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Lazy Sundays Farm
Добавлен 1 мар 2022
In December 2020, we left city life and moved to 5-Acres to start a hobby farm using permaculture principals. With no farm experience, and both with full time day jobs, we are slowly realising our dreams of creating a productive system working with nature, and ever increasing our self-sufficiency.
On this channel we will share what we have done (right and wrong) and welcome you to join us on our adventure.
On this channel we will share what we have done (right and wrong) and welcome you to join us on our adventure.
How we trellis raspberries and blackberries on our 5-Acre Hobby Farm
In an attempt to make our berries grow in a way that will make picking fruit easier, we are trellising our raspberries and blackberries
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Building Raised Garden Beds on our 5-Acre Hobby Farm
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Two and a half years ago we built vegetable garden beds. Making raised garden beds from pine sleepers, they needed to be big enough to help us move towards self-sufficiency.
First time growing pumpkins on our 5-Acre Permaculture Farm
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This year I experimented with growing pumpkins for the first time. Like most things, some of it works and some is a learning experience. Please share your pumpkin growing wisdom!
Swales on our 5-Acre Permaculture Farm
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Swales are an important feature of permaculture to capture water and slowly release it into the root zones of plants. That is what I designed into my food forest plans. The swales will be the irrigation system. Also importantly, in my clay coils, they will help increase the water infiltration at depth. This is my first attempt at swales, and I hand dug all of them due to the wet weather we have...
Farm Animals: Meet our Ducks
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Meet the ducks on our 5-acre permaculture farm. The ducks came from our neighbours who had some fertilised eggs. They put them under a broody chicken who hatched them and raised the ducklings. We brought them onto our farm as part of our pest control system. They eat snails and slugs and we let them free range through our gardens. Though not always the easiest of animals, we have grown to appre...
Farm Animals: Meet our Chickens
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Meet the chickens on our 5-acre permaculture farm. These ladies do more than just give us eggs, they help us make compost and keep us entertained with their funny ways.
Raising a Blue Heeler Puppy: Our Fifth Month on a 5-acre farm
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Join us for our fifth month at Lazy Sundays Farm. Our Blue Heeler puppy Tess starts growing up and testing our patience. We learn a lot about what it means to love one of these gorgeous, high energy dogs
Making Cider at our 5-Acre Permaculture Farm
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Join us for our first Cider Making experience at Lazy Sundays Farm. We pick apples, put together a press, press the juice and ferment and bottle.
Starting a 5 acre permaculture farm: Our fourth month
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Join us for our fourth month at Lazy Sundays Farm. March was intense. There was a lot to learn and fix, and we really found out what having a blue heeler puppy was all about!
Starting a 5 acre permaculture farm: Our third month
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Join us for our third month at Lazy Sundays Farm. February is busy as things grow and harvests need to be brought in. We plant, plant, plant! Working to create a native border on the property for wildlife and screening.
January 2021: Second month on a 5 acre farm
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Join us for our second month at Lazy Sundays Farm. We make some changes to the place, start engaging with produce, get to work planting a native screen on our property boundary and make some new friends.
December 2020: First month on a 5 acre farm
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Join us for our first month at Lazy Sundays Farm. We move in, make the place feel like home, take responsibility for the new animals we have, get the right equipment for the job and celebrate with friends and family.
Farm Animals: Meet the Sheep at Lazy Sundays Farm
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Meet the sheep of Lazy Sundays Farm. When we first moved in they all needed shearing pronto! If I could have filmed two new to the country city slickers trying to pen up four sheep I would have! Round one : Sheep. Mama Sheep had to get sheared in the paddock. Round two we had them penned up before the shearer arrived! These city slickers are learning.
Couple Moves to 5-acre Hobby Farm in Australia
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Welcome to Lazy Sunday's Farm. We are a city couple who moved to a to a 5-acre farm. We plan to adopt permaculture principals to create a super productive system that harmonizes with nature.
Make sure to check your volumes, the music is notably louder than the audio. Makes it hard to listen.
I need to trellis my blackberries and raspberries too. Fortunately my blackberries are thornless! I love the netting over your raised beds. Where do you get those from? Most of the ones here (U.S.) are too small.
🤣"Large moment arm"
Garden beds look great, but your Bluey is the star of the show for me ❤❤
Thanks so much! She is a cutie!
Great to see another video from the channel! farm looking lovely 😊
Update?
Absolutely! I will be posting more videos to cover the past two years, as well as revisiting the swales and berms (which have been renovated) for a current update. A couple of years on they are looking quite different.
Like your farm ,I am from punjab (india) also want such farm
Thanks for the message! Growing your own produce on a piece of land is so rewarding - I hope you get a chance to do it.
Thanks for sharing. I have a slight sloping field (~0.3 acre) that I would like to create swales on contour for food forest guilds. Do you have any recommendations for where to start? Thanks!
