Compost Heater for Greenhouse + Free Chicken Feed

[@uppanadam74]

What a great father you are to your son...teaching him everything!! And what a naturally kind...wonderful and patient person you are!! I love your chook set up!!

[@SquirrelFromGradLife]

my grandad also made his own compost, he started making compost at 5 years old selling it in spring to garden hobbyists.. actually the three most important things when making compost is to mix and aerate the incidence really well and then cover it up so the process can start and accelerate.. you can lay water hoses inside the pile and get piping hot water coming out... cover the sides and top well.. he had a termometer in each pile and a couple of sticks to check for moisture levels and a pipe for adding water if needed into the center of the pile.

[@oregonbear541]

Henry is a fine Boy...willing to help his dad and not giving up when the job became hard...well done

[@simeonandalex]

I know. I was very impressed with him.

[@TheGrassfedHomestead]

I really like your greenhouse setup Simeon! I just moved my flock into a small greenhouse we built but I've had issues regarding the roosting bars. One of the viewers of our channel, Peoria Dude, referred me over to your channel to see the tree limbs on the sawhorses you put together for the roosting bars. Very creative! I love it. Thank you for the great videos!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks. Glad you find it helpful.

[@bobveld4705]

Just awesome to see a child so happy helping around the farm.

[@MetaView7]

Chicken are happiest when they can find their own food. Bravo.

[@danfraser7479]

Kids helping on the farm. Parenting done right.

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

Love your compost recipe, and I love how you say 'thank you' to your son as he is helping you. Between you and my friend Wranglerstar I am being well educated on so many topics.

[@ecnalted1]

Check out Justin Rhodes also. You'll like him and his family.

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

Ted Lance Have watched him. Prefer you. Maybe its the Swedish connection.

[@Windomp112469]

You Sir have some genius ideas and you seem like a great father to that cute little son of of yours. Thank you for posting. God bless.

[@stormyios6215]

Loved the episode, loved seeing you and your boy working together. I hope it all works exactly as you have hoped. I be watching

[@simeonandalex]

Thank you.

[@akindofmagick]

Hi from Maryland! Thoroughly enjoying your channel, and the glimpses of your lovely country!!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks and welcome. Glad you found us.

[@helencline5768]

Be careful how you pick up heavy things,don’t hurt your back ,once hurt hard too fix, enjoy your videos & beautiful family 🤩🤩🤩🌻

[@robinlaurita4663]

Henry us a wonderful help. Nothing more beautiful, than a farmer in the making. Bravo far!

[@1d1hamby]

I usually do a large layer of small branches on the bottom to help with aeration. you can pull the fence sides up on the pile to make it taller.

[@slycat1939]

AWWW Daddy's little helper. So awesome your children love the farm and are learning too. Thanks for sharing. God bless you all.

[@Travelgirl0224]

You are a great father. Love seeing the children getting hands on life lessons 😃

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks. They have a wonderful place to grow up on.

[@grayhand9676]

So glad I found your channel. Great stuff as always. Organic farming done right. Fun to watch because I've been working on a compost pile lately.

[@farmerron2954]

Hey what a great idea to heat your greenhouse. I have an organic farm so I cant wait to give this a try. My goats love to lay on the manure and compost heap in the pasture

[@wannaberedneckprepper7030]

Man you keep some very happy animals. Chickens clucking in happy mode, piggies 🐷 soft grunts in content softness... all I see is happy happy farm beings. 🌹❤️❤️❤️👍💯

[@PermaPen]

Great work Henry! And that's starting to look like a Chicken Adventure Playground. Excellent!

[@tom7601]

It looks like the girls enjoy their compost pile!

[@simeonandalex]

They do.

[@fakecubed]

I've never known a chicken that didn't love a compost pile more than anything else in the world. I would be suspicious of any chicken that didn't!

[@MetaView7]

I love compost pile chickens. THis is great work. I can see your chickens are happy. Love your KZbin channel. Thanks for sharing so much of what you doing.

[@simeonandalex]

Glad you like it.

[@michaelb.5345]

5K See I told you that you will do well. You make it seem like we are there helping you. Great ideas you have for your farm and your family's well being. Best of luck and keep it up.... Mike

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@chrisis9030]

This seems so logical and natural, common sense, I can't imagine this is not going to be a success. Get well soon, Simeon.

