Given Oklahoma’s experience with the Dust Bowl (which is STILL affecting the soil!) WHY are you leaving any ground bare?! Glad to know that the panhandle fires did NOT get you!

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

I was lazy with the sowing of the winter wheat, and missed a spot .. It turned into a good teaching example, though, didn't it?

@sassafrasred6657

3 ай бұрын

Get him Vicki! Bad Jason. At least Vicki is getting your top soil you didnt cover

@BonnieBlue2A

3 ай бұрын

While cover cropping is better than not, it was deep tilling and sever drought combined that contributed the most to creating the soil conditions for the dust bowl erosion.

@sassafrasred6657

3 ай бұрын

@@BonnieBlue2A it was pointed out that the soil is still recovering from the poor practices of the past.

@karlsoffthegrid1378

3 ай бұрын

I love what you’re doing with your cover crop. Here in Wisconsin we have the same problem with wind erosion. We get a lot of Highwinds coming off of Lake Michigan and it completely decimates our topsoil. I’ll be following this topic and reading some of the replies as well.

HellO Spout!🎉

I always learn something from your videos. I wanna see that screen porch!

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

I got the stuff to get it painted, now waiting on the kid that wants $ to paint it to want it enough to git his butt over here. I'll give ya a tour, when i re-install the cat bell kzread.infoWPcroFKfszw?feature=share

@sassafrasred6657

3 ай бұрын

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry sounds like a lot of fixin to's

Aged pulverized Cow manure works good. Get you a pick up truck full from a friend on the Prairie! !Missed your live Wednesday last! I need that for my Troop 530 Nerd (Wizard?) friend fix! Oh, and that's a compliment all around.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

I fell prey to a nasty cold snap, and scurried to bed early to avoid the chill

@ClickinChicken

3 ай бұрын

@@Green.Country.Agroforestry drink your Orange juice, curl up, and make sure to drink your Ovaltine.😏 We get used to being cold, but that's over now, until next year! HA! An Englishman recently said, "Look after one another." a good thought.

@ClickinChicken

3 ай бұрын

checking in on you 15:34 3/3/24 Jason! How are you feeling? Macho? I hope! Take care as they say. -brian

I'm guessing the soil where the winter wheat grew, still has moisture and the cover crop is keeping the soil in place? During February and March we get powerful winds, great for the Prickly pear, as I'm told the more wind, the more larger the bumper crop of pads, but bad for the soil, but planting some drought resistant grass, wheat demands a lot of water right?😊👍

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

It uses water .. but also protects the soil from its loss. The soil without wheat planted received the same amount of water, but couldn't retain it.

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@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

Yes, Please! I need some feedback .. the first store also needed 'tuning', so let me know what interacting with it as a customer is like. If it works properly, I will start adding the other things .. Like the Egyptian Walking onions, coming out in 11 more days!!

I wonder how much of this can be credited to the winter wheat/other forbes, and how much to the biochar? My renter put down a winter wheat cover crop in October after harvesting corn. It is just beginning to come up now in March. It will stay in and get cut for hay. Very interested to see how/if the soil is improved. I think the biochar may be playing a larger role in the moisture of the soil than you think.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

It is certainly helping .. It is in the corn patch as well, but there wasn't a big chunk of unpulverized material there, like I found on camera by the plum tree. I had to edit that text in about the corn patch, because I realized that if I had taken a sample from just a couple feet over, it would have been dry as a bone - it was only the duck water spilling that kept it moist enough for algae to grow on it. If I was any kind of professional videographer, I would have gone out, right then and there to re shoot the whole thing 😉 Timing it for the corn patch might be tricky in some places .. I think I can probably get it to germinate in the time we have before the real cold hits us .. or force it over a warm fall week. Having the ability to move the ducks around will let us do more forage and cover cropping experiments - I want to be able to feed those birds entirely on what we produce in the yard, at some point.

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Great video my man! I love the results of the wheat crop! And this is a very material result you have due to the proximity. Question though, did you harvest the wheat?

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

3 ай бұрын

So far, I have only harvested what volunteered from the straw bedding last year - It was those volunteers that made me realize that I could grow wheat, and let ducks forage in it .. and still wind up with wheat at the end of the season! We will be harvesting this year's crop when summer arrives. The birds will eat wheat grass when it is young and tender - and the only green thing they can find - but they ignore it in favor of the grasshoppers that show up later .. as long as i keep them moving and not killing off the plants, we will get fodder and grain, too. 0 pesticide, 0 fertilizer, with duck eggs for breakfast.