I have 2 8 foot beds 30 wide plus a few containers for myself only and I just enjoy watching and admiring tools and learning techniques and strategies. Grew broccoli for first time ever was so pleased all thanks to Connor (sp)
This been on my mind all day, I have 32 beds, 2.5'x40' = 100 soft each.in two years I have weeded on average 1/2 hour a .week. in 2 to 3 years I plan to have 100 beds, about 3x what I have now. I put down 2 inches of compost on each bed each time I plant. I have few weeds, my exception is when I plant carrots,(I use less compost) i pretty sure about 1/3 of my weeding is for carrots. So 100 beds will mean 10,000 sq.ft. of growing area, and never more by than 4 hours of weeding per week. How ever I do not grow as intensive as Neversink does, less flips . So I do not think I would benefit much with flame weeding. BTW I do very little tillage. Most would call me no till.. this vlog just got me thinking alot.
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I plant most if my crops i2 or more inches of compost, some direct seed, some transplants. I weed my beds, 100 sq ft, every 10 to 14 days, 8 beds never takes more than 1 hour.
The only problem with flame weeding is the entire farm is planted into two cover crop mats, this year, and last years (they don’t break down in one season. A lot of people use plastic, but dual layers of cereal rye and over 20 other cover varieties give such good weed control, are always breaking down, they let rain through, the root structure has an amazing effect. I was a pretty good farmer prior to meeting my wife. I did 2-3 variety mix covers. But her family farmed in Israel. They are farming Ninja’s! To avoid burning down the CSA crops we use a weed zapper in between and over the rows. I even have two big ones that mount on the tractor for the grain side, but they only get the weeds that exceed the height of the crop rows. Working on building a row mow that hovers down in the rows of grain crops.
“Entitled” is judgement call about me personally which doesn’t deserve an answer. Flaming is one technique to run a farm efficiently yes. It is not easy at all to run an organic farm and make a profit. Using a wheel hoe or hand weeding or some other method is less efficient and thus costs more money and more time. I would rather have profitable small scale organic farms than not and thus I am giving those farms information through these videos that they can use or not to be successful and profitable. We all must decide to either heat our house with no renewables or drive gas cars or travel in buses, trains or planes. You can choose your own methods.
You're obviously not a market gardener or farmer. Efficiency is terribly important. Otherwise you're constantly under the gun, always playing catch-up, as the weeds never rest. If you were a farmer you would know that most small weeds disturbed by a hoe recover and some (plantain, dandelion, clover) bounce right back as their root systems are so resilient. I suggest you re-think your use of the word 'entitled', as you are obviously unfamiliar with it. Entitlement refers to social justice issues.
His amount of petroleum use for flame weeding is inconceivably small compared to the millions of pounds of petro fertilizer in use across the world. He is in fact entitled…entitled to have an opinion with the intent of helping other farmers become more profitable
You obviously haven't delt with a seed bank like mine. I will definitely be going to the flame weeder. A 20 yard truck load of good tested compost mulch can cost me 4000$ the transport cost more than the compost. A day or two of rains the grasses can grow six inches , and the pig weed can get ankle high. Day labor from a service can can cost me 20$ an hour . Though they are making minimum wage all the other fees attached workmanship comp and such . Day labor off the street is much worse. They are usually looking for cash for a bag of weed or something to shoot or snort, and have came back and stolen from the farm. Latino labor is fast and efficient but dont want to do day labor with the number of strawberry, blue berry, hog and chicken farms and processors . I think that Connors techniques are clean ,beneficial, and effective, considering scale. His techniques are also resource conscious to an extreme. If you ran his numbers on productivity ,resource management, against the environmental byproduct of his operation. I'm talking total steal and plastic production for the green houses and starter trays , electricity to run the systems, gas to get to market and supplies ,and yes the flame weeder. I would net that Connor is much cleaner and greener than much of the green technology out there. Certainly cleaner than mine . I'm using tractors made in the mid 50s ,and wouldn't use those if a good portion of my back wasn't missing and sciatica and the MS. They wont let me drive tractor and trailer anymore I cant go back to working construction , I'm not computer literate enough for most other jobs even the fast food joints won't hire me at 55 yo in my condition. Ss disability has been denied me 5 times. I lived for 3 years on 435$ a month VA disability, and what my ground has produced. I'm fortunate to own my home and land. If I have to be a little bit dirty so survive so be it. There's a big differance in being reasonable, responsible or being radically unreasonable. Even the air we exhale is harmful to something. Sorry for the rant Mr Connor ,just get peed off with the hollier than thow crowd some times.
