A BANGIN DAY on the FARM | FARMVLOG 47 Tap o’ Noth Farm 2026-09-22 | A BANGIN DAY on the FARM | FARMVLOG 47
HONEYBERRY in our FOOD FOREST MARKET GARDEN | SMALL SCALE BERRY FARMING | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-04-26 | We complete our berry planting (almost!) in the market garden by planting honeyberryFOOD FOREST BERRIES2024 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.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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome 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/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchatWEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #honeyberry
INTRODUCING SASKATOON | BED PREP & PLANTING | FOOD FOREST MARKET GARDENING | PERMACULTURE BERRY FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-04-16 | In this weeks video we take a look at wonderful Saskatoon berry and how we are planting it in our food forest market garden.FOOD FOREST BERRIES2024 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.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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome 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/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchatWEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #saskatoon
GOOSEBERRIES - BED PREP & PLANTING | FOOD FOREST MARKET GARDENING | PERMACULTURE BERRY FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-04-08 | In this 5th episode following our work in establishing our small scale berry enterprise, James prepares the plot and plants out the Gooseberries. He also transplants some homegrown trees from a nursery and propagates some elderberry and Autumn Olive.FOOD FOREST BERRIES2024 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.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome 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/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchatWEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #plantinggooseberries
BED PREP & PLANTING RASPBERRIES in the MARKET GARDEN | SMALL SCALE BERRY FARMING | FOOD FOREST FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-03-30 | In this 4th episode following our work in establishing our small scale berry enterprise, James prepares the plot and plants out the raspberries.FOOD FOREST BERRIES2024 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.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchatWEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #plantingraspberries
PREPARING for BLACKBERRIES | BCS TILLER V PLOUGH | WHEN to AVOID TILLAGE | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-03-19 | In this week's update from the berry patch James is preparing a plot for the blackberry or bramble crop to be planted in our micro berry farm/market garden. He uses the BCS two wheeled tractor/walk behind tractor to cultivate the ground. Experimenting first with the tiller/rotavator before remembering why we try and avoid tillage, especially in wet conditions to avoid negatively impact ing the soil life. The BCS rotary plough is used instead of the tiller to make raised beds and the rows are marked out in readiness for planting the blackberries. James also discusses the reasons why blackberries may be the most challenging crop to grow on the farm.FOOD FOREST BERRIES2024 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.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchatWEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #blackberries #foodforest
The FIRST BERRIES in the MARKET GARDEN | PLANTING BLACK & RED CURRANTS | SMALL SCALE FAMILY FARMING Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-03-13 | *RE-POST as the first upload was accidentally deleted.We have planted the first selection of fruit in our micro berry farm - the black, red, pink and white currants. 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, ecological 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.In this video we plant all the currants, looking at bed length, planting distance between the balckcurrants and planting density, all work undertook with the help and support of our toddler!About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #marketgardening #plantingblackcurrants
MARKET GARDENING SOFT FRUIT | STARTING a small scale BERRY FARM | | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2024-03-02 | In this video we announce the exciting news that we're starting a berry farm and we look at the first area to be cultivated, our currant patch.2024 marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter on the farm as we embark on the establishment of a small yet robust berry enterprise.This spring, our farm is teeming with excitement as we get ready to plant over ten different varieties of soft fruit. From timeless classics like red and blackcurrants, strawberries, and raspberries, to some more unique options including Saskatoon, Aronia, and Honey Berry, our market garden is soon to be bursting with diversity. The quarter acre garden, previously dedicated to our CSA veg box scheme (2015-2021), is being transformed into a thriving collection of berry patches full of luscious fruits. These perennial shrubs, along with already established hedgerows of top fruit and nuts, will yield a bountiful harvest from June all the way through to November, gracing us with their produce for years to come. It will be a couple of years before the berry bushes settle in and start yielding reliable harvests that we feel we can sell. Until then we will be tending to these varied berries, farming them with the best agro-ecological practices that we can provide and taste testing our way to being fruit farmers, whilst planning the best way we can get these juicy sweet fruits to our valued customers within our local community.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUTCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowPATREON:Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!patreon.com/tapfarmSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #growingberries
