Living on the island of Newfoundland can be challenging. Being a rock, otherwise known as "The Rock", at the edge of North America poses many challenges. Ninety percent of our food as well as consumer goods are imported! At any one time our island has a 5 day food supply. The unforgiving weather often leads to supply chain issues related to transportation, which constantly tests our food security network. Energy costs as well as the cost of food is on the rise. In 2016 we set out to:
1. Create a more sustainable lifestyle. 2. Cut living costs by decreasing our energy footprint. 3. Make a plan to deal with food security.
The result of this plan is The Homestead at Flatrock. Our homestead is "home" to Newfoundlands first "Passive House" using less than 1/3 of the energy of a code built home. Our garden has been used a food producing machine. Our cellar provides us with year round storage, and our greenhouse provides year round growing!
Muchas gracias por publicar este video, señor. Después de consultar otros vídeos sobre esta cuestión, el suyo es, con diferencia, el más didáctico de todos. Me ha sido muy muy muy útil. Mil gracias.
Perhaps weed eater is faster oats makes beautiful white wine however is technically not a wine taste like wine but is not fruit so is beer or something drink it as wine is soo delicious sparkling Pinot Grigio ✨
Once the heads a dry I feel like a weed eater would shake the grain away from the heads. That’s why I used the sickle. Maybe next time I’ll try the weed eater
Hello David. I heard you on The Signal and decided to look you up. I am excited that I have discovered your channel. I am starting a Permaculture Food Forest at my property in St. Phillips. I just received my orders of bare root plants. I'm excited to see what has happened in your property since you began. So glad to find someone here in NL doing this.
Angela, thanks for following! Food forests and perennial spaces are a great addition to you food production arsenal. They have the ability to grow and change. Thing about it as a 5 dimensional space. Length width and height as well as time in season as well as evolution through years. Each year will be different. Don’t be afraid to overplant at a high density. Nature would do the same…but this gives you some of the control. They say that about 1/3 of you plants should be nitrogen fixers in a northern climate. Think lupins, goumi, sea buckthorn and maybe even alders. I tend to pair lupins with comfrey and walking onions to form an initial guild with my trees. More plants can be added as you propagate more. Hopefully I’ll post a video soon about this. So many of my projects need a video update! Thanks again!
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thanks for the suggestions. I will definately follow your advice. I know where to get some lupins. I have ordered a few Sea Buckthorns trees. I have some Walking onions growing in my garden now that I can transplant. Are the alders the regular ones that grow everywhere around here? Where do you suggest I get the Comfrey and the Goumi?
@@AngelaSpasiuk-eb4bh yes alders are nitrogen fixers, a great source of nitrogen and biomass in general. gout can be purchased at whiffletree. comfrey is tricky. you want the sterile type that doesn't produce seed. I have bocking 4. I originally purchased from whiffletree so they may have some. I have propagated 50-60 from the original 10 that I ordered. easy to propagate from crown cuttings and root cuttings. some consider lupins a nuisance...and they can be, the key is to chop and drop the flowers before the seed matures. or you can just leave it. nature has a way of self regulating. I planted a load of them in the first year. so many that about 30% fo them had a massive aphid infestation. nothing else was affected just the lupins. those attacked by aphids didn't come back. nature regulated the system for me.
I can't believe folks don't know that fish guts is the best fertilizer you can use! I guess us old country folks should have been selling this year's ago
I have never say it done like this and never heard of putting sugar or using a blender 😂. We just dig our holes and put a shovel full of fish guts in the whole.
the best starter is one that you start yourself. all starters are different. they depend very much on the flour you use and the natural yeast and bacteria in your area. I have found that my starter changes year to year and usually its more vigorous in summer, im thinking its due to the house windows being opened and the fact that we're living in a cold climate with 4-6 months of snow. The description indicates how we started ours. It takes a few weeks but it s super rewarding process. I'd recommend trying it, if I can do it you can too!
My poor hen is 4 months old with two crooked feet and she is the last one to eat so she is smaller than the others. She hasn't laid an egg yet. I'm thinking of putting her somewhere else on some days so she can bulk up and get to laying size. I wish I knew earlier that it can be fixed but now I know!
Ah, that’s too bad! Nature has a way and it’s not always pleasant to us. What’s best for us is not always best for the flock. This being said, it’s better to leave it alone. Removing the hen will require you to reintegrate her. After a day or so they won’t recognize her and things will get nasty when you put her back with the flock. Chickens are nasty when they don’t recognize flock members.
@@amitsingharoy6724 ive never had an issue with maggots. I get the fermentation going using saurkraut and sugar, never any maggots, the airlock prevents any flies from getting in.
