microfarming permabed building, BCS walkbehind and attachments

Low dig bio-intensive farming using regenerative inputs, broadfork and Berta plough, also demonstrates easy all terrain use of the BCS two wheel walk behind tractor.
Our links; www.activevista.com.au/
For more learning visit www.longleyorganicfarm.com.au
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Music by Combat Wombat

[@peternelly3879]

Damn, your farm looks huge. Beautiful soil, and impressive perimeter fencing around the garden plot.

[@Dorfnase]

Nice mashine,Greetings from germany! :)

[@will08080]

Nice to see a slightly different format in a farming video- and still informative. Good work guys 😊

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

William Carr Thankyou William, good of you to say. Generally just dealing with normative comment! Kind regards, James.

[@ResslerMania]

We have a BCS 749. Thanks for sharing in a real world situation. Haveca great day.

[@jamesalan206]

AWESOME video nice tunes

[@tahraqapie4783]

great work

[@stephenschmitz9471]

lv your work big green hug

[@KingSlimjeezy]

I'm impressed. Lots of people talk the talk about homesteading / organic / permaculture, but then they see howm much time and work it takes they either quite or move into larger scale / less "love per acre" as i call it operations. Sure music isn't my tast as i'm a crotchity old dutch guy, but damn these germans in the comments are just hating. its called a mute button

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

KingSlimjeezy Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I usually use people’s willingness to make a negative comment as an open invitation to reply back and offer more in-depth explanations of what and how we do our farming and what we achieve. I get the best prices for my produce in our city as it’s certified and we can offer a top chef a variety with a story for the customers a ‘provenance ‘ of the food.our system allows a ten fold productivity compared to a monoculture approach and of course is healthier for farmer and consumer. These are only a few of this systems benefits. I hope to make more KZbin vids very soon.

[@themaroonwaymedia9486]

Awesome, yall. I can dig it.

[@roryhutchinson5005]

i also dig this video

[@HippocratesGarden]

Muted the sound.. much better

[@CarlWinzil]

Good video James. Congratulations on the farms success brother ;)

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

carl winzil Thankyou brother, it’s what we do... to live long and prosper:)

[@CarlWinzil]

It is indeed ;) I'm not sure if you remember, but you gave me some comfrey one time.. anyhow I just wanted to say thanks mate.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

carl winzil yes I do remember, you came over with some family members and I showed you a bunch of stuff. I’m in Melbourne today and tomorrow at the Urban Agriculture Forum, I thought you were someone I met there and gave a card to. As it happens I went out last night and caught up with some of the crew from Combat Wombat that wrote the music. They’re pretty special people. Hope you’re doing well Carl. Cheers, James.

[@CarlWinzil]

spot on mate! :), I've been studying/practicing botany (informally) for 5 years now and I personally think you have the best small farm here by a mile ( until I get my 10 acres lol ) btw - Hope your little girl and wife are doing well too man

[@Zxuma]

Great musical vibes!!!

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Zxuma I think so too!!

[@Zxuma]

Longley Organic Farm Howyour farm two years after? Are you still harvesting while kicking up antidepressive vibes?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Zxuma Hey Zxuma you can check out our insta pages @longleyorganicfarm this is our farm page and shows our daily activities and vibes:) and @activevistagram this is a page regarding the systems I bring in to Australia to help Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Islander small farmers. I hope you like them.

[@Zxuma]

Longley Organic Farm Oh i do not have an insta account. i am not that cool. lol

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Zxuma you can check out insta just on a normal computer by googling @longleyorganic

[@dontask2286]

sick tunes to go with this sick vid

[@dattakotkar1271]

Nice

[@joseantoniorojas8809]

Q lindo lugar ese. Y mucha agua. Como se llama esa herramienta para hacer los surcos o camellones. Y donde se puede conseguir.? Saludos chile

[@mladenkihas8626]

..greting from Croatia...

[@brentsmith5647]

Brilliant

[@crisregardless5613]

Why do you have the swivel rotary plow vs the single rotary? It is hard for me to tell by the video but it looks you do a pass on both sides of the bed without changing sides on the rotary plow. When do you find the swivel to be helpful?

[@jamessullivan9992]

If your plowing on a hill side and want to throw the dirt up hill or to make raised bed's.

