GROWING HOPS in TREES + APPLE GRAFTS & HARDY FIGS | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM & NO DIG VEG

In this week's FARMVLOG we have a general catch up on the work we've been doing on the farm - we look at the new brash hedge, fencing and gates we have put in to create a laneway to safely and quickly move the goats and geese to areas of the farm. We look at the beautiful flowering cherry plum and discuss why they may not be successful. We check in with the goats and see how Mandy, our goat that is in kid, is doing and what we need to do to prepare for kidding. We have a look at the polytunnel and see how the veg beds have changed before looking at some hardy, cold climate fig varieties we are growing. We then venture out into the market garden where we are creating a tree nursery and look at our first attempts at grafting apple and plum trees. We then spend the afternoon planting hops in our food forest. We look at why and how we are using existing alder trees to grow our hops up, using the tall, skinny tree trunks as a growing support for the vigorous climbers.
CHAPTERS
0.00 INTRO
1:38 starting the brash hedge laneway
3:54 shrub layer in new apple and cherry orchard
5:08 Cherry plum
6:55 taking about the goats kidding
9:25 polytunnel veg beds and figs
11:45 tree nursery and apple grafting
14:12 designing in the climbing layer
14:49 hops
15:48 hops climbing in cherry tree
16:35 forest garden and alder trees
18:30 planting hops
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed forest garden 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, Shetland sheep and 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.
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[@capitalism-createshomeless2922]

You have a very beautiful family! May God bless you and maintain the innocence and purity of your natural family of agape love! Columbus, Ohio

[@juuritarha]

Quite the blossom on the cherry plum! And quite the belly on Rosa and Mandy here, wow how beautiful! Interesting to see how the hops, cold hardy figs and your apple and plum crafts will do. I hope to do all the same things some day here. So inspiring, thank you and lots of love!

[@namthomson1124]

Wows

[@yeagerxp]

Very Nice 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe

[@genearguelles2463]

Your VLOG has inspired me! It has been nearly 5 years now since I inherited 4 hectares of a tropical island in the Philippines. The land itself has poor soil that is not suitable for farming, but probably just for subsistence horticulture. The real natural bounty is in the surrounding marine ecosystem, where the locals obtain sustenance through fishing. However, the marine environment is under stress from pollution and over-fishing. I wish to retire soon so I can devote my retirement to enhancing the marine ecosystem and improving it for future generations by establishing a sustainable homestead on my property from which I can launch projects to enrich the local ecosystem.

[@swash333]

Planted hops last year here in Quebec. Winters are down to -40 here and it’s just poking up again now 👍🏼👍🏼 so should be ok in Scotland. Love your dead fence too! I need to do that.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I must have missed you announcing you guys are expecting! Congratulations! What a fun season this is going to be. I'm so excited to start gardening for the year, bringing chickens into the food forest over here. I'm eager to keep learning from you guys. All the best to the both of you :)

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hey! I missed this comment. Thanks so much, life is whizzing by!! Best wishes to you and yours.

[@marilynstanbury5098]

So good to catch up with you again…….interesting video, as usual. I seemed to have missed you for awhile. Extremely interested in all your trees etc. But wondering what happened to your kitchen after you took the floor up etc. also the end product of the big shed your wonderfully useful mate was building? Rosa looks fantastic, not long now I guess, all the best for the special day. Please…..if you have any time……let us know when the baby arrives! Thanks

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much for catching up! Baby is with us now (we usually update more frequently on Instagram), new vlog should be up in the next few hours with all the news! Many thanks!

[@smygskytt1712]

Wow thanks. I was just considering what climbing vines which produce fruit or any other yield would work here in southern Sweden (we have a similar climate here to Scotland) and I was just thinking about hops as an alternative to finding some cold hardy kiwi fruits. And now I know it'll work.

[@DylanFM]

We found a nice big hop growing up an elder and across the bank of the burn at our place. It's healthy, no idea how old but we haven't seen it flower yet. Cops gales out of the west, so hopefully it will be happier once our new tree plantings grow. Should try to divide it or take cuttings, give you some. If someone planted it in Caithness a long time ago it must be worthwhile.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Cheers Dylan, that would be cool to get a root cutting.

[@ADRYAN-farm]

Congratulations for the vlog! From me you have as usual a big LIKE I salute you with respect from Romania .... Adrian

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you Adrian! Best wishes!

[@beesandseeds]

Love your hedgerow!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks!

[@StarGapFarm]

So many things I always want to ask questions on, discuss and share with y'all about the things y'all are doing. It all looks amazing! Well done! Rosa, I believe your labor will be easier on you because you are active and I imagine it is helpful for you to have some other "ladies" around who are also about to drop. Y'all are in my prayers and I'm sure I can speak for all who watch y'alls videos that we look forward to seeing the wee-one! A bit of an update from the mountains of NC; broody hens and batches of already hatched chicks running about. Eight pups 5.5 months old now (Mountain Feist/Italian Greyhound) and 6 doelings and 2 3yo wethers coming in a month (La Manchas, Toggens and Obers). Peace and blessings!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much for your continued support and kind wishes, we love the positive vibes!! Sounds like you guys have your hands full - fun times!

