A Simple Compost System | Mountain Roots Farm

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Today we're getting the low-down on the composting system used at Mountain Roots Farm in TN. Paul Wargo is a great grower and uses chickens to help fertilize and decompose his compost before applying it to the garden.
In this video we address: How to use chickens in composting, screening compost, the value of a small tractor, and more.
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@hairyhoudini5565 Ай бұрын

With the starter culture deposited on Farmer Jesse's sweatshirt he was able to augment his own compost pile. We nerds thank you for taking one for the team.

@timware5943 Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. I don’t think Jesse was impressed. 🤣

@andruloni Ай бұрын

We have acquired your biological distinctiveness and added it to our own.

@pixelrancher Ай бұрын

Off camera, he was able to extract that culture from the sample collection device.

@glassbackdiy3949 Ай бұрын

Rather than a very expensive screener, build a trommel, I used an old cement mixer, cut the drum and extended it with bars covering it in 10mm mesh, using the existing mixer stand and an old wheelbarrow as a hopper, I can load it with mini-digger or by hand shovel, with room for two wheelbarrows underneath to catch the compost, there's loads of DIY trommel designs on youtube

@midnull6009 27 күн бұрын

YES! that's what I made! Laziness = innovation :)

@glassbackdiy3949 26 күн бұрын

@@midnull6009 work smart, not hard!

@magsterz123 Ай бұрын

Love this. Sean, from the channel Edible Acres, also has great videos of his chicken composting set up. Highly recommend. Love your channel, Jesse!

@julie-annepineau4022 Ай бұрын

I put food scraps and garden waste in a covered run with woodchips for my chickens to work over all winter. A few soaked seeds to help the soil microbiome and I have a good pile of beautiful compost to spread over beds and around trees this spring. Learned it from Edible Acres.

@phildizzle88 27 күн бұрын

Love this video! I enjoy all of your videos, but this one especially. I have four chickens, and it’s amazing how fast they can break down the woodchips I put in their chicken run. All garden scraps go in the run and help feed the chickens and break the woodchips down faster. The compost they create is absolute gold. My plants are on steroids!

@Psa141 Ай бұрын

Gardiner's know all the best dirt!

@reginaldwinsor2759 Ай бұрын

The geese were upstaging you guys, lol. Great system & can be profitable for an enterprising person who has access to chicken manure & other things. Good quality compost is in high demand.

@BeeBeorn Ай бұрын

When i had backyard chickens i throw everything in to the chickenrun. Big compost. I read something about a Lady Balfour who did the same 100+ years ago..Chickens are almost essential when you like to have good compost..So easy..

@KyleTheFountain Ай бұрын

Good idea. I've sort of been doing something akin to this just keeping my coop from getting muddy.

@jeremiahthomas2669 Ай бұрын

I need to buy your book. I think its time. Thank you for all the knowledge and time you take to make these videos. I hope your blessed. Health and wealth

@rickthelian2215 Ай бұрын

Hi Jessie, let’s head down to Paul’s😊 Thanks Jessie, nice set up😊

@joescott3393 Ай бұрын

People have been using chickens in composting for a millennia. The Hollar Homestead and Edible Aces are just 2 that come to mind. I have been using chickens and wood chips for probably 30 years. God Bless Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch

@aileensmith3062 Ай бұрын

About six months into our desire and making our own compost. One thing that we would love to have would be wood chips and leaves. Hopefully we will find some semi close in the near future. As always Thank you for another informative video!

@jenifermorgan7328 Ай бұрын

Check where your local landscaping companies take their leaves. Most people don't leave them on the yard long enough to get toxins on them.

@aileensmith3062 Ай бұрын

@@jenifermorgan7328 Kind of true, we have spoken to a couple of landscaping agencies. Most will do multiple lawns/yards and mixing everything together. We basically live in the desert. The amount of YUCK these people add to their lawns/shrubs is not acceptable to us. Thank You the the reply!

@Detour4it Ай бұрын

Man... got my cover dirty! 😅😂😊

@ValleyFarm-ix2lq Ай бұрын

So Awesum. Thanks from South Africa.

@dnawormcastings Ай бұрын

Great video on composting 🇳🇿❤️

@lisamcdonald1415 Ай бұрын

Another awesome video nerd! I have seen people put there chickens around the compost so you don’t have to move it

@teedub1990 Ай бұрын

Paul is indeed awesome.

@RT3Creations-Learn Ай бұрын

Man, such great content. Thank you for this video as it will greatly improve my composting success

@tomsaunders383 Ай бұрын

Im fascinated how slow American compost is. Longest i have done fully composted in 25 days in Australia. But the coarse material does to the bottom of raised bed as drainage and mycellium acceleration

@zmblion Ай бұрын

I'm sure it does compost fast you guys live in the gates of hell on top of that everything wants to kill you

@aenorist2431 Ай бұрын

I am blown away with the prices you mention. Granted, what I get is just landscape waste composted by the municipality ... but I pay 20 bucks a ton. Depending on how much you slap on each year, thats a few hundred bucks an acre. My entire farm would be covered nicely for 2k$, and half of that is just the transport.

