Absolutely beautiful I have so much to learn about homesteading. I want to learn because I want to teach other people how to live like really live you know 😊 Great work.
If I could love this video I would! We just bought an old farm, fields haven't been worked in a number of years, and we will be re-developing the fields starting this year. Found this video by looking for info on Buckwheat as a cover crop and green compost, excellent, thank you! My eldest son loves to grow squashes so he enjoyed this video, and can't wait until we can grow pumpkins like this!
I wanted to feed pollinators in my front/backyard as fall is coming soon and since pollen/nectar resources are getting scarce thus crucial for them, I thought about buckwheat since it grows and flowers very fast. Hopefully I should have flowers on them for mid/late September 2018 and enough pollen/nectar for hungry bugs before frost kills the buckwheat. I honestly don't know other plants flowering as fast, as versatile and as all-purpose as buckwheat!
Absolutely beautiful I have so much to learn about homesteading. I want to learn because I want to teach other people how to live like really live you know 😊 Great work.
If I could love this video I would! We just bought an old farm, fields haven't been worked in a number of years, and we will be re-developing the fields starting this year. Found this video by looking for info on Buckwheat as a cover crop and green compost, excellent, thank you! My eldest son loves to grow squashes so he enjoyed this video, and can't wait until we can grow pumpkins like this!
Hey it's been a year since that comment posted! I hope you guys moved in and got it going! Any videos or updates?
I hadn't thought of planting pumpkins on top of a cover crop. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting. Love the organic growing approach you take. Your pumpkin patch is amazing!
Thanks Harold. "Be Good To The Land And The Land Will Be Good To You" is our driving credo.
Wow cleanest pumpkin field I have ever seen.
Right on!
Love your farm!
What is the reason for tilling the buckwheat while the flowers are still feeding the bees?
We must be good to the land!
Thank You for helping. Keep up the good work. I'm going to try buckwheat. You good example
So, did you answer the title question? I must have missed it.
Excellent video. Thank you
You are welcome!
I wanted to feed pollinators in my front/backyard as fall is coming soon and since pollen/nectar resources are getting scarce thus crucial for them, I thought about buckwheat since it grows and flowers very fast.
Hopefully I should have flowers on them for mid/late September 2018 and enough pollen/nectar for hungry bugs before frost kills the buckwheat.
I honestly don't know other plants flowering as fast, as versatile and as all-purpose as buckwheat!
Excellent combination of mast for game
Nice no till
So is the process buckwheat, followed by winter rye/wheat then pumpkin?
I grow to put nitrogen back into soil for Garlic and my honey bees make buckwheat honey. Win win
You can make buckwheat flour as well
Its a good crimp crop
How do you like the mf tractor 🚜
Cover crops great, but discing/tillage just disrupts the soil.