It is a blessing to see this video. Thank you for breaking down permaculture into bite sized pieces.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You just gave the best explanation of the covering I've ever heard. O SNAP!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Billy! I don't know who's the bigger blessing, y'all over here at Perma, or your son at The Permaculture Consultant... You all are such a blessing, thank you so much bruzza.. 🙏🙏

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

You’re too kind, my brother!

They are excited to see Daddy feeder. They love y'all . Blessings, julie

You are on top of it Billy. This is something I have never thought about. You are ingenious.

Making nature work with you. Smart

@user-kv2pt4lu9y

5 ай бұрын

You canNOT make nature do anything. You can work with nature.

@spagsunfiltered

5 ай бұрын

@user-kv2pt4lu9y so damming up a river, rerouting it, and forcing it to go where you want isn't making nature do something. We have dominion over the earth. And yes, we can absolutely make nature do things.

@vickisavage8929

5 ай бұрын

@@spagsunfilteredWe have been given dominion over the earth IN STEWARDSHIP to Him, and we WILL be accountable for what we have done with our stewardship.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That’s how we roll, my brother!

The earthworm debate is confusing. I still don’t quite have my head wrapped around the soil health spectrum of each area. Your teaching about the bacteria and fungi balance is a key element. Still, I’m At kidnegarden after decades of being in the soil, with many teachers along the way. Some of the best soil I’ve seen is crawling with worms, some of the best had none. I’ve got friends into the Steiner thing, into the anti worms thing, into the vermaculture thing, hugelkulture, and all of it seems like it’s both on point and off. I’m turning 50 acres of mixed forest , much recently clear cut, into paradise. I am working hard to preserve the Healthy trees and making pastures and food forests out of the scrub. A balance I’ve yet to really hit.

Great video Billy. I use straw as bedding for my goats and chickens. I have been just tossing it into the compost pile when it starts to get too soiled, but after watching this I think I will start putting it around my younger trees in my orchard and on areas I plan on planting this spring in order to get the worms and microorganisms to flock to those areas. Thanks for the great information.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That's a great idea!

I found William ,I glad he is in TEXAS

@tambrasmith9707

5 ай бұрын

He’s a good boy

@tambrasmith9707

5 ай бұрын

Yall have helped me a lot

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

He’s doing a bang up job down there!

Hey! I'm a microbe farmer, too! Awesome! It was such a blessing to hear you call yourself a microbe farmer, because that is what I have been calling myself for a while now. Microbes are the flocks and herds. "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." Proverbs 27:23 (I know that flocks fly. those are the birds, bees, hummingbirds, etc. Everything works for us, eh?)

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Amen to all of that, my friend!

@busker153

5 ай бұрын

@@ML-ks2lj No, we are wonderfully and fearfully made by the hand of a loving Creator who breathed the breath of life into us. I am sorry that you have so little respect for yourself, and that you consider yourself to be of little to no actual value. No wonder this cursed world is so sad and empty. We are not basically microbes that grew multiple cellular structures. The code written into our DNA proves the Truth, if you are willing to stop loving your lusts more than the Truth.

@robinham2796

5 ай бұрын

Love the scripture!!! Want to paint thst in my chicken coop!!!

@busker153

5 ай бұрын

@@robinham2796 They'll love it!

@lordflash4312

5 ай бұрын

Were the opposite of that.

I would wish that one day the educational elites (professors) of agriculture would wise up to your wisdom. Maybe 10% of nature can be observed and duplicated in a petri dish. It has to be done in a real classroom, the outdoors. Great explaining again, Billy. God bless. Wu Tang out.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you Kenneth!

I think I would've waited another few days to move the straw to get more microrganisms started

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That’s definitely a good strategy as well.

That chicken though 😂😂

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

There’s always got to be one.

When you call an audible, just tell 'em that you're simply expressing the Billyness of the Billy. LOL

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m talking about!

It's so awesome to see you getting back to Permaculture!! Thank you.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

I’ll be doing more of it!

Wish I could get wheat straw where I live. All the wheat farmers in my area grow short-stem wheat, then burn the stubble in the field after harvest. I could do the same with Grazon-free hay (as long as I can trust the supplier), but it would cost more.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that

Maybe a video one day about moving the electric fence? Its always a tangled mess when I move it. And sometimes it’s “hot “ and sometimes it’s not. And what’s that ticking noise?😮. Thanks, we learn a lot from you and family

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

I’ll see what I can do Lydia!

Thanks Billy.

Thank you brother

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Thank you as well, Wally!

I’m a beginning microbe farmer, great video Billy!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

So glad to hear it, Matt!

Blessings to you and your family!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Blessings to you and yours as well Cami!

Thank you!!! That is such great knowledge that you impart on us

Let my girls in my double compost bin to turn and WOOT WOOT did they do an amazing job!!!! Wonder where I could get unsprayed straw?

I'm trying to learn permaculture and homesteading and these kids are a help. I hope homesteading in Texas is as doable as other areas lol. So hot here 😂

I use my chickens to weed and uproot entire areas I want to plant. I just fence off a 20x20 area and leave a few of my older birds inbthere that don't lay so well and come back in a few days after they scratchvand till it all up and leave their fertilizer behind then I move the birds to the next spot and plant the bare area with whatever I had in mind, typically oats barley or clover forna cover crop.

If you ever visit and ask our kids, "What are you?", they will respond with "AIRBORNE"

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

All the way!

I have read that the best fertilizer is found at the feet of the farmer.

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what I’m talking about!

You da man Billy.

Thanks great video!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Thank you for this video

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

So nice of you!

Good show!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I love your explanations, thank you!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

great how to video

Great Video!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

enjoyed

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Do you grow your own wheat straw? If not where do u get chemical free straw?

How long do you have to wait to plant in garden that has chicken poo in it?

How is it you have the shade cloth on your greenhouse?

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

It gets pretty hot in there in the winter also because of our altitude.

How can I use coffee grounds which I get from starbucks? I add a little to my compost piles. Could I put it around apple tree? I have been on the list fir wood chips for over a year!

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

I would definitely compost it first.

@TheRealHonestInquiry

5 ай бұрын

If the list you're talking about is something like chipdrop, there is a faster way; just contact your local arborists and offer them a place to dump a load of wood chips for free. Coffee grounds are high nitrogen so mix with leaves or wood chips and let it compost, obviously the leaves will be ready faster but you could sift the wood chips after awhile and still get some nice stuff.

@lordflash4312

5 ай бұрын

Have you called the local tree services and asked them? They're usually happy to dump chips as it saves them the trouble of disposing of them.

move the allies not the compost

@PermaPasturesFarm21

5 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m talking about!

The earthworm debate is confusing. I still don’t quite have my head wrapped around the soil health spectrum of each area. Your teaching about the bacteria and fungi balance is a key element. Still, I’m At kidnegarden after decades of being in the soil, with many teachers along the way. Some of the best soil I’ve seen is crawling with worms, some of the best had none. I’ve got friends into the Steiner thing, into the anti worms thing, into the vermaculture thing, hugelkulture, and all of it seems like it’s both on point and off. I’m turning 50 acres of mixed forest , much recently clear cut, into paradise. I am working hard to preserve the Healthy trees and making pastures and food forests out of the scrub. A balance I’ve yet to really hit.