[@Mykola_Kotlyar]

Like! Hello from Ukraine! For the first time I see such equipment for a pedestrian tractor. Is it a tillage cutter?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Николай Котляр Hi from Tasmania, it is a Berta plough, it is an angled auger for digging paths. It throws the soil to make a bed. We do this so that we don’t need to disturb the soil too much to help biological activity. Best regards, James.

[@rdnkrfnk]

6 mins of life youll never get back

[@jerrybear3081]

i ordered the bcs 853 and am way to excited for it to arrive. does the rotary plow used in the video avoid soil compaction and hardpan?

[@bradleyboe4911]

The more you plow dirt, the more you lose organic matter, the more compaction you will get. If you must plow, you must replace the organic matter. Do your research on cover crops.

[@jerrybear3081]

@@bradleyboe4911 i understand the need to avoid overcutlivating the soil, using cover crops to help build organic matter and break hard-pan with deep roots. what im wondering about is when it comes time to turn the organic matter under to prepare a veggy garden, a traditional rototiller on a horizontal shaft tills the soil in contact with the tines but compacts soil just beyond tiller depth by scraping down and compressing it, i wondered if the rotary plow avoids or reduces this because it spins vertically throwing the soil to the side rather than scraping it up from underneath.

[@bradleyboe4911]

Jerry Bear ...you make a valid point. but better to avoid either. still learning myself. once I establish my beds, Connor crickmore stye, I'm going to try to not till. only tilthe or power harrow. chek out Dikon radish as a cover crop. Sudan grass and clovers. all have diff purposes. every time you invert the soil you destroy air channels, making more work for the worms. check out using red wigglers.

[@Colonel1Bravo]

Yes quite simply it does. The roto-plow basically assist with making raised beds that are NOT rolled down the road. You are not planting where the plow has been.

[@xolilengumla8088]

Did you get your bcs and how is it? How much is it?

[@stevenlattimer5537]

great info and loved the music thanks

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Steven Lattimer glad you are able to take something from this. We hope to build our educational videos in the coming months. Happy growing.

[@user-yx2gh7eq2g]

Класна музика та мотокультиватор

[@joshuadavenport9681]

That farm looks great! How realistic do you guys think it is to run a diesel model BCS off of old vegetable oil? Would it be bad for the machine in the long run? I live in a pretty hot/arid climate so I'd be worried about overheating. Also, what are your guys' thoughts on the sustainability of the modern microfarm technologies/tools (mainly power tools and plastic)? I'm moving to a bigger piece of land in the near future and I don't know how I could manage production on it without power tools, plastic tarps, etc.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Hi Josh, Thanks for your mindful questions. Regarding the diesel BCS, the diesel motors of course have a natural lifespan. I’m not sure if you are talking about using a second hand unit or new. I haven’t used veggie oil with this type of engine however I know that you would want to filter your oil well and add about10% ethanol. It should run okay over the medium term. One issue with the diesels is overheating caused from a blocked air filter and this needs to be attended to regularly. The issue being that the air intake is located at the base of the front of the motor, if you are running a flail mower it will fill with fine particles over a few hours of constant running and is way to clean but in the interest of longevity must be cleaned regularly, say every four hours. Regarding bigger systems and film. This isnt really my area. I’m not sure on your thoughts on livestock integration. It’s possible to use pig tractors to prepare a block and chicken tractors to clean a crop. Of interest may be practicing crimp rolling grasses and pasture cropping principles now being used successfully with regenerative ag systems. Another great idea is an electric/ rechargeable tool carrier using regenerative sources. Ram pumps for power free water pumping. I hope this gives some food for thought and sows some seeds.

[@joshuadavenport9681]

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Wow. That air filter stuff is really valuable information. We were probably going to buy new, but it would be a shared machine between two families and the flail mower was the attachment we would need the most, so that makes me lean away from the diesel. Pig tractors sound like a great idea! I just did a little research and they sound like they might work good for creating a defensible space for fires as well. Thanks for the reply!

