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There was a time that all I wanted in the world was a little farm where I could raise my family and grow our food. Now, that is exactly what exists outside my door. In watching it unfold, a new dream was formed in my heart - to share this beautiful life with others and teach them the lessons we've learned along the way. Welcome to our journey, friend. I am so glad you're here.
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate how proud of himself Ezra was for doing something in the garden? I bet that was a proud mama moment for you Jess!
"The main thing about gardening is getting your hands dirty. " A good magnet/shirt idea. I'm taking your suggestion from a previous video and will be making compost tea because I don't have enough compost for my garden. However, I do have enough to make compost tea, so that's the next best thing, in my opinion.
Very cool. Thx for sharing
I like Ezra's excitement to Ben - "I did something!" And we can't forget some good old poop humour from the men. 😄
We owe our entire existence to the first 6 inches of soil... WOW I don't think I've ever heard anything that's just left me speechless and got me to thinking so quickly...Man oh man........
The main thing about gardening is getting your hands dirty. Love it!
Sounds like a new sticker to me!
To the people who know your teaching methods and are also great admirers, we all know that once you have learned the ins and outs of composting we will be able to compost with firm conviction knowing that we have learned from the best. God Bless your homestead.
I laughed so hard at Ezra’s face when you told him “our bodies break down”, that was cute 😆
I have so much respect for how much effort you're putting into actively learning and healing your land. And then you turn around and share it so openly with us!!! sending you guys ALL the love! ❤
Here here 🤩👍🖖🖖🖖🖖
These videos are such valuable & fantastic online classes to guide all that are watching. Thank you. ☮ & 💜
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t waiting patiently for another compost video!
Such a legit gardener mama… we turn to dirt 😂
Jess," this its the green component for the compost, cos its green and alive"
Ezra"but what if I take too long "
So Precious
What a sweet thing for him to think. I was also wondering how long it can sit before it's not considered green anymore. 🤔
LOVED "SORRY BEAR" such a beautiful gentle person
That look on Ezra's face & the slight shrug when you told him he could eventually become compost, was pure Meyer! Its wonderful that the kids want to understand & learn about taking care of the land... you two are doing a wonderful job with all of them.
I love watching all the new changes coming along. Its energizing and motivating. I love how your sweet children help out and have fun being farm kids.
I just love Ezra he did a good job, Ben is so going to be a farmer when he grows up great info on composting
So excited for you Jess. I’m a regenerative flower farmer using Dr. Ingham’s techniques as well as the 100% free amendments I make using the science and and recipes from Nigel Palmer’s book “The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments.” Egg shells, bones, weeds, indigenous micro-organisms, and vinegar are my base ingredients. It’s literally life changing. Introducing so much biology, growing healthy soil, and all from the things either I produce or are already here.
Please don’t ever stop sharing your journey with us! You give me hope!!!
Hey Jess! Thank you for introducing us to Sunflower Steve. My first packet of seeds are on their way to my home. I'm living vicariously through you with the compost journey. And learning as much as I can. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! BTW I've used your ROOTS10 with GreenStalk and my 6th GreenStalk is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow.
I havent send a greenstalk in its full glory with plants spilling over. What do you grow in yours?
I spent most of this past week building soil! Both my inground and container soils. The Spring chicken coop cleanouts give me plenty of the deep litter shavings&poop, the old compost and wood piles have goodies for me, and all the empty containers get dumped to add to the mix. My back and shoulders ache, I've sprained my right wrist and hand, but it is finally done. Spent the past few days laying out and planting. Feels good to finally be getting this done, with the weather cooperating for a time. My seedlings are all ready, most already planted out. Seeds freshly sown. Piles of mulch at the ready. Let the growing begin!
Edited to add: I want to reinforce the importance of using items in your compost (or when purchasing compost) that have NOT been sprayed! Last year my good friend called me to cry about her garden. When she sent me the pictures my heart sank. Twisted and deformed leaves, stunted plants. She live in the city on a small house lot. She buys her compost. She had gotten some in bags, various brands, from the local big box store. She also got some from the city-managed sanitation department. I can't say for certain which source was the culprit. The only saving grace is that she gardens exclusively in containers. I helped her bag every crumb of her container soil and set it out for garbage pickup to the landfill. By then it was almost July, so she decided to wait for Fall to replant. She was demoralized, and being a relatively new gardener, it was hard for her to move forward. But she did. Now I share compost I've made with her. I feel this year is her garden's year to shine.
