Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
VLOG 100?!!?
Milking our Dexter house cow gets easier now she comes to be milked without having to catch her and convince her to come to the stanchion. While her milk yield is still low it is going up.
We look at the design of our silvopasture grazing system and set up our electric fencing to make a new grazing cell for the cows as well as one for the chickens to come out and follow the cows on their rotation.
We look at the straw yard, a permaculture designed area for our laying hens which uses a polytunnel as a hen house. James comes up with some ideas of how to keep the hen house cool in this hot weather.
We finish the day by heading up to our beautiful swimming pond and cooling off in the water.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest 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 cows and goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
FOOD FOREST BERRIES
2024 sees work begin in establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUT
Come and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven and wood fired outdoor bath, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond.
You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#permaculture #strawyard #housecow
VLOG 100?!!?
Milking our Dexter house cow gets easier now she comes to be milked without having to catch her and convince her to come to the stanchion. While her milk yield is still low it is going up.
We look at the design of our silvopasture grazing system and set up our electric fencing to make a new grazing cell for the cows as well as one for the chickens to come out and follow the cows on their rotation.
We look at the straw yard, a permaculture designed area for our laying hens which uses a polytunnel as a hen house. James comes up with some ideas of how to keep the hen house cool in this hot weather.
We finish the day by heading up to our beautiful swimming pond and cooling off in the water.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest 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 cows and goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
FOOD FOREST BERRIES
2024 sees work begin in establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUT
Come and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven and wood fired outdoor bath, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond.
You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#permaculture #strawyard #housecow
