden- does this go on top of the existing wood chips? Are more wood chips layered after that?
enucleate it goes on top of the existing cover(chicken compost). it once was wood chips, but those have broke down into soil. now he just adds the chicken compost and that is his cover. since he has so much compost he doesn't need the wood chips
Checked my tea label and discovered that soy is in my tea also...what for? who knows. Now that I'm paying more attention to what is in the food I eat I'm shocked at the ingredients. I might have to start growing my own ingredients to make homemade tea mixes.
Why those chickens are not allowed in the green areas? I think he should give them wheat sometimes. They may not need it but they enjoy it. Just like us humans having an ice cream sometimes.
Thank you for the feedback and for watching one of my videos from over two years ago. A lot has happen in the two years since this video was made. Most importantly, I bought a new camera and have hours of footage of Paul with a lot better sound.
So when he takes the top soil (he mentioned about a foot) from the chickens in the spring, for his compost, what does he replace it with? We are moving to a farm in the spring and I am trying to get as much info as I can about how de does all this. Just fascinating!
elisharabeka Paul gives ALL of his garden waste, kitchen waste, wood ash and grass clippings to his chickens. They eat what they want and break down the rest. This raises the compost level in his chicken pen and he take a lot out for the garden. He does not add anything back in except what I listed above.
There is nothing special about Paul's water so, I'm sure if it gets cold enough it will freeze. He gives his chickens fresh water a couple times a day so, I do not think there is a risk of them running out of water even if it is freezing out. I will ask him though.
I'm kind of surprised he isn't more sustainable in his chicken methods like he is in his gardening. I'm also surprised he isn't implementing a more natural approach to flock management instead of just letting the chickens die of old age or illness. In nature, the sick, weak and old fall prey to predators, but when one eliminates the predator from the equation, the human must become the predator to keep the flock strong. Just buying new chicks every couple of years isn't my idea of self-sustainability. I'm also surprised he isn't using deep litter in his coop and run instead of all this barren soil. I like his gardening methods but not so much his flock methods.
If I get fresh woodchips now in september by april will it compost? And can I just leave it in a big pile from september till april like will it compost and age if I just leave it in big pile without mixing it?Please let me know asap thanks!And I want to do a gaden in spring 392 lenght feet and 383 width feet.I want to do 4 inches of woodchips how much yards of woodchips would i need?Please let me know asap thanks!
+Mike Castellano I would recommend putting the tree mulch down as soon as you get it. It will start the decomposition process and as it rains, all of the goodness will wash into your soil. As for how much to get, 392'x383'x4" is ambitious so, I will say that you will need a lot. More than a couple of truckloads.
Ok so if I get them now by april it will decompose into soil?and I put woodchips in the summer for my plants that are in a cotainer,and I wasnt home in a week and they died,why?I know no one watered them.
The filmmakers of Back to Eden, which features Paul Gautschi as a main character, are producing their next documentary, Goshen! Paul calls Goshen, "the next chapter to Back to Eden." Check it out goshenfilm(dot)com
You must have misunderstood me. There is little labor involved that is why I said No labor. Believe me it is better than tilling the soil, then adding nutrients, weeding ect.
I think they put soy in tuna because it is cheaper than tuna. The put just enough in that you don't notice and increase their profits as a result. It really sucks.
I'm astounded that Pauls "Back to Eden' has such a following. I guess it's a sign that so many folks have strayed so far from the land that the simple concepts Paul talks about seem revolutionary.
God's spirit is involved here as well.
I do love a natural gardening approach. It's a way of life x
Good article. I liked the green specks in the egg shell.
When I saw "Back to Eden" film it changed the way I did gardening too. We immediately bought compost, began to place newspapers and ended up with a 16x50. We'll be buying more compost this week and will do more in other areas. Can't wait to get our yard looking as good as Paul. I have been telling other about this way of gardening. It could revolutionize the way people work their vegetable garden. Less water and less work is awesome.