Our small town has piles of just leaves that they pile up to compost, the tree limbs, and other waste is shredded like mulch and I don't bother with that stuff. We have used them several times without issue. The last load was the first time they opened after 2 years of covid shut down and they were awesome crumbly black goodness. I hate that happened to your friend. Maybe she can check and find out if her town has a separate pile of just the tree leaves.
@@gelwood99 Good idea! I'll check for her myself. I hated to see her new-found hobby become such a struggle for her. Meantime I've got enough black gold that I can afford to share some with her. And reusable black plastic nursery pots. I think they might be breeding in my shed . . . .
What you are doing is such a big project. You are learning and teaching at the same time. This will really improve how you learn and with your following it will help so many people to learn and hopefully make a huge impact on the world as a whole. When we can take the trash and use it to grow food and improve life for everyone instead of just filling up a landfill and polluting the soil, ground water and the air is amazing. More people need to think about what they are doing and how they can change what they do to improve their lives and the world as a whole.
For me this is a worm composting bin in my kitchen and chickens that eat scraps also. I am using this to grow my garden and feeding my family. I have also started using old clothes to make into rugs.
The big thing for me is trying to get away from plastic. That is harder than you can imagine but I know I have cut down my single use plastics by 25% so far.
I love when your boys are in the videos. Ezra is just the sweetest. Thanks for teaching us. Can’t wait for the next video. 😊
Love it !!! Today I planted my raspberries..and my blueberries are about to bloom out !! Great video and have a great day 😀
I just love listening to you guys talk about working together and with the community.
Dr. Ingham is the bees knees, I’m so excited you have a mentor to teach you her methods. If you can hang through her incredible intellect, there are some TH-cam videos with her speaking and showing the benefits of this way of composting - they are incredible! I’m so excited to see how this works for you guys, and can’t wait for you to dumb it down for me (and everyone else too 😉).
Second this emotion on Dr. Ingham!! I do hope Jess can get comfortable with this style of composting and using compose tea, so I can compost without worrying about burning stuff down…
‘Green’ can be easy: picking up neighbors’ clippings and branches left out in the road.
I love that Jess tells the truth about RoundUp. How is Monsanto / Bayer still in business poisoning vital farming lands?
"We're creating a movement...a bowel movement!.." laughing out loud! Boys and poop! Never gets old. Haha so funny 😁
If you could somehow work this into a shirt, with a picture of a chicken pooping out gold or something, that would be hilarious!
I just got my soil samples ready for testing tomorrow. I used leaf mould last fall and I'm anxious to see the results.
Also, all Dr. Ingham's videos are on youtube!
You can even do compost in a 5 gallon planter that takes like 6 weeks. I live in an Apt setting. I keep every veggie/fruit scrap in Mason Jars & once they are full I puree up & transfer into a big storage container. Once that's full it goes to my compost planter. I use fabric planter, about 15 gallon. I have lots of wood chips from my Dad's tree that got cut down. Every Fall I have sooo much leaves that get on my balcony. I have a trash can full right now. Actually you can make compost with leaves that decompose.
Oh his face when you said he’d become compost!
You helped make my day...it's always a good day for a Roots and Refuge vlog. Thanks.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 starting a bowel movement!!!! Love the way the guys all got along and the green house poles going in was genius but a little sketchy. I had to watch this twice was great. Make that third time watching this. I am a nerd. It is snowing here in Wisconsin. Us gardener's are crawling out of our skin wanting to get in the garden.
Yippy! Looks like he needs more of a manure rake/fork with closer tines!! More efficient!
Love watching the boys & kids working, "gardening... the main thing getting your hands dirty..." & helping to make life thrive! Love you all ❤️ 🌱🌿🌻
I love how Jess parents. It's ok to make the best with the tool you have. My instinct would be to let Ezra do a couple and then take over because adult reasons. Nice way to demonstrate patient parenting.
@@8thcelisabeth I totally agree.. I was just making a suggestion... Patience is good with all of them...