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@amykinnell2837]

Hello from Kentucky! Just found your channel & love it. I would have used some of that hay in the pig pen first & let them soil it a bit, then add to compost pile (double use out of it). I'd also dump a tractor bucket scoop of that cow manure in there once a week & let the chicken eat the bugs-excellent source of protein in the winter!

[@simeonandalex]

Yes. Thanks for the tip. I have been thinking of the cow manure thing...

[@simeonandalex]

Welcome to the channel. ;)

[@salmonhunter7414]

Really like the water idea. Hopefully it will keep the waterer from freezing.

[@DavyRayVideo]

Happy chickens. Happy child. Good video. Get some rest, to recover from the headache.

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks. I did.

[@PondRiverFarm]

I found your channel from the Abundant Permaculture video and am really enjoying watching your videos. I plan to use a compost pile for heat as well, so thank you for this information! Much love from Kentucky, USA

[@simeonandalex]

Glad you found us.

[@coleomo]

Awesome glad i found your channel, was in my recommended while watching Justin Rhodes channel! hello from Vancouver Simeon!

[@simeonandalex]

NIce. Glad you found us.

[@lkhfun6575]

Aww. Henry did a great job. So mature for a little guy. Seems really smart and taking in all you are telling him. Subscribed. :-)

[@catherinehubbard1167]

My thoughts exactly, including the subscription. Those chickens sounded content and interested, not afraid or stressed. Hope you are feeling better.

[@WanieB]

Man you have a good farm hand!! thank you for posting this video, a lot of hard work.

[@kimbergameing9189]

I know this is old but I'm in the process of duplicating your system you have here in my own high tunnels. so happy I found your videos not many people are doing this around here in the part of my country. You've earned my sub fine sir

[@Flexaret]

A very interesting video, I find all the chicken videos interesting which has surprised me a little as I'd never really considered having chickens until I started watching your videos.

[@simeonandalex]

That's nice. Thanks.

[@kristinakirkham8507]

I'm so excited to follow this experiment. I, too, am inspired by Karl Hammer and Justin Rhodes. I have 5 chickens in a much smaller green house, but I think I could make this work. Thank you!

[@simeonandalex]

Awesome. I will make sure to show how it goes.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

you're proving to me that I can have some land up and Wyoming it's nice and cold you're proving to me that is possible I love

[@johnsommerfeld6889]

Nice video Simeon! I hope you feel better soon. Take care!

[@renmcnamara6743]

Greetings from New York! Really enjoy your channel... So much wonderful information. Keep up the great work!

[@simeonandalex]

Thank you. Greetings back.

[@pattstorm77]

friend im watching you and justin from puerto rico u both have come very far !!!! COOL! thank you guys

[@mmanut]

AS you said, the heat from the compost pile might keep the water supply from freezing!! Very Clever!! Your son is a great helper!! You're a very lucky guy!!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks. We'll ses how it goes.

[@catherinegrace2366]

You said what I was thinking. Those are beautiful panels you are using for a compost pile but I get it. I’m going to do something similar in my chicken coop.

[@catfunksfabulousfinds]

Great idea! I would love to have a big greenhouse again.

[@karlagrecar4317]

this looks great, can't wait for an update. you son is so cute.

[@simeonandalex]

Thank you.

[@pedsobpsych]

Love the coop! This is a great idea all around! Keep up the good work and look forward to following you :) Jan from Ohio p.s. You're children are beautiful!!

[@simeonandalex]

Thank you. Glad you found us.

[@JustinC905]

Nice idea! Can't wait to see how well this turns out. :D

[@simeonandalex]

Not me either...

[@joepdejong148]

very nice. might want to check for chickens laying eggs in there . They love doing that in our compost piles. A surprise of 20 eggs in a well made nest is not new for us!

[@simeonandalex]

Wow. Gotta check on that.

[@mycedarridge]

I love your kids in the videos. I went and clicked the bell in hopes you will upload more of them! 😂

[@bobputman5947]

Feel better Simeon, the compost pile is a great idea, once it really starts to cook you will see a temperature change for sure, i sure would like to see some snow there, i wanted to ask you if you have ever climbed in the Alps.

