It’s Good For The Soul || Composting With Chickens

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  • Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024

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  • @patriciahusk3428
    @patriciahusk3428 2 года назад +99

    Being an older city gal, I found this great teaching video very informative! Isn’t it amazing that all the things you need to build your compost week after week God has provided and you in turn make your garden beds and grow the food for your family! Our God is truly amazing! Ben, this was such a great teaching video…thank you for your time and effort! I truly love your family and may God continually bless your beautiful family💜.

    • @purpletulips4648
      @purpletulips4648 2 года назад +11

      I really enjoy this I'm 65 and I think even I can do this in my backyard and I live in the city but I've got enough room to grow my own food now I see how to make compose very easy

    • @sandyc6569
      @sandyc6569 2 года назад +1

      😊👍.

    • @camicri4263
      @camicri4263 2 года назад +2

      Amen!

    • @pinkythechihuahua3156
      @pinkythechihuahua3156 2 года назад +3

      As a Chicago girl I agree. I'm not sure if I could dispatch a chicken as I'm very fond of birds but I have no animosity to others than can.

    • @pinkythechihuahua3156
      @pinkythechihuahua3156 2 года назад +1

      @@purpletulips4648
      I'm 66 and have had some minor success growing food for hubby and I. I live in the desert and no amount of watering let's my summer plants to survive Winter....no proclem!

  • @CalebMayfieldMHF
    @CalebMayfieldMHF 2 года назад +19

    Compost for a gardener is like wood clamps for a carpenter. You never have enough.

  • @eaccristo
    @eaccristo 2 года назад +10

    Damn it Ben!! Now I’ll never get the inside of my house clean because I have another reason to play in dirt with my chickens. 😝

  • @jeanettemartin7919
    @jeanettemartin7919 2 года назад +57

    I'm sure you have thought of it, but those corn stalks are gold! cow feed, pig feed, shredded up for silage and chipped up for compost....great stuff, would love to see how you use them!

    • @sandybeach4751
      @sandybeach4751 2 года назад +8

      Yep my main compost filler at the end of harvest. Shredded they make awesome compost and so much of it.

  • @islandgardener158
    @islandgardener158 2 года назад +22

    Leaf mound is such a beautiful compost, or as we up here in Canada call it composted shredded leaves. Lawn mower works great to shred those leaves. Then we dump them on the garden beds so the worms stay busy all winter. We also have contained areas for piles more of it. Makes awesome soil

  • @marking-time-gardens
    @marking-time-gardens 2 года назад +39

    Blessings on the Hollar family and homestead!🥰🌻🐛🌼

  • @antoinettemarie-stautertri4010
    @antoinettemarie-stautertri4010 2 года назад +6

    I miss living this way and cannot wait until we are able to buy a house with land. Chickens will be one of the first things I get again!

  • @whitestone4401
    @whitestone4401 2 года назад +16

    This cycle of the land is fascinating.

  • @pamelaremme38
    @pamelaremme38 2 года назад +8

    I've got the most amazing soil because I feed the worms!!! After digging or harvesting all my plants I use the hole that was made to put greens back in it. Then I go to my chicken coop compost pile and top all of my garden area with the compost. Then I COVER FOR THE WINTER. OMGosh guys/gals....if you want plants on steroids...trust me it's awesome!!! This was only my second year on my new homestead and the results I had for a new garden was amazing!!! In spring....Just plant.

    • @pamelaremme38
      @pamelaremme38 2 года назад +3

      Also I am in Wisconsin zone 4. When I plant my tomatoes I do add calcium and bone meal and blood meal only because they are such heavy feeders. You should see my tomatoes this year. 7 plants and so far 125 big tomatoes so far.

  • @ronnyrice697
    @ronnyrice697 2 года назад +22

    Excellent way of making compost and also being more self reliant.

  • @acornhomestead3575
    @acornhomestead3575 2 года назад +12

    BEN , I LOVE THIS VIDEO! So simple! So effective! So money-saving, soul-improving, waste-reducing, inflation-proofing, self-helping video! Thank you! Love it!