I know along with Jess & Miah that having the right tools for the job can make a great difference! He was the one that also made the comment... Hoping he could get it all picked up in time before it dried out!!
Love seeing kids work.. I raised & Homeschooled my son, as a widow for 16 yrs and he is one of the hardest, smartest wisest working young men I know & from what I hear others saying also.
That's for your input!
Hey y'all, Happy Aprils Fools Day. Yes get your hands dirty that is the main thing. It is great to see Ezra in the video having a great time being part of the learning experience. Ben is the one we usually see the most. Great information so much to learn and an entire summer to learn. God bless y'all take care bye for now
You live the BEST life!! Thank you for living a life that gives me hope!!
Wow! I am so encouraged to continue my organic gardening. Thank and God Bless you all
Those look like a variation on Johnson-Su bioreactors! Easier, though, no pipes and less mass. The J-S bioreactors were developed here in New Mexico. Johnson and Su are married and worked here at NMSU, an agricultural university, when they came up with the method. Sadly, fresh grass clippings and dry leaves are scarce as hen's teeth here in the desert. I'm making compost with garden waste, kitchen scraps, and shredded brown paper bags. Works great, I love seeing soldier fly larvae in my tumblers. My neighbors save their kitchen scraps for me, lol. They are repaid in produce.
Fresh tumbleweeds are abundant, though! 😉
Building the soil is indeed the most important thing! Thank you for sharing this journey with us! Blessings!
The green is what I have a hard time finding so last year I went through the junk growing along the fence (WEEDS) and pulled the leaves off and stuffed them in bags for the compost - actually worked really well. I got the little trees that shouldn't be growing there and tons of various weeds, all while walking the dog. Now if I could just get the dog to wear a diaper! LOL
Thanks for showing us your composting adventures. I have a gardener friend that her whole back yard is composted!! It's wonderfully soft to walk on! I give her my bags of egg shells, coffee grounds, & banana peels to bury in the dirt. Worms love it, and they help aerate our soil!! Sometimes I'll even put what's in the bags in the bottom of the pots when I plant my veggies. By the time the roots reach it, it'll be composted!!
Ben is so big!!! And his hair is dark!! time flies! Love this video.
OH.....then I saw Ben and thought Ezra was Ben. They are so cute!!!
I had my boys filling our raised beds with homemade compost today so they are ready for plant starts tomorrow. It was definitely a comfort to have that to use hearing about the price of fertilizer skyrocketing. We also stocked up over the winter.
We all need a compost dad!! Thank you for connecting this wisdom with us!!! 💚🌱
My father is my "compost dad"😂 he taught me this as a kid.. Lucky me😊
@@jenniferrescott1149 love that!! I hope to become a ‘compost mom’ someday!!
Love Ezra's huskie voice he's gonna be a real charmer with the ladies later in life.
Loved this composting video,was wondering though how you make it into liquid though as won't it escape though the holes. We have always composted and through watching you're video have instructed hubby that he's only yo place the new compost onto the top of soil instead of digging it through which he's done for the last 20 odd yrs, so thank you 😊 xxx
Tom Pemberton is a dairy farmer who is on TH-cam and they were talking about how fertilizer has gone up but because they have built up a system that collects and aerates their cows' manure into a slury, they are able to dress their field with what is typically waste and their grass looks amazing
Tom Pemberton is just down the road from me! I might be wrong but I would say that the manure spraying method is relatively common here in England, not everyone does it but a large number of farmers do. The stench is awful when you are driving past hahaha but its a good sign so we can forgive that ha.
I love watching you all work together ❤ I can never say it enough, Thank you for your content. I appreciate the time and effort you put in to teach us. Hugs!
I bought a builder's bag from Amazon this fall and raked up a ton of leaves that I have on hand to add to my compost pile after adding green waste. It has been a really handy method of having brown waste available for my compost pile.
Do you have to keep it covered?
It is so timely to have ya'll do this! We just took back land that we've been leasing to a farmer like the last 2 owners of this home, and we're taking it back this year.
I was racking my head trying to come up with a large-scale way to nurture this land back to health!
I’m doing Dr. Elaine’s soil food web course right now it’s amazing!
I am so glad that you are starting to compost more. I have been composting for a few years now and have seen a huge improvement in my soil. I am ready for your garden tours this year, I am sure they will be epic!
