Chickens and Crops - Growing Together!

[@illanaisme]

I love just listening to you talk. I have learned a lot and you are very soothing and relaxing. Thanks for the great content.

[@edibleacres]

You are so welcome

[@ChigginsComposting]

That's the thing about permaculture. There's even abundance in the conversation. Love this.

[@princesstar64118]

You sir, are a huge inspiration! Thank you so much for your videos!

[@melanieallen3655]

Inspiring video!!great to see your older videos, then see how much progress you have made..

[@edibleacres]

Things just keep evolving!

[@lblake5653]

In all of the videos that the chickens are in they sound so content. I put the videos on and drift off it is so relaxing. Plus I am learning.

[@barbarastephenson6222]

You have given me so many good and useful ideas for my small hobby farm. My 16 chickens thank you as well!

[@yolylacy5416]

Great job! I know this is 2 years old and it's lovely to see how you progressed. Thank you so much for the information.

[@punkyroo]

I like how you bring things together. Absolutely fascinating to watch. I think I have such a "separation of concerns" mindset that its valuable to see things not just interconnected as part of a larger system, but actually co-located.

[@edibleacres]

yeah, it's all jammed up and intermingling whether we like it not so might as well follow the lead!

[@herbalcat]

These have to be some of the happiest chickens I've ever seen! Working to make our chickens happier!! ;-)

[@thomasreto2997]

Dude, I can listen to you for hours. Great inspirational vid! I WILL apply these techniques probably to muskovy ducks 🦆 in the future. It will be somewhat different but there will be MANY similarities. Definitely a permaculture approach. Thank you for sharing

[@donnaeide569]

keep talking I find more I can do, thank you and your wife for the time you share with us

[@edibleacres]

We enjoy sharing our process for sure.

[@castleofcostamesa8291]

Your channel has so much valuable information. Thank you for your work, practical help and inspiration! Love from me in Southern California!

[@imitatingmax]

Have you left space for the bowl of ice cream tree? You inspired me to hand build some hugelkultur beds this spring using deadfall, sticks, leaves, native soil and decayed/decaying wood chip topsoil as my first foray into gardening. Working well for far. Thanks man.

[@lozziecap]

Completely fascinating and a real pleasure to watch

[@elizabethsansom6447]

Snack island good idea not only is it for the chickens for their food but is purifying filtering the water thanks for sharing

[@suemcfarlane4199]

Planting basil with your tomatoes makes sense when it comes time to harvest and bottle or can all your tomatoes basil is the comonest herb you will want to use maybe some oregano as well would be useful

[@Kauffsalot]

Your videos always have nice little nuggets of info. Always inspiring to watch thanks again.

[@irishhomestead4563]

Love the design of your groaning beds, not seen this before, must give it a try. Love the detail you put into your walk thought, 👍

[@PermacultureHomestead]

ive been enjoying my compost rings this year, such a great way to compost things in the field. thx for the work, inspiring as always.

[@kumokun]

Wow you are absolutely brilliant... what a beautiful system

[@LorrayneHam]

So appreciate your videos, learning how to grow in harmony. Will be ordering plant stock soon!

[@castleofcostamesa8291]

Wow!!! What an exciting and wonderful video! So many interesting ideas! I love it!

[@loganv0410]

Keep blah-blah'ing There's lotsa good info in there Kind of a 'stream of consciousness' approach that I enjoy and learn from

[@VaughnMalecki]

loganv0410 Right on!

[@melanielinkous8746]

Very helpful! I'm trying to crack the code, as well! Blending chickens and ducks into the permaculture. 🌎🐔

[@edibleacres]

Wonderful! Hoping that works beautifully for you

[@chickenrunhomestead3550]

Great ideas. One of my struggles with incorporating permaculture around my yard is that I free range my chickens and they pull everything apart. I go back and forth with keeping them penned in, and once we put new fencing up around their run I may do that. I'm going to get grain seeds for my next feed order instead of the mash I currently get and spread the seed around the run where I have my compost and see how that goes. I just put in 4 trees and put wire cages around them so the chickens won't pull the woodchips off the bases like the always seem to do with my front flower bed. I like the greenhouse idea as well. Anxious to see how it works for you. Thanks!

[@edibleacres]

My pleasure! Good luck to you!

[@helen_grace_cosplay]

I love your videos! I can't wait until I can implement your ideas, especially regarding gardener chickens :)

[@coleenburris6816]

I learned so much today! Thank you.

[@hectorperez7655]

great transformation

[@VaughnMalecki]

The creamy coffee bush! Hahahaha! 😂

[@leowaisanen1672]

You are having way to much fun....

