Swedish farm grossing $275,000+ EVERY SIX MONTH SEASON! // Ridgedale Permaculture

Ridgedale Permaculture // The Good Life // Episode 2
Learn how Richard Perkins has created a highly profitable farm by combining pastured poultry and egg production with a no-dig market garden-all in an extremely short growing season and in the middle of nowhere! Learn even more in our full interview with Richard here: • Ridgedale Permaculture...
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[@jonathanbryant3583]

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PUT OUT VIDEOS LIKE THIS! The farming community needs this more and more!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you for the kind word of encouragement! We have plans for a second season if the response continues to be positive with season 1!

[@1982MCI]

Farmers Friend there’s enough of us out here that NEED this info!!!! Please continue this series!! My farms success right now relies upon me getting the vital help and education I need to successfully run my market garden this year!! I only have until December of this year to make this farm profitable or I will lose it. I’m going into my 3rd season this year and last year would have been great but we were in a drought and many of the crops did not produce well because of the hot dry summer as well as losses from Deer. I am a disabled Desert Storm Vet and my wife had to leave her job of 15 years to help care for 3 terminally ill family members out of state. She has been gone for a bit over a year and a half now while I’ve been home trying to get the farm up and running and producing an income that will help replace her income because my disability income is not enough to keep things going right now and I have to make this farm work but can not do it without the help of those that have gone before me and already got things figured out. With their help and the experience I already have, I know I can do this. If he’s making the kind of money he claims in this video then I can do this with no problem as long as my body holds out, lol. I only need to make a quarter of what this young man makes in order to pay off my farm, and I believe that is very doable! Especially if you guys continue to put out videos with the critical information that you can not find elsewhere. My farm is 21 acres but I’m currently only using about 10 acres currently for my market garden which seems to be larger than what almost all other successful market gardens are that I’ve found. I have started this year converting from conventional till style agriculture over to the no-till system on at least half of my plantable land. I’m trying to completely switch over during a two year cycle because of cost of all needed supplies, compost, etc. I built a produce stand last year at the farm so I can sell directly from the farm so I can work and sell at the same time instead of leaving the farm to sell at the farmers market. I have plenty of customers that pass by and stop daily, I have the location, I have the passion and desire, etc, I just need help with certain specifics of growing and you guys are the missing key that can unlock that for me. Please, I need your help!! Please keep these wonderful videos coming. I don’t need to reinvent the wheel when you’ve already done the hard work and figured things out and now we can share info so we can all be successful and we can feed more and more folks each year with gods gift of healthy foods!! Please, please continue these style of videos so that myself and others can build successful market garden farms. I wish I knew how to make and post videos so you can see what I’m doing and trying to accomplish so it would be easier to pass info back and forth. I will try to get that figured out soon so I can share my story and successes and failures also which may be a help to someone out there. Sorry for the long comment but thank you for what you are doing!! Take care and stay safe out there

[@rolsen1304]

@@1982MCI From the bottom of my soul, I wish you every bit of luck and great bounty this season!

[@diamon1312]

The best thing is that he has data from beginning his own farm to share I really got inspired and why not go there and learn few techniques. Thanks and well done 👏👏👏👏

[@NazTheGreat]

@@FarmersFriend You said the course left you with more 'questions' than answers. Would your recommend studying first like your did or going straight into the 'field' (sorry for the pun).

[@nancyadame921]

This quarantine has me thinking I want to be a farmer now.

[@vosca6779]

Nancy Adame lmao me too

[@malangorthodontist511]

me too

[@daracroft5045]

Same here 😅

[@tardwrangler]

Same but unironically

[@tkzhastings6641]

Me too dear at 60. I have already started in my backyard with container gardening and a no dig bed which I planted today.

[@khalidal-hamadani5489]

I am from the Arabian desert. Not far from me though is where my heritage started in lush Mesopotamia. Unfortunately the Tigris and Euphrates are damaged and its been my dream to one day be part of the group that restores them and agriculture back to the land. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@marcus9450]

If you started looking forward instead of backwards you'd accomplish much more.

[@vincentfox4929]

I dont know if it is worth it. Restoring a region that is politically unstable would not be worthwhile, especially if you want to make money from it. However i wish you the best of luck and pray your lands become peaceful.

