Building Desert Pasture For Turkeys | Always Build Soil
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Thanksgiving is a National day of feasting for us here in the US that happens every November. However, for us here on the farm, Thanksgiving season starts now!
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The turkeys in their pasture look velociraptors in the forest, better watch out for the cats !😂
It was pretty cool catching that shot of them going through the Sorghum. Definite prehistoric vibes from those characters!
It seems so weird to be thinking about Thanksgiving, doesn't it? We are always a season ahead of regular people. LOL
That's the life of a gardener and farmer alike. Always a season (or two) ahead!
Cats photobombing every scene for the win! 😻
I noticed that as well 😍
They are little rascals, that's for sure!
Always love seeing how the soil changes, especially in the pastures over the years! Every little change is amazing and being able to see the changes year over year is just my favorite thing! Seeing a big empty patch of dry dirt turning into lush tough green is the most miraculous thing to me!❤🎉
Better every season from your hard work building that soil!!
It's been fun for us to see that as well. Hopefully each season we will have more and more green for everyone to enjoy!
So many pasture benefits all at the same time! Soil health, fodder and regenerative agriculture, and more! Those turkeys are going to be very happy this year 😎 keep us updated this spring when it starts taking off!
Glad you enjoyed this one Aaron. We have a least 1 more thing to do with this prior to the start of Summer to hopefully kick this into high gear come August/September!
It's always a good sign that warmer weather is near when EON starts posting: blooming, planting and early soil maintenance videos on the regular! 😁
Like clockwork, right?
7:05 seems like you might prefer a 360 degree sprayer 9:34 If you use the popup type instead they have low-angle nozzles where the green#6 nozzle of the sprayers I use will put out 8GPM at 60PSI 42ft radius. You could install it on a 3-inch piece of UV conduit that sits over a center-T-post, to prevent any wobble you just mound it or fill the inside of the conduit with sand to temporarily secure it to the T-post. With a hose coming out a side-hole of the conduit, hardware stores sell PVC 3/4-NPT to threaded backyard-hose fittings but IDK if they sell low-angle nozzle kits but getting the green#6 is cheap.
We were hoping to get irrigation installed to this areas this past Winter and never had a chance to, but these are great suggestions for the interim. Thank you!
Implement adding Starch water to ground. It helps add nutrients to ground and it makes the ground hold moisture better.
Starch water, haven't had that suggestion before!
Just starting to hatch turkeys this week, so yes, thinking of the big day!
Amazing how well those turkeys lay, isn't it?
I love your aerial drone coverage. The video gets stopped numerous times so that I may enjoy the vision of all that green and soil restoration and to where you swap everything around. I realize that you most probably do not do frequent updates in the seasonal changes but it is still very interesting. And if you lay more wood chips from the piles in the left-hand corner outside the fenced off area for the next round of turkeys? Would that give you a better heat and evaporation protection cover? It looked as if you might get a bit of rain. Did you? How are the gophers these days?
Glad you enjoyed this one. The pile you see in that corner is a combo of woodchips with heavy amounts of turkey manure. We want to see how it breaks down on it's own, so we'll see. Oh and yes, we have had very consistent rain again this Spring. In fact, more on the way tonight! Oh and yes the gophers are still a problem, but the cats are starting to take notice of them, so we have our fingers crossed!!
Great to see the feeding of the soil and its development with all kinds of natural additions to the pasture. And good to see no-till methods on the EON Farm.
Thought you might enjoy this one!
Got to love step 1 of planting barley is to chop down the barley which was climatized already. 😁
Created mulch.
It's coming back strong. 😉
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Good to see it all coming along. I just noticed my Panicum virgatum is coming back up after its winter nap. I had thought it didn't survive since it was newly planted last August, but I'm glad I was wrong! Next on the list to plant is some Asclepius tuberosa that I've successfully grown from seed. I might even put some pumpkin seeds in a spot to see how they grow. I'm still not convinced that I should get chickens or turkey. Maybe some goats to help control the bamboo and privet?
Well, I can only speak for what we've experienced here. If we had to do it over again we would probably skip the goats. The only thing they seem to be interested in eating (except alfalfa) is apple, grapevine and mulberry trees. There is literally small stands of mallow growing up IN their enclosure! 🤷
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Dang! Wouldn't have guessed that!