[@laurakirkland33]

Hi.. love all of your videos.. i am getting so many ideas.. Question.. How do you keep the chickens from flying over the fence?

[@laurakirkland33]

inside the cattle panel...

[@K1LD3R]

Saw this in another video, but would love to hear you explain more about “the three sisters”-planting. Keep up the awesome work 💪😁

[@schleifermax]

i like the idea of passiv sprouding the grains, i will try , thx man

[@stephaniedagenais525]

This is amazing and so inspiring! I'd love to do something similar on our property. I just have to convince my landscaper husband! He likes things neat and tidy... 😜

[@edibleacres]

Neat and tidy is fine enough and there isn't a reason why these concepts can't be put into practice with more of an eye towards straight lines, clean edges, etc... We enjoy a more natural look, but the approach can be implemented with whatever look you want...

[@schleifermax]

wow, i also try first time this year to grow something in the chickenspace. there are so many reason to do that. you don't have to move the compost, the sun does not hit the ground so it doesn't dry, less wheats, no snails!!!, roots in the ground are benefitial for the soil microbes and fungy, i like to garden with the chicken and so on. the goal should be a forest. with food for us and an overflow to give away. i have found your channel right now and i'm excited. thanf you.

[@edibleacres]

I'm glad you find the ideas useful! Time for an update on this soon, some things have been working great, some not so much, but overall, very worthwhile...

[@theopenmindtherapist]

Such an inspiration!

[@sylviavega-ortiz3006]

Hahaha Snack Island and Snack Mountains-- brilliant!!

[@whatdatal]

Great stuff man

[@lukehebert6207]

Serious question from someone growing coffee trees right now (and not looking forward to a 8-9 year wait for harvest): what's a coffee bush?

[@LoveFunshine]

So last video you had too many roosters and wanted your broody hens to hatch hens. I believe I have a system of pulling the rooster eggs and leaving the hen eggs! Rooster eggs are real pointed and the hen eggs are round like a ball. I have tried this out under our broody hen and in an incubator and hatched all hens and one rooster we purposely left to see if it would work.

[@edibleacres]

VERY interesting, I should keep a note of this for future reference. Pointy boys and round girls

[@danijeldankic5320]

WOW, just love your video, all around awesome, kickass berrys :D

[@antoinettegurdely8811]

Just one concern, is that you need a sturdy trellace system, or a supporting mechanism to have the tomatoes growing up the trellace, strings eft without causing your greenhouse damage...

[@stevenryle5709]

Nice video!

[@mothergoose6087]

The chickens look like their having a good time maybe having more eggs and even more meat. Like to see the shrubs when they are bigger. Looks like interesting experiments in producing life both animal and plant. That's fun for me.

[@punkyroo]

"Coffee bush" XD

[@bengore3073]

Looking very nice! We are definitely going to be trying something similar after watching your system progress. Do you have any Siberian Pea Shrub growing? Also curious, do you use just any pallet or do you only use the ones that weren't chemically debarked and wont leach into the soil?

[@edibleacres]

I have siberian pea, hopefully will have them available for the fall. I just use whatever pallets I find, maybe I need to look into it more...

[@ksay34]

You don't want the ones marked MB (methyl bromide). The HT, KD, and DB are all good to use.

[@peggylarsson27]

I thanks for information...good stuff ..

[@michaelreichert9061]

so the chickens can eat the hazelnuts as they drop? and the currants drop and they eat them? what's a good list of crops that you can plant in the chicken yard that simply drop and the chickens can eat them?

[@edibleacres]

The currants they love. The hazelnuts I suspect they could eat, but we're hoping to get most of them! I don't have a particular list to offer, but just think of plants that make huge numbers of small, softer fruit and there you go. Raspberries, black berries, mulberry, serviceberry, on and on!

[@cjandauntieyaya1446]

Chickens will jump/climb over the fence though once they decide those plants look good enough to eat. You might need to add a higher fence. Otherwise it is a cool way to reduce pests that eat the plants as they crawl on the ground to get to the next plant.

[@edibleacres]

We'll see. It's a small space and a thin walkway to try to fly up and over / into. I'm hoping it works!

[@SpectreTheHorseman]

have you thought about heating that greenhouse wirh a compost pile?

[@edibleacres]

Too small a space to dedicate some to compost, I think, but I may very well revisit it in the fall.

[@SpectreTheHorseman]

I was thinking you put it on the one end outside of the low entrance and let the heat flow in that way. You may have to also insulate the compost pile with straw bales around it to direct the heat flow.

