Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
In this week's FARMVLOG we catch up on the movements of our dairy goats and Shetland sheep and before taking an exciting look at our Bokashi experiment. Just under 8 weeks and we have a beautiful, dark compost that's almost ready to use as a no dig mulch in the market garden. This fermented organic material is produced through an anaerobic process to make a fertiliser and compost-like material that involves absolutely no turning! We're very excited!
Next we're preparing the goat shed for the goat's evening meal - feeding the goats hybrid willow tree branches and looking at how we manage the waste by building dead hedges with the tree branches.
Then we hook up the trailer to our BCS two wheel tractor and start removing the finished pumpkin plants in the polytunnel, finding some butternut squash amongst other varieties of pumpkins that we can use in the kitchen. We take the old veggies to the chickens who are in the straw yard, an area where all the waste from the farm is left to compost or be turned into eggs!
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.
PATREON:
patreon.com/tapfarm
If you're looking for even more content from James and Rosa then you can become a patron of Tap Farm. It takes James between 5-10 hrs to edit our vlogs, let alone the time it takes to film and farm at the same time! Your support will aid us greatly in producing our FARMVLOGS, enabling us to take the time needed to craft a beautiful film and to help fund the licences needed for the vlog soundtrack. We will list your name at the end of each vlog episode so everyone knows how brilliant you are! We will also keep you updated on our farm work/life by posting exclusive video content that is not available on YouTube such as FARMVLOG outtakes, behind the scenes footage, hints & tips and more in depth videos discussing the many permaculture systems to be found on the farm PLUS the odd photo from Rosa and James.
SOCIAL:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.com
CHAPTERS (jump to your point of interest!)
Intro 0:00
Goat silvopasture 0:11
Shetland sheep/nut tree silvopasture update 2:14
End of our CSA veg box shares 3:02
Bokashi compost reveal 3:44
Feeding hybrid willow/trees to goats 10:26
Tree branches/brash for dead hedges 13:01
Polytunnel clean out with BCS and trailer 14:08
Different pumpkin/squash varieties 15:17
Taking crop waste to the chickens 19:00
Chicken straw yard/compost area 19:50
#bokashicompost #permaculture #nodiggardening
Making bokashi
bokashi composting
Effective Microorganisms
EM
Soil food web
permaculture in Scotland
Scottish permaculture
agroforestry
In this week's FARMVLOG we catch up on the movements of our dairy goats and Shetland sheep and before taking an exciting look at our Bokashi experiment. Just under 8 weeks and we have a beautiful, dark compost that's almost ready to use as a no dig mulch in the market garden. This fermented organic material is produced through an anaerobic process to make a fertiliser and compost-like material that involves absolutely no turning! We're very excited!
Next we're preparing the goat shed for the goat's evening meal - feeding the goats hybrid willow tree branches and looking at how we manage the waste by building dead hedges with the tree branches.
Then we hook up the trailer to our BCS two wheel tractor and start removing the finished pumpkin plants in the polytunnel, finding some butternut squash amongst other varieties of pumpkins that we can use in the kitchen. We take the old veggies to the chickens who are in the straw yard, an area where all the waste from the farm is left to compost or be turned into eggs!
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.
PATREON:
patreon.com/tapfarm
If you're looking for even more content from James and Rosa then you can become a patron of Tap Farm. It takes James between 5-10 hrs to edit our vlogs, let alone the time it takes to film and farm at the same time! Your support will aid us greatly in producing our FARMVLOGS, enabling us to take the time needed to craft a beautiful film and to help fund the licences needed for the vlog soundtrack. We will list your name at the end of each vlog episode so everyone knows how brilliant you are! We will also keep you updated on our farm work/life by posting exclusive video content that is not available on YouTube such as FARMVLOG outtakes, behind the scenes footage, hints & tips and more in depth videos discussing the many permaculture systems to be found on the farm PLUS the odd photo from Rosa and James.
SOCIAL:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.com
CHAPTERS (jump to your point of interest!)
Intro 0:00
Goat silvopasture 0:11
Shetland sheep/nut tree silvopasture update 2:14
End of our CSA veg box shares 3:02
Bokashi compost reveal 3:44
Feeding hybrid willow/trees to goats 10:26
Tree branches/brash for dead hedges 13:01
Polytunnel clean out with BCS and trailer 14:08
Different pumpkin/squash varieties 15:17
Taking crop waste to the chickens 19:00
Chicken straw yard/compost area 19:50
#bokashicompost #permaculture #nodiggardening
Making bokashi
bokashi composting
Effective Microorganisms
EM
Soil food web
permaculture in Scotland
Scottish permaculture
agroforestry