  • @batpherlangkharkrang7976
    @batpherlangkharkrang7976 2 года назад +1

    Hi.... Meg and Ben, thank you for showing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🏡🎥👍👍👍

  • @vikkiscott9296
    @vikkiscott9296 2 года назад +20

    Thankyou for showing the in and outs more of composting. I understand a little more about composting!

  • @theannecrossett7761
    @theannecrossett7761 2 года назад +6

    Love chickens, love compost and love watching/hearing you talk about chickens and compost. 🥰

  • @jolly0792
    @jolly0792 2 года назад +1

    Can not wait for the next spring to see your hard work paid off 😍👍🏼

  • @geraldineyoung9401
    @geraldineyoung9401 2 года назад

    Hi, Meg your a sweetheart. You remind me of my daughter. I enjoy your videos so very much! We can't free range our Chickens because of dogs and other predators. Lost 53 Chickens this year neighbors dogs!!! Very upsetting So we put a electric fence and a Camera around our coup and run.We do deep litter in our coop and our run. Wood chips in the coop and in the run adding more when it needs it. The chickens keeps it turned .We clean the wood chips out 2 times a year from the lot. Chicken coop gets cleaned more often.which they have already broken down a lot and we put them on our compost piles. It's healthier for the chickens than being on just dirt! I just thought I would tell you how we do it now lol. I'm 57 had chickens almost all my life! I can remember how we free ranged them and nothing ever bothered them.That was the good old days! can't wait to see your next video!!!!!

  • @goldengryphon
    @goldengryphon 2 года назад +16

    If y'all get enough compost together, you'll be able to feed a plot of corn that's large enough to make more than one batch of tamales!! Lol.
    I sheet compost, mostly, with my chickens because I am able to let them range. They still love kitchen scraps and I have some girls that love to garden along with me. No matter what, all weeds go to the chickens. In fact, I don;t think we've thrown away anything that was the least bit biodegradable in years!
    Even when we had a "plumbing issue" and a case of TP got soaked, that went into the compost pile and got churned up by the chickens.

  • @chandrasutton4669
    @chandrasutton4669 2 года назад +11

    Another really good project!!! God Bless.

  • @EhGardenerGuy
    @EhGardenerGuy 2 года назад +1

    The smaller the pieces in a compost pile the faster it breaks down. Charles Dowding has good videos on compost. Having a closed loop system is beneficial to any garden.

  • @heatherd.9390
    @heatherd.9390 2 года назад +2

    There are few better smells than that rich, pure, glorious soil. Thanks for sharing again today, folks! Totally loving seeing your guys so often!
    Heather🇨🇦

  • @michelebrady3612
    @michelebrady3612 2 года назад +3

    I just want you guys to know I look forward coming home after 11 hour work day and watching you !! Love your family !!!

  • @heatherjolly8389
    @heatherjolly8389 10 месяцев назад

    "Compost is my love language" I would so wear that on a shirt!❤

  • @stanleygallman7800
    @stanleygallman7800 2 года назад +1

    You keep doing what you are doing free compost and not free because you are putting the work in and man isn't there something special about a labor of loving what you are doing. Congratulations 👏 👏 👏 our friend

  • @trinacochrane1887
    @trinacochrane1887 2 года назад +1

    Please keep filming chicken and composting videos. You may think we might get bored with them but we don't, we love them.

  • @tammiemeadows5278
    @tammiemeadows5278 2 года назад +2

    Such hard workers are you all. I wish I’d married a homesteader minded guy. I try to do what I can in a small way but hard work being good for the soul is bad on my back 😞. Still, watching y’all inspires me 🤗

  • @GothGoddess1
    @GothGoddess1 2 года назад +1

    I have NEVER seen anyone more excited than me about compost until you started making video's a number of years ago now! It's a Wonderful feeling knowing that you made that compost & had a say about what went into it! Yes!!!! your right about the level of compost that's being sold right now across the USA!!!!! Even bagged compost is basically nothing but wood chips!!!