[@simeonandalex]

I have not climbed in the Alps, just went on hikes as a child. My dad has climbed many of the tallest mountains in the Alps as a young man.

[@CleoCastonguay47]

Nice job on that compost pile. I see your chickens are already thanking you also. Great reward. How do you keep your waterers from not freezing? How is your greenhouse-chicken-coop ventilated? Love following your work... and your vlogs...

[@gearheadted5110]

Interesting recipe. Hello from Washington state USA.

[@simeonandalex]

Hi there.

[@wendywobbles1]

Omg! Poor you and the calf, one job I most certainly wouldn't be able to do 😢😢 you are very brave and good luck with everything you do. 👌🙏

[@pamelabratton2501]

Be well, sweetheart (I'm a southerner, we all talk like this!)! Your son is SO cute! Looks like this will work, the chickens might make a mess of things. You may end up setting up a second cage to transfer the pile into at times. Just a thought!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks Pam. Well, the plan is to let the chickens scratch it apart and then build it up again.

[@ricktantlinger6518]

Hi Simeon.. Have been watching your videos. Thank You! so informative

[@1OFMANYLOSTSHEEP]

You have a good little helper.

[@SheepyHollowCanada]

Congrats on 5000 followers. You have a good channel.

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@KillaTrains]

Hi sir the straw and hay are two parts Brown, take the slop you would give the hogs and vegetables as well. The green material will get the oven baking to develop the rich dark composting you desire. I take the winter grass from the blue grass, and mix it's awful smell as well use my red wiggled worm casting!

[@tammymurphy1268]

tks for ur vid...love ur place to!! do you worry about the pile catching fire in the coop. ....i had horse manure catch fire once is why i ask. tkx..hope u feel better

[@TokyoCraftsman]

Great idea, I bet it works. Get well soon!

[@deniserollick5107]

I see no ventilation in that coop. Won't the moisture from the pile make the chickens sick?

[@ttribetribe6807]

We are in love with this project. What a great idea! Also, could you tell us what pants you are wearing in this video?

[@oldtimeengineer26]

Nice I hope it works for you and also I hope you feel better soon

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@Nairuulagch]

That is nice heating solution so green!!

[@Noodlepunk]

Love the videos! I am hoping to set up my homestead in the next couple years!

[@tedbreuer6927]

Hey Simeon. Hot tea, aspirine and a large shot of rum; Headache gone...

[@jordanmunoz1813]

grandma's recipe eh?

[@Trondtravle]

My Great Grandmother allways recommended some 2-[(6-Isopropyl-4-pyrimidinyl)amino]cyclohexanecarboxylic acid for headaches. Tastes foul, but works every time. Also, god bedring Simeon!

[@pamelabratton2501]

Good quality rum, top shelf for sure! Grandma knows!

[@suzanphillips4519]

Ted Breuer fever few tea is great for hay allergy.

[@tamarackmi9195]

what a wonderful idea...really enjoy your creative thinking🙋

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@TheMachiningman]

5k, I told you that you were a wranglerstar in the making, also I know that was a lot of work because I made my pile yesterday, Thanks for the vids

[@simeonandalex]

Cool. Let me know how your pile is going.

[@kristjanilves8344]

do you also get condensation water on the inner side of the film when the chickens are in the tunnel? how do you solve it?

[@roni8049]

you have a really great kid! keep up the great work.

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@andymacdonald30]

Just an idea for you .. I saw a greenhouse that had double walls ? During the winter ,they were pushed one over the top of the other to give a double glazed structure , but in the spring when more space is needed . The top wall was pulled out (on rollers ) to effectively double the space inside .

[@murray1284]

Simeon, take care of yourself... enjoyed the video..

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@craighewitt9429]

Great job....I'm as excited as you are...!!...cheers..!!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@murchlk]

Looks great, if this works I may try the same. Hope to see you try out the watering system aswell in hopes of it not freezing

[@simeonandalex]

Ok. I will let you know how it turns out.

[@Upgradezz]

Hello Bro, in the deep litter system we turn to aerate the littler, but my question is do we need to turn the whole litter from the base to top wholly?

[@horatio71]

Hi Simeon, try to put a thermometer into the pile and get a temperature. Great idea. best, John

[@simeonandalex]

Don't have a thermometer yet. Would like to get one that takes the temp maybe 20 inches into the pile or something.

