Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago
*This video was originally filmed for our PATREON community, spring 2024.
Today we’re making some changes to an area above the market garden where we planted a mix of chestnut and hazel in 2019. Initially the idea for this was a coppice silvopasture - an area to grow wood fuel coppice species and also have grazing for the geese and other small grazing animals.
However we have now decided to make some serious edits to the design, digging up and transplanting some of the five year old chestnuts to different locations and interplanting apples and pear in their place and amongst the hazel. We’re also putting in some Saskatoon in the shrub layer of these multi strata/ multi layer food forests.
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 #saskatoonberries #silvopasture
*This video was originally filmed for our PATREON community, spring 2024.
Today we’re making some changes to an area above the market garden where we planted a mix of chestnut and hazel in 2019. Initially the idea for this was a coppice silvopasture - an area to grow wood fuel coppice species and also have grazing for the geese and other small grazing animals.
However we have now decided to make some serious edits to the design, digging up and transplanting some of the five year old chestnuts to different locations and interplanting apples and pear in their place and amongst the hazel. We’re also putting in some Saskatoon in the shrub layer of these multi strata/ multi layer food forests.
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 #saskatoonberries #silvopasture
