Feeding our family on our farm...what it takes to build a garden

Feeding our family on our farm...what it takes to build a garden Today on the farm we'll work the Massey Ferguson 240 and the John Deere 250 and show you how we are building the soil in our gardens. See below for links to tools used in this video. Everything Attachments Tiller/Row Bedder Link: www.everything... Big Tool Rack: amzn.to/2Uq7QFm (5% off Coupon STONEYRIDGEFARMER) Affiliate link
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[@blackhawkinternationalsecu6962]

Michael Bloomberg said all you need to do is put some seeds in the dirt and water them. Guess he's never watched Stoney Ridge Farmer. He could have learned something if he did.

[@GM6.7]

Bloomberg can't be all that bright. He dumped close to a billion to drop out

[@rainowl1]

He wouldn’t know a wrist watch from Big Ben.

[@williambrown238]

Not a fan of Michael Bloomberg.

[@blackhawkinternationalsecu6962]

@@williambrown238 Yup, you and a whole bunch of others. LOL

[@johnpyle8027]

He can't learn! That's one of many problems...

[@tonyprice5364]

Good looking Tilled Soil Josh I sure can't wait to see you bed your rows in your garden for planting your crop. That's what it is all about nothing but pure country living on the farm. I sure can't wait to get my garden ready here in Georgia if it ever stops raining and this is my 8th year raising vegetables and planting and garden. Be blessed Josh and good luck with your garden and I will be on the lookout for your upcoming videos on bedding and planting. Wooooo!

[@dustinbjorkquist1185]

Called it Mark. Skid Mark🇨🇦🤣

[@brandonrennicker4526]

Thank you Josh for the continued videos and positivity in light of what is happening in our country. Watching your videos really lifts up my spirits and I’m sure many others, and takes my mind off the virus pandemic. Keep on being positive and doing what you love.

[@flyingwithbrian3287]

Watching from State of Maine, I enjoy being a video farmer! Stoney ridge farm rocks.

[@davebruins8623]

Gotta love that 240....could watch you run that all day...Thanks for posting.

[@TatorRichman]

I’m not sure if someone has already mentioned it, but as a heavy equipment operator I’ve learned that when working a stockpile with any type if loader you can save a lot of time if you unload (move/spread) the stockpile in the direction you are wanting it to go. I noticed in the video you were filling your bucket then backing up and turning to dump. If come from the back side of the pile and scoop a bucket then slightly turn to go around you save time with avoiding turning and backing up. Each person has mastered a way that is effective and efficient for them, but in the construction industry every little thing that saves time saves money in the end. Keep up the great work! Love the content!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

very good point.... sometimes I have to make over accentuated moves in order for the videos to look better and less boring....a whole new game when video comes into play...takes me twice as long to get things done too!

[@sherylforrest5000]

Good ol Stoney man back again with some good o farming vlog

[@4KidsandaFarm]

Just newly got involved with you guys as a recommendation from Adler farms...you guys don’t mess around! You are gardening in a big way!

[@TheGsellers]

Wooooo! Compost and a tiller, a match made for growing stuff!

[@rainowl1]

That 24-0 is a dream of mine. I love seeing it work.

[@butler386]

Love that Massey Ferguson tractor. Man you have a piece of equipment for just about everything. Love the dog as well. Thanks for sharing.

[@MDTripleCreekRanch]

My wife and I both watched this video and we are just waiting for the ground to dry up and we will be following your lead with our own garden this year.

[@wb6she]

You have a good thing going there, nice equipment for your work, ect, actually makes work fun with all the nice things, thanks for sharing, be watching!

[@ericcrosco6271]

Your gonna have one nice looking garden Josh!Great work!

[@phillully4472]

Now your about ready to get some veggies growing in your garden hope things start growing fast for ya! Take care stay well and safe!

[@shemwayman1146]

THAT IS A NICE MASSEY, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

[@DossFarm]

Keep posting man! It’s getting us through the quarantine!!! 😂 WOOOOO! I’d tune in for a coffee chat in the AM! 😂

[@medicineman1948]

I feel you should clarify one thing. I live in upstate South Carolina. I have red dirt (alias clay) here. I tilled the soil as you and then planted my seed. Then there came a hard rain and then the sun. The surface became as brick and the plants could not emerge. I now use a disc harrow after breaking up the ground. However, I really enjoy your posts!