FARM FORAGING | PLUM HARVEST | MAKING WILLOW TREE HAY | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST | VLOG 98 Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-09-02 | It's late August and time to harvest some of our staple veggies, like our potatoes and onions. The plums are also ready to pick and we take them off the tree by the basket load. We're going to dry some, freeze some and of course eat them fresh. We love foraging the farm, even more easy to do since designing the farm as a food forest. Rosa picks some rose hips in readiness to make some homemade skin products.In the afternoon we head over to our fruit tree silvopasture system to cut some coppiced willow to make tree hay so we have some fodder for the goats to eat in winter.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #treehay
A LIVING FENCE POST #shorts Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-08-28 | Fence posts that we have cut from willow and used to construct our dead/brash hedge around our airbnb shepherds hut have sprouted and grown producing a living fence post.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk#permaculture #growingwillow #shorts
The ABUNDANCE of BERRY SEASON | FOOD FOREST FRUIT LIQUEUR | PRESERVING FRUIT in BRANDY Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-08-23 | It’s late summer on the farm and when the sun decides to bless us with its presence we make sure to head out into our expanding food forests to gather in some of the season’s abundance. It’s an activity that all the family is eager to partake in.Today we’re using a simple but decedent recipe from a wonderful book called Preserving Food without freezing or canning… an alcoholic tipple called Officers Jam or bachelors liqueur.We’ve made fruit liqueurs before with brambles or sloes but never as opulent as using multiple types of fruit as we are here.Using a large airtight container we’re placing alternate layers of our redcurrant, blackcurrant, gooseberry and some strawberries that we picked a few weeks ago to start the process, with a layer of sugar before submerging each layer of fruit and sugar with a liberal amount of brandy.The recipe in the book suggests using a pound of sugar to every pound of fruit but we’ve decided to use less sugar feeling confident that the alcohol will preserve the berries well.And that’s it, pretty simple.While berry season is beginning to slow down we know that in not too long there will be plums, aronia berry, damson and apples that can all be added to this medley of food forest fruits. It’s a lovely way of charting the years fruit offerings, starting with the strawberries of midsummer and ending with the apples of late autumn.And in the meantime, while we wait for the other fruits to ripen, we can leave this boozy concoction to rest in a dark corner of our pantry. We’ll wait at least six months before we try a tipple of this sweet, fruity and warming treat in the depth of winter when summers berry abundance is but a tempting memory.About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk#foodforest #preservingfruit #fruitliqueur
POLYCULTURE ABUNDANCE | Our LATEST MOVEABLE GOOSE HOUSE | REUSING an IBC TANK | MULCHING FRUIT TREES Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-07-27 | In this weeks Vlog we are rolling out bales of straw to carry on mulching our syntropic food forest rows in the silvopasture system we have for our goats, geese and hens. We also take a look at how we have reused/recycled an old IBC tank and made it into a moveable goose house. We also visit the polytunnel in the market garden to have a quick look at our polyculture veg plantings, how we are using ground cover crops such as sweet potato and squash to suppress weeds while growing veg and how our self seeded veg is growing so abundantly. About Tap o' Noth Food Forest 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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk
VLOG#96 | ALL MUCKING IN TO MUCK OUT | MULCHING A FOOD FOREST WITH GOAT MANURE | NEW GEESE Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-07-20 | Today we begin the task of cleaning out the goat shed and we also take a look at the food forest tree rows that we have planted plus we introduce our new geese.We keep the goats on a deep litter system - where we build up layers of straw in their goat barn. Every so often we need to clean it out and it's even more important to do so today as our goats are expecting kids any day now so we need to keep the barn clean. I the past we have used the goat bedding to make compost or bokashi but today we are going to use it to mulch our forest garden tree rows/syntropic food forest rows. These linear food forests have apples, plums, Aronia berry and Saskatoon and will benefit from a deep mulching. We use the BCS, our walk behind tractor, to move most of the bedding but also use wheel barrows with the whole family helping.We also show you our new geese which are the Toulouse breed and talk about why and how we use geese on a permaculture farm.#permaculture #syntropicfoodforest #goats
REVITALISING a 2 year old LINEAR FOOD FOREST | PRUNING BIOMASS PLANTS for WEED CONTROL & FERTILITY Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-06-11 | We have several linear food forests or forest garden tree rows here on the farm, all planted in different years, starting in 2017.This small (15m) row was planted in spring 2021 and is the youngest of all our rows. It sits above a veg plot in our market garden and consists of plum, cherry and apple as the canopy species, blackcurrant, autumn olive, jostaberry occupy the shrub layer, rhubarb, comfrey, take their place in the herbaceous layer and strawberry grows as the ground cover layer.There is a lot of growth at this time of year and we need to do some pruning to make use of the available biomass. It's taken a couple of years for the comfrey and the autumn olive (planted for the fact it is a Nitrogen fixing shrub as well as having an edible berry) to really establish and now we can cut back their leafy growth to feed the soil, mulch out the grasses, retain moisture and reinvigorate the whole forest garden system through the pruning. Pruning allows in greater air flow to the soon fruiting trees, reducing the possibility of fungal problems and also allowing a greater solar gain to the fruit trees by reducing shade. 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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk#permaculture #foodforest #syntropicagriculture
