Thanks. Glad it's helpful. Farming visits are a challenge for us. Our priority is to do farming tasks and programmes. When we have visitors, a lot of our attention has to go to them, which is not positive for our outcomes. And you can only imagine how many visit requests we get each week. We are working to start having formal Farmers Days like other farms do, when various people can come and see what we do in a structured manner. We will advertise on our channels when we do.
As an european agricultural sciences student I find your videos very informative and fun to watch. The background music is way too loud and very distracting in this video. Sometimes it is hard to hear what you’re saying. I love your honesty and I very much appreciate the insights you give us into Zambian vegetable farming. Thank you for your videos!
I've been following your videos lately with my husband all the way from Botswana 🇧🇼 Maun and we are looking into venturing into farming soon..your such an inspiration ✨️ 🙏 keep the good work up and maybe some day we will invite you over for a glass of wine 🍷 in our own farm
Amazing job with total focus.Appreciate your farming operations and vidieos presentation.Wish you to be prosperous in all your endeavors. With ❤️ Love from 🇮🇳 India.
You are so good at presenting. This is great. I am enjoying some background music. It sounds like Joel Chibangu production. This is encouraging. Next time do a video on your irrigation system. Later on take us to your livestock farming (I am sure you are doing livestock too)
Yes, we will do a special feature on irrigation one day. No, sorry no livestock at our farm. Our strategy is to focus on one thing and get very good at it, rather than try to do too many things.
Thank you for such a nice video. it would be interesting to carry out a nutrient test of that compost. Its nicely dark and 4 weeks to full decomposition is pretty impressive!
Thanks, Ba Patricia. Just a correction: each batch spends 3-4 weeks in each room, which means it's about 10-12 weeks per batch. One day, we will try other composting methods like Bokash, etc that would help us really speed up the process. This week, we found ourselves short of ready compost for the onion beds and had to improvise.
Mondo Music had it's time and was reasonably successful for a while. Though the definition of "success" is subjective because I never really made any money from it. In fact I lost a hell of a lot of my personal money investing into the music industry. I operated it actively from 1999 till about 2012. But then it was time to move on and focus on other business ventures that could bring in money.
Our strategy is to focus on certain types of farming and become efficient at them. We have chosen to be crop farmers and not get into livestock at all. This kind of strategy has guided me in each type of business that I have gone into for the past 30 years. Mixed farming has advantages as well as challenges. Some people manage to do it, but I have never wanted to. Lack of focus is something I have found to be dangerous. Imagine one minute you are working on crop production schedules for the vegetables. Its a spreadsheet that includes seeds/seedlings, fertiliser, pesticides, herbicides, etc. Next minute, you receive a call that there is a sickness in the broiler house or the layers are not drinking water. You leave the crop schedule to attend to the emergency. Then you get only back to the spreadsheet a couple of days or so later. There are enough challenges with crop farming alone, let alone like chaos.
Good question! In all my businesses, my strategy tends to focus around narrow ares of operation and application of resources. That gives us the best chance of becoming very good and successful at specific things rather than trying to do a a bit of everything. as the old saying goes: "Jack of all trades, master of none". With Winterthorn Farm, I have chosen is to develop it as a vegetable farm with timber trees in some of our hilly areas with poor soil that can't support vegetables. Hope that helps.
Good question! To be successful in anything, including , of course, farming, you have to choose a path to follow. Our strategy includes growing certain trees and crops. For example, pine and eucalyptus trees and vegetables like onion, pepper, cucumber, and egg plant in rotation with legumes like beans, groundnuts and soya beans. But if we divert to animals, fish, etc, we will lose focus while we learn a whole lot of new lessons. In all my businesses, I try to stay focused and become very good at a particular thing. I am yet to be convinced that you can become truly, truly successful with mixed farming. Maybe just okay, but not seriously, seriously successful.
I followed this man a while. He inspired me. I will visit his farm when I get in zambia. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
My pleasure
My virtual mentor and Mr. Panuka these guys have some amazing experience with horticultural skills ❤
Always encouraged
Thanks
Nice work bane watching from Joburg - tuleisa naifwe
Thanks for watching
Very educative video i wish i could come to your farm and learn practically in the process of making compost.
Thanks. Glad it's helpful.
Farming visits are a challenge for us. Our priority is to do farming tasks and programmes. When we have visitors, a lot of our attention has to go to them, which is not positive for our outcomes.
And you can only imagine how many visit requests we get each week.
We are working to start having formal Farmers Days like other farms do, when various people can come and see what we do in a structured manner. We will advertise on our channels when we do.
As an european agricultural sciences student I find your videos very informative and fun to watch.
The background music is way too loud and very distracting in this video. Sometimes it is hard to hear what you’re saying.
