What is this "tun off" you write about?

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Depending on how loose your soil is, I would recommend using steel wheels and ballast

It’s not as active as a beer mix. You need to give it two weeks. You should get a good scum on top, plenty of yeast spores and a healthy smell. If it dies it will smell as such.

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Thank you!

If your commercial EM contains PHOTO SYNTHETIC BATERIA, Bubbling it will kill the PSB. The commercial brewers using a SMALL FISH PUMP to circulate the water.. This ensures the PSB does not die off. A water heater is also used to heat up the water to speed up the fermentation.

Amar Rajput Hi Amar, you can see the Australian price on my farm equipment website www.activevista.com.au/category/tools-equipment/bed-maintenance/walking-tractors-and-attachments/

Calling it music is giving the sound way too much credit. 😅

mary Hi Mary, these are 1.65m, for low hoops you can add more for higher hoops or use a 3.2m length to cover two beds with a flat section in the middle. 19mm Steel, 1.2mm wall. Galvabond tube steel.

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Cheers, thank you for your reply. I purchased a hoop bender from you, used it for first time today with a 3 metre length which formed the "two bed" hoop as described above, wanting to make the higher hoops for single bed as well, thanks for the length guidance ").

john dour I’ll change it for you. Just kidding!

Hi, permaculture is about design. We are farmers. We incorporate permacutural principles within our farm system. The area surrounding this vegetable bed was inundated with introduced species, especially the areas around the creek system. This has all been replaced with endemic local species. The result is a massive increase in native habitat, beneficial insects, better water flows and land management within which we are utilising a profitable ‘permabed’ system for sustainable vegetable production. So we are incorporating permacultural concepts within a regenerative based agriculture system. Our aim is to increase soil fertility, stable carbon by using low tillage methods over time. I hope this helps!

@@LongleyOrganicFarm just by seeing the color of the soil i can bet that my beds that are done with 0 petrol are certainly more fertile. You can dig 20 cm in my soil a there are still plenty of life, if you want permaculture.. Start by buidling a garden under trees... They feed the soil without you making any effort and worms love dead wood, those kind worms work for me, i do near nothing, just harvest.

Zxuma I think so too!!

Longley Organic Farm Howyour farm two years after? Are you still harvesting while kicking up antidepressive vibes?

Zxuma Hey Zxuma you can check out our insta pages @longleyorganicfarm this is our farm page and shows our daily activities and vibes:) and @activevistagram this is a page regarding the systems I bring in to Australia to help Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Islander small farmers. I hope you like them.

Longley Organic Farm Oh i do not have an insta account. i am not that cool. lol

Zxuma you can check out insta just on a normal computer by googling @longleyorganic

Hi Josh, Thanks for your mindful questions. Regarding the diesel BCS, the diesel motors of course have a natural lifespan. I’m not sure if you are talking about using a second hand unit or new. I haven’t used veggie oil with this type of engine however I know that you would want to filter your oil well and add about10% ethanol. It should run okay over the medium term. One issue with the diesels is overheating caused from a blocked air filter and this needs to be attended to regularly. The issue being that the air intake is located at the base of the front of the motor, if you are running a flail mower it will fill with fine particles over a few hours of constant running and is way to clean but in the interest of longevity must be cleaned regularly, say every four hours. Regarding bigger systems and film. This isnt really my area. I’m not sure on your thoughts on livestock integration. It’s possible to use pig tractors to prepare a block and chicken tractors to clean a crop. Of interest may be practicing crimp rolling grasses and pasture cropping principles now being used successfully with regenerative ag systems. Another great idea is an electric/ rechargeable tool carrier using regenerative sources. Ram pumps for power free water pumping. I hope this gives some food for thought and sows some seeds.

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Wow. That air filter stuff is really valuable information. We were probably going to buy new, but it would be a shared machine between two families and the flail mower was the attachment we would need the most, so that makes me lean away from the diesel. Pig tractors sound like a great idea! I just did a little research and they sound like they might work good for creating a defensible space for fires as well. Thanks for the reply!

Don’t get me wrong the BCS is great, mine has don’t a lot of work and still going very strong in its fourth year. I hire it out as well. Regarding tools. I use a Tilther as well as a power Harrow. The Tilther is used mainly, with light feeding crops during the growing season when we change over to another crop. We use mainly the Jang JP-1 for direct seeding and the paperpot transplanter, both work best after using the Tilther. We use the Farmers Friend Quick Cut Greens Harvester for most leaf crops. I use broadforks but never turn the soil. In the video I use the berta plow for digging the paths, not the beds as some have commented (you get that!) I’ve been a Microfarmer for 10 plus years and run a CSA and supply 10 restaurants. I teach folk how to operate this system every year. I do it because it’s what I have to work with and what I’ve developed, now it’s great to help others to incorporate these ideas. I see microfarming as a modular system that can fit into other systems. Some of the people I help use this model inside of bigger models and within more traditional farms so that they can produce a csa as well as other larger crops or livestock. In Australia there seems to be a lot of vineyards wanting to set them up to produce seasonal produce for there cellar door kitchens. So I think as a model it’s got a lot of scope for the future.

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Woah nice! I've been hobby gardening for about 2 years but this is the first year I've tried a microfarming/CSA approach to the space I have. We have a very small "customer" base (mostly close friends/family) that we plan on growing as we get more comfortable with more crops and routines. I was hoping I could ease the transition to a new space by using a walk behind tractor with the rotary plow (like the one in this video) for the initial tillage/establishing new beds. I hope I'm not taking too much of your time, but I could really use some experienced opinion on some things. Do you think I could do all of my initial tillage in a new space with a rotary plow exclusively, or do you think a rear tine tiller is necessary (I have a broadfork, so hardpan could be mitigated)? Also, do you have any tips on efficiently getting rocks out of a bed? Thanks so much for the responses.