[@martiannomad]

hey dont forget about makeing sure you have a new dirt growth hugelkultur is a good way to make new top soil under your no dig farm and there is a food forest in morocco its 2000 yrs old and deff check out biochar to be a nutrant spung and biogas great way to make fule and food for the land in the form of organic fertlizers and stored methane gasses so you have something for heating or lighting 1400 head of cattle will power 300 homes a month from there poop alone hope this helps and maybe look at no dig farming with the miz to make a soil base and if you can there are plants that work in groupings if you can use that companion platting style for orchards and food stuffs and food forests are amazing way to reforest a area nice easy run down by the astrulian guy 7 min food forest gives a good lay out

[@jasonbrynn5633]

blow up the drainage dams and canals and dig reservoirs to retain water to flood the water table

[@nograviti2388]

@@marcus9450 Our future is often very much written in our past..

[@thechaosgardener]

I’m slowly converting my backyard into a permaculture yard. My wife thought I was weird at first when I started swapping all of our non fruit bearing flower bushes and trees for fruit producing trees and plants but now she likes it.

[@catherinegrace2366]

Well done. Keep going. You are a forward thinker!

[@alexsiniov]

Start growing cannabis, it's half fruit half flower growing process, which is much more fun because of cannabis fast life cycle :D

[@drez420]

@@alexsiniov and you can smoke it

[@alek488]

@@alexsiniov and it’s worth a lot 😁

[@Mrtgames100]

Has anyone else been staying up really late just watching all these videos on permaculture and off-grid loving and no dig garden and just dreaming dreaming dreaming of one day owning a property and setting up a permaculture farm? If you are out there get in touch please let's just start a farm

[@flannel2699]

Perhaps a renegade KZbin algorithm has secretly decided to save the world..

[@minastirith997]

Flannel I highly doubt it

[@90secondpodcasting55]

Hopefully one day we can break the algorithm and free the shackles from our wrists.

[@c4call]

simple answer.... nope. complex answer..... the goal should be maximizing sufficiency, maximizing efficiency, reducing complexity, reducing difficulty, reducing maintenance, reducing overall effort. one should learn the best technology we have as a species..... study computers and mechanics, and biology, attempt to build as much as possible underground, reduce visibility, maximize security, ultimately maximize your health and that of your family. Do what "those with no names" absolutely dont want you to do..... become independent, unassailable, and powerful. No man is an island. That's what family is for. Build a family, and then a tribe of like-minded individuals. Build a community that is close-knit, clever, strong, and willing to die rather than be slaves to a system that wishes to feed on their productivity. The more people that reduce their need for minted currency and trade, the more openly our rulers will have to show their thirst for our wealth and energy.

[@Lucas94clay]

We can only hope. Also we can like and share because that does it too.

[@josephgyamfi3911]

Watching u live from Ghana west Africa... much love to everyone helping

[@thisorthat7626]

Joseph gyamfi, Blessings to you! I hope the knowledge you are gathering can help the people you love. We all benefit when nature is supported anywhere in the world.

[@derby1251]

The aerial shots of your farm are beautiful, like a perfect movie set.

[@FarmersFriend]

I know! Richard's farm was one of my favorites from the air that I've ever seen!

[@idontcare1762]

When a person can find their passion in life and be able to devote their life to that passion, it is a beautiful thing.

[@myxsys]

I very much like that phrase: "It's easier to find 100 people to spend $1,000 with you than it is to find 1,000 people to spend $100 with you."

[@usfslk]

Not very true, cheap things like potatoes sells quickly compared to something that cost $1000

[@PeaceOfMake]

@@usfslk That is a wrong comparison. If you put it in the right perspective; imagine how many cars would you have to sell in place of just one luxury car. It's a better bet to make a quality car and find just one person.

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Beautiful short film. One of the best small regenerative farms in the world! So inspiring!

[@garethaustin2210]

Agree totally. Inspiring stuff. Richards whole journey from academia to now being a leader is inspiring.

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

@@garethaustin2210 absolutely! I don't even understand how he has time to do all the things he does. He's really helped all of us leapfrog forward with his models etc.

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you! A truly inspiring farm indeed!