VLOG#95 | FAMILY at WORK & PLAY | SCYTHING | PERMACULTURE POLY TUNNEL FRUIT TREES | SELF-SEEDING VEG Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-05-31 | Hello! After some time away we're back with an update, thanks for your patience !Today we're taking our dairy goats out to their grazing before checking on recently hatched chicks.Then we're sharpening our scythes and mowing a small field in readiness of building a tree nursery. We then spend the rest of the morning in our large polytunnel, talking about the changes that we are implementing and the transition from market garden into forest garden. We look at the perennials and fruit trees that we are planting in the tunnel, including grapes, figs, almond and peach trees. Rosa chats about the benefits of self seeding vegetables before we string up our tomatoes. Plus lots of playing, learning and laughing from our one year old farm kid!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 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.HEDGE + FURROWCome and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven, wood fired outdoor bath and sauna, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond. You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrowSocial Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.hedgeandfurrow.co.uk#permaculture #scything #polytunnelfruittrees
FOREST GARDEN MAINTENANCE | CHOP+DROPPING DOCK with a RICE KNIFE | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2023-05-27 | It's been a long time folks! Not a farmvlog for you today but a quick wee update from this food forest farm.Today we're in a small area of fruit tree silvopasture/orchard/food forest, primarily made up of apples and sweet cherry with an understory of blackcurrant and comfrey and we're cutting back weeds and chop and dropping dock using a Japanese Rice Knife or serrated sickle.#foodforest #permaculture #riceknife
QUICK TOUR of our 6 YEAR OLD FOREST GARDEN TREE ROWS | APPLE VARIETIES | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-11-22 | Tap Forest Garden Farm's James takes a walk around two of our linear forest garden hedgerows that are planted in an area that has been our market garden.Make sure to watch our video all about transitioning our market garden into a perennial, agroforestry system youtu.be/ShUtlcfjt14James looks at a row planted in 2017 and one planted in 2019, talking about the design, integration of Nitrogen fixing species such as Autumn Olive and Black locust, hazel nuts, medlar, apples and all the soft fruit including raspberries and blackcurrants. We also see how the cultivar/named variety elderberry is performing compared to the wild varieties.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.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.TAP:RETREATCome 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/tapretreatPatreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#forestgarden #permaculture #forestgardentour
WHY we are ACCELERATING SUCCESSION in the MARKET GARDEN | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-10-30 | At Tap o' Noth Farm we have always planned for mixed, tree based perennials to supersede areas of our annual based market garden. In this video we discuss the idea of working with and accelerating natural succession by changing areas of the market garden over to a mixed orchard or forest garden.We look at how we have already integrated perennials (trees, shrubs, herbs etc) into our small CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) market garden enterprise over the past six seasons with linear forest gardens hedgerows that frame and interject the vegetable plots. Due to slowly shifting our focus from small scale commercial vegetable production and developing new on farm enterprises, we also discuss how the decommissioned vegetable plots are beginning to show signs of reverting back to their pre-cultivated plant communities. We intend to encourage this demonstration of forest ecosystem succession and also aid in the acceleration of this process by experimenting with seeding the plots with an understory of mixed grasses and herbs before planting more multi species, multi strata agroforestry systems, designing not only for home production but for generating a surplus for future perennial based enterprises.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.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.TAP:RETREATCome 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/tapretreatPatreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #marketgarden #forestgarden
FIRST FRUITS OF OUR HARVEST | GROWING OATS for HERBAL MEDICINE | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-09-16 | (Better late than never! Filmed 1st of August and only just uploaded now due to awful internet connection!)The whole family is out picking berries and harvesting the first crops from our no dig/till market garden. We had a really successful onion crop and we’ve pulled them up, lay them in the sun for a day, before storing them somewhere dry and airy to dry for a few weeks before storing for winter.We Lao take a look at our planting of oats before harvesting some to make our favourite herbal medicine - milky oats tincture. This wonderful tincture is fantastic at strengthening the nervous system helping the body deal with stress and anxiety. We also take a look at our brassica beds, seeing how the cabbages, kale and cauliflower have done over the months.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.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.TAP:RETREATCome 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/tapretreatPatreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#nodig #permaculture #milkyoats
LEMON BALM; GROWING THE HERB THAT MAKES US HAPPY | NO DIG HERB GARDEN | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-06-27 | In this week's FARMVLOG we start with a quick polytunnel tidy up, bringing back order to an important part of the farm.Then James starts planting a dedicated bed of the wonderfully calming herb, Lemon Balm, in an old vegetable bed in the market garden. The Lemon Balm joins many other herbs (yarrow, motherwort, mugwort, calendula) in an area of the market garden no longer used for our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) veg box business. These medicinal herbs are being grown to allow us to harvest large amounts to make into herbal remedies and medicine, including tinctures, infused oils and herbal teas. We are also experimenting with growing herbs on a larger scale to see what would be involved in growing medicinal herbs small scale commercially. They also make a fantastic addition to the forest gardens.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.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.TAP:RETREATCome 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/tapretreatPatreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#lemonbalm #permaculture #medicinalherbs
