We had a 12% slope and successfully farmed on it by using wood chips between the rows. Absolutely no erosion.

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

Coming here for my gardening fix after waking up to 6"of snow this morning here in Northern California 🥶

Love these farm tours from different regions

This vid is awesome and covers a lot of hillside farming! I definitely make use of extra soil and organic matter from other projects around the place to fill in erosion areas and make new catches. A little here and there over the seasons eventually corrects the issues of initial install, its a constant maintenence and lifestyle that you gotta love.

Thank you for representing California ❤

Have you seen any of the videos by Geoff Lawton how he puts beds on contour to manage water? A very interesting guy to listen to.

Beautiful garden and a productive farm

Keyline !

I like how deep of roots you can get with a terraced garden

Thanks for speaking at Grow Riverside and getting a taste of California.

Great video! I live on a hill and I'm planning on expanding my growing area soon. This is perfect.

Loved this one. I have most of my gardens on hills also.

Yes! Thank you for this, I have a similar hillside and was looking for how others are doing it.

Thanks. It has given me ideas and a thought process to help with the slopes and hillsides in the garden

Very informative! I normally can put this on in the background and reddit and get the gist of the video... I had to stop and fully pay attention to understand the slopes and how they manage water. Do you know if they tried other crops vs the Dutch clover for their slope management in the terraced side? I'd be curious to learn more about how they approached that as we have a very annoying slope in our backyard that's full of weeds. I currently just mow it tall to prevent erosion but would love to learn more about different erosion control methods w plants!

Wow. Finally a video from socal! This is one of my favorite videos to date.. I've learned so much from this chanel the last 3 years. I always see comments about shity suburban garden dirt back filled with construction materials, clay. and what not. To till or not till is the question? I'd love to share and contribute a video with you for the viewer's.

Nice garden🎉🎉bro

Thank you

Thanks for the useful info.

His explanation is a little confusing.but I know from experience having farmed in so cal. its better to point your beds running up and down hill because when it rains, if you run your beds sideways across the hill the rain will cut through your beds and wash them away. I always had my beds running up and down slope and never had the washing out even in floods. the rain is channeled in the paths.

Now this a garden I can relate to. I’m just on the west side of the mountain in Vista. How do they deal with gophers?

We are experiencing an endless heat wave in Brazil. The plants are becoming stressed and the need for irrigation increases significantly.

Good stuff

I enjoyed the show.

Cool video!!!

Gotta be a pain in rear walking up and down those hills, tough work

@robblake6708

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No need for gym

Great video 🇳🇿❤️

So in a way, we're like Spencer in that we have a wet and a dry season here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Except here it's VERY wet in the winter and pretty much very dry in the summer (with the occasional exception to only dry in summer). We can actually go two months without rain and do NOT have water rights, so we're doing rainwater collection (20,000 gallon capacity). We are also going to try putting in some ponds to collect as much water as possible since even 20k gallons doesn't go very far with no rain for 2 months! All that said, it sounds like we'd be better off putting in slightly sloped (towards the ends) terraces in on our sloped land vs trying to do on contour beds because of the vast amount of water we get here in the winter... Your thoughts/feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Your videos are awesome!

That land plus heavy equipment plus that greenhouse and we’re talking big money. 4.5 acres north of San Diego? Was that land already owned?

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Do you think trying to get a bs in horticulture is worth it?

Sorry, but it's even obvious in the video these beds are WAY off contour. Don't know how that can happen with working with a laser level lol If you were to have them on contour, there wouldn't be any low spots. Just make sure there is an overflow, so heavy rain is not an issue

"chop n' drop" A guy can learn SO much from listening to/watching to these videos! No! I really mean that.

Farming just doesn't count in California. It is too easy period. I've lived in California and now I live in South Carolina (SC). Farming in California is like farming in the garden of Eden while farming in SC is like farming in Hell. I cannot overstate how easy it is to farm in California.

@bradical2723

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Well they balance out the ease of working with the land by making it impossible to work with the politicians and bureaucrats and miles of regulations and taxes.

@Laryanka

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I agree, I gardened in WA, then came to KY and tried same methods 😢. Clay, rocky soil, super wet climate in spring and fall, scorching sun in the summer, at least few month of complete drought. This place could use a PHD in agriculture to be successful, but I tackled it on my 20th year 😅😂

Painful explanation.

Great video, great farm 👍