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Don’t get me wrong the BCS is great, mine has don’t a lot of work and still going very strong in its fourth year. I hire it out as well. Regarding tools. I use a Tilther as well as a power Harrow. The Tilther is used mainly, with light feeding crops during the growing season when we change over to another crop. We use mainly the Jang JP-1 for direct seeding and the paperpot transplanter, both work best after using the Tilther. We use the Farmers Friend Quick Cut Greens Harvester for most leaf crops. I use broadforks but never turn the soil. In the video I use the berta plow for digging the paths, not the beds as some have commented (you get that!) I’ve been a Microfarmer for 10 plus years and run a CSA and supply 10 restaurants. I teach folk how to operate this system every year. I do it because it’s what I have to work with and what I’ve developed, now it’s great to help others to incorporate these ideas. I see microfarming as a modular system that can fit into other systems. Some of the people I help use this model inside of bigger models and within more traditional farms so that they can produce a csa as well as other larger crops or livestock. In Australia there seems to be a lot of vineyards wanting to set them up to produce seasonal produce for there cellar door kitchens. So I think as a model it’s got a lot of scope for the future.

[@joshuadavenport9681]

@@LongleyOrganicFarm Woah nice! I've been hobby gardening for about 2 years but this is the first year I've tried a microfarming/CSA approach to the space I have. We have a very small "customer" base (mostly close friends/family) that we plan on growing as we get more comfortable with more crops and routines. I was hoping I could ease the transition to a new space by using a walk behind tractor with the rotary plow (like the one in this video) for the initial tillage/establishing new beds. I hope I'm not taking too much of your time, but I could really use some experienced opinion on some things. Do you think I could do all of my initial tillage in a new space with a rotary plow exclusively, or do you think a rear tine tiller is necessary (I have a broadfork, so hardpan could be mitigated)? Also, do you have any tips on efficiently getting rocks out of a bed? Thanks so much for the responses.

[@peter.s-yt]

How does it work with a potato furrower attachment? Does it need steel wheels for traction?

[@jameshutchinson1883]

Depending on how loose your soil is, I would recommend using steel wheels and ballast

[@mutuamaluki4948]

It's good and admirable. Ok, how does it consume per 1 acre/ hectare. What abt it's regular service requirements? Then where can I get 1in Kenya ? Or how can you ship 1 for me and at what cost ?

[@wassonchris]

I think that information/education would have been nice and not the music. The music distracted me from paying attention. Maybe it could have been a good video if the music want involved and possibly telling us why you do what you do.

[@resheemramteke215]

Pls mention order procedure and price with accessories

[@incomebooster4728]

How much does it cost and where can get it ?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Income Booster Hi income booster, in Australia you can get this system and all related small farm equipment for profitable market farming from our business www.activevista.com.au/category/walking-tractors-and-attachments/

[@ronbell7920]

Really, broad fork in the beds just made! F bombs in the music, back to nature this ain't! Re-title and good luck! The farm looks good, the soil looks good, so you guys are doing some things right.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Ron Bell Cheers Ron. The soil underneath had never been dug so the broad fork was aerating to 30cm and slowing for some of the soil amendment and compost to get down to that level for future microbial development. In hind sight and the future, before starting a permabed I will first broadfork, then add half the amendments( trace, npk, Biochar and compost,) then incorporate to 70mm with a Rinaldi powerharrow, then dig my paths with the Berta plough, making my raised beds, then not use the broadfork but use a bed forming rake then add the second half of the amendment, Biochar and compost, then again use the power harrow to 70mm. This will create a nutrient and carbon balanced, well drained, non clay panned bed with a 60% base saturation cation exchange ready for the purpose of very long term low dig nutrient dense farming. The music is from people I am to say the least extremely proud to know, the track played dates back 12 years from their environmentalist early days. The band, Melbourne based but international in reach puts its energy where its voice is and backs 110% the community it comes from. Members of the band all have international outreach reputations of the highest caliber. Happy growing Ron, it’s for our future let’s enjoy it!

[@ronbell7920]

Well my bad!

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Ron Bell thanks for the response! It’s always good to have an open discourse, that’s how I’ve learnt. And I hope many of our fellow growers, on our farm, on others or just through social media. Maybe you would like to check out our Microfarming supplies website. www.activevista.com.au/

[@wayneessar7489]

Great music and much hard work on your folks part!

[@HippocratesGarden]

confused.. put on loose fluffy stuff with the (no-dig) deep furrowing rotary plow, then broadfork? um.. why not broadfork the deeper stuff first, then blow the fluffy soil on top.. Wait, what the heck.. that's not broadforking, its stabbing the soil with a broadfork, get it in there deep, stand on it, then rock that puppy back to really open it up. If you're going to do it.. do it.. don't just tickle it.