I live in Maine and just wintered over our six hens (1-2 year olds). We provide a smallish coop, 4x8 with two roosts in the back. They snuggled and did quite well. We have a mix, but our two New Hampshire Reds laid reliably even in well below weather. We recycled our goat bedding to toss onto the snow for their feet and they came out regularly. We also gave them a small 8x8 shed to "play" in with a deep litter system.
Hi Marcy, I'm on one tenth of an acre and I grew a lot of food this year. I just plant it in amongst the flowers.
I had to pause it halfway through and run out and toss some scraps to my chickens!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to share, we really enjoyed it, in fact I've added moving my "compost pile" (if you can call it that) to the chicken yard this week. We can't let them run at this time over the whole yard due to neighbors dogs, but do let them run when we are out in the yard. Again, thanks so much, I really enjoyed this!
They sure don't make um like Paul anymore .. what a blessing to the planet he is !!
Mr. Gautschi home and grounds are really beautiful.
I will. It'll be fun. I have a limited amount of space and need a 'quiet' chicken breed. It will be a new adventure. Thanks Paul.
This is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to share this. God bless.
We always love getting our chickens from them online and we just ordered 8 more! And ordered 3 of the red star! And some others!
I hope you have not given up on this project. I would love to see your progress.
Wow what a blessing truly are I just watched back to Eden and got really blessed
We did not provide heat or additional light, which did require a trip out with fresh water. We rotated large cans, the frozen one went on the stove to thaw and out again later. We live in an "Urban" area (nothing in Maine is as Urban as other States), and utilize foraging to provide whatever food scraps do not come from our table or our neighbors. They work hard, provide food and entertainment and are super easy to keep. We can only keep six hens, and wish we could keep some for others.
what a great video , thanks so much for sharing
Wow! I've been "fungusing" (as I call it) all over your Back to Eden videos - thank you so much for taking and posting the videos! I always thought I wasn't supposed to give potatoes to my chickens, but I guess if I can get with the program and start - or revive, I suppose would be a better term - my garden with wood chips, the potatoes will be much healthier.
Hm. My sister lives out on Vashon; next time I visit her, I'm going to have to see if I can visit Paul's place!
TY for the great video. This fella really has it right.
Most people want to do Dirt > Newspaper/Cardboard > Compost > Wood Chips. I do it in the order in which I get the stuff. The reason people do not want compost on top is that the weed seeds can land in it and grow. Another reason is that the compost will have to go through the wood chips to get to the ground. Nature doesn't care. You never see an animal pull back the woodchips in the forest, add their compost, then cover it back up. Just make sure that when you plant, you plant in the dirt.
Great to here more from Paul thanks for sharing
Great thanks, the post is up. The strawberry hill is coming right along btw. Probably about 2 more truck loads and I'll have it all covered. Then just a matter of planting. We're dryer in climate here so I may need to water still, but likely only once a week with the wood chips. It will be great following your hill and the wetter climate vs our higher elevation dry climate. Thanks again.
I just saw this. Thanks for the information. I was thinking about, not space so much, as how anything that grows on my property gets taken when my head is turned. I guess if I had flowers, maybe it would hide things, but my pear tree seems to belong to the neighborhood...not just the people...LOL..but the birds and squirrels! Be blessed!
As they build up the soil, it gets high enough for them to hop out. That is when Paul knows it is time to add it too his garden. On one of my videos, you can see the birds hoping over the fence.
Cougar at 8:38 sneaking up on Paul.... That's a huge cat!
I made it about 8 minutes into his movie. You don't need an invisible friend to figure out the benefits of mulching and adding organic matter to a garden.
I'm at an "Insert Chickens Here" point. I think the only thing stopping me right now is not having the year round garden yet.
Believe me I have no desire to till at all. I thought I'd have to dig up the grass so it wouldn't get out of hand. Thanks for all of your advice.
That was a little greenhouse that Paul has. He took the top glass off so that the sun could get to what was inside
Great video. Thank you for sharing such valuable information.