  • @tinatippin5705
    @tinatippin5705 2 года назад +12

    Valuable information. Very doable. Thank you for teaching this skill. I love building soil.

    • @collinssouth3761
      @collinssouth3761 2 года назад

      This is a whole lot of work to me. Do you do it part time or what?

    • @russelltackett4779
      @russelltackett4779 2 года назад

      @@collinssouth3761 😵‍💫

  • @microhomesteadecology
    @microhomesteadecology 2 года назад +1

    Compost is 100% the reason we have chickens. Eggs are just a bonus. I really like the concept your using here. Might have to try it out. Thanks for sharing!

  • @stephaniebohn9002
    @stephaniebohn9002 2 года назад

    Black gold for gardeners. Pure organic , beautiful!

  • @janicewoodard-heath7933
    @janicewoodard-heath7933 2 года назад +1

    I started this video around 6am.....then went a built a 6'x5' compost pile!! Such an inspiration! Thanks guys!

  • @dianecharles881
    @dianecharles881 2 года назад

    That chipper is worth it’s weight in gold , you will never regret it !

  • @MKCarol-ms7lg
    @MKCarol-ms7lg 2 года назад +1

    Really informative. I enjoyed seeing all three stages at once. You got the timing perfect for this video. Sounds like there is need for good compost; so, if you have more than you need, sell it. Another income stream is always a good thing. 😉

  • @susanbaker8130
    @susanbaker8130 2 года назад +2

    Years ago I learned about composting. Then I made my own compost pile and couldn’t believe the rich, gorgeous soil that it turned into. 😎

  • @camicri4263
    @camicri4263 2 года назад

    That's awesome deal! 52 cubic yards per year!!!! Magnificent! Thanks for sharing! 🤗💗🤗💗🤗

  • @janetjones7880
    @janetjones7880 2 года назад +18

    My chicken compost is out of pallet - works great and the garden loves it. Beautiful Family you have!

  • @belieftransformation
    @belieftransformation 2 года назад +1

    Wow, very informative; thanks for sharing! I have a pallet compost, two bins, & have made soil by continually adding veggie peelings, grass clippings, etc. I have learned a lot by watching your channel. Hey, I’m almost 70 yrs. gramma; if I can do it, anyone can! Many blessings to your family 🤗❤️🇨🇦

  • @lonis7456
    @lonis7456 2 года назад +5

    Good Job ya'll. You are a great family. I love watching your channel.

  • @nativestand1
    @nativestand1 2 года назад

    R E S P E C T ! I am a dirt lover from way back. I have been composting for gardens for 30 years. My latest goal….. I call ‘my compostable life’
    I want everything I own to be compostable. I am working on it. Ashes to ashes…..

  • @siamstation
    @siamstation 2 года назад

    Two things get me excited is, compost and chickens. I also compost by using my chickens and a compost area in their run. Fantastic way of making compost using the girls. It gives them a job through out the day and makes for happy chooks, not bored chooks. Great video. Blessings from Australia ❤️

  • @JustLiving2018
    @JustLiving2018 2 года назад +6

    I sure do love watch every video. Thanks for making every day a good day!

  • @gaylewatkins4685
    @gaylewatkins4685 2 года назад +29

    Ben, this is a fantastic video and your composting skills are off the charts. Thanks for showing us your hands-on and step by step method. Your family farm is a real working homestead. 💪
    Take care and God Bless

  • @earlshine453
    @earlshine453 2 года назад +5

    You need 6 inches of compost to start a no-dig (raised) bed, but the next years you only need to top dress with 1 inch of compost. Moreover: no-dig beds increase in fertility during the years, my oldest beds (6 yrs) produce tennisball sized hardneck garlic, and my most recent beds only show pingpong ball sized bulbs. So once you stop expanding, you will need less compost.

