FARM FORAGING | PLUM HARVEST | MAKING WILLOW TREE HAY | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST | VLOG 98

It's late August and time to harvest some of our staple veggies, like our potatoes and onions. The plums are also ready to pick and we take them off the tree by the basket load. We're going to dry some, freeze some and of course eat them fresh. We love foraging the farm, even more easy to do since designing the farm as a food forest. Rosa picks some rose hips in readiness to make some homemade skin products.
In the afternoon we head over to our fruit tree silvopasture system to cut some coppiced willow to make tree hay so we have some fodder for the goats to eat in winter.
About Tap o' Noth Food Forest Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest farm/homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
HEDGE + FURROW
Come and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond.
You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrow
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - / tapfarm
FACEBOOK - / taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - / tapch. .
WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk
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[@cristian-cx2zp]

I love your videos and learn every day. Thanks a lot

[@harriettejensen479]

She's walking! If I remember correctly, that was both a blessing and scary. Love to see how you hand off food to her as your working. Looks like things are going well at Tap. Great!

[@notforwantoftrying1]

You guys are such an inspiration. I'm going to live a lifestyle like this some day, no matter what it takes.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hey, thanks so much! That's a great goal to have, we wish you all the best!

[@shaunm3206]

I was at a farmers market on Saturday and one farmer said it has been a good year for plums this year. They were delicious!

[@yeagerxp]

Well done James and Rosa and baby Lillian . 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourselves, be safe, 🇨🇦

[@jbane2003]

Yay, Glad to see another video from y'all. Lillian is so cute! Happy to see you guys and that appears all is well.

[@carolbulmer8253]

The farm looks great… lots of potatoes and plums. Lillian will be even more helpful when she gets older. The goats will be well fed this winter. See you next time❤️❤️❤️

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Thanks for your videos and keep them coming

[@maristermcsorley4203]

Lilian has grown so much she is cute 🥰

[@cristinavesbach9612]

Lovely!

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

lovely

[@SmithsdaleFarm]

Great to see another video & that your all doing well 😊 for the Willow coppicing, do you have to let it rest a year between harvest, or can you take it to ground each year?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks! With the willow it really depends on the variety, when you cut it and for what purpose you are cutting it. Sometimes it will have grown well enough to make another harvest a year later but sometimes we will let it regenerate longer and choose another hedge to coppice, working on a rotation.

[@ricos1497]

Lovely video. 27 degrees in Aberdeen/shire on the day you posted. That hay will be drying quick! Fermented plums are good for a glut... and gut. I've always meant to ask, have you ever done an aerial view, or map of the farm to give a different perspective? I can sort of imagine the layout from your descriptions and videos, but I can't totally picture it as a whole.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you! Yeah, it's been warm recently. Never tried fermenting plums (except as wine!) but will look into that now. That's a great idea and one we have been wanting to do - it's just getting my head around it. We have a map on our kitchen wall of the property, which we use for planning, that we could always incorporate into videos. Animation would be great and perhaps just using the drone with either text showing the various areas and systems or a drone tour.

[@ricos1497]

@@TapoNothFarm that'd be very cool. Or maybe I'm just a permaculture voyeur! Just got a copy of "Preserving food without freezing or canning" that was mentioned in your last video. I'm enjoying it so far. Some great ideas.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Haha, no we're the same, love seeing the ins and outs of other folks land and seeing the design from above. Cool, glad you're enjoying the book.

[@WetPaintBostik]

I kinda need a new video from you guys to keep dreaming of a better way of life

[@guillermocasacuberta7482]

When will the goats kid? Greetings from Germany!

[@TapoNothFarm]

We keep on meaning to bring everyone up to date with the goats and the kids…..but spoiler alert: unfortunately the goats weren’t in kid after all 😟😭😒Will try and remember to talk about it in the next vlog!

[@guillermocasacuberta7482]

@@TapoNothFarm such a pity! The goat part is always my favorite. We own also 2 goats but so far we didn t make them kid because with my office job I don t have time for milking and than there is the problem with the male kids...