Paul has dogs that keep pretty much everything out of the garden. You can see in my videos that he doesn't even have anything covering his chicken pen. There are also a lot of trees on his property so, it is harder for his critters to be seen.
One thing I did forget about and in all the times I have been there he only mentioned it once. In the first few seconds of this video you see a trash can in his chicken coop. That is full of chicken feed. Paul said that he will only use it if it snows enough for his chickens to not be able to dig in the ground. I do not believe it was any special brand or type of feed since he only uses it maybe once a year if at all.
This is the money shot video?
I don't know if you've ever tried to move 10 tons of woodchips by hand before but, there is a little labor involved.
Yes and no. He does have a trash can full of feed in the chicken coop to be used in the winter during bad snow storms. So, he has something he can use. I was there last weekend as you can see from my newest videos. I know that it hadn't been touched since I was there four months ago when this video was made. I asked him about it both times I was there and this was what he told me. Check out the chickens feeding in one of my upcoming videos. They go nuts for his vegetables.
love this video had to come back. I have another question. Do you know what paul feeds the baby chicks when they arrive till they get old enough to scratch around for the adult feed?
Profound Statement! At 19:48 about his dog.
Oh, i forgot to post my question. i wanted to know how Paul waters his chickens in the winter. Does the water freeze?
Blessings~
In a recent video, "Paul Gautschi's Chicken Coop" I take you inside his coop and show the whole thing off.
I am going to build a tract-home-scale, backyard chicken coop, using the same principles you shared in this video. Thank you. I will video the idea-to-eggs process and launch it on my TH-cam channel.
Hey! I love and appreciate your videos with Paul - please thank him, and thank you. I have a question Im wondering if you'd ask him: How does he care for the chicks he orders? Can you find out the details, where he keeps them, what he keeps them in, for how long, what he feeds them, water, etc. Thanks!
Chickens love fresh water too!
duh
Very true. The great thing is that once you do it you have to do less and less work every year.
Thank you so much for this video. I learned a ton!
In this video, Paul says that he doesn't feed any type of grain, seed, etc to his chickens, but in your video of Paul's chicken coop, you show footage of a large pail filled with some sort of grain. Does Paul feed grain now, and if so, what kind and how much? Thanks for all the videos, they are amazing, and we've loved watching them!
From time to time is snows in Washington. Paul will give that seed to his birds when the ground is covered and they cannot dig. In the two years I have known Paul, I haven't seen the level of seed in the can drop once.
Thanks!
This is awesome!! thanks for all the video taping. Please answer, why newspaper? what is the purpose, could carboard be used instead - i have a ton of boxes from moving. the paper barrier has what purpose - I'm very new to gardening, not so knowledgeable.
The reason for using newspaper is that there is a lot of it out there for free. I use both because I have access to both. If you have a lot of cardboard, use it. Make sure you overlap the cardboard and wet it down as you go so it does not move.
Check out my video, Back to Eden Chickens. While I was there talking to him, he was taking clippings from his garden, the stuff that was over grown or out of place, and putting it into a bucket. About a min or so into this video he dumps it into his chicken pen and they go nuts for it. As for the audio, I know it sux. Try using headphones or plugging in some external speakers. It works for most people.
Keep hope alive, I could not afford to buy any, after a tear and a half, of looking, I had a large tree cutting compnay working in my area, and I asked if they would drop off a load, I now have over 12 loads, for free. I canonly suggest you watch your area, for any tree cutting. Tree companies are looking for local dump places for their chips. Best of luck 507.
In my video "Back To Eden Garden Q&A #4" Paul says he feeds his dogs scraps from the table and garden.
The backtoedenfilm was not a movie from Paul, it was a movie about Paul. While Paul is very religious and speaks of it a lot while talking about his garden, it is not as much as the movie made out.
Thank you for sharing...
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Great video! The headphones are perfect.
My favorite chicken bread is Black Australorp and production red...they are calm friendly, egg laying machines and lay all winter as well with nice large brown eggs. Chickens do better with broad leaf greens added to their diets (contains calcium) and an inch or two of hay or straw once a month too (cuts the smell).
