Definitely mate. We try our best to mix their daily feed up as best we can. Woody material, grasses (shredded and whole), palm nuts and weather permitting, we let the herd out for two hours on pasture (if it's dry enough.) It's a lot of food!
The farm looks amazingly healthy and green…..so beautiful ❤ Hope you & Toon are feeling better by now! Sending positive vibes and healing thoughts your way xo
Thank you Marietta. To some, it looks like a jungle. To us, it's a super healthy, 'eat all you can eat' salad bar for the goats! Yesterday the herd was treated to endless trolley loads of prunings after their usual meals. Some were so full they weren't that bothered to come out for their late afternoon foraging before bed!
I always learn so much from your videos! Thanks for sharing. My Thai wife and I live on 8 rai in Nakhon Phanom. We have 2 ponds and many mangoes, bananas, coconuts and papayas growing. We just added 24 raised garden beds which should provide well. I also recognize many other species of plants you mentioned. You are quite the botanists. The rainy season is ending here and I have spent many days cleaning up the land of overgrowth and dead banana leaves and whatnot, and trimming the grass and growth. It does take a lot of work but seems very worth it and rewarding at my tender age of 63. Stay health and happy my friends.
@@macca8167 nice one Macca. Thailand's tropical climate makes composting and chop and drop incredibly effective. After our first two years on the farm we switched to organic, no burn and no ploughing. Never looked back....but not sure if we'll keep it up in our 70s!
Rainy season always gets the vegetation growing ahead of the caretaker. I know this because I'm the caretaker at my place. I don't have 50 Rai to take care of like you, but I'm a little older than you guys. Another two days and I'll have everything cut down to manageable size. It's Leo time now, so go on with the video. I stopped it at 2:35 to type this reply out.... You do know I admire both of you for what you have taken on in life. You've accomplished so much since I've known you..... Keep it up..... Oh yea, Toon is a much better fisherman than you Lee.....😎😎🍺🍺🍻🍺🍺
I really enjoyed reading this comment, right up until you screwed it up at the end mentioning the fishing. 2 more days and it'll be the end of Buddhist Lent. We can already taste those icy Golden Leos of loveliness!
@@TLFarm Almost got enough saved to get the new Toyota Champ. You do know that is what I'm waiting for before making the LONG trip down your way. Oh yea, she smoked you in the raft race too....🍺🍺🍺🍻🍺 Cheers buddy....
I honestly thought it'd take an age to get the worms here in large numbers. It's an absolute joy to see so many of them. Hopefully, each year they'll hang around for longer and longer as the organic matter continues to increase.
Years gone by, I only got excited about digging up worms when I was collecting bait for fishing! Now I recover them with soil and send them on their way to continue the fine work they do 🪱
I swear since I starting watching you guys that with every wet season your farm gets greener and greener and it's staying more resilient during the dry season. Poor timing you both getting the flu but I have to ask what's it like having a flu when the outside temp is over 30 degrees Celsius and it's also over 80% humidity? Must be almost a killer having to have fevers and sweats in those conditions? Get well soon guys and take care.
Exactly Gav. I was planting my new red galangal yesterday and the amount of huge worms I spotted in just about every hole I dug was crazy! I don't think we saw a worm in the first two years being on the farm full-time! Yeah, flu and farm chores in these conditions ain't much fun mate, but we drive each other on and keep our spirits as high as we can 😉
Wow mate that is well overgrown. You need a new farm helper asap. I'm not volunteering by the way 😮😅😅. Great vlog as usual . Hope you and the missus feel better soon. ♥️🇹🇭
Each rainy season the vegetation becomes thicker and stays for longer into the dry season. Hopefully, we'll eventually end up with new growth all year round. We've got a lot of friends and family coming this month and November but we'll all be too busy partying to help out lol. Thankfully, we have a returning Farmstay guest arriving after them who works fantastically. Fingers crossed we can make some headway during his stay. Mind you, since recording, I'm halfway through pruning the fruit trees in the orchard! If the poxy flu would leave us, I'd already have them finished lol.
hehe...ya gotta love the green season eh'...lots of surprises to be found lurking beneath the leaves....haha...watch out for the white sap...very irritating to the skin...
I know what you mean about the Moringa. We've found the larger the cutting, the more chance they have. Pinned nice and deep helps also. Growing by seed is my own personal favourite though.
