Rotational Grazing, Edible Landscaping, & Agroforestry
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Mid-July tour of the farm, rotational grazing systems, gardens, composting, sugaring, mushroom cultivation, and agroforestry projects. I'd like to make more in-depth videos on specific areas, but thought it would be good to show the scope of the farm and the work we're doing right now.
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This is the highest elevation farm and sugarbush in New York, at Camp Treetops & North Country School. It’s a 220-acre educational farm/school/camp in the chilly High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, USDA Zone 4a.
People of all ages and backgrounds reside on campus and participate in farming and gardening activities as part of their education. We hope to create more productive outdoor learning spaces and opportunities to demonstrate ideas such as agroecology, permaculture, and sustainable food production.
The purpose of this work is to demonstrate a variety of food production systems and engage the community in sustainable & ethical land management. It is intended to provide food as well as interdisciplinary educational opportunities for people of all ages & backgrounds.
Some of the work we want to demonstrate are so-called “alternative” or “non-conventional” agricultural practices. These include disciplines such as agroecology (agriculture that mimics natural ecological systems), permaculture (sustainable & self-sufficient design), regenerative agriculture (conservation approach that focuses on topsoil regeneration, biodiversity, improving water cycle, biosequestration, & mitigating climate change), agroforestry & silvopasture (integration of trees & shrubs with animals), organic agriculture (growing & processing food without the use of synthetic fertilizers & pesticides), and food sovereignty (the right to healthy & culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound & sustainable methods), among others.
We cultivate many different edible perennial plants, including apples, pears, plums, apricots, cherries, buartnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, black locust, oaks, serviceberries, and native support trees like aspens, various conifers, etc. The shrub layer consists of many varieties of blueberries, currants, raspberries, haskaps, seaberry, elderberry, hazelnuts, various native plants, and more. Groundcover consists of things like strawberries, comfrey, lowbush blueberries and cranberries, various herbs like mint, oregano, thyme, and lots more.
This RUclips channel and these videos are for educational purposes and for my own personal documentation of various projects.
What an incredible operation! Thanks for sharing!
@@MistahL thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
The education and experience you are providing to those kids is invaluable. A majority of the population has little to no understanding as to how their food ultimately arrives at the grocery store. The disconnect is concerning. Your efforts to educate society and carry out agriculture in a sustainable and thought-out manner will inspire many young minds. Thank you.
Thanks for this wonderful comment. It really is an invaluable experience. It’s scary how few people understand or care where their food comes from. Hopefully we can change that!
A lot of work is going on here. Just wow! Great job!
Thanks!
farm is incredible, great job
@@chokmah3926 thank you
awesome!!!!
good job!
Thank you!
❤ that forest garden!
@@BearBottomHomestead it’s really turning into something amazing!
nice setup brother
Appreciate it
Wow that is a lot to manage! Very cool to see all of the various parts and the forest garden is looking amazing 🤙
Yaaa I’ll do an update on the forest garden soon, it’s really goin off right now.
Nooice! 😎 STOC
I got in with a program that uses ag as a therapeutic outlet for veterans, even using their GI bill to develop farm to table business plans to present for farm funding. I'd really love to put something together that could help with a broader spectrum of challenges, following farm to table and regenerative practices, but also incorporating urban ag models and permaculture to a lesser degree, by space, and higher degree of financial reliance.
That sounds awesome. I really think there’s a lot to learn from these kinds of deep fundamental experiences that connect us to the real world around us. I hope that all goes well for you!
Do you mow where you are going to put the portable electric fence to prevent it shorting out?
Yea exactly, we mow the perimeter and then set up the fencing so it doesn’t short on the tall grass.
What part of the Adirondacks?
This is near Lake Placid, in the High Peaks region. About 2200’ elevation.
Pigs are not vegetarians, I have literally seen pigs eat a bucket of chicken bones.... *CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH* and they are all gone
Yes, they’ll also literally eat pork and human flesh if that’s what they’re given. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to feed them that lol. Our pigs eat a vegetarian diet. In biology we use terms like herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, etc. Pigs are omnivores.