[@lisacastano1064]

Try adding a lot of composted sawdust worked great for Oregon clay when I was a kid. Took a couple of years of doing it along with the manure but we had a great garden and good soil after that.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

till in some biologic material brotha

[@bcgrittner]

Great educational stuff, as usual. It’s great to see a farmer outdoors working his land. Mr. Suburbanite here hasn’t been out of the house much recently. With the population density here in the Minneapolis- St. Paul area it’s best if I stay put. Both bosses, meaning wife and daughter, have told me to stay put.

[@CastleHives]

Have my seeds going inside. Can’t wait to get the garden started outside.

[@fender5247]

Great video josh you are living the good life thank you for sharing wooo

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Always!

[@dancrafton89]

That's the way to make a great garden. My Daddy and my brother put 4 pickup loads of on the new garden at are new house. A few years later Daddy and I put 5 more loads on it. I didn't help much on that first one because I wasn't old enough to do much, but I was on the second one. That garden would grow anything you planted in it. The barn Daddy and I cleaned out had been in it so long the guy had forgot it had a concrete floor in it. It was like digging dirt. It was two feet deep.

[@Bigtoolrack]

That’s one smart dog!

[@jeremysecrest7553]

Man Ted and them boys make and sell some great stuff right here in NC! Every body should check out Everything attachments.

[@ericharris893]

That should grow some vegetables for ya! Love the old tractor. Wood chips are great for the air in the soil and the organic compost and manure are gonna supply the nitrates. If I can make a suggestion, Don’t till so deep next year and microbial growth will soar and your garden will produce well year after year. The amendments are going to slingshot the garden into operation brother.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Thanks 👍

[@michaelcook768]

Josh, I lived in VA, 50 miles north of Charlottesville. I had 1.5 acres and some of the best garden soil on the planet. I wish I hadn't sold the homeplace...I could put out a bigger garden than you have. I would need help, but, sharing food is a way to get assistance. It had been a garden for 50 years...a dose of lime, and Miracle Grow or fertilizer, I could grow enough to feed 10 people. Love what you have made out of unkept ground.

[@johnsadler8637]

Looks like y’all have dried out some. I noticed that in TFW videos from NE of you too. Good to see things getting back to normal. Sadly, we’re still stirring mud in the western Ozarks.

[@CityBoyPrepper]

I learned a LOT about building a garden, but I gotta say man, BRAAAVO on the high-quality video! The camera work, editing and transitions are completely on point! Great job!

[@mccnoutdoormaintenancellcc9868]

Like this video because it might get to that point where this type of organic vegetables are need.

[@davidwestervelt6050]

Ha Farming is so easy. Takes me all year to get the micro carrot in the fall. They only get half inch long. So needless to say i have some work to do. Farming teaches you alot. Thanks for all the great videos.

[@FarmallFanatic]

The no-till police pay your channel a visit too? 🤣

[@gabethedizzle]

Hey Boss, great content. I'm a fan of no-till BUT I can't stand know-it-all's. Glad it works for them but I'm sure you made this channel to share what works for you and I thank you for doing so! I do have an experiment idea though, if you'd like . . . COMPOST TEA. Freakin' miracle in a can and it can work wonders ESPECIALLY if you're already making beds. Take your kitchen compost fill up a pail of it, cover the solids with water and leave it overnight. Drain off the liquid the next day and spray a light mist on your garden beds. You're 'seeding' the beds with the microbes and let the micro herd prep the bed for you. They should get the pH just about right and put all that manure and woodchips to good work for you. If you spray half your veggie garden and don't spray the other half the contrast *should* be pretty amazing. The sprayed beds should have a fluffier consistency and blacker color like moist chocolate cake and the untreated beds will be denser & browner. Try it and see, would make great content and there's tons of instuctions online for making your blend of tea. Best of luck and thanks for sharing all about the heavy equipment. I learn so much from your channel.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

we no till drill our pastures...but we don't plant enough "row crop" plants to justify no till in our gardens....yet!

[@jankotze1959]

That Massey is a magnificent machine

[@ohiofarmer254]

till that up real good in the fall and plant some cereal rye or forage oats ad mix in some tillage radish or turnips

[@mikedobson2988]

Nice looking garden spot, thanks for the videos

[@johnnycampbell5234]

How about Skippy the skid steer ? 😂

[@robhakeman5873]

Love your videos Josh, I would name your skidloader little John. I love the melody of that tune you played at the end of this video and you play it alot in other videos, what is the name of it ? Wouldn't the spreader have been better to use with a more even spread vs the skidloader. It is sure nice to watch You tube nowadays vs TV as all that's on is virus 19. We haven't thought about garden stuff yet as we have gotten 9 inches of snow in the last week to 10 days here in Nw Iowa plus the ground is saturated from rain last fall and all the snow over the winter. Have you ever tried planting potted vegetables plants in rotten square bales, they say it works well. You should try it along the side or end of your garden once. Do you ever get raccoons in your corn ? I have heard of using barn lime or put up a electric fence around the corn patch and we always had to have it in a different spot every year. Love your videos and God Bless we can all get through this if everyone would just listen to what they are telling you to do. Also I think people need to start gardening more again instead of relying on the grocery stores and canning your own vegetables and raising your own beef,pork,chickens and eggs as we never know what could happen.