[@traktorworks3200]

hahaha...that got the happy little hippy on her...well maybe his compost heap didnt it...smile..... i grow my own stuff too..i even use my own poop....

[@jerrybear3081]

circle of life.

[@CC-jy4gr]

Hes got shit smarts

[@user-bw2tb3uz2v]

walk-behind tractor

[@federicobattaglini6932]

frikkettoni

[@miguelarcanjo6202]

video legal mas o som podia ser outro....

[@TUTORIALECUDETOATE]

like

[@jasperedwards3341]

i got a belarus walking tractor

[@loslosbaby]

Music's great, content is great, artful use of fast-motion to move it along, land is BEAUTIFUL...wow, thought it was in Northern California complete with the ferns!

[@PranzosAPrat]

Sorry I stopped watching after I realized the music was not going to stop. I would rather just hear the sound of the machine and someone talking rather than bad music. Why do people think everything needs to have music?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

John Smith Hi John, Thanks for your peculiar question, Firstly I would like to congratulate you on the awesome gifts that you have demonstrated in your question , both the ability to sense noise and convert it into a meaningful context and the powerful sense of mindful self determination and action. Good for you! I am glad you point out that you would like to watch the video and I freely offer you this advice, ‘turn down the volume’ it’s just my mates music, it’s not for everyone, as is our six figure regenerative farming model with enhanced utilisation of multiple forms of stable carbon, enabling intensive cropping and super high yields on small parcels of remnant land. Good luck with your plans John.

[@johndour5207]

Poor choice of sound track. I changed videos

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

john dour I’ll change it for you. Just kidding!

[@hr03brothers7]

this products price

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Amar Rajput Hi Amar, you can see the Australian price on my farm equipment website www.activevista.com.au/category/tools-equipment/bed-maintenance/walking-tractors-and-attachments/

[@tking1539]

This machine bcs is made in Italy

[@michelkolchosnikbauer9281]

0:28

[@CB-bc3mx]

My ears are burning

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Mendocino porsche you should do something like that. You may find nutrient dense food, which our system grows as food as medicine, which has by nature, naturally raised immune systems that are past onto the consumer, in this case it would be you, ‘music to your ears I hear?’ Could be just the thing to get you back to aural health. Thanks for your comment, we look forward to sharing many more of our great microfarming moments with our amazing friends music:)

[@desotopete]

Where's the pot plants?

[@jerrybear3081]

hanging in the shop. my guess at the time of this video theirs were in a container awaiting transplant.

[@MikhaelYacobMalechNisan5742]

Great taste in ideas and machinery But man how about the taste in music wth

[@jamessullivan9992]

Do you make profit enough to pay for that tractor? Not a put down just wondering .

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

james sullivan It’s still making me profit James. My 120 x 15m microfarm beds turned over $200,000 this last season. I have rented the machine out 5 times during the season for periods varying from 2 days to 10 days. With attachments I hire I out for upto $350 per day. I’ve also used it this year to provide services to new farmers. The machine and attachments have been steadily used for 3 and a half years now. Couldn’t do without them, I will be purchasing another next year to keep up with the demand of helping other farmers in our region set up micro farms. I’ve helped set up 5 profitable systems locally in the last 2 years. I hope that helps. It was a valid question

[@jamessullivan9992]

@@LongleyOrganicFarm That's great. I have a little farm in Tennessee I lose money gardening but have some rental house's I have 5 old gravely's that I rebuilt. I loaned one out one time an the guy had it broken in less than 30 minutes, got wire caught in the rotary cutter all he had to do was turn it off and and clean it ,he left it running.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

james sullivan if it’s diesel you need to keep the air filter clean, the intake faces down and fills with particles, then overheats the motor especially if you’re cutting dry grass etc with a flail mower. It’s the quickest way to destroy the diesel motor, a very expensive fix for something that is easy to maintain.

[@jamessullivan9992]

@@LongleyOrganicFarmI repower all my gravely's with honda gx 390 engine's I get them used for about $250 . That's 390 cc engine is all I need for a 2 wheel tractor an it's the world's most common engine all the part's are cheap no need for a battery or charging system an easy to work on ,an light weight.

[@fetofetoomran8077]

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[@cookclan]

No dig ???

