I'm finding your videos really helpful, interesting, and inspiring :) thank you! I'll be setting up my own farmstead/smallholding in the future and these kinds of videos really help me to keep my dream alive. I love the way you're reusing your waste. We all need to be doing more of this and going back to the old ways.
Go for a wood chipper but try for a 4-inch inlet, my climate is similar to yours and i was over run by poplar and birch. Both messy trees so I dropped them and chipped as much as i could and got a two yard pile of chips I left them over winter and noticed the decomposition had creates like a volcano melting snow and jetting steam from the top of the cone. By spring the interior was black and composted. What isn't composted is dandy mulch and melts away over a saeason.
You should make a methane digester and make your own cooking gas from animal manure and green organic waste. The waste digestate product is fertilizer for your fields.
I'm so happy to see your dog, a great pyrenees? If you could replace the wood chips with straw, perhaps cheaper from a nearby farm? it would keep the chickens warmer and recycle into garden or compost. I've raised a lot of chickens and never used sawdust' great video, enjoy the sunshine!
why not just use hay in the chicken coop ? we make hay bye hand with scythe and ball it up by basically pounding it into a wooden box and put a string around it. Very primitive but we get all our hay for chickens an pigs that way.
Great principle to live by, but really, really difficult to do in Norway. One recommandation is to check if you have any deep bog on your property and dig up dirt that way. Its possibly the best plant dirt there is. If its stone free its often really easy to dig up as well. That way you dont need to buy those expensive bags. However animal food will probably always be off-farm unless you plant barley or other corn products. Just curious, with the stones from your own backyard, do you by any chance know if there are specific requirements for rock used beneath buildings etc.? Or would granite suffice
I don’t thing we ever will reach a 100% but I do thing that we can have more systems in place that we have today. I follow a Danish farmer on TV that plant root vegetables for his animals in addition to hay and as a substitute for factory food. Could be fun to try out sometime.🤔 I don’t thing that my parking lot can support a building, but I know several people that have used granite to build on. As long as the foundation is deep enough, and the masses are stable. 👍
I'm finding your videos really helpful, interesting, and inspiring :) thank you! I'll be setting up my own farmstead/smallholding in the future and these kinds of videos really help me to keep my dream alive. I love the way you're reusing your waste. We all need to be doing more of this and going back to the old ways.
Thanks for your kind words and good luck with your dream.😃 There are many small farms out there that need new owners. 👍
Wow 😮! That sifted dirt made beautiful soil for the flowerbed. I bet your wife is happy!
🌸🌼🌺🌷🌹
Go for a wood chipper but try for a 4-inch inlet, my climate is similar to yours and i was over run by poplar and birch. Both messy trees so I dropped them and chipped as much as i could and got a two yard pile of chips I left them over winter and noticed the decomposition had creates like a volcano melting snow and jetting steam from the top of the cone. By spring the interior was black and composted. What isn't composted is dandy mulch and melts away over a saeason.
Felicitaciones! Gran Trabajo 👏 👍
You should make a methane digester and make your own cooking gas from animal manure and green organic waste. The waste digestate product is fertilizer for your fields.
Well done!
Thanks👍
Some very useful, practical tips on recycling. Good episode.
I'm so happy to see your dog, a great pyrenees? If you could replace the wood chips with straw, perhaps cheaper from a nearby farm? it would keep the chickens warmer and recycle into garden or compost. I've raised a lot of chickens and never used sawdust' great video, enjoy the sunshine!
I have most of the same principles here in the states. Enjoy the videos since half of my heritage is from your area.
Thank you.
Hi, that is great👍 Where in the states are you located?
@Norwegian farm life Minnesota. My great grandparents immigrated in 1863.
The town of Madelia was a Norwegian village in Minnesota.
Great work and philosophy!
Glad you liked it!👍
Great getting the rocks recycled
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Nice fro Alversund
Takker 😃
bra film. viktig og bruke alt ein kan
Takk for det👍
why not just use hay in the chicken coop ? we make hay bye hand with scythe and ball it up by basically pounding it into a wooden box and put a string around it. Very primitive but we get all our hay for chickens an pigs that way.
Great principle to live by, but really, really difficult to do in Norway. One recommandation is to check if you have any deep bog on your property and dig up dirt that way. Its possibly the best plant dirt there is. If its stone free its often really easy to dig up as well. That way you dont need to buy those expensive bags.
However animal food will probably always be off-farm unless you plant barley or other corn products.
Just curious, with the stones from your own backyard, do you by any chance know if there are specific requirements for rock used beneath buildings etc.? Or would granite suffice
I don’t thing we ever will reach a 100% but I do thing that we can have more systems in place that we have today. I follow a Danish farmer on TV that plant root vegetables for his animals in addition to hay and as a substitute for factory food. Could be fun to try out sometime.🤔 I don’t thing that my parking lot can support a building, but I know several people that have used granite to build on. As long as the foundation is deep enough, and the masses are stable. 👍
Why add a hydroelectric power to your ranch from the creek