'COMPOST' with NO TURNING | BOKASHI REVEAL | FOOD FOREST PERMACULTURE FARM & NO DIG MARKET GARDENING

[@TapoNothFarm]

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[@aplaceofstones8999]

Congrats, I know I’ve found the right folks when they’re giddy about compost!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Haha!

[@HuwRichards]

Oh wow I watched your previous Bokashi video this morning and couldn't wait to see the results and now look what pops up on my feed!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Like magic! Hope you enjoyed it!

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

Innovative couple u are, u want to thrive n change all the time. That's good

[@paulbourdon1236]

I love how you guys just project joy!! Especially liked how the tree hay makes the fence after the goats are done!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Very kind, thank you!

[@richardhawkins2248]

Geoffry Lawton has a thing he does with chickens that works pretty well. He gets eggs and hardly has to feed them so it's a win. I'll have to give this idea a try too. Thnx.

[@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden]

Wow, I can't believe how well that's broken down after just 8 weeks! That's going to be a game changer for your no dig beds. Good stuff :)

[@maristermcsorley4203]

Amazing results guys and weeds can be a pain and you want to enjoy and harvest your goods without a fight with the pesky weeds, when I started my allotment for my luck I stumbled into Charles you tube and never looked back and my fellow friends have a lot of it and it takes over their life and all I do it’s mulch my beds once a year and enjoy the harvest 😊

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you, agree with you about weeds, can really reduce productivity due to hiding the veg!

[@BeckyDshome]

Quite a beautiful place

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

The Bokashi is amazing!

[@rogeriolisto]

I've done my compost with LAB and yes it works wonders

[@fionagrows1848]

Great to see the bokashi worked! Very interesting!

[@gulsumdave5711]

Great to see that the bokashi worked so well

[@yeagerxp]

Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing

[@BenniLkitchengarden]

Nice Bokashi compost there. I hope my compost with Microferm will work too. Thanks for a wonderful vlog, folks👍👏🏼

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you! Hope it works for you.

[@ricos1497]

Fantastic video. The farm still looks great before heading into winter. Can't believe that you designed the goat enclosure to have pallet walls, perfectly sized for inserting Chinese willow. Impressive!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks very much....it was more of a happy accident 'design' !

[@mariabeaulieu3732]

So inspirational! Gorgeous farm you have there!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much!

[@Supwiyaman]

Rate enjoyed this one dudes 🤟

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Always enjoy your videos. One of the best farm vlogs!

[@TapoNothFarm]

That's lovely to hear, many thanks!

[@thegoodoldways]

I make bokashi with spent brewery grain. :) Free. Remember to use it fresh and also cool it down - both. Airtight for 2 weeks, then spread thin and air dry on a tarp. Use as you do bokashi bran. Stores great too. Keep airtight.

[@deviltrain]

Would love to get some of my hardy Newburgh Worms into that pile! Im happy to supply the worms if you want to trial it

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

Wood chippers are amazing just got ebike tho and be next year I can afford that 😆 🤣 I'm a minimalist

[@audreybarnes6527]

Good to see you both so happy 💕💖❤️. Interesting, I usually cut pumpkins and leave a T if I want to store them.

[@TapoNothFarm]

We’re newbies when it comes to pumpkins for storage, we’ll have to see how they go, thanks for the tip!

[@audreybarnes6527]

I thought this might be a helpful to you both, you've shown some concern about the size of the vegetables you've been producing using your last round of compost, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWmWZWlvh7eKia8. A refractometer is really cheap for what it does. This backs up the idea that 12 is a good number to aim for kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ-xgKl3aMmcerc. I can't believe I wasn't subscribed!!! 😀 What you are doing it so impressive 👍

[@clivesconundrumgarden]

Excellent video cheers. It'll be interesting to see how the bokashi looks in the spring!!

[@TapoNothFarm]

It will, thanks for watching!

[@richevanscpa]

I have a question about Bokashi vs. compost as it relates to sustainability and climate change. Composting is an aerobic process and Bokashi is anaerobic. My understanding is that this anaerobic process releases a significant amount of methane that is absent in composting. Is my understanding correct and did you factor this into your decisions?

[@jksatte]

I'm just finding your channel and I love it. It's all so interesting. I think maybe you should leave a little more stem on the squash when you cut it.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Luckily we left the majority of them with longer stems. Thanks so much for finding us and watching!