Are we THAT crazy goat family NOW?! NEW FOREST GARDENS, SILVOPASTURE & our SHEPHERDS HUT is LIVE Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-06-21 | It's been a wee while since we last uploaded a FARMVLOG, thank you for your patience. We've got a lot to tell you. We start off leading the goats up to the North Field to graze, catching up on all things goat and farm kid related - everyone is growing so quickly. We announce the launch of our new business - TAP:RETREAT - a beautiful shepherds hut and wood fired hot tub that we now have available to rent through airbnb (link below). Then James takes a wonder through areas of new forest garden plantings before heading to the goat shed via an area of silvopasture, explaining the change in design from wood fuel production to apple orchard silvopasture. We look at how long it takes the goats to rotationally graze through the system and the fencing we use. We Finish by looking at the improvements we have made to the goat shed area, mostly the paddock around the shed where we have made new more robust fencing using timber backs/slabs and how we protect trees from goat damage.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.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.TAP:RETREATCome 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/tapretreatPatreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #silvopasture #shepherdshut
FARM KIDS & GOAT KIDS | NEW LIFE on the FARM |NO DIG VEGGIE GARDEN & PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-05-13 | In this week's vlog we introduce you to our new born daughter who was born on April the 24th, happy and healthy at home. And we also meet two goat kids that were born just a few days after our daughter!We have a general catch up on what has been happening on our permaculture designed small farm, including where the chickens and geese are now after the avian flu restrictions have been lifted. We look at the polytunnel and see that we lost ALL our tomatoes to a bad frost. We talk about the reasons we have decided not to run our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture ) veg box scheme this year, though hear how our community is still supporting us by buying any surplus or gluts from the garden. We put out some kale and cabbages into our home garden before taking the kids and mother goat out to explore their surroundings.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #goatkids #farmkids
GROWING HOPS in TREES + APPLE GRAFTS & HARDY FIGS | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM & NO DIG VEG Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-04-18 | In this week's FARMVLOG we have a general catch up on the work we've been doing on the farm - we look at the new brash hedge, fencing and gates we have put in to create a laneway to safely and quickly move the goats and geese to areas of the farm. We look at the beautiful flowering cherry plum and discuss why they may not be successful. We check in with the goats and see how Mandy, our goat that is in kid, is doing and what we need to do to prepare for kidding. We have a look at the polytunnel and see how the veg beds have changed before looking at some hardy, cold climate fig varieties we are growing. We then venture out into the market garden where we are creating a tree nursery and look at our first attempts at grafting apple and plum trees. We then spend the afternoon planting hops in our food forest. We look at why and how we are using existing alder trees to grow our hops up, using the tall, skinny tree trunks as a growing support for the vigorous climbers. CHAPTERS0.00 INTRO1:38 starting the brash hedge laneway3:54 shrub layer in new apple and cherry orchard5:08 Cherry plum6:55 taking about the goats kidding9:25 polytunnel veg beds and figs11:45 tree nursery and apple grafting14:12 designing in the climbing layer14:49 hops15:48 hops climbing in cherry tree 16:35 forest garden and alder trees18:30 planting hopsAbout 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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#hops #forestgarden #permaculture
A QUICK & EASY WAY TO PLANT A LOT OF ONIONS | MARKET GARDENING TIPS & TRICKS | TAP SHORTS Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-04-10 | In this TAP SHORTS (filmed 2020) we look at how we choose to plant our onion crop. We mostly grow onions from seed, planting them out in groups of three or four to grow on together before being pulled up as a bunch. It can take a long time to transplant hundreds of onions so we use a simple rake hack (thanks Eliot Coleman!) to make transplanting very quick and easy.WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#marketgardening #plantingonions #organicveg
FOREST GARDEN HEDGEROWS | MARKET GARDEN ALLEY CROPPING | TAP SHORTS Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-04-01 | In this TAP SHORTS (filmed Sep 2019) we look at our forest garden tree rows that frame our market garden veg bed plots. These mixed fruit tree and shrub species hedgerows are inspired by the natural pattern and design of a forest ecosystem but planted in a way that enables easy harvest of the fruit. We also took great inspiration from the work of Stefan Sobkowiak and his Permaculture Orchard. Planting rows of productive trees between our plots of organic vegetables (harvested for a weekly CSA veg box scheme) is a small scale example of alley cropping, a widely used agroforestry method of combining crops on one area of land.In these rows we grow apples, plums, blackcurrant, raspberry, autumn olive and many different herbs.WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#forestgarden #permaculture #agroforestry
How many geese in a gaggle can one guy gather? #shorts Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-29 | The answer is only six but we do plan on expanding our gaggle of geese.Love bringing the geese home in the evening, every time!* Just to confirm this is footage from outside of the Avian Flu lock down measures. We are currently doing our best to comply with bird flu legislation, which as many other keepers of large fowl will agree, is very difficult!
