Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
*A film from late summer 2024, originally posted to our PATREON.
Here we demonstrate how we use geese to weed our young food forests and berry gardens.
We use portable electric netting to rotate our geese around areas of our farm that need to have the grasses controlled. The geese mostly eat grass throughout the year and fertilise as they forage. They love eating cleavers (goosegrass) and we even feed them blackcurrants as we have plenty to share. The goose house is made from an old IBC tank and is very light and easy to move to the new grazing cell. The bedding from the goose house, a mix of straw, young branches and goose droppings, is removed from the goose house prior to moving and applied as a surface mulch around any nearby trees or shrubs (in today's case it's raspberries).
WANT TO COMMENT OR ASK A QUESTION? FIND US OVER AT PATREON....IT'S NICE THERE TOO.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Tap o' Noth Farm is an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest farm/homestead situated on the slopes of Tap o' Noth hill in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy cows and goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
FOOD FOREST BERRIES
In 2024 we began establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUT
Come and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven and wood fired outdoor bath, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond.
You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#geese #permaculture #forestgarden
*A film from late summer 2024, originally posted to our PATREON.
Here we demonstrate how we use geese to weed our young food forests and berry gardens.
We use portable electric netting to rotate our geese around areas of our farm that need to have the grasses controlled. The geese mostly eat grass throughout the year and fertilise as they forage. They love eating cleavers (goosegrass) and we even feed them blackcurrants as we have plenty to share. The goose house is made from an old IBC tank and is very light and easy to move to the new grazing cell. The bedding from the goose house, a mix of straw, young branches and goose droppings, is removed from the goose house prior to moving and applied as a surface mulch around any nearby trees or shrubs (in today's case it's raspberries).
WANT TO COMMENT OR ASK A QUESTION? FIND US OVER AT PATREON....IT'S NICE THERE TOO.
About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Tap o' Noth Farm is an 8 acre permaculture designed food forest farm/homestead situated on the slopes of Tap o' Noth hill in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy cows and goats for all our raw milk needs, geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.
Our videos aren't 'how to's' - more videos to give a glimpse into our lifestyle and hopefully inspire you to bring aspects of what you see into your own life.
FOOD FOREST BERRIES
In 2024 we began establishing a small scale, permaculture designed family soft fruit enterprise that will rub shoulders with our other on-farm businesses. We aren't trying to compete with or replicate the large soft fruit commercial farms that are common place here in Scotland and around the world but showcase a small scale, ecologically diverse model that will work with our family farm's values and needs both economically and environmentally. Our sales will be direct to the consumer, working with our local community via a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA), either through weekly fruit shares or by offering a pick your own/U pick. The berries grown in the market garden will add to the top fruit - apples and plums - that we have already been growing in food forest systems for nearly a decade.
HEDGE + FURROW'S OFF-GRID SHEPHERDS HUT
Come and stay on the farm in our traditional shepherds hut, complete with pizza oven and wood fired outdoor bath, set amongst fields, trees and beside a beautiful pond.
You can book through AirBnB here - airbnb.com/h/hedgefurrow
PATREON:
Love our videos? Help us to make them by supporting us as a patron of the farm!
patreon.com/tapfarm
Social Media links:
INSTAGRAM - instagram.com/tapfarm
FACEBOOK - facebook.com/taponothfarm
TAP CHAT FB GROUP - facebook.com/groups/tapchat
WEBSITE - taponothfarm.co.uk
#geese #permaculture #forestgarden