[@juliewholohan2850]

A guy in Australia has a vlog on making your own EM and Bokassa…he calls it compassionate😊 his vlog is the Weedy Gardener….might be worth a look👍

[@jonseals]

Here's the link. I was going to post the same thing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKS3pKGFpL2Bms0

[@thomascallaghan5988]

Great video

[@TapoNothFarm]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kenyonbissett3512]

Always a good idea to keep goats entertained or they get into mischief. Squash leaves are edible by people and livestock, composting is good but feeding the leaves to livestock(goats and sheep) as a green food full of nutrients they can use.

[@irinaa1458]

Hi Tap n'Noth farm! First time commenting here. I'd like to recommend you to try growing butternut squash Barbara F1 in your conditions. It completely surprised us in the cold 2021 season (south of England), giving us 10 squash of 2-4 kilos each, in a rather shaded garden. I have never experienced anything like this from any other squash, growing them for 6 years! Barbara had a bit of a slow start and I nearly pulled it out, but from about mid-July, it was setting its striped fruits all over the garden and climbing fences! It has a small cavity, so easy to clean out and more flesh to eat. More orange and tastier than a normal butternut. And I think also a bit drier and more creamy, which I like. Not promoting, but I thought it might do well for you :-)

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for that!

[@gardentours]

Black gold 👍

[@CelticRootsFarm]

I can’t help but think about how long it is taking you to finish a project AND film all of your cool angles at the same time. Just know that all of that effort is worth it because at this point 14K people seem to think you are doing something right. LOL Keep up the amazing work my friends! 👍

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hehe! I think I'm getting used to getting those angle shots pretty quickly these days. I remember watching Justin Rhodes back when he started up vlogging and thought...'with all those camera angle changes, how does he have any time left to farm?!' but I can understand it now as I feel it's important to tell a story through the camera angles and to keep it interesting for viewers. Also it helps farming as a couple as the work often gets done quickly. Saying all that...yep, it takes a while sometimes. I don't know how some folks make a vlog EVERY day?! Cheers guys, all the best from the Tap.

[@CelticRootsFarm]

@@TapoNothFarm Well, keep it up because everything looks amazing… your property and your videos. I always thought that people like Justin Rhodes had hundreds of cameras set up around their property. But now after doing it myself, I now know that you are just stopping every few minutes to change your angle. LOL I do my best to change the camera angle every 10 seconds unless someone is talking. I find that it moves the video along nicely…especially where people’s attention span these days tend to be very short. It does make for a lot of extra work though. My next step is to get more familiar with the settings and interworking of the camera. Hope you are doing well! Cheers!

[@thenaturepatch]

This looks amazing! Awesome job! Definitely want to experiment with bokashi in the future. Haha healthy compost equals happy farmers! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much!

[@torg5511]

Great video, as always. I'm going to try composting with EM. No turn sounds great to me, and getting better temps would be good.

[@tysonklemm8522]

Wow that stuff looks amazing did you do a video on what you did . If not please tell us all what you did and how you did it. Thanks for the great videos keep them coming thanks

[@ricos1497]

They did a video. Just look back, it was only a few weeks ago.

[@curiouscat3384]

I want your coat Rosa! I'm fed up with the cheap quality of clothes we get in the USA and I love yours. Is the fabric wool? And nice details at the wrist. Can I get it online by chance? Meanwhile, I continue to be amazed at how hard you two work year after year. Very impressed with what you've accomplished - permaculture farming is so labor intensive in the beginning!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you so much for the compliments, much appreciated! The coat is made by Levi so I guess available most places.

[@dodadodo25]

Amazing as always! Keep up the brilliant work both on the farm and on the videos. I bet you're looking forward to a bit of winter solace constantly thinking about what the bokashi will look like in the spring ;) I know I'll be looking forward to seeing it!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you so much.

