In this week’s FARMVLOG: We’re getting summer weather here in NE Scotland so we need to get the irrigation system set up in our market garden polytunnel to water the veg beds and seedlings. To do this we re-use an old IBC to hold water from our pond and feed it to the overhead sprinkler system.
We also look at why we are making changes to our fuel wood silvopasture system, swapping timber species for apples. We talk about why it is important and possible to make changes to your permaculture design, as we implement a new part of the overall agroforestry plantings of the farm.
We end the day getting the sheep ready to move off the farm as we have decided to sell our three shetland sheep. We create a laneway, stretching from the north to the south of the farm, to get the sheep easily into the trailer to take them to their new home.
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.
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Wishing your apple trees well. IBC totes and pumps; ugggg. We are very busy with IBC totes and pumps in gathering tree sap this time of year as we are in the Maple Syrup business. Our sugar bush is 1 1/2 miles away so I have to use a gas-powered portable pump to pump and transport sap back here to the evaporator. Wish I could use electric like yours. Small gas-powered pumps are finnicky, especially when the humidity is high, and the temperature is at or below freezing. Glad you are all happy and healthy. FYI: It was only 7 degrees F this morning. Brrrrrrr.
The farm has really been coming together, and it should be an exciting season! Keep up the great work!
I hope to be planting some fruit trees in the ground next year if everything goes as planned.
Another good video.
I very much enjoy the peaceful vibe of your videos. Thank you for sharing your farm, your knowledge and your good stewardship with us. Grace and peace.
Very good work 👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Be safe
Good work, everyone! Bring on the apples😊
Bom dia! Tudo bem
Wish you luck loading the Shetlanders! And now for a glass of cider . Great to hear the weather is playing ball with you guys -and here's hoping it stays for lambing and calving.
Beautiful morning! Another great productive day on the homestead! One day at a time! Blessings from Holland Ohio US🥰🌻🐛
Love the shout out to Chaos Fungorum! Ingenious product! Also worth mentioning that for the mycorrhizal partnerships that form, edible mushrooms ought to be fruiting from time to time – what's been your experience with that? (I'd certainly love to watch a follow up vid on the fungi popping up around the farm!)
Excited to be using the spore mix ourselves for the first time down at Warland Farm!
Great work! Cheers!
If you’re not familiar with stefan sobkowiak, have a look at his videos. He plants trios, very interesting concept for orchard rows.
Only six weeks to go! Exciting times for you!
Excited for the new baby on the farm.
Hello from across the pond! Super jealous of your weather! We had a few ~18C days, but hit -20C last night. All my poor trees. Almost April and -20C weather, it's just craziness.
I'm looking forward to this year on your farm. I really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work friends, All the best, Keith.
Your videos are so beautiful and bring peace to my soul
Absolutely love your channel — always makes me smile! And loved the smile on your Mom's face! 🙂
you look beautiful! dont let anyone body shame you!!! pregnancy is amazing! congratulations!
6 weeks…it's gone fast for the viewers….but may not so for Rosa
I'm excited for you both about the changes @ the farm & for your wee one to the farm. I had a giggle when Rosa asked to be helped up…😁😁 So good to see your mum, she has a sweet smile. Farming (not a farmer but want a few goats for future) but I'm a gardener & changes occur by us or outside circumstances & we make decisions as best as we can…. enjoy your videos!
These last two video beginings have been awesome dudes✌️
Goodbye sheep!🥲
Happy chaps. Good job with the irrigation set up.
Goats are just easier. I like Sheep, but if one's goal is fiber as an additonal benefit, Cashmere Goats. Keep it simple.
Pardon the ignorance, but what's the difference between the hay on the ground and the same looking hay you give the sheep to eat? They both look the same. Can they just eat what is on the ground?
I have a acreage in Northern Alberta, we can grow apple, and cherry but we can also grow pear, apricot and plum. I’ll bet you could too!
I’m zone 3a