HELLO APPLES, GOODBYE SHEEP | POLYTUNNEL IRRIGATION| PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM & MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-28 | In this week's FARMVLOG: We're getting summer weather here in NE Scotland so we need to get the irrigation system set up in our market garden polytunnel to water the veg beds and seedlings. To do this we re-use an old IBC to hold water from our pond and feed it to the overhead sprinkler system.We also look at why we are making changes to our fuel wood silvopasture system, swapping timber species for apples. We talk about why it is important and possible to make changes to your permaculture design, as we implement a new part of the overall agroforestry plantings of the farm.We end the day getting the sheep ready to move off the farm as we have decided to sell our three shetland sheep. We create a laneway, stretching from the north to the south of the farm, to get the sheep easily into the trailer to take them to their new home.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#appleorchard #polytunnelgrowing #permaculture
WHAT IS BOKASHI? FARM SCALE BOKASHI | SUPER FAST COMPOST | TAP SHORTS Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-25 | In this TAP SHORTS we take a look back at when we first made BOKASHI. This fermented organic material is different from compost in that it is made with anaerobic conditions and never turned. The time to maturation is very quick, within 2 months with the right conditions, making this a very viable option for production of a fantastic fertiliser/compost/mulch. We are finding it perfect for creating Charles Dowding style no dig/no till veg beds. It's also great for adding around fruit trees in our forest garden.WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#bokashi #quickcompost #nodig
#shorts - Beautiful evening spent moving geese Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-23 | #geese #permaculture #beautifulevening
#shorts Planting out Rhubarb Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-22 | Adding rhubarb and some berry bushes to a forest garden tree row in our market garden.#rhubarb #nodig #forestgarden
PLANTING ARONIA BERRY | NO DIG with BOKASHI | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM & HOMESTEAD SCOTLAND Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-21 | In this week's FARMVLOG we take a look at our large pile of bokashi that we made last year. With the help of Jame's daughter we haul the bokashi over to the market garden where we are making new no dig veg beds in the polytunnel. We have a look at a new area of fruit tree silvopasture made up of apple and cherry trees plus a new mixed forest garden area near our big pond. This multistrata agroforestry mimics the natural design and function of a forest ecosystem. We look at the tomatoes and peppers that Rosa sowed in the last vlog as they are ready to transplant to bigger pots. Then, we finish the day by planting a 15m row of aronia berry/choke berry in between our forest garden tree rows/hedgerows that are in the market garden. We also see why our farm dog, Oran, hates our BCS two wheel tractor so much!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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#aroniaberry #nodig #bokashi
#shorts GOAT WALKS: Simple living with goats on our permaculture farm Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-21 | In the summer we take the goats up to their grazing and down back the barn in the evening, simple.#shorts #goats #permaculture
SOWING CUT & COME AGAIN SALAD | BED PREP | JANG SEEDER for SALAD MIX | TAP SHORTS | MARKET GARDENING Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-08 | In today's TAP SHORTS (filmed in spring 2019) we look at how we sow our mixed salad crop. This mix of hardy spicy salad leaves - mizuna, mustard, green and snow and kale - makes up our mixed salad bags that often go into our veg boxes. We look at our bed prep techniques which, back in 2019, we were still using low till methods to cultivate the soil, rotavating with our BCS and rototiller. We then rake and level the bed before sowing 7 rows of mixed salad seeds with the JP-1 Jang seeder.WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#marketgardening #sowingsalad #jangseeder
SOWING CARROTS with the JANG SEEDER Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-03-04 | Today's TAP SHORTS: is taken from FARMVLOG #45, filmed May 2020.How do we sow carrots using our top favourite market gardening tool, the jang seeder.Here is a demonstration of how to sow carrots with the jang seeder. The jang seeder (similar to the Earthway seeder) is a push powered seed sowing machine that accurately sows any seed to your desired spacing and depth. This tool has been so valuable to us as market gardeners, helping reduce sowing times and making life much easier! We look at how the jang works, which seed rollers we use for sowing carrots, how we prep a bed and how we use a rake to mark out the sowing rows to then follow with the jang. WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#jangseeder #marketgardening #growingcarrots
SOWING the FIRST SEEDS for our FAMILY GARDEN | POLYTUNNEL CHANGES | WHAT TOMATO VARIETIES THIS YEAR? Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-28 | In this week's FARMVLOG the snow is back at the Tap but we're warm in the polytunnel sowing the first seeds of the year including tomatoes (find out what five cold climate tomato varieties we are growing this year), peppers and aubergine. We discuss how necessary it is to have a professional mindset when growing your own food for your family or if your goal is to be self sufficient. We also begin work changing the design of our polytunnel veg beds, starting work on creating new smaller no dig beds in the covered growing area.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #nodiggardening #polytunnelgrowingGrowing food in a polytunnelcold climate tomatoesgrowing organic vegetables for your family
