Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
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 BERRIES
2024 sees work begin in establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
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 HUT
Come 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/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#permaculture #blackberries #foodforest
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 BERRIES
2024 sees work begin in establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
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 HUT
Come 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/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#permaculture #blackberries #foodforest