[@hydniq3327]

up here in canada we burn a lot of hardwood for heat. hardwood ash is a base. we put it on our gardens to raise the ph of the soil.

[@weston9201]

We have a Massey Ferguson 240 with a sun roof it a nice tractor

[@paulrice1918]

Good looking garden. My son bought a 4 foot bush hog and a grapple from Everything Attachments and we love both for operation and durability.

[@chrissilsby4312]

Save the best looking tire or two, because if you pop or wreak one of the new tires, you can change it out and keep working while the other tire is getting fixed.

[@johnwarkentinnikiskialaska8364]

We had black Angus on our property 3 1/3 acres in Bakersfield California but I had to get the cow manure with a wheelbarrow and a shovel to put on our garden then spade the garden with a shovel hard work 😓 but I loved it

[@TheRangaKing1991]

doggo's in the bucket hahah cute af doggo

[@RedRacconKing]

Spread wood ash to neutralize the acid

[@dhansonranch]

Looking excellent Josh. One suggestion though...as corn is a heavy nitrogen feeder, I would suggest planting this garden to only 1/2 the corn and the rest in the other garden. Then next year switch sides of each garden and every year switch back and forth. Or alternatively switch whole gardens each and every year. I like the idea of 1/2 gardens as some plants benefit from companion planting with corn (cukes, squash, etc). Just an unsolicited suggestion!

[@GregVasquez777]

yeah youre right, the no till method guy started with an already ammended land and it takes a few years to build it up before no till can be maintained.

[@simonrowley4913]

Hi Josh great job man. The Massey 240’s a great tractor. The skid steer should be called “Bumblebee” 👍🏻

[@lance_r72]

I think you named it Mr. SRF. Skiddy the skid steer. I wish i was much closer. I'd love to get back on a real farm! Keep it up Mr &Mrs SRF!!!!! Wooooooo

[@markfields8092]

I have a Tarter Tiller 5' that I bought at Tractor Supply. It does a great job!

[@hughwatson9461]

Have a M.F. 240. Nice one original paint still good. 620 hours. Like it for what I need

[@aaronshorter864]

Till in some lime. It will help with the acidity. If not already mentioned get with your local soil and water conservation and get a soil analysis. They will give you recommendations on what to add to get the soil optimal with additions in nutrients. Well worth the few dollars it costs. Rototiller works amazing.

[@azrodo1]

Yepper, that garden soil is looking great. Wooooo

[@madampolo]

How will you irrigate the corn garden? Corn takes a lot of fertilizer (natural or commercial) and a lot of water. If successful, you'll have a lot of corn this year!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

We'll irrigate from our well water...thankfully the soil amendments here retail moisture much better than the clay dirt we have

[@greenacrebirds]

Do people agree that Stoney Ridge Farm is the best Channel 😊😊😊. 👇

[@terrymangum3914]

The garden spot is looking awesome. Enjoyed this video as always. Name: Yellow Skidmarine.

[@michaelcook768]

My Dad put 20 loads of old sawdust on our garden in the 1970s...you could dig potatoes by hand.

[@casey5711]

Thank you , What a GREAT channel 😀👍🏾🚜🌽🥩🥕

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Thank you kindly

[@Blacksmokezz]

I don't have a row bedder so I just drive the tractor in the garden to make the rows. Did some last week when I planted my potatoes.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

it works for sure that's what I did before the row bedder

[@darylcampbell3244]

It’s looking good for sure!

[@zimmhollowfarm8414]

Ok sorry thought you wore in Virginia because of all your videos in Virginia cool i am in Lancaster PA

[@floydcalkins3298]

Looks great Josh!

[@michaelkoon6099]

Call the skider big john buddy love watching your farm volge mikefrom west virginia

[@GoodOlBoy1976]

The land is looking real good keep up the awesome work and god bless.

[@alane6555]

How about "John Skidless" for the skid loader. Another great show, Thank You.

[@conradhomestead4518]

Yer gettin er done. Woo !

[@novacain58]

Ole yeller ,trackster...,stoney track,stoneydeer lol

[@dpgoodall]

Rakey Bobby!!! 😂😂😂

[@billwilliams9527]

Just can't listen to these people that have no clue how to run a farm. You are doing great.!