  • @Newyorkgardener585
    @Newyorkgardener585 2 года назад +3

    Good video on composting your channel is getting better and better do more stuff like that it's very interesting whatever you can do to reuse get something for free that's what people are watching these days they all don't want to pay for it on everything so expensive great job keep up the homestead 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍉🍉🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @lisahenry1467
    @lisahenry1467 2 года назад

    It is amazing how many places you can find material to compost. We intend to give our number to people with fall decorations on their porches (pumpkins, straw) and will go pick it up at the beginning of winter. Our chickens will eat the pumpkins and the straw will go in a thick layer in their coop to keep them warm during the winter while it is composting below them. In the spring we will dig out the compost and cover the garden.
    We also pick up bags of leaves and grass clippings from our little city dump. Local coffee shops give us their used coffee grounds. Lots of free resources!

  • @jasonhatfield4747
    @jasonhatfield4747 2 года назад +6

    We've never been able to source good, quality compost here. The stuff we've bought in the past has not made good soil the first year or so after putting it down. Making our own is something I've been experimenting with for the last several years now and I'm finally starting to be successful with it. I love your methods and plan on trying your chicken piles

  • @kathycortez232
    @kathycortez232 2 года назад +5

    Tyfs love your little family hugs and prayers and much love ❤

  • @StoneKathryn
    @StoneKathryn 2 года назад

    My son passed his first driving test today, yay! He worked hard and did a good job. I'm so happy and proud. Compost with chickens, cool! Nice system Ben. Not having the bits of plastic in your compost is another great by-product of making your own compost. We have bits of plastic in everything we buy in bags to use in the garden. It's disappointing. Your soul must be feeling really good right now! Thanks for this Ben.

  • @teamicdee
    @teamicdee 2 года назад +1

    Compost is my thing too. I love making it. Its my favorite smell, new earth~

  • @claracluckk3176
    @claracluckk3176 2 года назад

    One man and his compost - lovely to see

  • @pammckee2617
    @pammckee2617 2 года назад

    Hey Ben. I’m surprised you don’t have your boys doing this. That would be a great project for them.

  • @jennsenchantedforesthomestead
    @jennsenchantedforesthomestead 2 года назад +12

    Just curious if you ever got power back out to the farmhouse? Still hoping for the studio for Meg 😊💖

  • @emmeliegustavsson9566
    @emmeliegustavsson9566 2 года назад +10

    Would you consider doing a new farm and animal tour for the newer views like myself?Everything has changed so much since the last one!! Great content

  • @patriciajessup5275
    @patriciajessup5275 2 года назад +1

    I love your enthusiasm Ben. Your personal way of sharing information on composting is a win, win, win, thanks.

  • @emilyneal7888
    @emilyneal7888 2 года назад

    Your chickens never get bored and start pecking on each other. You keep them busy.

  • @gailbrault9251
    @gailbrault9251 2 года назад +5

    Well said and done...young man.

  • @Michouboo
    @Michouboo 2 года назад +2

    love all your videos and have been following for years, keep up the good work!!!!! we just got 1.2 acres 8 chickens and today we are starting our compost pile !!!! thanks for the motivation!!!

  • @craigculver1933
    @craigculver1933 2 года назад +3

    That was a great teaching of how chickens can get food and make excellent soil to boot, Blessings to y'all.

  • @suziediva
    @suziediva 2 года назад +8

    That is mind blowing 🤯!!! Hats off to you for sharing this knowledge👌

  • @katee67
    @katee67 2 года назад +1

    Compost is also my love language 💕 and the fact it correlates to my other love language: food 💕

  • @kflan3342
    @kflan3342 2 года назад +3

    Another 'win-win' is you have very content chickens. They are busy and less likely to pick on each other.

  • @asigridpreiser4970
    @asigridpreiser4970 2 года назад

    This video was very informative. Thank you. I do want to mention, my grandma taught me to rotate what you plant and where. One adds where something reduced planted the previous year. (she tried to explain that to a farmer who planted corn, year after year after year. He wondered why his corn was looking so bad.) She studied animal husbandry and horticulture and rocked it.