[@andreaswessberg721]

The people complaining about a heftier price needs to rethink many things. for starters: 1 pizza is worth 25 free range eggs. and 25 eggs takes you much further than that pizza.

[@peterlabiak1051]

This is what you get with brainwashed population... they are told that eating poisonous crap is great, fashionable, sets you free... buy more fast food, ready made, perfectly processed just for your convenience

[@florinangelo6851]

25 eggs , like 50grams per egg , lets say 1000mg with error march , here you got some 100ish protein, 400ish kcalories , and a healthy dose of bad colesterol to knock your liver out 😂

[@hiperformance71]

@@florinangelo6851 well, you don't need to eat 25 eggs at the time, and, by the way, some recent researches reveals the truth about eggs colhesterol. Your body produces your LDL and HDL cholesterol and not the cholesterol contained in what you eat, but of course, if do you eat soo much Bad cholesterol, you will end have problems. In this researches, a big quantity of eggs eated a day rise a very little the levels of cholesterol in a good health people, the eggs was denigred for decades from the food industry lobbyes in favour of more processed food (this is the very enemy for food healthy). For example, here in Italy, an elder woman until she pass away, lived eating 16 eggs a day! She was 116 years old when passed, and this is not the only example, every very old people who lived befor the "fast food and processed foods" era, had lived eating more then the "recommended" 2 eggs a week and many if this old peoples (around the world) was more wealthy than younger peoples. I was one of the persons in the past belived in the 2 "recommended" eggs a week... but the truth, sooner or later, will always win. And, if do you have doubts, ask to a bodybuilder how many eggs he eats a day, you will be surprised.

[@liiporta7964]

@@florinangelo6851 🤦‍♂️

[@realry329]

@@florinangelo6851 do you eat all 25 eggs in just one meal? Please do analyse your comment properly.. LoL 🤣

[@wildcountry.]

How can anyone downvote this???? For me simply brilliant and inspiring! Thank you so much!

[@dlegacy75]

Beautiful farm and great to see you successful while being a good steward of the land.

[@ksam7969]

Nice! That Joel Salatin method, adapted and still teaching! Wonderful and the world needs more people like this!

[@erikortiz2508]

Ive been a farmer all my life its not as easy as it looks.

[@marelcabuandra2242]

That's the reason anyone shifted to a buyer of farm products than to be a farmer. Being a buyer is hassle free and have good profit.

[@AJ-ox8xy]

It isn't easy. It often is a hard and constant job with very few breaks. But it can be incredibly worth doing in life as you are the basis for not only your own life, but everyone else as well. With out you no one eats.

[@janetrush8340]

Richard Perkins your story is incredible. I loved hearing at the age of 15 you already had such a clear vision. Thank you for the commitment you've also made to teaching others. Thank you Farmers Friend for sharing and all the hard work that goes into presenting this material.

[@FarmersFriend]

Richard Perkins is truly an inspiration. Thanks for your encouragement with the films! They are a lot of work for sure, but if we can inspire more people to grow their own food, we will count it a success!

[@twoshakes21]

These vids make me feel more confident about starting my own farm from nothing thank you for giving us a complete example with details to shoot for!

[@brothaman1571]

What’s your plan and story

[@MaxReisinger]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@michaelw9165]

..our planet could be so much more beautiful and healthier with ideas like these.

[@joereddragon6724]

I'm glad there is content like this for free. I refuse to pay for cable when I can be educated for free. It is inspiring and educational.

[@chloelee9264]

Great short film, I felt so hopeful!

[@Leo_S94]

Thank you so much for covering the farm, so many permaculture farms out there and not always the easiest to stumble upon them. Awesome production quality but not over the top which keeps it clean and simple to watch. Amazing job!

[@dustdriver115]

I remember 40 years ago there were many small family farms that use to do little bit of everything.

[@christopherhernandez3398]

Thanks for the example of greatness. A good life is not an easy life. Cheers to your team

[@vinaken4855]

This place looks magical. He is a champion!

[@YouGoSustain]

Your videos always make me joy...!!!

[@FarmersFriend]

I'm so glad!

[@christiangab1227]

Thank you for sharing an inspiring story of a farm earning $275,000+ every six month season you are truly awesome and wonderful ^^

[@FarmersFriend]

You're welcome!