@@TLFarm Yeah,growing from seed is easy,have you tried growing comfrey? I'm making a lot of fertilizer from plants,comfrey would be good for that, I'm using Moringa leaves and Mexican sunflower as well,just not sure if comfrey can handle the tropics.
yo bluds, Stevie B here, if it's not a trade secret... what's in your secret sauce for spraying on plants... E.G. I have some Thai stylee cucumbers that are getting absolutely hammered by some greedy froggin little buggers but I don't wanna resort to chemicals... Hope you both get better soon too. SWALK
Good to hear from you Geezer. BUT not so good to hear about your cucumbers getting a hammering. We use a very weak solution of vegetable oil, washing up liquid and baking soda as a foliar spray in late afternoon/ early evening. Cucumbers are quite sensitive souls, so start off using very small amounts with plenty of water. We use it about once a week to control aphids on our foot long beans. It doesn't eradicate them but let's the plants do their thing.
I'm confused. Self-sufficient means self-sufficient, nae relying on monetary gain from pay platforms. I've run a self-sufficient homestead for decades. Because it's my joy. We are truly self-sufficient.
Looking good. You both work HARD! Good on ya.
Thank you as always VP. Thankfully, we're both almost back to full fitness and can begin to catch up on things like pruning.
Thanks for the walk about vid always enjoy them. I hope you both are feeling better soon, love and hugs from Scotland 🙏❤️🙏
Our pleasure thanks Matt. We're slowly getting back to full health....no rest for the wicked!
Finally , I know everything about Air layering Leigh 🙄Love you guys 😊
That's brilliant news because I'm starting this week!!!
That rain certainly makes the world turn green, luckily you have four legged mowers to help you cut it for you. 🍋🍋🤣🤣🤣🤣
Definitely mate. We try our best to mix their daily feed up as best we can.
Woody material, grasses (shredded and whole), palm nuts and weather permitting, we let the herd out for two hours on pasture (if it's dry enough.)
It's a lot of food!
The farm looks amazingly healthy and green…..so beautiful ❤ Hope you & Toon are feeling better by now! Sending positive vibes and healing thoughts your way xo
Thank you Marietta.
To some, it looks like a jungle. To us, it's a super healthy, 'eat all you can eat' salad bar for the goats!
Yesterday the herd was treated to endless trolley loads of prunings after their usual meals.
Some were so full they weren't that bothered to come out for their late afternoon foraging before bed!
I always learn so much from your videos! Thanks for sharing. My Thai wife and I live on 8 rai in Nakhon Phanom. We have 2 ponds and many mangoes, bananas, coconuts and papayas growing. We just added 24 raised garden beds which should provide well. I also recognize many other species of plants you mentioned. You are quite the botanists.
The rainy season is ending here and I have spent many days cleaning up the land of overgrowth and dead banana leaves and whatnot, and trimming the grass and growth. It does take a lot of work but seems very worth it and rewarding at my tender age of 63.
Stay health and happy my friends.
Wow, that's some going at 63 William. I hope I'm still rocking the strimmer at that age 💪
@@macca8167 nice one Macca. Thailand's tropical climate makes composting and chop and drop incredibly effective.
After our first two years on the farm we switched to organic, no burn and no ploughing.
Never looked back....but not sure if we'll keep it up in our 70s!
Rainy season always gets the vegetation growing ahead of the caretaker. I know this because I'm the caretaker at my place. I don't have 50 Rai to take care of like you, but I'm a little older than you guys. Another two days and I'll have everything cut down to manageable size. It's Leo time now, so go on with the video. I stopped it at 2:35 to type this reply out.... You do know I admire both of you for what you have taken on in life. You've accomplished so much since I've known you..... Keep it up..... Oh yea, Toon is a much better fisherman than you Lee.....😎😎🍺🍺🍻🍺🍺
I really enjoyed reading this comment, right up until you screwed it up at the end mentioning the fishing.
2 more days and it'll be the end of Buddhist Lent. We can already taste those icy Golden Leos of loveliness!
@@TLFarm Almost got enough saved to get the new Toyota Champ. You do know that is what I'm waiting for before making the LONG trip down your way. Oh yea, she smoked you in the raft race too....🍺🍺🍺🍻🍺 Cheers buddy....
@@TeamDNFracing no sweet-mouthing Toon is gonna help you when she finds out you sold her TaTa!
And we both know that she cheated in the raftrace.
@@TLFarm It's not sold yet.....
@@TeamDNFracing ok, she said she'll hold fire 🔫
Your yard looks amazing. Massive soil improvement. 🙂❤️🙏🇦🇺
I honestly thought it'd take an age to get the worms here in large numbers. It's an absolute joy to see so many of them.
Hopefully, each year they'll hang around for longer and longer as the organic matter continues to increase.