@jonathanhill7026 Ай бұрын

Thanks for all your videos. I love gardening, but I'm a videographer by trade. I noticed a rather large dark spot on the top left quadrant of the frame on some of the b-roll. It's likely a bit of dust on the sensor of your camera. Just something you might want to check if you haven't already. :)

@jonathanschadenfreude9603 Ай бұрын

It's a shame that the public school systems in this country haven't come full circle to realize that what you're teaching and learning and expressing here should be in every school every curriculum throughout this nation to start young minds learning how to be self-sufficient

@oxygenium92 Ай бұрын

System wants consumers, not people who can take care of themselves.

@jonathanschadenfreude9603 Ай бұрын

@@oxygenium92 I'd do anything to be able to change that "system"! Even learning canning too!

@jarredkushnerd13 Ай бұрын

People have too much faith in our public school system

@denniskatinas Ай бұрын

In The Netherlands the media is now saying home fed chickens produce PFAS rich eggs… 😂

@user-jz7ny1qc6j Ай бұрын

That would be nice. Instead there was a recent article from the WEF or a WEF affiliate saying that small farms produce more emissions or are somehow less clean than large farms, so I fully expect governments to also begin attacking even these small, regenerative farms that are so much better for the environment. It's all about control, because control means power

@ardenthebibliophile Ай бұрын

Man that goose was dying to get on camera! Pretty slick system though. OMRI requires a certain amount of time for the compost to ferment before it can be safe to use right? I thought they said they combine piles so how do they keep track?

@davidpenfold Ай бұрын

Gotta love the geese. 😅

@misterwolf9227 Ай бұрын

Great channel.

@cannabinerd9665 Ай бұрын

I used to do this but due to insurance regulations I can no longer find any places willing to give me their food waste. Instead it goes in the trash.

@bettinaripperger4159 Ай бұрын

So sad 😢

@treynash5876 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@notillgrowers Ай бұрын

Thank YOU! 🙌

@ckhenson Ай бұрын

Dream job.

@XMcBainXUSA Ай бұрын

What are the cost inputs for a system like this? How much for tractor, how much for screen, etc?

@andrewmckinley6571 Ай бұрын

What are your thoughts on using saw dust in place of wood chips?

@catfunksfabulousfinds Ай бұрын

I was always told two parts brown 1 part green.😊

@theoraclesisl330 Ай бұрын

10 min after watching and im still resisting the urge to brush off my shirt

@rondavis2791 Ай бұрын

Why?

@theoraclesisl330 Ай бұрын

@@rondavis2791 lololol, ask farmer Jesse

@jf3457 Ай бұрын

Take care, woodchip compost requires HUGE ammounts of water and TIME to really degrade the wood chip material. If your source of N is chicken manure, and your chickens are not properly dewormed, the cysts might resist the composting process and end up on your veggies when fertilizing your fields.

@bettinaripperger4159 Ай бұрын

Now I have to go out and buy a 📚 book, t-shirt, 🚜 tractor, 5k screener, and get chip drop to start piling up wood chips. I gotta go to tractor supply now- I think chick 🐥 days are still going on !!!! 😂

@mezenman Ай бұрын

This is how I compost. I do it without a lot of this stuff. Just not as quick. My chickens tear down the piles. My tractor is a shovel. I have a 2x4 piece of screen that fits on top my wheelbarrow. I would love to have the tractor and fancy screener. All depends on how much time you want to spend on your compost.

@tinkeringinthailand8147 Ай бұрын

I'm struggling with 40 + degrees C. my carrots and beets are hangi

@petanisukses_garden Ай бұрын

Organic fertilizer is great for soil and plants

@rochrich1223 Ай бұрын

I keep wondering how well a multi-vitamin would work to supply micro-nutrients in a garden? Can anyone estimate how big a plant could use 100% daily minimum requirement of minerals?

@dontbea7237 Ай бұрын

If you want the screen it down a little smaller maybe trommel 16:30

@jarnevanbec2886 Ай бұрын

Chicken are great. Whatever excess mulch and woodchips I can't use on my pathways, borders or vegetable garden I throw in their ren. Same for excess waste for the garden or kitchen, if the compost heap is temporarily full, it goes to the chicken. Nothing organic ever goes outside of my property.

@tonymatthews445 Ай бұрын

Unfortunatly, and annoyingly, we are not supposed to feed food scraps - that have been through a kitchen to chickens,in the UK.

@louishill7326 Ай бұрын

Why

@tonymatthews445 Ай бұрын

@@louishill7326 Until now our APHA guidance has always been that it is illegal to feed your hen kitchen scraps unless you live in a totally vegan household. This guidance was brought in following the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the early 2000s to avoid cross contamination caused by cross-species feeding. Due to an out break of a disease, that only seems to affect chickens, if they are deliberately infected, that was accidentally released from a facility that messes about with such things, we can not give chickens vegetable peelings if they have been in a kitchen that may have at one time or another had meat in it. See, perfectly resonable and scientific 🕵‍♂🤦‍♀.

@tonymatthews445 Ай бұрын

@@louishill7326 According to the reviewed literature, domestic birds (chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks and geese) have been experimentally infected with some strains of FMD viruses and may develop lesions suggestive of FMD such as vesicular lesions on the comb, wattles, eye lids, and feet.

@wesleysnellgrove Ай бұрын

Don't snitch on yourself and you should be fine.

@tonymatthews445 Ай бұрын

@@wesleysnellgrove I would agree, unjust laws etc, but even if you have just one chicken, you now have to have it registered. Wouldn't take them much to work out that you are not buying chicken feed.