  • @lauraklein6405
    @lauraklein6405 2 года назад +2

    Thank you! This was the best explanation of making compost I’ve watched. And I’ve watched a lot. You answered all of my questions!

  • @heavymetalbassist5
    @heavymetalbassist5 2 года назад +2

    At over 100 bucks a yard around here I've gotta be on my compost game. Deep bedding under the chickens helps quite a bit.

  • @beverlyclayton1244
    @beverlyclayton1244 2 года назад

    Wonderful video; thank you Ben. You are so knowledgeable and I can see your compassion! Have a lively weekend!!!

  • @1stChaCha
    @1stChaCha 2 года назад

    "Chicken compost for the soul!" Thank you for the tutorial. 😊

  • @kentuckybluegrassliving7718
    @kentuckybluegrassliving7718 2 года назад

    Your one smart farmer / compose the best I’ve seen yet!

  • @iartistdotme
    @iartistdotme 2 года назад

    This is a very great opportunity for so many people - put those chickens to work! So glad you are video-ing and sharing and keeping us up to date with progress. So cool producing good from just waste. Now just invent three portable compost bins that can be installed over a slightly raised bed hooked to a chicken tractor and instead of moving the piles, just fork them into the next bin and the next until you have to move them up the slightly raised bed. Mulch in place for a future garden bed and moving the chickens along the production disassembly line. Whoa! what a concept.

  • @ADJ458
    @ADJ458 2 года назад +4

    Chicken coop for the soul! 😊

  • @donnalong4218
    @donnalong4218 2 года назад

    this grandma learns something BIG every time I watch your videos!!! Tell Buggy we wish her a very big blessed birthday!!! She is so beautiful, just like mommy and daddy!

  • @lizlong4683
    @lizlong4683 2 года назад +4

    Great video today about composting. I learned so much! Thank you.

    • @collinssouth3761
      @collinssouth3761 2 года назад

      You learned so much, are you trying to do one?

    • @lizlong4683
      @lizlong4683 2 года назад +1

      @@collinssouth3761 not this summer but next. I’m trying to learn all I can this year.

  • @dujduieig7189
    @dujduieig7189 2 года назад +1

    Look at those happy chickens🐔🐔

  • @annmcintosh4524
    @annmcintosh4524 2 года назад +2

    Sooooooooo interesting and you guys are great teachers! Love your more frequent videos!

  • @southerntexashomestead5028
    @southerntexashomestead5028 2 года назад +1

    Love those chickens. They are happy and having a good time making compost. ♡

  • @gelwood99
    @gelwood99 2 года назад

    5 years after my static chicken run off the coop was built, I am still mad at my husband and neighbor for ignoring me when I said to make the door wider! It is 1 1'2" smaller than my narrowest wheelbarrow. It is at least twice the size of yours and impossible to fill with chips or remove the finished compost except for a shovel at a time. I am still after him to dig up the 4 x 4 post that they put 2' in the ground and enlarge to opening! There are yards and yards of finished compost I need on the garden just sitting there. Add to the fact that the new chips have to be put in a shovel full at a time while our tractor and bucket sit by idle. LOL He should have just listened to me!😊😊

  • @cherylt8590
    @cherylt8590 2 года назад +1

    Awesome video of show/tell,and it all makes sense and ty for sharing this imformation 👍 😊...

  • @PunchbuggyBlue
    @PunchbuggyBlue 2 года назад +1

    I love your content! Day to day videos or special projects. All of it! Yours is always the first video I watch when I open RUclips.
    Will you get a yard a week of compost or 1/3 of a yard? Either way it's a lot of compost in a whole year.

  • @gilliandejong1459
    @gilliandejong1459 2 года назад

    That's just blinkin brilliant!!!!!! Love this composting your doing. I'm so excited to see what you guys do with it all!

  • @rhondamontiel3827
    @rhondamontiel3827 2 года назад +1

    I'm getting excited that it's almost the season for leaves! Didn't collect any last yr because I was busy moving out of my house so I'm really itching to rebuild my pile!