Sure looks nice with all the green. Worms are definitely a good sign. The more, the better for the soil. Thanks for the video.
Years gone by, I only got excited about digging up worms when I was collecting bait for fishing!
Now I recover them with soil and send them on their way to continue the fine work they do 🪱
Get well soon you two x
Thanks Nicholas, we're on the mend 💪
Lots of growth on da farm 🙏😊
I swear since I starting watching you guys that with every wet season your farm gets greener and greener and it's staying more resilient during the dry season. Poor timing you both getting the flu but I have to ask what's it like having a flu when the outside temp is over 30 degrees Celsius and it's also over 80% humidity? Must be almost a killer having to have fevers and sweats in those conditions? Get well soon guys and take care.
Exactly Gav. I was planting my new red galangal yesterday and the amount of huge worms I spotted in just about every hole I dug was crazy! I don't think we saw a worm in the first two years being on the farm full-time!
Yeah, flu and farm chores in these conditions ain't much fun mate, but we drive each other on and keep our spirits as high as we can 😉
Wow mate that is well overgrown. You need a new farm helper asap. I'm not volunteering by the way 😮😅😅. Great vlog as usual . Hope you and the missus feel better soon. ♥️🇹🇭
Each rainy season the vegetation becomes thicker and stays for longer into the dry season.
Hopefully, we'll eventually end up with new growth all year round.
We've got a lot of friends and family coming this month and November but we'll all be too busy partying to help out lol.
Thankfully, we have a returning Farmstay guest arriving after them who works fantastically. Fingers crossed we can make some headway during his stay.
Mind you, since recording, I'm halfway through pruning the fruit trees in the orchard!
If the poxy flu would leave us, I'd already have them finished lol.
Farm looking good but I get sweaty just looking your work. 😂
Not had a drop of rain since recording this. It's gone from one extreme to another in the blink of an eye.
Sorry to hear you don't feel well
Great show to watch ime trying some of your skills
Cheers Gary. Having a go at growing stuff is so cool.
Yes and in this heat to but let's hope it all reward us
Moon flower ? I thought this was family friendly? Good on you guys
I'll have to get a few photos of them to clarify lol.
hehe...ya gotta love the green season eh'...lots of surprises to be found lurking beneath the leaves....haha...watch out for the white sap...very irritating to the skin...
Thankfully, we're both fine with the latex (both kinds) 🤣🤣🤣
Looking good, how did your Moringa cuttings take, I have no luck now growing from seed,Funny your garden looks like mine goes crazy this time of yeat
I know what you mean about the Moringa. We've found the larger the cutting, the more chance they have. Pinned nice and deep helps also.
Growing by seed is my own personal favourite though.
@@TLFarm Yeah,growing from seed is easy,have you tried growing comfrey? I'm making a lot of fertilizer from plants,comfrey would be good for that, I'm using Moringa leaves and Mexican sunflower as well,just not sure if comfrey can handle the tropics.
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Cheers Nate 👍
Mate dont cute male papaya,you can change easy for female for sure . I like your farm. Good luck 🍀 🍀
I like the Thai way of changing the sex of papaya by wrapping the tree in an old bra or pants lol.
@TLFarm Nice joke, but I'm telling you the truth 100%.
Check my information on the Internet please 😅😅
I always wondered why my Thai mother in law dressed the papaya trees.
@@TLFarmYour joke is cool, but I'm telling the truth 100%. Please check the Internet and you will see that my advice is true😅😅
Have you thought about getting a pellet machine? Take all your fruit that you don’t eat and make fish pellets to feed your stock.
yo bluds, Stevie B here, if it's not a trade secret... what's in your secret sauce for spraying on plants... E.G. I have some Thai stylee cucumbers that are getting absolutely hammered by some greedy froggin little buggers but I don't wanna resort to chemicals...
Hope you both get better soon too. SWALK
Good to hear from you Geezer. BUT not so good to hear about your cucumbers getting a hammering.
We use a very weak solution of vegetable oil, washing up liquid and baking soda as a foliar spray in late afternoon/ early evening.
Cucumbers are quite sensitive souls, so start off using very small amounts with plenty of water.
We use it about once a week to control aphids on our foot long beans.
It doesn't eradicate them but let's the plants do their thing.
I'm confused. Self-sufficient means self-sufficient, nae relying on monetary gain from pay platforms. I've run a self-sufficient homestead for decades. Because it's my joy. We are truly self-sufficient.
Happy for you both.
Lots of growth on da farm 🙏😊
That raised bed has got your name on it lol.
A nice one week project in-between karaokes 🤣
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