[@mrkennyfernand]

watching this really humbles me.

[@eydorian]

Diversity is not only beautiful, but it is key in many areas.

[@kristinparish2834]

I LOVE THIS. I hope it inspires many people to transform depression into farm fresh food by being active and nurturing LIFE!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you! Us too!

[@meredithgardner9383]

I love that you see value in beauty - feeding the soul and the body while stewarding your piece of the plant. (:

[@Barrrt]

Amazing. I'm just leaving a comment to bump this video up. I hope loads of people see this and become inspired to go on similar quests of creating wholesome food in close collaboration with nature.

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words!

[@dianacascayan1759]

This is how amazing agriculture is. !

[@nubiansoaps]

Excellent. It's refreshing to meet folks who are living their passion. Thank you.

[@FarmersFriend]

Richard is a great guy indeed! Thanks for the comment!

[@ethana4574]

Idky this was in my recommend but I’m definitely not complaining. Beautiful!

[@FarmersFriend]

Glad you enjoyed it! Like and subscribe for more beautiful farm inspiration from our channel! :)

[@keosbay]

You’re a modern farming genius. Incredible farm ✌️

[@buy1help1]

The simple ideas are often the most effective. Thanks for sharing.

[@FarmersFriend]

So true!

[@user-ci8sk4dw2l]

Always watch your video Love you all So much

[@jimwilleford6140]

Inspirational Richard. The numbers are, for some reason, hard for some homesteaders to even hear. But, oh so important and helpful. Thank you.

[@bw4500]

Genuinely inspirational, all the best from 🇦🇺

[@FarmersFriend]

Awesome! So glad to hear!

[@allonesame6467]

Excellent Production! Impeccable Farmer! Thank You!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you!

[@yotalifepr]

This farm is perfect, like a dream come true.

[@eliotseven]

You guys are doing a great job. Keep inspiring

[@worawutnathasan2220]

Beautiful & wonderful farm and landscape, This farm is inspiring me in gardening and organic living :) Thank for sharing and great video

[@FarmersFriend]

Our pleasure!

[@malangorthodontist511]

You are doing an outstanding work. Well done

[@tero-travels]

Wish good luck to anyone commenting here 🙌

[@UsmanFaraz854]

Thank you brother you are doing your job very efficiently, live happily and keep it up. Thank for sharing your ideas and knowledge 😊

[@ulrichleukam1068]

Everything is nice, green and cozy and then comes the winter! beautiful farm and nice job

[@AshuSinghthealkiddo]

Sweden + Farms were earlier related to Swedish Mafia House. But now I see Farmers Friend taking their spot. Great information and Cine shots are amazing with nice background music! 💙

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks, Ashu!

[@omallaemmanuel3298]

this is inspirational. i will visit this farm one day

[@juandelacruz4051]

When you have degree, beautiful job and have plenty of money. It is worthless without any food to buy. Much better to have like one this farm.

[@Soederlund]

Beautiful film and a wonderful message!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you!

[@stevelarson4925]

Awesome. Thanks for putting these together!

[@FarmersFriend]

You're welcome! Glad you're enjoying them!

[@honeytreefarmnc]

Nice! Richard is the man!

[@johncoruna]

Awesome re-thinking! Congrats

[@TheFlexiMexi]

This is amazing! I hope to be able to do this in Washington State here in The United States. Great work and love that you are living your dreams!

[@rame-sprayer]

ONE of the best farm in europe, Richard is a great teacher in the communauty.

[@dragonshelf164]

Beautifule farm, we are from China, greenhouse accessories supplier. So glad to see your vedio.

[@katecham627]

The visual was so peaceful and pleasant.

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks!

[@msudhara123]

simply amazing! Keep up the good work. Wish if we can learn more,,

[@earljustin93]

I would love to visit his farm and learn from him. Currently a student for sustainable crop production. This is awesome!

[@FarmersFriend]

Sweet! Another future farmer on the way! Thanks for the comment!

[@martins3993]

And that is exactly how they make 275k. People come there and pay them to work on the farm. It's quite genious really.

[@drtootsi]

@@martins3993 except if u look at his videos he makes a point about being economically viable without the education part counted in.