[@jameshutchinson1883]

Technically low dig, it is referred to as a no dig system. This demonstrates preparing a regenerative no dig system. You will notice we haven't turned over the soil we are using, only dug the paths to make raised beds. This allows the structure of the beds soil to remain intact as well as fungi and biota taking advantage of a stable carbon building system already in place. After we have made and amended our beds we manage the beds with minimal till and maximise plant interactions to encourage microbial symbiosis and plant exudation. We achieve this outcome aided with soil tests from reputable labs and then we are able to create naturally based amendments that ensure the correct balance to 60% of a base saturation cation exchange ratio. I hope this helps to answer any misapprehension regarding our intended purpose.

[@jerrybear3081]

@@jameshutchinson1883 how are nutrients added in the future? after the bed is prepared is it mulched to maintain fertility? do e beds need to be mounded again in the future?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Hi @@jerrybear3081, These are very poinient thoughts. as we are growing veg commercially we need to maintain the best soil we can, in the long term that means maintaining a regenerative management approach. (short answer 6) We start by getting a soil nutrient base line from lab testing. We amend the soil in the first instance to bring all micronutrient, NPK and carbon levels to the within peak thresholds, this is 60% of Base saturation on a nutrient matrix using a Mehlich 3 regime and Albrecht methodology, essentially approaching the soil as an organ, as it is essentially the stomach of the plants. We amend to 150mm depth. Using a regenerative approach our aim is to build stable carbon to depth in the soil over time. The nutrient amendment approach we use is aimed at supporting this by a number of ways; 1; to maximise plant sugars exudation back into the soil before seeding stage, in order to create beneficial soil biota (fungi and bacteria) a natural phenomena but only if fed from a balanced natural source, plants release up to 70% of their energy stores from photosynthesis in order to prepare a fertile soil for their seeds. If using artificial fertilisers this wont occur. One result is plant development using our amendment regime creates nutrient dense food. 2; To maintain fertility it is important we don't turn our soils to depth as we are aiming to preserve and encourage soil biota to depth. If we properly encourage this life cycle we should see stable soil carbon increase to depth over a 7 year period as studied and recorded by Singing Frog farm (US) This is because stable carbon is the 'hairs' of mycelia (threadlike hyphae) that will grow to depth in the soil over time if undisturbed. These hyphae also solubalise (liberate) many nutrients including phosphates and make them available to the veg. 3; In practice; We broadford to decompact and get oxygen to depth, being minimal about lifting soil (we don't). We use a tilther on our light feeder beds (root veg, peas and beans, leafy greens including baby leaf brassica. The tilther is drill powered and cultivates a tilth in the top 1-2 inches allowing a good seed bed for commercial growing, precision seeding etc. We rotate our crops year to year, one year light feeders , the next heavy feeders. We test our soils every two years. Sometimes we need to add something to depth, for this we may in the first instance try to be minimal about soil disturbance but we may need to rebuild if the levels warrant it. 4; We add granular humates, biochar, and fulvate with our amendments annually using a tilther. We add compost to our heavy feeder beds, (second year rotation). We follow all allium crops with a green manure crop, to restore microbial diversity. When we add our compost to our heavy feeder crops (crops that last a season like corn, tomatoes, zucchini) it is important that we incorporate to 100mm-120mm. This is the most intrusive and we use a power harrow to do so as it least affects the understructure of the soil. This will give a 2 year food source to microbes that feed our crops and we start again. 5; Our system is called 'Low Dig' and is bio-intensive, based on increasing stable carbon (the carbon form that will last eons) which in turn creates the best nutrient exchange for plant nutrition and health. 6; We redig our paths with the Berta plough you can use a shovel. This gets all the goodies that have ended up in the row over a couple of years and rehills the bed. We do this annually or biannually as needed. This can be spread out on the bed using a bed prep rake, tilther etc. I hope this helps. Best regards, James.

[@jerrybear3081]

@@LongleyOrganicFarm i dont mean to desparage, just curious on how its done. so it is tested and amended before the beds are formed then tested again before next season? i would imagine you guys use compost teas and liquid nutrients if needed.?

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Generally every second year. Liquids like Potassium generally work as a foliar if the soil potassium bas is in check first. A natural source of potassium is better than a salt like SoluSOP as it is slower release but can be compensated with a foliar spray for fruiting Veg. We spray fulvates to promote beneficial bacteria and help with low light, shoulder seasons. We generally add a microbial mix with this. We can spray a mild dilution on leaves or a heavier dilution on soil, for soil we would use a soluble humate. With the humates and Fulvates you can add compost teas or a lacto-bac/probiotic solution. I sell most of this on my site www.activevista.com.au/category/soil-health/ I hope this helps.

