MARKET GARDENING SOFT FRUIT | STARTING a small scale BERRY FARM | | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST

[@tinyapothecarykitchen]

Beautiful! Super happy to see you back and looking forward to learning all about berries from you!

[@ew8607]

Good to see you guys back in action!!

[@jayneeburks8482]

Berry Exciting!

[@gabrielvankempen7863]

That's really exciting news! I look forward to seeing the changes y'all are going to make developing the berry garden!

[@heidicha305]

So so happy to see you finally again! ❤

[@blakes.4625]

Made my day to see a new video from you guys pop up. Can’t wait to see how this turns out!

[@mywoolmitten]

Was just thinking of you guys, knowing you must be very busy - and this is exciting news!

[@marking-time-gardens]

Sounds great! 🌻🐛🌿

[@thisorthat7626]

I hope it works out as you have planned as soft fruit is very profitable. Can't wait to see how everything grows.

[@janwilletts1986]

Good luck, look forward to seeing how it goes

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

Berry good

[@esthergermain2628]

So good hearing from you.......I look forward to your new adventure

[@ricos1497]

Nice. It'll look beautiful when it starts to take hold.

[@john-xx8nc]

Brilliant to see you back

[@maristermcsorley4203]

Good luck guys can’t wait for the next video 😊

[@carolpursley2901]

Can't wait to watch your fruit journey from USA

[@joanneward9324]

Working towards the same. Planing to up sale by processing some of the produce. It's been had work, have got in three tree rows, willow wind breaks and some asparagus beds. Moving onto the small soft friut this autumn. 😄

[@TapoNothFarm]

Fantastic, best wishes for everything!

[@carlyamandaart]

So excited for you and so glad to see you taking us along for the ride ☺️

[@topazpauls3770]

Om bloody nom!! Great news. Can’t wait to bake you delicious treats with all this.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Yes!! 🤗

[@TheWoodlandOrchard]

As inspirational as ever!

[@carolbulmer8253]

This is good news! I look forward to watching your berry progress😊

[@heartinthenature5290]

Oh wow I love berries 😋

[@timmotheusmeier6652]

Sounds exciting! I would love to know what varieties exactly you have decided on and how that process went!

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks! We'll certainly be outlining our cultivar choices in other videos.

[@heatherjolly8389]

Exciting you guys!!

[@mattpelofske4632]

What a great idea on so many levels. It presents a lot of opportunity for marketing in the future I could see a lot of value added products thanks for inspiring me too plant more berries this year

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed and hoorah for more berries!

[@ImusNoxa]

Congratulations on your new strawberry patch. In my experience with them, they can and will take over. They're not as bad as mint, but they do certainly like to spread

[@daveswords2112]

Great video. You mention berry plants I've never heard off Do theses sell? Always appreciate your contents, very eductional

[@TapoNothFarm]

Many thanks! Yes shrubs like Honeyberry and Saskatoon are not commonly heard of in the UK though we have several commercial large farms growing honeyberry in Scotland already as well as one growing Saskatoon. Being small scale and using business models like CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) allows us to experiment with new, niche, crops, which is great fun! And we have the tried and tested berries as back up.

[@emummy2]

How exciting! Will you need to promote a more bacterial soil basis to support the bushes?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks! From our understanding, it seems like soil science advice recommends a fungal dominant soil for woody shrubs like berries etc. We're just going to go with the soils we already have without changing them too much as they have quite a bit of woodsy compost already on them as mulch, along with carbon based mulches like straw etc.

[@solbruden]

Good luck from Sweden 🍀😊!

[@joanneward9324]

It really is worth investing in a few strawbs. The send out so many runners you will be able to increase their numbers very quickly

[@TapoNothFarm]

Next year!

[@lukecarlisle1673]

awesome idea! one of my best crops is from all my soft fruit, have you ever grown Japanese wine Berry's?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks! Yes, we have...and got some new plants to try growing up the chicken yard fences this year.

[@lukecarlisle1673]

ah good idea! I got one last year but it's not grown much yet, I also got an aronia berry after seeing you have one. new plant this year is a honey berry

[@mena2138]

Hi nice video, i really recommend you learning about syntropic agriculture, it will help you a lot with your idea.

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks! Yes, we're familiar with syntropic agroforestry and have other areas on the farm where we are experimenting with aspects of syntropic design.

[@lesleywise5201]

Do any of the berries need support structures, like the raspberries?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Yes, we'll be creating trellis for the raspberries, blackberries and Tayberries.

[@gnijhuis]

Are you going to enclose those berry spaces at all? We have 5 year old blueberries and currents up here in PNW and if we don't fully mesh them the birds will get to them all before we can :D

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hi there, yes we'll be netting certain varieties when we need to. Thanks for watching!

[@tavascarow]

Just wondering why you aren't including blueberries in your mix? Keep up the good work.

[@TapoNothFarm]

We may do one day but to be honest, I've never had much luck growing them! Many thanks!

[@tavascarow]

@@TapoNothFarm after posting I gave it more thought. Following the guidelines of forest gardening, ie multilayering, you could underplant your bushes with blaeberries? or whortleberries as we call them in SW Britain.

[@aarongay3164]

nice work, from where do you source your bareroots?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Thanks, differnt places but a lot of the soft fruit came from James Mcintyre and Sons and we often buy our apples etc from Walcot Organics.

[@janew5351]

Did you plant berry bush cuttings in bulk? Now are planting each out in the soil?

[@TapoNothFarm]

Hello, we bought the plants in for this larger project but in the past have rooted cuttings in pots and then planted out or sometimes direct planted cuttings.

[@axefairy7868]

What varieties of honey berry are you planting? I’m hoping to get some in at the end of this year and I’m really hoping I can get some that aren’t too tart

[@TapoNothFarm]

We're planting eight new varieties this year - can't remember all off the top of my head but some are Aurora, Blue Banana, Boreal Beast, Strawberry Sensation....We got some Eastern European varieties already onsite that have been very sweet flavoured.

[@axefairy7868]

@@TapoNothFarm beast and strawberry were the ones I was looking at so here’s hoping!

[@JimVanderveen]

How many puns can you squeeze into your intro? lol

[@bonniefinnerty2826]

Can you plant black currants next to red and white?

[@TapoNothFarm]

We do here and haven't seen any problems with doing so.

[@samueltyndall]

It’s good to have you back! Exciting to hear about the new direction.