[@jenclark1418]

Do you have any updates? Are you still utilizing this method? Are you finding it creates weed seed free compost? Thank you

[@marklesalle]

Hi Scotland ! I’ ve got a question for you if you don’t mind : in you enormous bokachi pile, you put water ; anyhow even in my kitchen as I don’t water my bokachi bucket, I have juice after a first week and then every three days ; you probably had a lot of juice in your pile too, also how did it get out ? Did you make little wholes in the plastic cover ? This juice stings if not removed from the pile normally and has to be used as a fertiliser by 10% with water, as they say. Regards Mark from Lorient / Brittany

[@gulsumdave5711]

Does the fermentation shorten the time periods advised in the Food Standards Agency’s guidelines regarding the use of animal manure and ready-to-eat crops

[@TapoNothFarm]

Would have to look into that.......

[@alicegreen5177]

Ahh soil, goats, compost and muck - my types of people - hello! If you can do it in Scotland, I can jolly well give it a go in Yorkshire.. I am a very skint allotment owner needing more soil and faster ways to break down organic matter. I'm thinking of making a KNF IMO instead of buying in innocuated borkashi-type microbes- but for the same process. I started no dig and made a few IMO brews earlier this year (the way time seems to have gone over the past two years.. was it this year?? :) ) and was very happy in improved soil fertility and had mushrooms sprouting all over the place. I am sorry I've not looked in depth to your material (I've happily just found you and will be looking around more - major goat keeping envy over here!) but have you played with the KNF IMO making and usage in a similar soil making scenario? As a Yorkshire woman I am ALWAYS after ways to do things without splashing the (non existent) cash. Keep up the good work lovely people and Rosa - awesome pig tails x

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi! Thanks so much for finding us and saying hello!

[@tavascarow]

I found when I kept goats they loved to strip the leaves and bark but would leave the wood. I let it dry and used it for tinder.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Same here!

[@nicholasnapier2684]

This napier likes what you're doing. ...in the 🇺🇸

[@monicamccarthy8510]

can you explain why you do not leave the plants on the ground in the tunnel, cover with bochasi compost and leave until spring?

[@Mrpneumat]

Hi guys, bokashi is just the start, on your next pile try covering with local worms when you have the temperature right. Make a worm trap by mixing the bokashi liquid and paper. Mush the paper at the bottom of a tub, put some compost material in and cover with wet paper. Probably good if you cut holes in the tub first, about 5p size. Put the tub near your compost and you'll have some worms for composting in a few days. Breed enough worms and they could assist you in your 8 week window into making a soil so rich it may burn roots.

[@craiganderson3952]

Hey guys, lovely farm, there is a man named Chris Trump ( no relationship to the Don) he does some IMO of his own. He has some nice educational video's, it's pretty easy to do, I highly recommend looking at his vid's. You guys would get along well. Stay safe and take care!!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much! Will check him out.

[@craiganderson3952]

Your welcome 😀

[@ceselb]

I've seen a couple. He's good.

[@juliewholohan2850]

Sorry about the auto correct…..Compashi….also I see you cutting your squash very close to the top…my grandfather always left 6 inches so they had a longer shelf life…. I have never lost a pumpkin yet using his method👍

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hehe, that's ok, I got what you were meaning to say! Yes we may have been a little to hasty with our cutting of some of these ones! Thanks for the tip.

[@mateuspado]

Beautiful work guys ! It seems like you are living my dream, living as a couple in one of the best places in the world(Scotland) and on top of that doing permaculture. But I have a question, as a new viewer, do you have any maps of the farm ? So I may familiarize a bit with what you are dealing with, like terrain, area and waterworks.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi there - thanks so much. Right now I don't think we have any maps/designs anywhere online (except a few snippets from magazine articles) but it's something we hope to showcase more. Many thanks for your comment.

[@clareellam1615]

Do you have trouble with the squash rotting due to cutting the stem so close to the fruit instead of leaving a T shaped piece of the vine either side? You can see the hole down the stem into the fruit in the vid where fungus etc can get in? Would be interesting to know if you do that every year and haven’t had any issue? Thanks

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for that tip! We have rarely grown pumpkins (due to a lack of space) and with these ones we sold them all fresh, so need to learn some tips on storage, though we left some of them with longer stems luckily.

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

I've got loads chicken 💩 i mix this in my co post but I have to turn every month as the poo won't break down, I feel u get more anaerobic if 7 don't turn. I have to turn.