If you can't do a full system of this or have the space or even if your not sure about this try chop and drop... I literally chopped up all my plants at the end of the season and pushed them into the soil, let them sit there over winter and my Lord almost all that plant material is gone and have big beautiful worms and the best soil I've ever seen. Just start from somewhere people your not gonna hurt anything. I love this channel and am slowly getting the knowledge to start compost this year but it all started with simply chop and drop
Home crafted organic fertilizer. Great idea and will save $$$, build your farm's production, teach others by example. Will help you grow tremendous food for your family and your animals. Healthy living environment, too! Fabulous work.
Thank you so much for spreading this message of healthy soil (spellcheck suggested “soul” which is also true 😊) and no chemicals. As beekeepers, my husband and I have lived with the terrible struggle of bees to survive the increasing use of herbicides and pesticides. So very grateful.
Jess I bought me a sign that reads, Trespassers will be composted. lol
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That's awesome! So much compost! Is really needed! Thanks for sharing! Blessings🤗🤗💜
The epitome of the saying “One man’s trash, is another man’s treasure!”
This is gold Very interesting. I started collecting my browns from around my property. Thank you so much.
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Two questions…..are you going to do rain collecting, off the green house, Did you think about growing chickpeas. I want to try this year, although not on the level you could. I enjoyed all of the composting, 🪴🪴We all need more lessons on small time composting good dirt is like gold 🍀🍀🦋🦋. Blessings 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
I appreciate that you acknowledged that you are not an expert and are doing it for the first. All too often I see TH-camrs making tutorial on something they know next to nothing about. I don't understand the science behind compost but I know how to make it well and have been doing so for years now.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Great content especially the poopcrew 😂😂😂😂😂, I’m sure there’s no shortage of poop jokes especially from Mia😆🤣😂
In school for horticulture science...my midlife career change and it is fascinating. Never stop learning new things that excite you. Thanks for the video!
Thank you for a very interesting video. How is your composting pile doing in your barn? I haven't seen an update on that. Again, thanks for educating this suburban gardener.
This is what we'd like to do. We don't believe our property had round up on it but it had just been used for the family's camping spot for 50 or more years. So we have lots of compaction leaf litter buildup. However I'm loving our roughly 50% dirt 50% sand soil, besides of course more soil food, compaction issues and of some needed amending, I think we got pretty lucky.
You have a lot of help getting everything done! It's only me doing it all by myself! I love watching you on the new farm but some of your older videos are better since it is just me. You have taught me a lot and I want to thank you!
This is so cool. Keep it coming. Fun to see Ben and Ezra for a bit.
I always have plenty browns to work with, thanks to Amazon boxes, shredded paper, toilet roll tubes, egg boxes etc, but greens can be a little harder to come by until summer kicks in. Sometimes I’m tempted to wander off to the countryside with some gloves and secateurs and fill a bag with weeds and long grass.
I am making more soil, I direct compost, scraps to my yard. I am converting more yard to garden. I do have plans to also make a compost tea/spray, so thank you for this!
wow that is amazing with the compost
I just wanted to Thank you for all the years of quality entertainment. God Bless!
1. Your boys are precious!!!
2. I want to continue to follow with your compost journey!! I’ve been saving food scraps and trying to utilize what I have in my small backyard garden
Love seeing your new farm 💕
It's such an important thing to be teaching especially in the current climate. In the UK they're beginning to offer subsidies to farmers using green fertilising methods as the prices have shot up so much for synthetic ones. Unfortunately, they're not doing it so much for sustainable purpose as a cost cutting and panic about food shortage purpose but it's definitely a step in the right direction if they can get it right.
I have a teeny garden but compost everything, mainly with multiple worm farms which work so well for small scale gardening (the 'worm juice' that drains out and can be watered down is an amazing feed while waiting for the castings) and slow composting piles as I've not got the room for hot ones. Nothing gets wasted though, even just using chop and drop it all goes back to feeding the garden. It doesn't need to be as complicated and intimidating as you think.
Great tutorial & referral of experts; thanks so much! Bravo on all that you’ve accomplished & built in your community! 🤗❤️🇨🇦
"I do not advise this, I dont even fully approve of it" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't tell you how often I have thought that, when I see my dad/brothers/or husband doing projects!!😂😂😂😂 that was hysterical!