Do you have an estimate as to how large (dimensions by foot) the chicken run is?
In the movie Back to Eden. It shows people just putting news paper down on top of the lawn, then the Yard waste, leaves, chips of wood, ect. on top of the news paper. No labor.
The name of the chicken hatchery was muffled. Could you please tell me that the name of that hatchery that Paul uses. Thanks Paul for listening to God.
I have called two tree services near me.. which is 23 miles away! And they never some here.. the secretary says she will give him a note.. I have called at least three times.. I even offered to pay for their gas.. So, I guess it will be sawdust... I am seriously tired of waiting! Thank you for your response!
Correct me if I am wrong, but, the food the chickens do not eat, doesn't it attract other bugs that the chickens do eat?
What is this little "glass looking" structure I am seeing behind Paul when his back is to the chicken pen? Thank you! :D
Awesome video, thanks for uploading
Blessings ~
Wondering if Paul has problems with his chickens getting over the fence.?
My chickens perch on clothes line poles about 7 feet off the ground in the open. They made this choice on thier own.
Mine flew up and roosted in the trees.
you make your own. the whole idea of being in that kind of state of mind is to NOT buy...but to make, restore, and regenerate
I did nit hear the video but wanted to know what he feeds his chickens? Did he say he does not give them feed? I was very interested....would have loved to hear it
So just to confirm, since I have lawn in my backyard, I have to take up the grass, right? Then I till or turn over the soil and then the newspapers or cardboard, wood chips and compost? I'm sorry for being so annoying but there's labor involved and I want to get this right .. Thanks so much for responding so soon!
thank you
I have no issues with that. Referenceor embed any of my videos.
Do you have a photo of those nest boxes? I'd like to make some but don't have any plans. thank you! MW
So what does he do in the chicken run to get the chicken poop compost? Does he lay out woodchips in there too, and just let the chickens till it all until it turns to compost?
Paul does not put woodchips into his coop or run. He just takes dirt/poop from the run and spreads it out over the garden once a year or so.
Fantastic information. Love knowing the dog can keep wild animals from taking the chickens. Where did we lose the basics of survival? It's frightening to know that most of us depend on buying store bought foods & the very best we can do is to buy the LEAST dangerous stuff available. Knowledge SHOULD be power, but it's frightening when you're not in a position to grow your own food. Ah well, the knowledge, at least, allows for more discernment when purchasing the poison at the grocery store.
In my video "Back To Eden Garden Q&A #1" Paul tells us what he feeds his chicks and where he gets it.
I live in a rural area and cannot find wood chips.. can I use sawdust alone??
I am trying to find Pauls ideas on chicken coops, and nest boxes. Can anyone tell me which video he may discuss that topic?, seen most if not all of the video on this channel
I do not but, the next time I go up, which will be soon, I will get a better look in there for you.
I seem to have missed something along the way. I can't seem to find what is done in the very beginning. Do I buy compost and work it into my bad soil and then cover it with wood chips? Or... what do the first step since we cannot plant in wood chips and our soil is hard and dry..
Does he supplement with any chicken feed other than the vegetable scraps?
The Back to Eden film. There is a link in the description of this video.
I wonder what he does with the eggshells. And if he feeds his chicken's chicken meat leftovers.
Does anybody know what Paul recommends for a ground covering for gravel driveways? There is a product in my area that is recycled concrete tape material that they claim sticks together better than class 5, but than that stuff has toxins in it.. Any help would be appreciated
Has Paul ever had problems with lice or mites on his chickens? What does he do to prevent it? Also does he ever worm his chickens? I'm planning on getting chickens and want to know what can be done to prevent these problems before I get them!
Thanks
He has never mentioned any of these issues before. I believe that the only thing he does is clip their wings so they don't fly away.