[@StarGapFarm]

Its just me. Doing everything on my own. There's only a 1.5 mile footpath, 500' elevation ascent and descent going to my land, so haven't been able to find a partner or landmates who're not willing to be "inconvenienced?" I've nurtured my fruit/nut trees all from seed, my perennial plants, etc. Still clearing and plantimg. I'm not willing to leave them. I've been asked to before to leave it before. My heart is here on the land - 35°39'38.6"N 82°13'21.2"W goo.gl/maps/jH2F8gJsBwtdpjDL8

[@55dragman]

Another great vlog !!! I'm only an allotment gardener doing the "normal" things(veg and fruit trees) but love seeing what you're up to...It's great watching the farm develop..It was beautiful watching the ladies together plus the music selection was bang on!! Take care all you.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much for watching!

[@marianbrown4173]

Hi there from Aberdeen, did you say you had some type of Olive or did I miss hear you. I am slowly putting fruit trees and bushes in my garden. I was looking at honeyberries today think I will give them a try. Love your vlogs I always learn something new.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hello! Sorry for the slow reply. It's Autumn Olive, which is elaeagnus Umbalata. I think it gets called 'olive' because its leaves resemble olive? Thanks so much for watching!

[@jameskniskern2261]

I've heard that "high pruned" trees are called "Shredded". I don't know how accurate that is. Anyway, I've done similar here in Kentucky USA with black locust trees. I'll use them for posts for my woodshed when they get stout enough.

[@nenemaria-cornfieldsgarden]

I can't wait to see it all fill in! Love the idea of growing hops up a tree, seems like the perfect natural solution.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

Hello from America. I really enjoy your videos. I’d like to be able to grow comfrey, but it won’t grow where I live. It’s too hot and dry here.

[@carolinecampbell6600]

I grow golden hop about 4 miles away from you; they are prolific but don’t always get hops that are usable🙄 very easy to propagate is a plus😊

[@youangelique1]

I follow you two since a year ago, i wish you all the best. I really enjoy see you care for the animals and nature and each other. ♥️I live in sweden so we have a pretty similar weatherpatern going on. I was wondering.. the comfrey you just planted, is it bocking 14 and are you going to sell rootpieses from it? I ordered from internet, quite a lot but i never got it.. My best regards and good luck with everything!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you, yes it's Bocking 14. Thanks for watching!

[@terryphillips4070]

Love your integrated waste system. We do that with our 80 hens. The trouble is, I can't find any figures or numbers on your videos. How viable is it all? Are you making an agricultural wage each? , etc., etc.,. How many eggs, litres of milk, etc.,

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi there, thanks for watching, although not sure which system you mean, I'm presuming the chicken/straw yard? We used to have just under 90 hens for egg production, selling them in the veg boxes but we no longer keep those numbers. On the whole you won't find that sort of information in the vlogs as our focus is more on the design/maintenance of permaculture systems, we often discuss income/costs etc more in depth during consultations and sometimes on the tours. With regards to viability, the market garden/CSA veg boxes was our main enterprise which is certainly profitable if you have the correct market around your farm. The other things like the eggs (now) and dairy are just for home consumption which helps keep our food costs down. Having a cheap cost of living obviously helps make small farming viable. Hope that helps.

[@thewildcroft]

Good vlog :) can you let me know where you sourced the hop plants? We've got a forest garden area I'd like to add them into. Cheers

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you! Got them from Essentially Hops 👍

[@DylanFM]

Poyntzfield nursery on the Black Isle also have a few, although not all for brewing I suspect. The dwarf hop I got there last year is waking up now and looks happy.

[@carolbulmer8253]

Another lovely vlog from Tap ‘O Noth. I’m excited about the fig trees and the hops! Busy time of the year… take care of yourselves❤️❤️

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thank you!

[@teatimetraveller]

Have you considered growing your own rootstock? Its very straight forward using mound layering techniques. Supply of rootstock has been very limited over the past couple of years. So you could sell them or use them for your own grafting projects.

[@TapoNothFarm]

That’s the next thing to do for sure! We’re hoping to mound layer a whole bunch of trees and shrubs. Many thanks for your thoughts.

[@fionagrows1848]

Things seem to be really coming together at Tap ‘O’ Noth. The forest garden is going to look fabulous in a year or two and your water management systems are looking lovely now. Rosa is looking lovely with her neat little bump!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Many thanks!

[@emma-knits]

Amazing timing, I've just bought a couple of hops plants for our garden here in Torphins! I wasn't sure whether to plant them out yet as I was worried about frost getting to them. Hadn't thought about using a cloche so that's what I'll do 🙂

[@TapoNothFarm]

Fingers crossed they survive for us all!

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey y'all, too bad the sheep did not work out but not everything works for everyone. The dead hedge will be of great benefit once it is completed. I am sure you two must be getting so excited as the baby is coming sooner every day. I am praying for all the best health, the best medical care and all the love and support of friends and family. take care be safe bye for now

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much Steve, for your kind thoughts.

[@positiveworld-view8677]

Fabulous looking pregnant ladies !

[@TapoNothFarm]

👏

[@jecriggs]

I'm curious: How long will your dead hedge fencing last? Will you be adding more to it as the older brush breaks down over time?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Some of the hedges we made 3 or more years ago are still complete, though the first parts to go are the upright sticks, but they are easily replaced.

[@Ben.McNeilly]

What is the name of that tool at 22:25?

[@TapoNothFarm]

That is a Billhook.

[@Supwiyaman]

Not long now, I predict a girl🙏

[@TapoNothFarm]

*Spoiler alert - you were right 😜🥳🤱🏻