@@NeversinkFarm Add my name to the "entitled" list as I too raise organic veggies on m 20 acre homestead property. I make NO APOLOGY for using fire to control weeds instead of harsh chemicals that may create residual effects in my soil. I use a propane fired torch for my flame weeding in my garden as well as dozens of other chores on the homestead, from keeping fence lines clear to starting burn piles. The amount of propane used to clear one of my 4 foot square raised beds is likely less than 5 cents...if that. Labor and other costs are much less with flame weeding, allowing me to be able to provide organic grown foods at a cost more competitive with chemically treated foods. That is a clear benefit to society as it puts organic foods within the budget of more people. As for blowing gas into the atmosphere, the gas is being consumed as fuel for the fire, not discharged into the air. What's going into the air is the normal products of combustion, which chiefly is water vapor and carbon dioxide. On my farm, there are about 17 acres of trees eagerly yearning for all the carbon dioxide they can get, which they turn into oxygen. The tiny releases of combustion products from flame weeding is an invalid reason for concern on nearly any farm in America. People like this farmer (and me) are extremely sensitive to the health of the land and the welfare of people living on it. To find a reason to label us negatively for something so trivial as the release of water vapor and carbon dioxide from burning propane is nothing more than a deliberate insult. We all need to spend our time and energy focusing on what truly matters rather than calling each other names. Just my 2 cents; feel free to differ.
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As always, great content! flame weeding has been a game changer for me
This content you produce helps my wife and I grow our own market garden and we love your tools!
I have 2 8 foot beds 30 wide plus a few containers for myself only and I just enjoy watching and admiring tools and learning techniques and strategies. Grew broccoli for first time ever was so pleased all thanks to Connor (sp)
Smart! Thank you for helping me learn effective ways to manage weeds. Ounce of prevention. Love it!
I love these sorts of efficiencies.
You always have the coolest gadgets!
Wow, commets!!, flame weeding main drawback to me was the learning curve. I have u, would be very nice if I could make it work.
On the carrots, after planting and before germinating, you would run your flame weeder over the bed?
Exactly
Thank you Conor, love your work and what I see of your farm.
Have you calculated how much it is to burn each 50ft bed/walkway, each pass? 25 cents?
This been on my mind all day, I have 32 beds, 2.5'x40' = 100 soft each.in two years I have weeded on average 1/2 hour a .week. in 2 to 3 years I plan to have 100 beds, about 3x what I have now. I put down 2 inches of compost on each bed each time I plant. I have few weeds, my exception is when I plant carrots,(I use less compost) i pretty sure about 1/3 of my weeding is for carrots. So 100 beds will mean 10,000 sq.ft. of growing area, and never more by than 4 hours of weeding per week. How ever I do not grow as intensive as Neversink does, less flips
. So I do not think I would benefit much with flame weeding. BTW I do very little tillage. Most would call me no till.. this vlog just got me thinking alot.
Thanks for all the videos.
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I plant most if my crops i2 or more inches of compost, some direct seed, some transplants.
I weed my beds, 100 sq ft, every 10 to 14 days, 8 beds never takes more than 1 hour.
Thank you sir
How do you know when the weeds are “cooked” enough to die off?
I was wondering, on your farm how many beds, what size beds
Ty
Dont those flame burn of the soil quality And those biological life living in the soil and helping the plant to grow ?
Not at all. Soil is an excellent insulator. Flame weeding has no adverse affect on soil life.
They should make a 6 foot wide one for the spring flaming - worth the efficiency.
The only problem with flame weeding is the entire farm is planted into two cover crop mats, this year, and last years (they don’t break down in one season.
A lot of people use plastic, but dual layers of cereal rye and over 20 other cover varieties give such good weed control, are always breaking down, they let rain through, the root structure has an amazing effect.
I was a pretty good farmer prior to meeting my wife. I did 2-3 variety mix covers. But her family farmed in Israel. They are farming Ninja’s!
To avoid burning down the CSA crops we use a weed zapper in between and over the rows. I even have two big ones that mount on the tractor for the grain side, but they only get the weeds that exceed the height of the crop rows.
Working on building a row mow that hovers down in the rows of grain crops.