I had one lay until October last year!
Oh wow, that's unusual. Typically turkeys lay only briefly in the Spring.
When you plant barley, is it the same type of barley that produces the grain and we put in our soups?
I believe so. It's cereal barley that we bought from Fertizona that is grown for production here in AZ.
Edge of Nowhere Farm and Cattery. Another interesting video about how you’re transforming the land. Does tilling the hard pack help out or does that just bring weed seeds to the surface?
We usually just till the first time around before initial planting to make sure the seeds can take. After that we generally don't. The weeds do seem to find a way though!
Is there any role for wood chips in the pasture building? I would think even the bald spots would benefit from a layer of wood chips holding moisture and softening up the group underneath.
Yes, there definitely is. If we had the ability to get an unlimited supply we would have them spread thinly over most of the farm. The only real challenge is it takes a LONG time for them to break down naturally.
Dont you guys have a ton of woodchips? Spread an inch or too and let the fingus help your soil. My 5 grain feed is sprputing all over my 3 inches of woodchips in tonopah. Sinflowers, rye sorgum have all been sprouning for 2 months+ now very green still.
We do have some left over, but we have not had a delivery in over 2 years, so we're hoarding them for critical needs right now. Glad that is working for you though. Eventually we'll have more area covered!
Very interesting as always!
A question: why barley and not rye?
Glad you enjoyed this one. Cereal rye would have been fine as well, but it was easier (and less expensive) to source this barley in bulk here locally.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Thank you for the answer, that makes completely sense. I asked also because roots of rye should go deep into the soil, which may be useful from the soil conditioning point of view. And at the same time I have no idea if it grows at all in your summer conditions.
Good day, do pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan) and bambara beans (Vigna subterranea) grow well in your area?
The pigeon peas do well during the hot months. They are usually killed with our hard frosts, but they come back in the Spring from the seeds. This the first I've heard of bambara beans, so we need to look into that!
Excellent video. Lot to learn. What is the status of Desert Gold(Jujube)
Hey Abid! The jujube is barely breaking dormancy right now. Just a few green shoots on all of the trees.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm , Appreciated for your reply
Do you plan on posting a fig tree pruning video this year? Thanks!
No, we won't have one up this year. We had an onsite pruning workshop this year for figs and we had a few folks here who did not want to be on camera.
@EdgeofNowhereFarm Got it. Hopefully we can get a summer update on the figs then!
We are thinking of keeping chickens in our backyard in town. What are the best crops to sow as pasture for chickens?
I personally think everyone should keep a few chickens, both for protein production and their ability to enrich soil, so great decision. We don't want bermuda on the property, so we focus on cool weather crops for our chicken pasture. That's perennial rye in the Winter and alfalfa year round. However, bermuda would be your best bet on a small scale as alfalfa is sparse during the summer and you need a LOT of space for it to work as a pasture for those chickens.
Happy Resurrections Day!
Barley produces chemicals that stop seeds from sprouting. BUT it's probably the best summer feed grain because it cools the blood.
Again, plant cowpeas (Asian yard-long are the best) in with the sorghum. It's a bee plant, producing extra-foliar nectar, green beans, dry beans (the turkeys will love them), and produces more nitrogen than it needs to thrive.
Still got 3 tomatoes to plant. Each is in bloom with small tomatoes on them. Let us hope for a banner year. While I can get roasted Hatch chilis from the FFA at school, tomatoes are pricey. We can go thru 100 quarts of juice a year.
Cow camp spaghetti: One regular sized can of tomato juice. Bring to a boil and add spices. Add a pound of dry spaghetti. By the time the noodles are done, it's tomato sauce. niio kids
Great notes as usual Martin. We're going to try cowpeas again when we plant the sorghum later this Spring. The challenge we've had in this area has been the heavy bird pressure (quail specifically) that gobble up the cowpea starts. Usually they leave enough of the grasses alone for us to still get a stand of green, but the peas don't usually survive.
New guy here - how much is a turkey
We pre-sell all of those through our customer email list in February, so we're sold out for this year, but they were $6.49/lb.