I have a suburban homestead and I live in an area that is not zoned for livestock animals so there is a local rancher that supplies me, or anyone who wants it, a mixture of cow, horse, llama, goat, sheep, rabbit and chicken manure that I lovingly call “super poop” and now other people from our local gardening group are also calling it super poop now😂 I did make sure that he wasn’t feeding his animals hay or feed treated with herbicides because I realize the damage herbicides can cause to a garden 🥰
Yes!! Been learning about compost teas using rain water with all the stuff from the yard and garden left overs. Several ppl use Comfrey and Moringa (hi in nitrogen). Really excited about the Moringa (spelling??) after reading about it 🙂
I’m trying to learn composting for my little backyard garden. Lots to learn. Thank you Jess , for learning and sharing with us.🌹
Love this! Thanks for all the info!!!
Thanks for introducing us to your compost Dad! Great information! So...do you have any cover crop uncles???
Good one.🤣
I need to learn so much more about compost and how to start. I will have to watch this again. Thanks
Just got a collection of year old chicken compost to mix in with my year old kitchen scrap compost that will also be mixed with moss a friend gave me. This year is going to be amazing
Very interesting. I have not done the beat job with composting. I have a lot to learn.
EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE video. Thank you so much Jess you answered many of my questions 🥰
Not morbid that is a real education!..🖤🌞🌙⭐
Thank you 😊 I am always excited to learn with you guys!!
Nice, building compost! Thanks for posting about this Jess.
"Starting a movement", laughed out loud to that one!
Just a thought. So the pallets covered with hardware cloth might prevent the worms and other life that is in the soil from migrating up into the piles. What do you think?
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful experience! Many blessings to y’all 🤗🤗🤗🙏❤️❤️❤️
OH! How I LOVE to make dirt! We did a similar project two years ago and it works well! Then COVID hit and we got very...distracted. It is fun to watch the process as it works! The hard part is keeping them moist throughout the season. we called 'em bio-digesters! They shrank by about a third to a half as they went through the season.
I use dry leaves and food scraps. I do cold compost so it takes 6 months here to 1 year. Literally the first thing i learned to do is compost, then i learned how to seed, then i got a few raised beds.
Every year I raid my friends stables for used bedding and manure, lovely stuff x
I have done something similar in the past, but I put it at the end of a building we had and I think that blocked the air flow to much. It eventually broke down, but didn’t work as well as I wanted. I had to watch this video twice to get the details on the measurements for the wire. I’m gonna try again! I have several static piles because we have about 75 rabbits and 50 chickens.....lots of poop from both! Neighbors have cows that we get manure from so it’s time to make a new pile!
Aren't you afraid to grow food on your Round-up sprayed ground until enough time has passed so it won't impact food you plant in it? Also, I wonder how much time that might be? Maybe you could just plant a living mulch by planting peas and oats or red clover or something and cut it when it grows and compost that in place and after a year maybe it would clean it up or somehow rejuvenate it.
On second thought, Comfrey is good for healing bones and tissue in mammals and also a great companion for some plants. Maybe covering your growing area with compost tea with a LOT of Comfrey in it would help neutralize the Round-up. It is just a thought.
I needed you today. Thank you🙏🥰
Ezra’s right. I ALWAYS get dirty when I garden. How cool to be learning a useful skill like composting, then sharing it.
The previous homeowner here used roundup too. 😢 It's been 5 years, hopefully that's long enough because I'm not waiting any longer too grow my own food!
maybe try growing in containers till then?
You need bunnies! And the boys can take care of them. :) And you get all the good bunny poops! And (I know you already know) they produce dry manure and can be added straight into your garden beds without composting first like you do with hot manure.
Here in the south east, it’s pretty common to get a nice early spring and everything turn green, then get a hard freeze that resets everything back to the beginning of spring. 🙄
Hey, that is so interesting and I really love "the boy in the bucket."
??DO YOU STILL HAVE PIGS 🐖 AND IF SO DID YOU HAVE BABY PIGS THIS YEAR??
Thanks for the hands on showing of the composting.
Thankyou for including the neighborhood garden