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Turnips, Seed Saving, and Building a Closed-Loop Fertility System
A full walkaround of the homestead covering turnip harvesting and root cellar storage, zero-care gardening strategies, seed saving (Cascadia peas, Lincoln peas, radish, coriander), and detailed crop updates on wheat, grapes, figs, sunflowers, bush beans, fava beans, chickpeas, oats, sorghum, melons, squashes, potatoes, cabbages, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and more.
The second half dives deep into the soil improvement and fertility system: harvesting shelling peas, preparing a no-dig garden bed using chop-and-drop mulching, comfrey, plantain, chicken and duck manure, and crop residues. Explains the "infinite fertility stack" approach to building soil without buying compost or fertilizer, how to use succession planting (peas followed by mustard greens followed by winter carrots), and the research-area model for testing crop rotations before scaling up.
Also covers: greenhouse tour, chickens and ducks in the chicken tractor, sun-drying turnips for chicken feed, air layering failures, sweet corn germination problems, and a call for community support and food sovereignty.
Chapters and timestamps in the description for easy navigation.
Chapters
00:00 - Turnip Harvest & Root Cellar Storage
00:50 - Garden Walk: Wheat, Grapes, Figs & Sunflowers
01:35 - Seed Saving: Cascadia Peas & Radish
02:10 - Fava Beans, Chickpeas & Garden Cleanup
03:10 - Blue Emmer Wheat & Lincoln Peas for Seed
03:58 - Black Raspberries, Sweet Corn & Jerusalem Artichokes
04:30 - Cascadia Peas, Borage & Bees
05:25 - Cabbages, Broccoli, Swiss Chard & Melons
06:40 - Oats Under Walnut, Potatoes Need Mounding
07:30 - Mulching Sunflowers, Squashes & Field Peas
08:15 - Pole Beans, Sorghum & Ornamental Poppies
09:45 - Making Soap from Ash & Firewood Plans
10:30 - Peppers, Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Cracked Ground
11:40 - Cucumber Patch: 30+ Plants for Fermenting
12:00 - Chickens & Ducks: Reseeding & Rotation
12:40 - Sweet Corn Germination Issues
13:00 - Kitchen Garden: Brussels Sprouts, Basil, Coriander
13:50 - Greenhouse Tour: Tomatoes, Peppers, Lavender & Rosemary
14:20 - Sun-Drying Turnips for Chicken Feed
14:50 - Air Layering Failures & Farm Loop Walk
15:45 - Pond, Swale & Call for Support
16:45 - Stanley Plum & Volunteer Peas
17:20 - Chicks & Ducks: Mallard Pekin Hybrids
18:00 - 350 Potato Plants & Progress Update
18:30 - Shelling Pea Harvest: 15-20x Seed Return
19:00 - Soil Improvement Stack: Preparing a No-Dig Bed
20:45 - Plantain, Comfrey & Pioneer Species as Mulch
22:00 - Chicken & Duck Manure, Comfrey, and the Fertility Stack
23:45 - Clearing the Bed: Cut, Don't Pull
24:40 - Clay Soil Documentation: Starting from Scratch
25:40 - Mixing Manure, Comfrey & Mulch for the Bed
26:50 - Bush Beans on the Berm & Mizuna Mustard Greens
28:10 - Chop and Drop: Why Not Just Compost?
30:00 - Infinite Fertility Stack: Closing the Loop
31:30 - Fall Planting: Carrots in Furrows Under Leaves
32:00 - Calcium, Phosphorus & Magnesium: Nutrient Cycling
33:00 - Why Compost-First No-Dig Doesn't Scale
35:00 - 15x Seed Multiplication & Research Area Model
36:30 - Peas, Then Mustard, Then Carrots: Three Crops, One Bed
38:00 - Storing Staples: 50lb Bags of Dried Peas
39:00 - Preemptively Failing in the Research Area
40:00 - Bush Beans on Berms & Closing Thoughts
40:30 - Food Sovereignty Is Solarpunk
Tags
homesteading, permaculture, no-dig gardening, seed saving, turnips, soil fertility, chop and drop, closed loop agriculture, food sovereignty, solarpunk, garden tour, compost, mulch, peas, mustard greens, crop rotation, West Virginia, zero-care gardening, root cellar, sustainable farming
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By A full walkaround of the homestead covering turnip harvesting and root cellar storage, zero-care gardening strategies, seed saving (Cascadia peas, Lincoln peas, radish, coriander), and detailed crop updates on wheat, grapes, figs, sunflowers, bush beans, fava beans, chickpeas, oats, sorghum, melons, squashes, potatoes, cabbages, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and more.