[@davidr.4450]

It was awesome and very interesting to watch. Thank you for sharing!

[@FarmersFriend]

Glad you enjoyed it, David!

[@prashuholmes6642]

Really looking Amazing and even the efforts are to the sky

[@kenmahannah7509]

Richard Perkins and his style of regenerative agriculture in pasture raised animals is amazingly rebuilding the soil from hard pan tilled pasture worked as most farms do, to an amazing diverse ecoculture in the soil and no dig market gardening! he is where i first saw the caterpillar tunnels that led me to Farmers Friend excellent tunnels! !

[@FarmersFriend]

Wow, that's a cool story how it led you to our tunnels! :) Thanks for sharing!

[@user-yr5tj7yn7g]

Admirable project

[@astyanax905]

As a pot farmer from Canada, thank you for the advice on the woodchips -- particularly with all the snowmelting around greenhouses. solid advice :)

[@alexvlaxos6620]

Is it legal to grow there?

[@marcr2204]

@5:01 wow I never thought of it like that. So true. 100% easier to find 100 customers who can spend 1000 $ vs finding a thousand customers who can spend 100$ that is the success formula

[@captainjoemama]

That's a beautiful farm mate.

[@chefmanou]

beautiful work mate! good job!

[@Ben-mb4ft]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and also to the channel for this awesomly made clip. you just inspired me to start a farm! greetings from austria :-)

[@FarmersFriend]

Inspiring new farmers is exactly what we're hoping to do with this series! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@oscarmanville-hales6202]

Amazing farm set up and gorgeous content!! 👏👏

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank so much!

[@planetfeelgood17]

So Inspiring!! Thank You!! 😊🍀🌟

[@holisticvibes33]

So absolutely fantastic!!! 🥰

[@niiowulah1024]

That’s a great job. Will be grateful if I can spend some few months with you on the farm.

[@matthewemmanuel-ogier7561]

The overheads of this farm are beautiful.

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you! Probably one of my favorite farms from the air!

[@brentonkelly3780]

Great video, very inspirational. Thanks for sharing and all the best !

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you! You too!

[@mattaikay925]

excellent presentation

[@erkinbotokanov5740]

You are my hero, my man!

[@lazenbytim]

Awesome. Very inspiring. Never knew about following the cows with the chickens so they eat the flies and larva. Cool

[@AlehandrosArhangelos]

My 21:9 screen loved this video

[@berenice6938]

Love love your farm

[@weederminb7091]

Much support to you 👍🙂

[@talltreefilms1603]

Whoever did the filming and interviewing on this is epic! love it so much!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying it!

[@ejidaniel4326]

Well done guys.

[@amedashtari6648]

This is very interesting ... running a successful farm like this in Swedish weather is one big challenge by itself Would like to see more like this .. hopefully with more info and guides ... Good Luck!

[@tomidepth8510]

The video presentation is top-notch !

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks so much!

[@jaads7910]

Keep up the good work, more farms should be like this,

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[@mho...]

awesome project ! wish there where more ppl out there just doing what they love & be able to survive on that!

[@1968Christiaan]

Wonderful. Congratulations - on the farm... but also congratulations on finding something you obviously enjoy ! : )

[@zeeshanasghar2649]

Thanks brother for sharing

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks for watching!

[@AJ-ox8xy]

You are living the dream. This is exactly what I want to do.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Beautiful farm !

[@Bs13574]

Amazing! Inspiring! Beautiful video!

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you so much!

[@scarlet5966]

Wow Amazing garden,thats Cool😍😊

[@extendedfilmproject6789]

Awesome production and great connection to a diverse group of farmers across the world! I am in the process of developing farmland on our high school in Louisiana to link with our aquaponics and hydroponics systems indoors. Thanks for sharing😄

[@FarmersFriend]

Thank you!

[@Nifilheimur]

Thats not a farm. Thats Heaven!

[@dionlane9625]

Thank you!

[@satishkhot6792]

You are living my dream brother

[@frankdasaintdituri9983]

Good work mate looks real good

[@FarmersFriend]

Thanks 👍

[@sikhlionss]

thanks for the video mate! Great job

[@FarmersFriend]

Glad you liked it!