I am wondering- when the compost from the chicken coop is removed to spread on the garden- does this go on top of the existing wood chips? Are more wood chips layered after that?
enucleate it goes on top of the existing cover(chicken compost). it once was wood chips, but those have broke down into soil. now he just adds the chicken compost and that is his cover. since he has so much compost he doesn't need the wood chips
Checked my tea label and discovered that soy is in my tea also...what for? who knows. Now that I'm paying more attention to what is in the food I eat I'm shocked at the ingredients. I might have to start growing my own ingredients to make homemade tea mixes.
Why those chickens are not allowed in the green areas? I think he should give them wheat sometimes. They may not need it but they enjoy it. Just like us humans having an ice cream sometimes.
UP, another question~ does paul feed his dog regular dog food or does he have his own recipe for them too?
thanks so much.
I wish I could hear him talk
Horrible sound, I could hardly hear Paul, then when I turn up the sound loud, my ears get blasted by those women laughing.
Thank you for the feedback and for watching one of my videos from over two years ago. A lot has happen in the two years since this video was made. Most importantly, I bought a new camera and have hours of footage of Paul with a lot better sound.
what was the name of the company that he got his chicken from ? and if possible their website
So when he takes the top soil (he mentioned about a foot) from the chickens in the spring, for his compost, what does he replace it with?
We are moving to a farm in the spring and I am trying to get as much info as I can about how de does all this. Just fascinating!
elisharabeka Paul gives ALL of his garden waste, kitchen waste, wood ash and grass clippings to his chickens. They eat what they want and break down the rest. This raises the compost level in his chicken pen and he take a lot out for the garden. He does not add anything back in except what I listed above.
There is nothing special about Paul's water so, I'm sure if it gets cold enough it will freeze. He gives his chickens fresh water a couple times a day so, I do not think there is a risk of them running out of water even if it is freezing out. I will ask him though.
Thanks
God bless~
I'm kind of surprised he isn't more sustainable in his chicken methods like he is in his gardening. I'm also surprised he isn't implementing a more natural approach to flock management instead of just letting the chickens die of old age or illness. In nature, the sick, weak and old fall prey to predators, but when one eliminates the predator from the equation, the human must become the predator to keep the flock strong. Just buying new chicks every couple of years isn't my idea of self-sustainability. I'm also surprised he isn't using deep litter in his coop and run instead of all this barren soil. I like his gardening methods but not so much his flock methods.
If I get fresh woodchips now in september by april will it compost?
And can I just leave it in a big pile from september till april like will it compost and age if I just leave it in big pile without mixing it?Please let me know asap thanks!And I want to do a gaden in spring 392 lenght feet and 383 width feet.I want to do 4 inches of woodchips how much yards of woodchips would i need?Please let me know asap thanks!
+Mike Castellano I would recommend putting the tree mulch down as soon as you get it. It will start the decomposition process and as it rains, all of the goodness will wash into your soil. As for how much to get, 392'x383'x4" is ambitious so, I will say that you will need a lot. More than a couple of truckloads.
Ok so if I get them now by april it will decompose into soil?and I put woodchips in the summer for my plants that are in a cotainer,and I wasnt home in a week and they died,why?I know no one watered them.
they will not compost completely and that is what you want. Plant in the ground not in the chips
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Until I get a better camera, this is the way it is. People have found it easier to her him if they use external speakers or headphones.
You must have misunderstood me. There is little labor involved that is why I said No labor. Believe me it is better than tilling the soil, then adding nutrients, weeding ect.
I think you will enjoy your tea more if you grew it yourself. Let us know how it works for you.
Do the wood chips attract termites? Living in Australia and termites are a constant concern
why dont you try a small patch and find out?
i remember paul once mentioned that termites dont make home in broken up pieces of wood
What was the name of the company you buy your chickens from? I keep rerunning it but can't catch the first part
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Thanks for filming, but you should really consider focusing on things hes talking about. Like his dog etc...
what movie is he referring to?
I think they put soy in tuna because it is cheaper than tuna. The put just enough in that you don't notice and increase their profits as a result. It really sucks.