PLANT OUT VEGGIES WITH EASE | RAKE HACK | TAP SHORTS| MARKET GARDENING | CSA ORGANIC PERMACULTURE Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-24 | In today's TAP SHORTS we go back to an early 2019. Gotta give a shout out to Eliot Coleman for this wonderfully simple rake hack.Transplanting seedlings/veggie starts can often take a long time and because of weeding or interplanting you need to keep your lines straight and your distances between plants uniform. This rake hack helps speed things up no end. You can use just about any type of plastic pipe for this, just experiment and see what works best for your own rake.WHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#marketgardening #organicfarming #marketgardentools
REVEALING 130 YEAR OLD FLOOR UNDER OUR KITCHEN! + RAISING the ROOF on the TIMBER FRAMED WOODSHED Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-21 | In today's FARMVLOG we carry on with the work of stripping back our kitchen walls and floor to reveal an amazing find - a beautiful slate flagstone floor! This floor has most likely been in place since our farm cottage was built in 1886 and has been hidden under some wooden flooring for over a decade. We were pretty nervous to pull back the flooring - what if the slates were damaged or missing, will it be too cold to walk on? Knowing the stone floor was there (we were pretty sure?!), we just couldn't resist having a look. We also continued removing the modern wood paneling to reveal an old yellow wood panel, again very old.While we were ripping the farmhouse kitchen apart, RG Bushel was continuing the work of building us a huge log store. This woodshed has been built from natural materials, roundwood logs, and today we lift the roof structure and get close to finishing the build. We also look at Rosa's evening chores, often completed in the dark, we wanted to show you a fantastic little lantern that Olight UK sent us.* Note- the model Rosa was using is in fact the FULL SIZE lantern and NOT the mini model as she first thought.To buy the Olight Lantern 360-Degree Lighting Scenario-Based EDC Torch click the link below and use the code Rosa10 to get 10% off!OLIGHT LINK: bit.ly/3fHcUjHAbout 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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#slatefloor #farmhousekitchen #kitchenreferbintro 0:00ripping up the old floor 0:40we have a slate floor! 2:20The next day 4:27removing wooden wall paneling 5:39Raising the woodshed roof 9:00evening chores 13:00Olight lantern demo 14:15finishing revealing the slate floor 16:20
From BATH TUB to WORM FARM | COMPOSTING FOOD SCRAPS with WORMS | TAP SHORTS | PERMACULTURE Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-16 | Today's TAP SHORTS goes back in time to see some footage from 2018/19 of our recycled bath tub worm farms. Worm farms are a great way of composting food scraps and other organic material, letting the tiger worms make good use of your waste and turn them into beautiful, fertile worm casts. This vermicompost can be added to your garden beds, used as a mulch, added to your compost and you can also make a liquid plant food from the 'worm juice' that is collected underneath the bath. All made from materials that were heading to the tip/dump.You can watch the full length FARMVLOG that this TAP SHORT is taken from here - youtu.be/yMAk8L3ljPsWHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#wormfarm #compostworms #permaculture
WHY WE NEED A BETTER FARM KITCHEN | PLANS FOR SELF RELIANCE | PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN HOMESTEAD Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-14 | With just three months to go before the baby arrives we decide to start ripping apart our house to build the farm house kitchen that we need to help support our family's journey to self reliance. We explain why we are choosing to make a kitchen makeover now, the reasons why we need a bigger and better designed farm kitchen, including plans for a large larder/pantry/scullery. As well as all the kitchen plans we talk about why we have decided to sell our lovely shetland sheep and we also get a glimpse of how our massive roundwood timber farmed woodshed build is going.CHAPTERS:00:00 intro1:47 morning chores5:28 why we're selling our sheep8:38 why we are starting a kitchen makeover 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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #farmkitchen #kitchenmakeover
EASY BUILD ROOT WASHING STATION | MARKET GARDENING KIT| PERMACULTURE FOREST GARDEN FARM | TAP SHORTS Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-12 | TAKEN from FV#36 and filmed in 2019, this TAP SHORTS looks at our washing station.A root washing station is an essential bit of kit for a market garden. We use ours for washing off soil from carrots, beetroot, potatoes, radishes....We built the washing station from recycled material we had around the farm including a plastic barrel, some wire mesh and pallet wood. We took inspiration from a design in Curtis Stone's book 'The Urban Farmer'.You can watch the full length FARMVLOG that this TAP SHORTS is from here - youtu.be/JVARYsuNyrcWHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com