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[@dwz7q1962]

Rather hear the equipment running. the music not so much.

[@carlpbrill]

Geez, I guess folks don't like reggae. You can mute the video if you don't like the music.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Carl Brill yeah, a lot of views and a couple of haters, could be worse. For what it’s worth, we made the whole clip and added sound in a day including the farm work. The band Combat Wombat are tha thang and soul siblings, it naturally spliced, that’s organic all the way. You should check out their latest work and Monkey Marc’s recent Jamaican work ‘No Surrender’ If you are interested in biointensive microfarming check out our updated website www.longleyorganicfarm.com.au launched today( may take a couple of days) Cheers man, J

[@roryhutchinson5005]

true

[@tomaszpekalski5164]

Had to mute the music, hard to watch even without sounds.

[@FrenchFarmhouseDiaries]

The music let this down sorry

[@BeeBlume]

great music #themongrolhoard

[@manbunmyname5866]

This is comedy, right?

[@CC-jy4gr]

who laughing>?

[@toom8rs15]

C C Anybody with a brain

[@hillybeaner9689]

You use power equipment to dig and still call it no till....smh yeah you're the only ones believing that nonsense.

[@hillybeaner9689]

Be honest with yourself and everyone else. It is lightly tilled not no tilled.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

The system we used is refered to as low till. We use a broadfork to oxygenate the soil to 34cm at 25cm intervals, we use Alberta plough to make the ‘permabeds’ called so because once the are built they stay as such. The Berta plough doesn’t dig the bed it just digs the paths adding a layer to the top of the newly formed permanent that is them amended with natural fertiliser blends we make for each new area after testing using an Albrecht approach to soil nutrition. Using a base saturation action exchange approach we fed the bed accordingly as we want to promote as much stable carbon development in the soil and to the greatest depth as possible. After first making the beds, adding our fertiliser and compost amendment we turn them in with a power Harrow to 70 mm. So as to not disturb microbial food webs below this. We may do this every second year at the beginning of the season for half our beds, the heavy feeder beds, solanacea, curcubits, and corn. We use this gear because we need to be financially viable. Otherwise I would do it more by hand as I have done for many years. We also use a tilther for preparing light feeder beds before plants baby leaf greens etc. The tilther turns in the top 25mm of soil and helps massively with even seed germination. It is our aim to help others understand new ways to be financially viable so we can have these systems operating everywhere. Please visit my website www.longleyorganicfarm.com.au thanks for your welcomed feedback and have a great solstice period!

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Sorry for typos. Should read, permabeds, base saturation cation exchange, Berta, and of coarse ‘low till’

[@adamkramer5055]

Wonderful! We're just in the process of purchasing a rotary plow and power harrow to convert to a permabed system. Thanks for sharing this inspiring and informative video! Great farm!

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Actually we call it low till, we dig the paths only not the beds, using a Berta plough so as to not disturb the soil microbes and structure. It is important in the starting point to have a balanced soil with a good cation capacity, we do this by sampling the soil and having it independently tested then using Albrecht methodology we adjust the soil with natural inputs including properly prepared compost, stable carbon as humates and biochar. We incorporate this with a power harrow to 7cm depth in two parts, before using the Berta plough and after the plough has raised a bed again to 7cm depth. This gives us a foundation of a 100mm raised bed that has Ben amended to 14cm for vegetable production. As we have not used a rotary hoe the soul structure has not lost its ability to drain. From this point we can build microbial integrity for the long term with a low dig broadfork system, adding compost every 2nd year for our heavy feeder beds (in rotation) YOU DIG !!!!!

[@Wayoutthere]

"No Dig beds" .... *starts digging with a tractor*

[@herbhouston5378]

I could without the "music".

[@WiLNorCaL]

music sucks

[@roryhutchinson5005]

get some taste, then come back

[@jackschmitt3167]

I'm actually okay with the music, but not in lieu of information. The music great for an intro, but I'm at a loss as to what this video is trying to convey without some spoken info/narration.

