That’s a cool way to think about it. I often think about words like indigenous at what point can humans be considered native to an area. Maybe it’s when we become that keystone role in the ecosystem.

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Sounds like a good system! Cheers

That’s awesome I’m glad you’re able to do that, good luck to you!

Oh nice I hadn’t heard of Greg Judy but that looks like a lot of good wisdom.

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I don’t know much about this, but I wonder if you can see what grows naturally in that area, especially in response to grazing. Good luck!

You can protect certain plants with big rocks or logs around the base. Some people use wire mesh or other barriers to prevent them from completely destroying certain plants. Larger woody plants can withstand the chickens, if their roots are protected by big rocks. If you look at the Edible Acres channel they have several good videos about this, and how they keep their hens busy with food scraps, sacrificial plants, etc. I’m still learning but it sorta becomes a different kind of garden. I wouldn’t let them into a nice tended kitchen garden, except for maybe at the end of the season to scratch everything up and reset the garden for next season.

@AgroecologicalSystems thanks for the advise. Greatly appreciated.

@ no problem. Good luck to you and your chickens!

We’re getting around 100 a day or 3000 eggs a month, with around 150 chickens.

Sure I can do that sometime soon.

@@AgroecologicalSystems - Any useful reference links that I can look at in the meantime to prepare?

@ I have a few videos on sugaring on my channel that show the process of tapping trees and making maple syrup.

@@AgroecologicalSystems A sugar bush is a maple tree?

@ yea a sugar bush is a forest of maple trees. We tap the trees for maple syrup.

Same that wouldn’t be too bad haha.

Best response I have seen here on KZbin!!! 😂 Terry

Yea more of an intentional composting system integrated with the chickens would be awesome. We’ll get there eventually.

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In the Adirondack mountains, New York

Thank you very much!

Agreed, we’ve seen so many ways that mushrooms help us whether it’s food, medicine, soil remediation, even for making packaging and stuff. And yet you’re right it’s still just scratching the surface. Very interesting stuff.

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Yes, we have a team of farmers managing different parts of the farm, and also many students and other people who participate in the work.

Yea that’s a good idea. I’ll probably still upload this kind of non-narrated version but also make more videos where I at least explain what’s going on in the forest garden haha. These non-narrated ones are mostly for documenting the progress and sharing the experience of being there, kinda ASMR style I guess. But I’ve been planning on making more with narration, especially now that I have several years worth of footage to show the progress.

@@AgroecologicalSystems I only mention because I watched about 20 seconds of wind and moved on, figured it might be valuable to comment in case this video doesn't perform as well as others. Looking forward to all the new footage with narration! <3

@ yea it's definitely an odd style of video haha. I do appreciate the feedback though, I'm still figuring out this whole video making thing lol.

@@AgroecologicalSystems so say we all! :)

Hehe yea, they sure do. I know a lot of people “force” their mushroom logs to fruit by soaking them which causes them all to sprout at the same time. We considered doing that but it seems to work fine to just leave them alone and let them fruit when they want to.

@@AgroecologicalSystems I imagine the result is better when you let it fruit when it's ready. I understand that can be seen as an inconvenience for the harvester. Looking forward to see how this channel grows at its own pace. The reply is appreciated, @AgroecolocalSystems. :)

Sure! We have a lot of different breeds, it’s a little different each year but here are all the different breeds from the flock in this video: AMBERLINK BUFF ORPINGTON BARRED ROCK BUCKEYE CALICO PRINCESS DELAWARE EASTER EGGER GOLD LACED WYANDOTTE BLACK JERSEY GIANT MIDNIGHT MAJESTY MARANS MYSTIC ONYX PARTRIDGE ROCK STARLIGHT GREEN EGGER SAPPHIRE GEM SPECKLED SUSSEX WHITE LEGHORN

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@@darkmagiciansorn ya that’s a good idea, they will pick through a lot of different foods. Cheers!

@@gorillapermacuture i haven’t tried this style of mushroom cultivation in Hawaii but I bet it could work with certain species of mushrooms. I saw a video of someone using dried banana leaves as the medium, and I think some kind of oyster mushrooms. There’s a place on the big island that grows king oyster mushrooms, hamakua mushrooms I think it’s called. Not sure how they’re growing them though.

@@AgroecologicalSystems I can see banana leaf for oysters. After it has been dried and sun / wind bleached, then rehydrated inoculated and bagged. On the Big Island there is some cave growing going on too.

@@load_nikon I have a book called Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation which is cool. I would say just go for it, and try a few different ways maybe.

Thanks, ya I try to capture the vibes and make it just chill hehe

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We do have problems occasionally but it’s rare. Minks, foxes, & ravens have taken some of our chickens. We try to keep the fencing & shelters in good working order and I think that helps.

Ya it’s kinda like horsepower but different 😉

That sounds amazing. We want that for our chickens!

That's awesome, must be quite the challenge working on the Colorado mountains!

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That is a good plan

Yes. If they stay too long in one area they will eat all the grass.

@AgroecologicalSystems YES

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Hehe I agree they seem to be a very happy bunch of chickens

This is in the Adirondack mountains, New York near lake placid. Summer camp / boarding school with a farm.

Thanks for the feedback. Just trying to share our work.

Thanks! Yea that’s a cool idea, I’ve wanted to do something like that for a while.

@@Kieranalfonso-moore thanks!

lol this is hilarious. Please, tell me more!