GOATS EAT WOOD?!? FROM HERBIVORE to DETRITIVORE Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-09 | Taken from FV#47, filmed spring 2020"A detritivore is an organism that eats dead or decaying plants or animals as food. Detritivores include microorganisms such as bacteria and larger organisms such as fungi, insects, worms, and some crustaceans."....and our goat, Pea!We know goats love eating trees and branches and grass and, well, most things....but we never expected them to enjoy eating dried up old logs?!You can watch the full length FARMVLOG that this TAP SHORTS is taken from here - youtu.be/MyHJ40UZ9DQWHAT ARE TAP SHORTS?TAP SHORTS are extracts from our FARMVLOGS - nuggets of information, be it a market gardening tutorial, tool demo, handy tip or just something we feel needs to be highlighted - reconfigured into a bite size video for you to quickly watch.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#tapshorts #dairygoats #permaculture
STARTING a ROUNDWOOD LOG STORE + COMPOST TOILET GOES UP! PERMACULTURE HOMESTEAD FOREST GARDEN FARM Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-02-07 | Hi folks, in this week's vlog.....We have a friend staying who we've asked to help make us an epic log store/woodshed using timber supplies that we had spare on the farm. We look at how to char the ends of the logs to help preserve the wood and start the build by getting these huge posts into the ground. We also have help from another friend who helps us get our compost toilet hoisted up into position getting us one step closer to opening our new business venture - Tap: Retreat.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #timberframe #roundwood
NEVER REST, ALWAYS PLAY | EXCITING PLANS for 2022 | PERMACULTURE FARM & ORGANIC NO DIG MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2022-01-04 | What a busy year 2021 was!! In this year in review video we chat over the past 12 months, recorded in our cozy shepherds hut, highlighting the main events that we have learnt from in 2021. We also reveal some of our exciting plans for 2022 and why we are stopping the veg box business. There are also some epic montage sequences!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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #organicgardening #bestof2021
Our WATERWAYS are FLOWING! BUILDING A SIMPLE LOG BRIDGE | PERMACULTURE FARM & ORGANIC MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-12-14 | In this week's FARMVLOG, while James is doing his morning chores (feeding the goats and sheep), we catch up on how the farm is doing after storm Arwen hit the UK, why Jed, the Shetland tup, is no longer on the farm (!) and why next spring is going to be very busy for Rosa and James. We also look at how the ditches and ponds are handling the large volume of snow melt and rain water that the farm has at this time of year before starting work on a very simple log bridge. The farm has a lot of drainage ditches and water/irrigation channels that we have to build bridges across to be able to move animals and get machinery across the ditches. We've been building simple farm bridges for several years using forestry timber covered in chicken wire to provide grip. We talk about why we use logs rather than pallets to build the bridges and how useful forestry tongs are to move heavy logs. Chapters: 0.00 - morning chores2.27 - storm Arwen update3:40 - sheep update - where's Jed?5:07 - We're having a baby, thanks for the well wishes!6:11 - the farms waterways8:21 - our firewood/timber pile9:52 - starting to move logs12:29 - forestry tongs13:35 - starting to build the bridge21:07 - the finished bridgeAbout 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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #buildingbridges #permaculturevideoseasy bridge buildpermaculture in scotlandpermaculture in the UKcold climate permaculture farmingshetland sheep breedingDIY bridge buildself sufficiency
TUP on TAP | SHETLAND RAM comes to stay | PERMACULTURE FARM SCOTLAND Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-12-06 | In this week's FARMVLOG we meet Jed, the Shetland tup, who has come to stay with our ewes to hopefully get them in lamb. We also take one of our milk goats, Mandy, to spend some time with a billy. Then we carry on working in the new tree nursery where we plan to grow lots of interesting agroforestry trees. We use the BCS walk behind tractor to cultivate the soil and make the beds ready for planting. We finish just in time as the snow starts to fall and storm Arwen begins.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #shetlandsheep #homesteadscotland
PLANNING for KIDS & LAMBS |GARDENS on CONTOUR |PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST FARM & ORGANIC MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-11-22 | In this week's FARMVLOG, while coaxing the goats outside, we discuss our plans and ideas for how we want to get our dairy goats and Shetland sheep in kid and lamb. We chat over our options for taking the goats to visit a billy and how we plan to borrow a friend's shetland tup/ram.We also let a wee secret slip out!We then take a look at some of the massive beech hedges we have around our farmhouse that help protect us from the wind, but have grown so much that they now block out the light and desperately need cutting. We talk over just how influential hedges and fences can be on a permaculture design and show the changes we have made to this ancient hedge.We finish the vlog with a look at the work that has begun at our new area of tree nursery which is in our market garden. We have been using an A frame level to mark out the natural contour lines of the plot as we are planning to create the tree beds on contour to help stop erosion and soil/nutrient loss and help retain water. Check out the Weedy Garden for an excellent A frame tutorial youtube.com/watch?v=6zM8wBbR4RQ@TheWeedyGarden 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.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.Chapters (jump to your point of interest)Intro 0:00Goat kid plans 2:00Geese update 8:05Sheep update 9:26Trimming hedges 11:00Beginning the tree nursery 16:20Why we use the contour 17:39Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #contourgarden #permaculturedesign How to use an A frame levelA frame contour designmarking out contourtree nursery designforest gardeningno dig gardeningno till farminggetting goats in kidgetting sheep in lambbeech hedgesdead hedge