[@loslosbaby]

I'm into it--I've spent some time studying permaculture and other techniques that reduce external inputs, and I've watched 1 gazillion BCS videos so I dig all that. To me, this vid is just a fast-speed chill about some various techniques mixed together. After all, it DOES have the subtitles...its not that complicated. Check out some BCS videos from the factory as well as EarthToolsKy vids that explain the attachments.

[@waynetadlock9719]

I've read the previous comments. I agree that some mechanical tillage may be desirable. But please don't use the phrase "no dig" and plough in the same sentence, in the description, and not expect ridicule. Granted, you allude to the concept of using the plough to build a no dig bed. BAD form. If it weren't for the lead in the description, I'd tolerate the rest via the volume mute function. Use and demonstration of the equipment was impressive, captions and video quality was very good.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Wayne Tadlock Hi Wayne, I have 110 permabeds, they are up to 13 years old. We occasionally redig the soil from the paths and throw it on top of our permabeds. (On average every two years) We aerate our permabeds with a broadfork making sure to minimise the damage of the deeper structure as we go, much like a Yeomans plough, we use a Tilther to cultivate the top inch anda half of soil (up to) we do this to get good seed to soil contact and only do this for certain crops such as intensive baby leaf, otherwise we don’t touch them. The stable carbon in our soil is determined by not digging as is the precious biological balance we work to achieve. We successfully harvest and sell enough produce year in and out to be profitable and keep food growing in our permabeds by using this low dig system. We don’t in fact dig our beds. Thanks for your shared interest.. You’re most welcome to visit our small micro-farm. Happy gardening Wayne. James Hutchinson. Please feel free to visit our websites including www.activevista.com.au/

[@waynetadlock9719]

Thank you.

[@justtruth467]

Beautiful video without the damn irritating sound. There is no correlation between the farm activities and the music.

[@peternelly3879]

Calling it music is giving the sound way too much credit. 😅

[@PAVLOAXIS]

Цікавий апарат!

[@massimotesta1876]

Ruote da 60 molto meglio

[@steelwheels327]

Yeah , wanted to learn about the BCS ,but that music is annoying

[@rlanzer1754]

I had to turn off your sound effects. It was annoying turn-off....and yes, My next step is to.."tun off" and leave this video without seeing it fully.

[@wayneessar7489]

What is this "tun off" you write about?

[@nikmills]

This video is representative of the obnoxiousness of a certain demographic that has invaded the Northwest. "Look at me, I'm a farmer. But I'm still cool enough for Brooklyn."

[@davedbear]

Had to turn sound off - music track was annoying.

[@timw9919]

Wow a music video. How informative. What a waste of time

[@rob379lqz]

Or just go to the grocery store and buy your meat and veggies...

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Our store is at the front of our certified organic farm with zero food miles and a fridge powered by solar, we sell over 70 different foods all grown on site as well as the resources for others to do the same, it’s a food hub.. we are the local store. Now and for the future

[@roryhutchinson5005]

would you like some gmo with that

[@jerrybear3081]

i never realized food came from the store!? i always thought people had to farm it first.

[@honumoorea873]

Permaculture with this kind of tool... Is not permaculture.

[@LongleyOrganicFarm]

Hi, permaculture is about design. We are farmers. We incorporate permacutural principles within our farm system. The area surrounding this vegetable bed was inundated with introduced species, especially the areas around the creek system. This has all been replaced with endemic local species. The result is a massive increase in native habitat, beneficial insects, better water flows and land management within which we are utilising a profitable ‘permabed’ system for sustainable vegetable production. So we are incorporating permacultural concepts within a regenerative based agriculture system. Our aim is to increase soil fertility, stable carbon by using low tillage methods over time. I hope this helps!

[@honumoorea873]

@@LongleyOrganicFarm just by seeing the color of the soil i can bet that my beds that are done with 0 petrol are certainly more fertile. You can dig 20 cm in my soil a there are still plenty of life, if you want permaculture.. Start by buidling a garden under trees... They feed the soil without you making any effort and worms love dead wood, those kind worms work for me, i do near nothing, just harvest.

[@freddypatterson8653]

OMG, kill that stuff you call music!

[@miragebeautysupply894]

what the hell is the irritating noise?? MUTE BUTTON PLEASE. KILL ME NOW!!

[@countryboycharlie9793]

I’d rather hear the tiller running that is music to my ears. I can’t stand this kinky junky cussing 🤬