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In this week's FARMVLOG, while James is doing his morning chores (feeding the goats and sheep), we catch up on how the farm is doing after storm Arwen hit the UK, why Jed, the Shetland tup, is no longer on the farm (!) and why next spring is going to be very busy for Rosa and James. We also look at how the ditches and ponds are handling the large volume of snow melt and rain water that the farm has at this time of year before starting work on a very simple log bridge. The farm has a lot of drainage ditches and water/irrigation channels that we have to build bridges across to be able to move animals and get machinery across the ditches. We've been building simple farm bridges for several years using forestry timber covered in chicken wire to provide grip. We talk about why we use logs rather than pallets to build the bridges and how useful forestry tongs are to move heavy logs.
Chapters:
0.00 - morning chores
2.27 - storm Arwen update
3:40 - sheep update - where's Jed?
5:07 - We're having a baby, thanks for the well wishes!
6:11 - the farms waterways
8:21 - our firewood/timber pile
9:52 - starting to move logs
12:29 - forestry tongs
13:35 - starting to build the bridge
21:07 - the finished bridge
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.
Patreon:
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If you're looking for even more content from James and Rosa then you can become a patron of Tap Farm. It takes James between 5-10 hrs to edit our vlogs, let alone the time it takes to film and farm at the same time! Your support will aid us greatly in producing our FARMVLOGS, enabling us to take the time needed to craft a beautiful film and to help fund the licences needed for the vlog soundtrack. We will list your name at the end of each vlog episode so everyone knows how brilliant you are! We will also keep you updated on our farm work/life by posting exclusive video content that is not available on KZbin such as FARMVLOG outtakes, behind the scenes footage, hints & tips and more in depth videos discussing the many permaculture systems to be found on the farm PLUS the odd photo from Rosa and James.
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FACEBOOK - / taponothfarm
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WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com
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