[@turtlemama888]

How large is your chicken garden? An enclosed space for 60 hens, they clearly have a lot of room per bird.

[@edibleacres]

You may be surprised. We have roughly .1 acres of space in this enclosed area. If it were a blank, full sun spot with nothing happening except a coop and a feed spot I feel like it would seem kinda bleak. With this complexity it feels like a healthy and productive jungle.

[@mikepurkey6070]

Can i get a cutting of the coffee plant? Or a sip at least......

[@robmiltenberger6251]

What breed are those black chickens?

[@elhombredeoro955]

They look black austerlorp to me.

[@michaelripperger5674]

How do they get on top of your 4' compost.. But don't jump over the 2' wire wall in the greenhouse

[@edibleacres]

Good question. Now that it's nearly a year later I can say they can do BOTH! :) If you check out some of the more recent videos you'll see the system has been adjusting/evolving to adapt to what the chickens are figuring out.

[@Godshole]

At my wee sisters at the moment and we have discovered New Zealand flat worm in her garden. We wondered for a while why there seemed to be no earth worms, I thought it might be salt from seaweed used to mulch over generations of crofting but.... So I don't know what your situation is in the US but I just wanted to get out there that folk should be ultra careful bringing in soil, cuttings, in fact anything from outside, that might contain flat worms or eggs. You might want to do a piece on it yourself. This whole area of Scotland is apparently rife with them. www.earth-ways.co.uk/how-to-live-with-flatworm-in-a-permaculture-garden/

[@edibleacres]

Yikes, that sucker looks super scary. I've never heard of it in our area, but it's good to know to watch for it.

[@marquinhosantonio3999]

I love Chickens

[@JizzMasterTheZeroth]

Put some duckweed in that pond. With lots of nutrient, they'll double almost daily and they're ~40% protein.

[@edibleacres]

We put it in, it's wonderful!

[@bigh650]

some good ideas be well

[@ThinTimberman]

Not sure how that little fence in the high tunnel would work unless your chickens are particularly sedate. If I tried that worm test I don't think four feet would be enough, in fact if they really want to,, clipped wings or not,, 6 feet is certainly not beyond them. Mind you I visited another permaculture garden recently and they had a breed of ducks I should have got the name of (along with chickens that were kept in a normal enclosure) and they were restricted by very low fences so had access to a network of pathways through the vegetable garden.

[@edibleacres]

I think having the fencing low only works if the walkways are narrow so they can't get up to speed or send over from a distance... That seems to be the trick.

[@ThinTimberman]

Ah, that makes sense. I must give it a try. I want ducks as well but as the existing dam (pond to you?) on the new place is crystal clear and is said to be spring fed (I'm excited by that!) and will also be the human drinking water source at least initially ... the ducks might just have to wait.

[@brent3611]

What kind of chickens are these?

[@edibleacres]

In this video we mainly have Black Australorps.

[@barnabyvonrudal1]

Do you cut their wings?

[@edibleacres]

We do not

[@MartinaSchoppe]

ooooooooooooooh, teach me how to grow those coffee thingies. Pleeeeeeeeaaase

[@jannoble8881]

What is your growing zone?

[@edibleacres]

We're 5B

[@barnabyvonrudal1]

I like snack island 😂

[@ZWATER1]

👍

[@StevieJoes]

👍👍🐓👍👍

[@lifepuzzler8004]

SnacKingdom

[@NACAFarm]

They don't like it. That sound they make is when they don't like something. They probably don't like that you're in their space 😂 chickens can never be together with low growing crops/veggies. They will ruin everything. It's not sustainable to keep putting wires on everything. I saw a post chickens do well with the woods and high growing plants. They are still descendants of jungle fowl afterall. We had veggie garden and back then my chickens were still 1 month olds and within 2 weeks we lost all our veggies despite putting fence. I have no idea how they got inside. All my bokchoi--gone. My sesame plant seedlings, jalapeño, cayenne peppers and Malabar spinach. Slowly they started eating the ornamental plants. Mine can fly upto 6 foot so unless it's a tree or something already well grown, they will end up eating all the leaves. I don't like cutting their feathers. For some reason, they're not totally fond of feeds alone. So I don't advice this kind of set up. It will only frustrate u in the end. It will probably work if you have a huge garden and have 2-3 chickens. But a big flock? No matter how many fences u put, there will always be damages

[@celiammc1411]

great bla bla :-D

[@suemcfarlane4199]

You try pushing a egg out your bum and say it’s no big a deal it’s a big deal ok eggs are big and their bums are small