[@pauleaton6908]

Any news on the weed free situation? I'm trying to figure out if I could produce weed free compost/bokashi using horse manure, mixed with bedding as i have access to tons of it from neighbours, any thoughts. I'm sure you've heard of Juanfran Lopez in your research on producing your own native microbes, but if you hav'nt I just did a weekend course at Ragmans Lane Farm with him on Biofertilsers which was brilliant, although it turns out that purchasing the molasses and bran to make your own NM's is still not cheap!!! Brilliant video as always, love you guys.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi there! We have begun using the bokashi we made last year as a mulch on top of our veg beds in the polytunnel and so far no weeds, but it has only been two weeks or so. We will see! Thanks so much!

[@colliecoform4854]

High temperatures in the mulch pile will kill weed seeds.

[@matthewtourtellot8846]

Did you have keep watering the bokashi pile during the 8 weeks? I'm asking because I live in Florida; and my main concern is the pile drying out when it gets hot.

[@TapoNothFarm]

No we didn't but we tried our best to add a lot of water at the start...though we have found that we should have added more!

[@JohnTHull]

I have done some Bokashi in 5 gal buckets and found the grains to be fairly expensive for the return. How much grain did you mix into that large pile? Thanks! New to your channel and am really enjoying you guys!

[@TapoNothFarm]

No grain/bran for this style of Bokashi - had to buy a few litres of EM. If you watch a previous video called 'E.M, What's Bokashi?' it will explain the process. Thanks For watching!!

[@valdemirbernardoborges1609]

Bom dia 👍

[@What..a..shambles]

Was thinking about your bokashi this Wknd just gone

[@gulizarozer2257]

Helloo, I am very amazed about the things what you've done❤❤ just confused about that bokashi thing, I am doing bokashi kompost at home and burrying it to the soil for finishing full composting thing. In your case isn't that necessary to burry or do something else

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi there , thanks so much! We're new to the whole world of bokashi - just jumping right in with this large experiment - but the style we have been making (large volume, using diluted EM) is quite different it seems to the bokashi bran method which is more discussed. I also think we are using the finished material quite differently than is recommended. We are wanting to experiment in seeing if this is a fast, seed free, no turning way to make a large volume of nutritious material to act as a grow through mulch on our vegetable beds, so will most likely always just be adding it to the top of our veg beds. We're no dig/till so won't be digging it in. Often bokashi is thought of as a fertliser and so is often mixed with the soil. I'm not at all knowledgeable on the bokashi bran methods but I'm presuming it's recommended to incorporate it into the soil to finish the process?

[@gulizarozer2257]

@@TapoNothFarm thank you for your kind answer, wish you good luck❤

[@gulizarozer2257]

@@TapoNothFarm thank you for your kind answer, wish you good luck❤

[@bodilskumsrud520]

This video doesn’t fit the title ,does it..?I’m looking for your bokashi compost video!!!😊

[@What..a..shambles]

Did you cool it down with tap water ? thinking did this slow down the bacteria if so , Do you think the jang will work well with bokashi ,great job 👍🏻

[@TapoNothFarm]

Yes we used pond water....I think you might need to wait a few more months and screen the bokashi to remove some of the organic material for the jang...perhaps depends on the seed roller used? Will have to see...mostly we seed in modules and transplant now. Thanks for watching!

[@yureituesday]

Weeds aren’t necessarily the enemy. There are systems that have proven the more roots = more available nutrients. This may be worth looking into ❤️

[@TapoNothFarm]

I agree, in some cases yes, but to be honest we feel we can achieve similar results from intercropping other veg crops and leaving behind the roots of previous crops.

[@lonefoxbushcraft]

Look into black locust for bio fuel

[@daveh8144]

Jadam and north korean for IMO

[@טלמן-ר2י]

When you add so much water, it stops the microorganisms activity and that is why the heat went down. Smell it,it probably have no smell,that is because it is practically dead. Anaerobic "compost "is not good for your soil. But then again hopefully my experience will be different from yours and you will get good productivity with it.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks for your comment! This isn't compost, which is why the word compost has quotation marks (large scale bokashi is still relatively unheard of and misunderstood so is often still referred to as 'compost' )...it's bokashi which is fermented organic material. It is an anaerobic situation that we are aiming for and the EM that we have inoculated the material with thrive in anaerobic conditions. Check out the work by Agriton UK for understanding the benefits of bokashi as we're just beginners, it's fascinating stuff and throws everything we've ever learned about compost on it's head!