The second half dives deep into the soil improvement and fertility system: harvesting shelling peas, preparing a no-dig garden bed using chop-and-drop mulching, comfrey, plantain, chicken and duck manure, and crop residues. Explains the "infinite fertility stack" approach to building soil without buying compost or fertilizer, how to use succession planting (peas followed by mustard greens followed by winter carrots), and the research-area model for testing crop rotations before scaling up.
Also covers: greenhouse tour, chickens and ducks in the chicken tractor, sun-drying turnips for chicken feed, air layering failures, sweet corn germination problems, and a call for community support and food sovereignty.
Chapters and timestamps in the description for easy navigation.
Chapters
00:00 - Turnip Harvest & Root Cellar Storage
00:50 - Garden Walk: Wheat, Grapes, Figs & Sunflowers
01:35 - Seed Saving: Cascadia Peas & Radish
02:10 - Fava Beans, Chickpeas & Garden Cleanup
03:10 - Blue Emmer Wheat & Lincoln Peas for Seed
03:58 - Black Raspberries, Sweet Corn & Jerusalem Artichokes
04:30 - Cascadia Peas, Borage & Bees
05:25 - Cabbages, Broccoli, Swiss Chard & Melons
06:40 - Oats Under Walnut, Potatoes Need Mounding
07:30 - Mulching Sunflowers, Squashes & Field Peas
08:15 - Pole Beans, Sorghum & Ornamental Poppies
09:45 - Making Soap from Ash & Firewood Plans
10:30 - Peppers, Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Cracked Ground
11:40 - Cucumber Patch: 30+ Plants for Fermenting
12:00 - Chickens & Ducks: Reseeding & Rotation
12:40 - Sweet Corn Germination Issues
13:00 - Kitchen Garden: Brussels Sprouts, Basil, Coriander
13:50 - Greenhouse Tour: Tomatoes, Peppers, Lavender & Rosemary
14:20 - Sun-Drying Turnips for Chicken Feed
14:50 - Air Layering Failures & Farm Loop Walk
15:45 - Pond, Swale & Call for Support
16:45 - Stanley Plum & Volunteer Peas
17:20 - Chicks & Ducks: Mallard Pekin Hybrids
18:00 - 350 Potato Plants & Progress Update
18:30 - Shelling Pea Harvest: 15-20x Seed Return
19:00 - Soil Improvement Stack: Preparing a No-Dig Bed
20:45 - Plantain, Comfrey & Pioneer Species as Mulch
22:00 - Chicken & Duck Manure, Comfrey, and the Fertility Stack
23:45 - Clearing the Bed: Cut, Don't Pull
24:40 - Clay Soil Documentation: Starting from Scratch
25:40 - Mixing Manure, Comfrey & Mulch for the Bed
26:50 - Bush Beans on the Berm & Mizuna Mustard Greens
28:10 - Chop and Drop: Why Not Just Compost?
30:00 - Infinite Fertility Stack: Closing the Loop
31:30 - Fall Planting: Carrots in Furrows Under Leaves
32:00 - Calcium, Phosphorus & Magnesium: Nutrient Cycling
33:00 - Why Compost-First No-Dig Doesn't Scale
35:00 - 15x Seed Multiplication & Research Area Model
36:30 - Peas, Then Mustard, Then Carrots: Three Crops, One Bed
38:00 - Storing Staples: 50lb Bags of Dried Peas
39:00 - Preemptively Failing in the Research Area
40:00 - Bush Beans on Berms & Closing Thoughts
40:30 - Food Sovereignty Is Solarpunk
Tags
homesteading, permaculture, no-dig gardening, seed saving, turnips, soil fertility, chop and drop, closed loop agriculture, food sovereignty, solarpunk, garden tour, compost, mulch, peas, mustard greens, crop rotation, West Virginia, zero-care gardening, root cellar, sustainable farming