[@natehb]

Swedish Homestead take a piece of pipe with a cap on one end, and shove it into the pile. get a thermometer with a sensor that goes out the window, and slide the sensor down the pipe. oh and please don't turn into a know-it-all wranglerstar.

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks for the tip. Do you feel that I am turning into a know-it-all yet?

[@natehb]

Swedish Homestead no you seem like a nice guy. I was just referencing the comments above. I subbed to him for many years, and it is a shame to see what he turned the channel into. stay humble work hard. I enjoy your work.

[@horatio71]

Swedish Homestead not quite sure what you mean. I think you are doing a great job. Keep rocking....

[@canadianfarmer1916]

It's a very clever move, I love the idea. I just wonder one thing, is the compost also produce nasty gas during it,s natural process? if so is that fine for the chickens? Cheers

[@simeonandalex]

There are gases produced but ventilation takes care of that.

[@dennisschlicher3367]

Brilliant ideas keep it up

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@edadpops1709]

Have you seen wranglerstars new tractor? Sweet ride!!

[@simeonandalex]

I saw it. Fancy and expensive.

[@destortoise]

this is an awesome video man!

[@simeonandalex]

Thanks.

[@ImASurvivorNThriver]

This was GREAT! Thanks for sharing.

[@ecnalted1]

Nice. Curious about how hot it gets. We had hay bales last year that got to 130F inside. Planted tomatoes and it burned their roots.

[@simeonandalex]

Wow! That's hot.

[@2quick4u84]

hi, so did it work? where you able to cut 100% of the grain? thanks

[@terigibbs-kramper944]

Question: How do you turn the compost? Or do you just open it up and let the chickens spread it around? Do you rake it back into a pile to continue to heat up and compost?

[@simeonandalex]

That's what I am planning on. Hope it works.

[@adampatterson]

I'm not sure how current this video is but I'm surprised at how much warmer it looks there in Sweeden than where I live in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. For the last week it has been around -20c and at times -30c with the wind. I know it gets very cold there but does that happen later in the season? Thanks for sharing!

[@simeonandalex]

We've had some winter weather already but usually the real winter comes after Christmas and Newyears. We have had a lot of warm wind come in from the west, the Atlantic coast and the gulf stream.

[@adampatterson]

Swedish Homestead we had a warmer winter the past few years. it's nice having a bit of cold. mind you I live in the city so it's not as big of a deal. I don't need to work outside. Really enjoying you channel. You mentioned that one of your passions is cooking. I wouldn't mind seeing some Swedish cooking.

[@coleomo]

fellow canadian here who seconds the swedish cooking!! please

[@AMULET72]

Good lad Henry.

[@1d1hamby]

that was a good video. you needed a lot more nitrogen and pile the same amount again on top of what you have for a proper size pile.

[@GrackisGodwind]

Did this actually work? I had the same idea and was looking around for people who have tried it. I was worried about Gas releases inside the enclosed space... so i was thinking of maybe making a Thermal Siphon with the Compost outside of the Green House with maybe Car Radiators as the HeatSinks inside the Green house or AC or Refrigerator coils Lots of options for heatsinks. but id prefer to just have the pile inside if the gas buildup wasn't an issue.

[@mebhi2]

Always thumps up!

[@younginsong4355]

What was the 2nd thing you add after Hay?

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Great! I will do the same soon!

[@juleejames9977]

Great idea ✔️

[@RiverPlaid]

🌼🌼That was an awesome idea!🌼🌼

[@dennisdreiercordua6388]

Hi Will you show me how you build the polytunnel? Vh Dennis

[@dorascott8286]

Love this plan...

[@robinlaurita4663]

You are a genius!

[@IsaacNewton1966]

Any follow up on this?

[@roymclean4763]

Very interesting.

[@simeonandalex]

Glad you like it.

[@david9274]

Could you give me the dimensions of this greenhouse, please.

[@codyjelinek8599]

Your son, playing defense, so funny. =]

[@melovescoffee]

I was talking at the screen, put the water there, put the water there! You're putting the water there. :D

[@simeonandalex]

Nice.

[@lazycarper7925]

that kids strong

[@jennaveve1612]

FUN!!