Efficient, with the amount of gas you are blowing into the atmosphere?
Just do a pass or two with a wheelhoe or similar, this is just being entitled.
“Entitled” is judgement call about me personally which doesn’t deserve an answer. Flaming is one technique to run a farm efficiently yes. It is not easy at all to run an organic farm and make a profit. Using a wheel hoe or hand weeding or some other method is less efficient and thus costs more money and more time. I would rather have profitable small scale organic farms than not and thus I am giving those farms information through these videos that they can use or not to be successful and profitable. We all must decide to either heat our house with no renewables or drive gas cars or travel in buses, trains or planes. You can choose your own methods.
You're obviously not a market gardener or farmer. Efficiency is terribly important. Otherwise you're constantly under the gun, always playing catch-up, as the weeds never rest.
If you were a farmer you would know that most small weeds disturbed by a hoe recover and some (plantain, dandelion, clover) bounce right back as their root systems are so resilient.
I suggest you re-think your use of the word 'entitled', as you are obviously unfamiliar with it. Entitlement refers to social justice issues.
His amount of petroleum use for flame weeding is inconceivably small compared to the millions of pounds of petro fertilizer in use across the world. He is in fact entitled…entitled to have an opinion with the intent of helping other farmers become more profitable
You obviously haven't delt with a seed bank like mine. I will definitely be going to the flame weeder. A 20 yard truck load of good tested compost mulch can cost me 4000$ the transport cost more than the compost. A day or two of rains the grasses can grow six inches , and the pig weed can get ankle high. Day labor from a service can can cost me 20$ an hour . Though they are making minimum wage all the other fees attached workmanship comp and such . Day labor off the street is much worse. They are usually looking for cash for a bag of weed or something to shoot or snort, and have came back and stolen from the farm. Latino labor is fast and efficient but dont want to do day labor with the number of strawberry, blue berry, hog and chicken farms and processors .
I think that Connors techniques are clean ,beneficial, and effective, considering scale. His techniques are also resource conscious to an extreme. If you ran his numbers on productivity ,resource management, against the environmental byproduct of his operation. I'm talking total steal and plastic production for the green houses and starter trays , electricity to run the systems, gas to get to market and supplies ,and yes the flame weeder. I would net that Connor is much cleaner and greener than much of the green technology out there. Certainly cleaner than mine . I'm using tractors made in the mid 50s ,and wouldn't use those if a good portion of my back wasn't missing and sciatica and the MS. They wont let me drive tractor and trailer anymore I cant go back to working construction , I'm not computer literate enough for most other jobs even the fast food joints won't hire me at 55 yo in my condition. Ss disability has been denied me 5 times. I lived for 3 years on 435$ a month VA disability, and what my ground has produced. I'm fortunate to own my home and land. If I have to be a little bit dirty so survive so be it. There's a big differance in being reasonable, responsible or being radically unreasonable. Even the air we exhale is harmful to something.
Sorry for the rant Mr Connor ,just get peed off with the hollier than thow crowd some times.
@@NeversinkFarm
Add my name to the "entitled" list as I too raise organic veggies on m 20 acre homestead property. I make NO APOLOGY for using fire to control weeds instead of harsh chemicals that may create residual effects in my soil. I use a propane fired torch for my flame weeding in my garden as well as dozens of other chores on the homestead, from keeping fence lines clear to starting burn piles. The amount of propane used to clear one of my 4 foot square raised beds is likely less than 5 cents...if that. Labor and other costs are much less with flame weeding, allowing me to be able to provide organic grown foods at a cost more competitive with chemically treated foods. That is a clear benefit to society as it puts organic foods within the budget of more people.
As for blowing gas into the atmosphere, the gas is being consumed as fuel for the fire, not discharged into the air. What's going into the air is the normal products of combustion, which chiefly is water vapor and carbon dioxide. On my farm, there are about 17 acres of trees eagerly yearning for all the carbon dioxide they can get, which they turn into oxygen. The tiny releases of combustion products from flame weeding is an invalid reason for concern on nearly any farm in America.
People like this farmer (and me) are extremely sensitive to the health of the land and the welfare of people living on it. To find a reason to label us negatively for something so trivial as the release of water vapor and carbon dioxide from burning propane is nothing more than a deliberate insult. We all need to spend our time and energy focusing on what truly matters rather than calling each other names.
Just my 2 cents; feel free to differ.