#11-Mark Shepard: Water For Any Farm

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[@TakotaCoen]

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[@The.Land.of.Slow.Living]

This is great!!

[@markshepardsongs]

Musicians make excellent farmers... deeply appreciate both of these "virtual mentors" of mine. I found Mark Shepard when I typed my own name (Mark Shepard) into KZbin to see if my music was coming up. I found Mark and 5 years later I'm starting my own farm. Great, great interview!

[@wes4192]

Thats actually a really cool story. Good luck.

[@chriskay3704]

After Takota Coen, Mark Shepard is my broad acre perma-hero. This conversation was awesome!

[@TakotaCoen]

The audio wasn't too bad as it?

[@chriskay3704]

@@TakotaCoen nope it was definitely tolerable

[@JB-fo7wg]

You both have a great tempo together, looking forward to the course at the end of April with the superstar team of our “permaculture heroes” you are pulling together including up and coming mentors like you!!!

[@TakotaCoen]

Awesome! Thanks for signing up!

[@thingformob]

Great idea for the book launch! Looks epic!

[@billiverschoore2466]

Loving what you're saying about the various aspects of true gain. Even for those who couldn't convince anyone to lend them money because they don't own a cm2 of ground nor anything more than their work van, there are the neighbouring properties and their owners to be checked out for willingness to work towards the most harmonious possible future on all levels. 🌳🕊💚

[@hhwippedcream]

I think expanding our current concept of what a "yield" is making a lot of sense. Over-thereism precludes people thinking of creative reuse. Sensibilities will need to shift.

[@sherilcarey7100]

really great deep dive discussion

[@roberthayes8603]

Pretty good, thanks Takota. Respect for your work, enthusiasm, good spirit. It's great hearing Mark Shepard too, of course.

[@TakotaCoen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@swamp-yankee]

Your story about the hippie gardening PDC really resonated with me.

[@longarmsupplies]

You guys are great!

[@donnybrasco6321]

FanTASTIC conversation - paradigm shifting (“serenity prayer” application? Gonna need a minute, but I’ll get there😝). Thanks to both of you for the mind expansion!

[@danilodarosa5695]

Great stuff Takota!!!

[@TakotaCoen]

Thanks man!

[@1111awake]

Met Mark in Calgary and years later bought his book. It was a very inspiring read. Still waiting for farmers here to get a brain and grow berries on all the foothills around here.

[@billiverschoore2466]

Meanwhile can you prepare to help this happen? 🕊

[@hhwippedcream]

Takota, really liked your comparison to recipe/prescription. There are definitely standard recipes but each will reflect the chef's available ingredients.

[@hhwippedcream]

Carbon does not equal Soil Organic Matter = a common misconception Thank you for making this clear.

[@MsCaterific]

🧡

[@rawkrentals]

Any tips for reducing the cost of high density planting while establishing these systems? The idea of planting lots to see what’s going to be more resilient in my micro climate is great but can be very cost prohibitive.

[@TakotaCoen]

Doing your own propagation or using smaller/younger seedlings are the only two options I can think of.

[@rawkrentals]

@@TakotaCoen thanks for taking time to reply Takota. I keep trying to propagate my own stock through various methods with a variety of trees and haven’t had much success. As far as buying fruit trees I haven’t found anyone in Canada selling for much less than about $40 per tree. If I’m paying that much for a tree the high density planting method seems cost prohibitive. Any suggestions on sourcing fruit tree/shrubs/bushes etc in Canada?

[@TakotaCoen]

@@rawkrentals I get a lot of my stuff from Aubin's Nursery in Manitoba, tell them your order size and see if you qualify for wholesale pricing.

[@rawkrentals]

@@TakotaCoen we’ve been there before, they’re about 30 south of us. Thanks for the recommendation.

[@aw5832]

@@rawkrentals you can get rootstock fruit trees pretty cheap. Plant rootstock and learn how to graft, a 40 dollar tree is closer to 4 dollars now if you can graft. It seems difficult but I watched a grafting series on the skillcult youtube channel and successfully grafted about 30 wild apple trees coming up in my prairie I think I had 2 failures. Scion wood is sold by nursery for cheap 4 to 5 dollars and can graft 4 to 5 trees from each cutting. That brings my fruit tre cost to under 2 dollars a tree. I grafted more this spring and have probably 50 fruit trees now..... Just checked, mark sheppard sells bundles of apple rootstock bundles nof 25 for 125 dollars. Scion wood can be order from fedco or burnt ridge nursery or I believe mark sheppard sells them also.

[@aliceyoung2507]

We can not leave Just on vegetables? There is a lot of vegans, and vegetarians out there that are not eating meat, and they are healthy. So it is posible, i know it because my i dont eat meat for years now and it works perfektly

[@selimkaizoku3578]

Will harris ? Is that the correct way to spell it? (french guy totally clueless, needing help pls) 😣

[@reneebulkley1333]

You are correct, French Guy. I believe he said WILL HARRIS at WHITE OAK PASTURE.

[@Randomiz500]

27:15 There is no good argument, that makes that statement true, unless you don't have enough vegetables. It is the complete opposite of true.

[@herodotusofhalicarnasis2394]

Good show, but you guys should have taken down your guitars and jammed after the talk

[@beng1157]

"Then maybe you shouldn't grow carrots!" ROFL

[@garyschomberger2291]

I really wish this guy the best on his way to being a better interviewer, my biggest advice is shut your damn mouth and listen more (the rest is a cake walk).