[@mattyboysully]

Awsome buddy great in the bucket

[@melaniekeen3611]

Country life and farming isn't easy!

[@traxxasman417]

If you put the pin in the other way for the kickstand then if the keeper falls out the pin will still stay in.

[@kennethjackson8258]

Hi Josh and family

[@jerryklase9626]

Called the little John boy

[@conundrumconundrum5589]

Josh, the experts are predicting a summer of hard to come buy fresh items such as fruits and vegetables. Maybe consider going a bit larger and letting your neighbors help with labor and spoils of that labor. u do that anyway but maybe more. Heck if i lived near u I would help and give money to help offset the cost of all that.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

bhahahaa....getting folks to work? I wish

[@conundrumconundrum5589]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I know right lol. Heck some of them folks aint got nothing better to do right now and it's the great outdoors so it's built in social distancing.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi.... 🎥👍👍👍

[@deerrudy]

Looks great. Send a soil sample to your local co-op for 5 bucks no need to guess how acid your soul is. Exciting l , looking forward to see how you do

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Oh...i already know our PH is very acidic 4 ish

[@deerrudy]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer👍 nothing a truckload of lime won't fix.

[@sissysimpson792]

thanks for your KZbin something to lift our sprites

[@rmills8]

Just seen you at a farm show up on my farmer I suggested that you two do a video together to him

[@navyvet1382]

Love your video’s Josh hope the Lord blesses your garden this year

[@TheMat0042]

Good video SRF. I need to do a channel. Been planting the garden after days of amending, tilling, fertilizing. Building chicken/rabbit tractors.quail/ rabbit cages. Just hatched 60 more quail. Only 1 fully formed baby didn’t hatch, he was scared of the pandemic!!! My tumak rabbits will be ready to Pick up soon then I’m moving to pig and sheep. I’m a 30 year construction guy but bought land and wanted to live off it for long time. Suddenly all my small kids have an interest and God just says start doing it. We get the quail and other things in the works and boom this pandemic crazyness hit. We need younger people to have the knowledge available to them, I’m teaching mine but many don’t care. If we build up enough videos from different areas and perspectives it could possibly save some lives some day.

[@dave-bh7bb]

Can you do a lineup of what equipment you have so far

[@Harry-O]

Great vid. Names for skid steer right off my head. Richard Skidmark. Joe Skid. Kid Skid. Skidder Dunn. Skid Pro Quo Covid Skid

[@davidb.beasley7359]

Your farm is looking good.

[@mamao69]

Name the skidloader critter, it looks like a yellow bug haha

[@ziploc53]

I’ve seen “Skidmark” I think that’s a good name. It does leave marks.

[@jonathanosborne9889]

Nice video Josh keep up the good work 🤓👍

[@michaelboyle1983]

You are tilling your garden and talking about planting and I have snow on my lawn and we had a very mild winter. We won't till until the end of May up here in Maine. God bless you all! Jesus saves!

[@lenardo1970]

Good video. I think personally I would have bottom plowed it under then chisel plowed it to mix. If you put 4 inched down and unless your tiller goes down 8 to 10 inches soil mixing is minimal. Just my opion to each there on.

[@joeparks3748]

Is that Earl at the 10:30 mark? Last video I saw you weren’t sure if you could fix the bearings.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Earl is in my shop...and I'm getting on it today!! Wooooo!! All the parts are here!

[@Zinnias2go]

“Skiddles” 😉

[@jackslemp1642]

Ground looks good ,good video bro

[@Treeplanter73]

Spring.....not just yet, here in WI. IT WAS 17°F the other day.

[@gagearp8542]

I think you should call it the Grouse-Hopper.

[@shawnhagen6871]

The skid steers name is Johnny Bravo! End of story 🤣

[@stevenmccoy7065]

Hello from Margate Florida. Call the skid loader Lil Yeller.

[@Z1NJ1]

I named the Honey Badger , I'll let someone else have this 1 woooooooooo!!!

[@zacktube100]

Was a soil sample ever tested to determine the quality and what else may need changed? I planted corn for the first time this year. I had some moderate success. At the WV state fair, a master gardener suggested getting a soil sample.

[@hapnewsom9217]

Wally the skidsteer!!

[@scottt8424]

Hey Josh thank you for the video there and that's a good dog you got there but I never seen a black German Shepherd my friend used to have one years ago the normal color but they're good dogs I remember my friend had the dog named Shadow that was the dog's name

[@salahuddinayoubiayoubi4865]

Good farm u have