Why were DRYING OFF the GOATS | KEEPING DAIRY GOATS | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST FARM & MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-11-15 | Originally filmed for our Patreon members, this short video looks into why we are purposefully reducing the milk that our dairy goats produce, a term called drying off. We have a quick look at the daily morning milking routine before starting a conversation on our reasons to reduce the milk.We have been drinking our own goats milk for over three years and we're going to miss having the fresh, raw milk and the opportunity to make cheese and kefir, but if we want to have goat kids next year (to grow our herd) we need to dry of the goats. We chat all about how we are drying off the goats, why we are and what we're going to miss, though at the same time we outline some of the responsibilities that home dairying brings to our lives and how drying off gives not only the goats a rest but the farmer too.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.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.Patreon: patreon.com/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#dryingoffgoats #permaculture #homedairyhome dairyraw milk home made cheesekeeping goatssmallholding with goatspermaculture goats
WHY so many TREE NURSERIES?! | KITCHEN GARDEN MAKEOVER | PERMACULTURE FOOD FOREST & NO DIG GARDENING Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-11-08 | In this week's FARMVLOG we go back in time to look at a very neglected area of our pemaculture design - the original kitchen garden - and how we are planning to give the old veggie garden a complete make-over! This was the first home food garden to be established when James moved to the farm in 2012. Being close to the house and in what we class as zone 1 in our permaculture design, this organic veg garden grew veggies until it was superseded by the market garden. Next year we are focussing on producing more food for the home and plan to reinstate the veg garden. It'll be a big job! We'll talk you through our plans.We also take a look at three 'pop up' tree and herb nurseries that we have established over the years in different areas of the garden - looking at the fruit trees and fruit bushes we have propagated - and why we plan to design and establish a large dedicated tree nursery. This nursery will help us towards our goal of creating a farm designed around the principles of permaculture and agroforestry - a food forest farm.Chapters (jump to your point of interest)intro 0:00Tending to the goats 0:06Geese in the forest garden 2:45Plans for the new kitchen garden 4:30Pop up nursery 1 11:37Tractor tyre pond 13:52Pop up nursery 2 in the polytunnel/strawberry runners 18:37Food forest farm plans 20:38New tree nursery plans 23:39Hello new subscribers/patreon 27:30About 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/tapfarmIf 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 Media links:INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #forestgardening #organickitchengardenpermaculture in scotlandUK permaculturecold climate permaculturetree nurserypropagating fruit bushestaking cuttingscold climate food forest
PLANTING GARLIC - NO DIG BOKASHI - COLD CLIMATE FOOD FOREST PERMACULTURE FARM & CSA MARKET GARDEN Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-11-01 | In this week's FARMVLOG, while we move the goats onto fresh grazing within our silvopasture system, we talk about why we NEED BETTER FENCING and why it will make our work faster and easier. We then head to the market garden where we grow organic vegetables for our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) veg box business. We're planting a bed of garlic, to be harvested next year. We look at the variety of garlic, talk about hard neck and soft neck and also talk the planting spacing and also boost the soils organic matter, water holding capabilities and weed suppressing abilities by adding a thick no dig mulch of bokashi (our compost, not compost). CHAPTERS (jump to your point of interest)intro 0:00Drone fly over farm 0:03Silvopasture 1:03Why we need better fencing 1:25bed prep in the market garden 4:46Applying bokashi/no dig 7:01Garlic variety 10:11marking out the rows 12:15How to plant garlic 13:41About 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/tapfarmIf 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/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.com#permaculture #nodig #plantinggarliccold climate permaculture designpermaculture in scotlandno dig bokashimaking your own compostuk permaculturepermaculture farming
COMPOST with NO TURNING | BOKASHI REVEAL | FOOD FOREST PERMACULTURE FARM & NO DIG MARKET GARDENING Tap o’ Noth Farm - Permaculture & Food Forestry 2021-10-25 | 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/tapfarmIf 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/tapfarmFACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarmTAP CHAT FB GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapch...WEBSITE - www.taponothfarm.comCHAPTERS (jump to your point of interest!)Intro 0:00Goat silvopasture 0:11Shetland sheep/nut tree silvopasture update 2:14End of our CSA veg box shares 3:02Bokashi compost reveal 3:44Feeding hybrid willow/trees to goats 10:26Tree branches/brash for dead hedges 13:01Polytunnel clean out with BCS and trailer 14:08Different pumpkin/squash varieties 15:17Taking crop waste to the chickens 19:00Chicken straw yard/compost area 19:50#bokashicompost #permaculture #nodiggardeningMaking bokashibokashi compostingEffective Microorganisms EMSoil food webpermaculture in ScotlandScottish permacultureagroforestry