Thanks for the message. I am probably way behind in getting back to you (sorry). If you haven't done any swales yet, my advice is keep a minimum distance of 5m between the contours (and therefore swales), a couple of mine got a bit close to each other. Also have a small spillway for those big inundations. I didn't put any in (against advice I was given) and have had a little bit of erosion during big rainfall events. Hope whatever you did is working - and please share any tips back :-)
Keep the uploads coming slickers! My wife, Son and Sheepdog are looking at doing the same thing :) Would love to see a VLOG / Day in the life
Sorry for the hiatus! But I am back this year and will be posting a number of videos of the past two years - but also where everything is up to now. Thanks for the recommendation for a day in the life of - will definitely put it on the list!
Love it
Congrats! We were lucky enough to have a whole heap of full grown fruit trees when we go our place too! Been a dream!
Really nice. Please keep in touch and share
Thanks for the message - I am back this year and will be posting a number of videos of everything we have been doing in the past two years - but also where everything is up to now.
Aren’t dogs the best 😂👏
Wouldn't ever live without them
swales looks great but please please PLEASE rotate that camera to video mode and not just vertical phone mode.
ruclips.net/video/ucWHKFkET6s/видео.html this is the volume of water berms not swales that are connected on all four side they will hold the biggest rains and will rehydrate any landscape. Swale with a berm make that area unusable most of the time because most people don’t know how to make a gently sloping swale. The berm that should be used you can drive over, walk over and mow over. When made in a grid pattern # you can make water flow up hill.
Swales are fundamentally flawed. Berms on contour with berms perpendicular to those berm all berms should be connected on all four sides.
U r cute . My type
So you have an individual interpretation of the swale thats different. It still may work very well. You have more of a moisture sink up hill from the berm, the tree roots may grow to it in time. What will you plant between tve tree line and the "moisture sink"?
The design is to make elements do as many things as possible for us. These swales/moisture sinks will capture water, add organic matter to the soils, become paths... Oh and I am a sucker for aesthetic so hopefully be BEAUTIFUL! The idea is to make these bigger, so the area (still turf in this video) between the sink and berm is going to come out a, and the sink and berms should become a little bit more than double. We will turn them into paths as part of an extension (currently doing at the moment). I will plant the berms with all manner of things from strawberries, to artichokes... really looking at getting perennials with different root depths, and different growth heights all in together. Happy to take recommendations!
manure is aged for a few reasons before putting with plants because when it decomposes it creates heat and can burn the roots another reason is to kill off unwanted weed seeds and possible pathogens. so should be fine throwing it the swale without any kind of ageing
Thanks for the information! That is great to know.
as long as it is just horsemanure (which it looked like) then you can just dump it in the swales directly, it won't burn the plants and it will be digested nicely while it works into the soil so the plants can enjoy it
The swales look great - your dog thinks so too! That organic material will really compensate for the clay soil.
Thank you. That is the hope, to improve the soil and make it a really productive area. 100% learning by doing at the moment 🙂
I am farmer worker I am from India
We’re on a very similar journey! Exciting times :)
I just love having chickens! Cute puppy!
Chickens are the best!
Wow! You got a lot of apples :) great idea to make cider with them
That was not even half of them... and I have planted more apple trees 😛 Cider and apple cake will forever now be what we do in Autumn
ah, the comedic timing...
That's how life should be
It's like having a toddler in the house lol
Sure is
Hey Annette here from Appletree Urban Homestead on RUclips from Perth Australia. Just found your channel and subbed. Looking forward to following your journey to self sufficiency
Hi Anette - Thanks for stopping by. Glad you found us. I have checked you out too, looks like you are doing some fun things in Perth. Look forward to watching your adventure.
Looks amazing!
Hello from CFS! This was a very fun video to watch, great job :) We are in the market for a home cider press and loved the Kit idea!! In regards to the cider, what was the final gravity of the juice? Surprised to see you had so much carbonation in the final product. Best, David and Rachel from CFS!!!
Looking forward to following your journey! We are on a very similar path in the US.
Hello! Thanks for stopping by. The cider press we have is an American one - so I am sure you will be able to get something similar if you are looking for one. The brew kit we used had all the bottles and yeast and sugar cubes included and was just one we bought from a store. Though we will re-use it , and it is currently brewing our second batch (we put our little sunbeam juicer to the test). Video for that will be in about a months time once all the processes are done. Our final gravity was 1.005. That was before the secondary ferment, and we didn't test afterwards. I have just realised that the ABV estimate I had in the video was for a final gravity of 1 - oops. So marginally less alcoholic.
@@lazysundaysfarm thanks for sharing!! Very excited to see your second batch of Cider!
I like what I see. Now living vicariously through your vids until I get my own tree change.
Hi Vaughan, not a day goes by where I don't wake up, look out and think "what an amazing place". It has been a no regrets move.
The puppy has so much love... too much love for some...
Haha! Yes Tess was exuberant in all things.