  • @charlotteforrester3118
    @charlotteforrester3118 2 года назад +3

    Y’all have a great system! Never really thought of the process of composting but it is interesting. Work smarter not harder, the chickens do the work! Amazing!

  • @dianegentry3255
    @dianegentry3255 2 года назад +2

    Great video Ben. Y’all are so resourceful!! Inspiring family! God bless!

  • @teresawilsonadventures5688
    @teresawilsonadventures5688 2 года назад +1

    This fall ask landscapers if they need a place to dump leaves? Just a thought. Love learning from your videos!❤

  • @rickanddonnasplace3225
    @rickanddonnasplace3225 2 года назад

    My husband and I really enjoyed this video. Totally informative and cool as heck!!!

  • @brookelahr5396
    @brookelahr5396 2 года назад

    Compost is magic! Turning trash into a valuable resource!

  • @mariesheppard3750
    @mariesheppard3750 2 года назад +1

    Wow I wished I knew all of this 30 years ago when I started my Farm, Love your family and Buggy she is so sweet and your wife sure knows how to feed the family Have a Gson name Cortland think you have a son with the same name

  • @marycountry
    @marycountry 2 года назад

    Way to go best stuff for next years garden.👍🏻😊

  • @loraineleuschke4186
    @loraineleuschke4186 2 года назад

    Your composting work is great. You need to make a how to video for newcomers and put it in your store so they can order it and have it in their home reference library. You guys rock.!!!

  • @jackiegammon6854
    @jackiegammon6854 2 года назад

    good for the soul, and good for the soil, too!

  • @pnhnut
    @pnhnut 2 года назад

    Music spot on as usual Meg!

  • @PatrickPoet
    @PatrickPoet 2 года назад +1

    Made me laugh out loud when you said, "rinse and repeat" which is instructions from shampoo bottles. I'd just seen you soaking the bottom of the new compost pile and when you said that I immediately imagined you putting shampoo on everything, sudzing it all up, then rinsing and repeating:) Thanks, it really cheered me up:)

  • @susanrud2162
    @susanrud2162 2 года назад

    I love your videos and admire the way you are learning to be self sufficient! What a great way of life and wonderful way to raise children. Plus, I learn from your experiences.

  • @trishapomeroy9251
    @trishapomeroy9251 Год назад

    Excellent video! Compost is one of my love languages too. Thank you for showing just a little bit different way to do things by keeping chickens in a static coop rather than moving them regularly.

  • @rebeccamunoz4596
    @rebeccamunoz4596 2 года назад

    Thanks for sharing~I miss my worm bins(red wigglers)~ the video was really relaxing time for sleep me nite nite 👍🤗❤✌

  • @patriciaherman6499
    @patriciaherman6499 2 года назад +7

    Ben, great info on how to do a compost pile. Question: do you put any manure in your compost from either the cows, pigs and chickens or do you leave it on the ground where the animals pasture?
    Blessings to you all. 😊🇺🇲

  • @hollydolly6630
    @hollydolly6630 2 года назад +2

    Your doing a fantastic job composting ✌️💙🙏

  • @chcnsac
    @chcnsac 2 года назад +1

    Awesome!!!

  • @rhondacross850
    @rhondacross850 2 года назад +1

    Great job Ben. How satisfying for you.

  • @RootsandCalluses
    @RootsandCalluses Год назад

    I just had to move a lot of pallets on the abandoned land I am restoring. I definitely don't look as cool as you lugging them around. Thanks for the composting lesson!

  • @mariayelruh
    @mariayelruh 2 года назад

    I get leaves from all over. Even picking up ones for recycling. Every time I'm out during the fall I come back with my mini van full. I lay down a tarp so it doesn't get too messy. I'd love a pickup.

  • @jadestar1580
    @jadestar1580 2 года назад +1

    That was really interesting and educational, thank you!

  • @tpaw6908
    @tpaw6908 2 года назад

    That is amazing. Have a blessed weekend. Thanks.