https://spectra.video/videos/watch/71aa7a47-de5a-4382-bcdf-65397974e19e A full walkaround of the homestead covering turnip harvesting and root cellar storage, zero-care gardening strategies, seed saving (Cascadia peas, Lincoln peas, radish, coriander), and detailed crop updates on wheat, grapes, figs, sunflowers, bush beans, fava beans, chickpeas, oats, sorghum, melons, squashes, potatoes, cabbages, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and more. The second half dives deep into the soil improvement and fertility system: harvesting shelling peas, preparing a no-dig garden bed using chop-and-drop mulching, comfrey, plantain, chicken and duck manure, and crop residues. Explains the "infinite fertility stack" approach to building soil without buying compost or fertilizer, how to use succession planting (peas followed by mustard greens followed by winter carrots), and the research-area model for testing crop rotations before scaling up. Also covers: greenhouse tour, chickens and ducks in the chicken tractor, sun-drying turnips for chicken feed, air layering failures, sweet corn germination problems, and a call for community support and food sovereignty. Chapters and timestamps in the description for easy navigation. Chapters00:00 - Turnip Harvest & Root Cellar Storage 00:50 - Garden Walk: Wheat, Grapes, Figs & Sunflowers 01:35 - Seed Saving: Cascadia Peas & Radish 02:10 - Fava Beans, Chickpeas & Garden Cleanup 03:10 - Blue Emmer Wheat & Lincoln Peas for Seed 03:58 - Black Raspberries, Sweet Corn & Jerusalem Artichokes 04:30 - Cascadia Peas, Borage & Bees 05:25 - Cabbages, Broccoli, Swiss Chard & Melons 06:40 - Oats Under Walnut, Potatoes Need Mounding 07:30 - Mulching Sunflowers, Squashes & Field Peas 08:15 - Pole Beans, Sorghum & Ornamental Poppies 09:45 - Making Soap from Ash & Firewood Plans 10:30 - Peppers, Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Cracked Ground 11:40 - Cucumber Patch: 30+ Plants for Fermenting 12:00 - Chickens & Ducks: Reseeding & Rotation 12:40 - Sweet Corn Germination Issues 13:00 - Kitchen Garden: Brussels Sprouts, Basil, Coriander 13:50 - Greenhouse Tour: Tomatoes, Peppers, Lavender & Rosemary 14:20 - Sun-Drying Turnips for Chicken Feed 14:50 - Air Layering Failures & Farm Loop Walk 15:45 - Pond, Swale & Call for Support 16:45 - Stanley Plum & Volunteer Peas 17:20 - Chicks & Ducks: Mallard Pekin Hybrids 18:00 - 350 Potato Plants & Progress Update 18:30 - Shelling Pea Harvest: 15-20x Seed Return 19:00 - Soil Improvement Stack: Preparing a No-Dig Bed 20:45 - Plantain, Comfrey & Pioneer Species as Mulch 22:00 - Chicken & Duck Manure, Comfrey, and the Fertility Stack 23:45 - Clearing the Bed: Cut, Don't Pull 24:40 - Clay Soil Documentation: Starting from Scratch 25:40 - Mixing Manure, Comfrey & Mulch for the Bed 26:50 - Bush Beans on the Berm & Mizuna Mustard Greens 28:10 - Chop and Drop: Why Not Just Compost? 30:00 - Infinite Fertility Stack: Closing the Loop 31:30 - Fall Planting: Carrots in Furrows Under Leaves 32:00 - Calcium, Phosphorus & Magnesium: Nutrient Cycling 33:00 - Why Compost-First No-Dig Doesn't Scale 35:00 - 15x Seed Multiplication & Research Area Model 36:30 - Peas, Then Mustard, Then Carrots: Three Crops, One Bed 38:00 - Storing Staples: 50lb Bags of Dried Peas 39:00 - Preemptively Failing in the Research Area 40:00 - Bush Beans on Berms & Closing Thoughts 40:30 - Food Sovereignty Is Solarpunk Tagshomesteading, permaculture, no-dig gardening, seed saving, turnips, soil fertility, chop and drop, closed loop agriculture, food sovereignty, solarpunk, garden tour, compost, mulch, peas, mustard greens, crop rotation, West Virginia, zero-care gardening, root cellar, sustainable farming Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:55:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://spectra.video/videos/watch/71aa7a47-de5a-4382-bcdf-65397974e19e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.