soybeans in Indiana + clover in your yard/ legumes/ peanuts in the south btw, I am a firm believer in regenerative farming and gardening methods. Please keep educating only the people who eat food :) thanks for offering a nutritious mix of items for our meals.
Blake didn't get to speak much. I often zone out when there's just one voice going and going. The interaction, balanced, keeps me interested. Good stuff though!
just starting to look at this for my back yard veggie garden..You talk about no till and blanket crops. My question is when it comes time to planting seeds do you just dig a trench through the blanket crop and then sow the seeds?
Thistles are great for the soil, they add phosphorus! Legumes are the answer to this particular question, adding nitrogen to the soil. All three are important though!
Along with having access to pasture and grass, pigs also have access to a non-GMO whole grain ration that consists of a mix of corn, soybean, and oats and some other minerals.
@@daveachtem7099 better still, cut the weeds at surface level and leave the roots in the ground (except for persistent weeds which reshoot from roots). Ditto for all except root crops....just cut your lettuce, cabbage whatever at ground level and leave the roots in to add organic matter.
Beans put nitrogen into the soil because they have nodules on their root system. I cheated and found the answer on the web. What are other good cover crops for Indiana gardens?
You are absolutely correct! The technical term would be anything in the legume family (i.e. beans). Really anything that grows during the off season makes for a great cover crop. The important thing is to simply keep some sort of plant life growing in the soil year round. There are a variety of root veggies and greens (such as kale) that grow super well during the fall and spring--they usually can stay in the soil through the winter even they just won't yield any actual produce during the coldest months. Grains, or things like clover are also a good option during the off season. You definitely want to rotate what you are planting, otherwise the individual areas in your garden will become imbalanced, so just keep a large variety of plant life growing year round basically--anything works as a cover crop in that case.
Nitrogen fixers: alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts, moringa, Paulownia ...
soybeans in Indiana + clover in your yard/ legumes/ peanuts in the south
btw, I am a firm believer in regenerative farming and gardening methods. Please keep educating only the people who eat food :) thanks for offering a nutritious mix of items for our meals.
This is explained so good! Thank you for simplifying all of this!
Comfrey does a great job too. For shrubs we plant goumi.
The 5 principles changed my life and saved my trees during some extreme weather.
Blake didn't get to speak much. I often zone out when there's just one voice going and going. The interaction, balanced, keeps me interested. Good stuff though!
indigenous & george washington carver methods r naturally regenerative animal raising & harvesting & gardening indigenous foods...
Thanks for sharing this video.
I live in a farming area and I hate seeing fields with soil exposed to all the elements over the winter. The soil just looks so hard and lifeless.
Nice farm keep it up ❤
B.S. watching some guys yack-a-doodle at a desk?
gret video...
Comfrey.
just starting to look at this for my back yard veggie garden..You talk about no till and blanket crops. My question is when it comes time to planting seeds do you just dig a trench through the blanket crop and then sow the seeds?
Yeah, great question. I’d like to hear/see the answer to this
I heard you say thistle, so I'm going with that! or maybe dandelions?
Thistles are great for the soil, they add phosphorus! Legumes are the answer to this particular question, adding nitrogen to the soil. All three are important though!
Legumes! :)
Correct!
Dandelion
what happened to the extra resources links they talked about at the end of the video
Viva Christo Rey
Don't pigs till? I mean technically root or is that only in domestic settings?
Clover
Great guess! The answer is legumes, but clover is definitely also a very crucial part of our pasture soil health!
Hi. Amazing farm!!!! One question from me. What is your pigs ratio? Only grass?
Along with having access to pasture and grass, pigs also have access to a non-GMO whole grain ration that consists of a mix of corn, soybean, and oats and some other minerals.
@@SevenSonsFarm Soybeans with heat treatment or not?
clover
Great guess! The answer is legumes, but clover is definitely also a very crucial part of our pasture soil health!
Do beans vetch, clover add nitrogen?
Peas or beans. And coffee grounds add nitrogen to the soil.
Legumes! You're right!
Legumes
Correct!
So tilling my garden is actually destroying my quality of the soil? So just pull the weeds and replant?
I have the same concern? What to do?
@@daveachtem7099 better still, cut the weeds at surface level and leave the roots in the ground (except for persistent weeds which reshoot from roots). Ditto for all except root crops....just cut your lettuce, cabbage whatever at ground level and leave the roots in to add organic matter.
Beans
Beans put nitrogen into the soil because they have nodules on their root system. I cheated and found the answer on the web. What are other good cover crops for Indiana gardens?
You are absolutely correct! The technical term would be anything in the legume family (i.e. beans). Really anything that grows during the off season makes for a great cover crop. The important thing is to simply keep some sort of plant life growing in the soil year round. There are a variety of root veggies and greens (such as kale) that grow super well during the fall and spring--they usually can stay in the soil through the winter even they just won't yield any actual produce during the coldest months. Grains, or things like clover are also a good option during the off season. You definitely want to rotate what you are planting, otherwise the individual areas in your garden will become imbalanced, so just keep a large variety of plant life growing year round basically--anything works as a cover crop in that case.
@@SevenSonsFarm So I could plant a diversity of cover crops in one area over the winter, correct?
Peanuts
Peas! Or other legumes.
Soy Beans
Correct! Technically the whole legume family would fit as well.
Legumes