I love your honesty and I very much appreciate the insights you give us into Zambian vegetable farming. Thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the feedback, Bent. I hear you and will try to reduce the background music in future videos.
I've been following your videos lately with my husband all the way from Botswana 🇧🇼 Maun and we are looking into venturing into farming soon..your such an inspiration ✨️ 🙏 keep the good work up and maybe some day we will invite you over for a glass of wine 🍷 in our own farm
All the best with your venture. I am grateful for your invitation and look forward to it one day.
Oh thanks l lent a lot from this, now l need to learn about cabbage production.
You can do it!
Very informative
Glad you liked it
Thanks for the educative video. You're doing a great job.
My pleasure!
Amazing job with total focus.Appreciate your farming operations and vidieos presentation.Wish you to be prosperous in all your endeavors. With ❤️ Love from 🇮🇳 India.
Thank you very much!
Very educative content as always thanks sir
Glad you enjoyed it
You are so good at presenting. This is great. I am enjoying some background music. It sounds like Joel Chibangu production. This is encouraging. Next time do a video on your irrigation system. Later on take us to your livestock farming (I am sure you are doing livestock too)
Yes, we will do a special feature on irrigation one day.
No, sorry no livestock at our farm. Our strategy is to focus on one thing and get very good at it, rather than try to do too many things.
You are back❗️❗️❗️❗️
Yes, we are.
Your comment is amusing, Mwewa, and I am so glad it means that you appreciate our channel and it's content.
Do you have something again chicken farming❓ lol
Thank you for such a nice video. it would be interesting to carry out a nutrient test of that compost. Its nicely dark and 4 weeks to full decomposition is pretty impressive!
Thanks, Ba Patricia. Just a correction: each batch spends 3-4 weeks in each room, which means it's about 10-12 weeks per batch.
One day, we will try other composting methods like Bokash, etc that would help us really speed up the process.
This week, we found ourselves short of ready compost for the onion beds and had to improvise.
awesome sir
Thanks
Beautiful and educational.
May I ask what happened to Mondo Music? It was very promising.
Mondo Music had it's time and was reasonably successful for a while. Though the definition of "success" is subjective because I never really made any money from it. In fact I lost a hell of a lot of my personal money investing into the music industry.
I operated it actively from 1999 till about 2012. But then it was time to move on and focus on other business ventures that could bring in money.
I manifest being at your farm one day
Okay.
Hi sir i am from India (Karnataka) Kolar ( kgf)
Very useful ur deep explanation sir i am growing in cucumber and beans please give tips for beginners
We will try.
thankyou very much sir
Most welcome
How come you don't have chicken or cattle for manure at your farm
Our strategy is to focus on certain types of farming and become efficient at them.
We have chosen to be crop farmers and not get into livestock at all.
This kind of strategy has guided me in each type of business that I have gone into for the past 30 years.
Mixed farming has advantages as well as challenges. Some people manage to do it, but I have never wanted to.
Lack of focus is something I have found to be dangerous.
Imagine one minute you are working on crop production schedules for the vegetables. Its a spreadsheet that includes seeds/seedlings, fertiliser, pesticides, herbicides, etc.
Next minute, you receive a call that there is a sickness in the broiler house or the layers are not drinking water. You leave the crop schedule to attend to the emergency.
Then you get only back to the spreadsheet a couple of days or so later.
There are enough challenges with crop farming alone, let alone like chaos.
Hi, Thanks. Any reason why you will "never, ever have chickens on the farm?
Good question! In all my businesses, my strategy tends to focus around narrow ares of operation and application of resources. That gives us the best chance of becoming very good and successful at specific things rather than trying to do a a bit of everything. as the old saying goes: "Jack of all trades, master of none".
With Winterthorn Farm, I have chosen is to develop it as a vegetable farm with timber trees in some of our hilly areas with poor soil that can't support vegetables.
Hope that helps.
@@mondofarms4343 thanks
This is great but you are not showing us how it is done, am learning
Indeed
Great content, very educational too for us amateurs..Please elaborate why you will "never ever" have chickens on your farm 😁
Good question!
To be successful in anything, including , of course, farming, you have to choose a path to follow.
Our strategy includes growing certain trees and crops. For example, pine and eucalyptus trees and vegetables like onion, pepper, cucumber, and egg plant in rotation with legumes like beans, groundnuts and soya beans.
But if we divert to animals, fish, etc, we will lose focus while we learn a whole lot of new lessons. In all my businesses, I try to stay focused and become very good at a particular thing.
I am yet to be convinced that you can become truly, truly successful with mixed farming. Maybe just okay, but not seriously, seriously successful.
@@mondofarms4343 thanks for your reply..point taken
Can I use cow manure
Yes. Goat, cow, camel... as long as its animal manure.
Do you use worms
No, not really. But there are worms in our healthy soils doing their thing.