I must have tried 10 different GF Sourdough recipes and yours had consistent great results! It is the winner and the star when I run GF Sourdough classes! Thank you so much! Just a girl from Cape Breton. Someday we would love to visit your Homestead
Going to try planting hull-less oats for the first time this spring. How early did you plant your latest crop? From what her I've read/heard oats are rather cold hardy. I live in S.W. Michigan and am going to put my crop in sometime in March. I'm going to start with a small area of about 20x30 ft. That is the size of a tarp I had to kill the weeds and grass last fall. I've also planted wheat before and am going to do it again this spring in an area about 40x70 ft. I will try harvesting the oats with my scythe before the oats get overly dry so I don't loose much of the harvest. Thanks for sharing.
If one just wants oats for flour, can one include some hulls in with the groats to be ground into flour? Or will these hulls mess up your grinder? Thanks
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thanks for the reply. I'm lucky enough to have one of those high speed flour grinders that sounds like a jet taking off. Do you think this type of grinder would give the same result? It does well with rice and sorghum. Would these little hard fibers be noticeable in say bread or cake? TIA
@@888zz999 I have a hand type grinder with stones, hard to say, if it used blades instead of grinding, it may work. You could try using a small amount to see What happens
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Yes, if I had a small amount I would ;-). I think I'll go ahead and buy some raw 'nuda to grow anyway. Looks like it might be more doable for home processing (great video). And try the 'sativa if I come across some. There's some info out there that suggests including powdered hulls for other nutritional needs. Thanks!
Hi from northwest Florida zone 8b. Did you grow again 2023? I bought seed for a hulless variety in 2020 but never planted due to several factors selling and moving homestead was biggest factor but I'm definitely planning to plant for 2024 harvest just not sure how the germination rate will be on four year old oat seed but I'm gonna give it a try. I'm also planning to buy some for sprouting to eat as sprouts or microgreens over the winter from Trueleaf that is the common type with a hull. I may try planting some of it in the field to see how it will grow too.
Thanks for the video. I have a dehuller for barley. Would it be too much for oats?. Also, when you are grinding the oats, it is the same kind of grinder as for wheat berries? And do I need to grind it for breakfast oatmeal?. Not sure what kind of grinder you have there. Thank you.
You only need to thresh and winnow for these oats. The grinder I use is a wondermill junior deluxe. Works perfect and I set it on a coarse grind for cereal. I typically use 1/3 of a cup f coarse ground oats to 1 Cup of water soaked overnight. Cook for 15 mins in the morning!
How big of a garden do I need to produce a reasonable amount of oats to make it worth the time? I have a bag of hull less oats to plant from Johnny Seeds, but my family eats a lot of oatmeal. How big of a garden to fill a 5lb bucket do you think? Thanks for your helpful video. 😊
Theoretically one could grow about 32 lbs on 1000 sq ft under the right conditions. My yield is about half of that but I don’t do any type of management. No watering or weeding.
I just up-potted my figs from 4-5 gal to 10-12 gal here in Ontario. They were 2022 plants - Hardy Chicago, Olympia, Neverella, Violette de Bordeaux. They're in full sun and I head-started them in the greenhouse. I got 5 breba from Chicago, and one from each Neverella and Olympia this year. Neverella and Chicago look like they have a lot of main crop that should ripen, Neverella currently has 16 growing while Chicago has 30. Olympia and VdB are just starting to grow main crop figs so they might not have time to ripen before it gets too cold.
I like the braid. Idle curiosity here, I was wondering how long you leave your garlic in the ground? Iowa Zone 5a. Planted 5 Nov 22, harvested today, 5 Jul 23, 8 months. The roots were still healthy, and I got the feeling I could have left them in the ground for more bulb growth. But the leaves were turning brown and I figured it was time...
This is wonderful! I really want to try growing oats. I currently live in Maine, but I'm originally from Newfoundland, and my husband and I plan to move back when he retires in seven years, so I'm starting to do a lot of research on farming in Newfoundland. Southern Newfoundland and the Avalon Peninsula, surprisingly, are actually in a warmer growing zone than southern Maine, despite being at a higher latitude, but I know that the growing season is also shorter and there's less heat in the summer and more wind, so I won't be able to grow exactly the same things that I've been growing here. I've been gardening practically my whole life, since my parents gave me a plot of my own in our backyard in St. John's back in the '80s. Where we live now, we are growing a lot of our own fruits, vegetables, herbs, and seeds (feeding six kids!), and we've grown mushrooms, made our own maple syrup, kept chickens for eggs, and kept bees for honey, but we haven't grown any grains yet, except for some sweet corn. Also, my older daughter does some woodworking and basketry using materials from our homestead. I really want to learn to grow my own grains in order to be more self-sufficient. I also agree that Newfoundland has a great opportunity, with all the current knowledge we have access to about permaculture, natural farming, and crop varieties from around the world, to become much more self-sufficient in terms of food.
very cool sounds like a productive spot you have. I am so interested in things other than food also like basket weaving and using natural fiber like willow and flax! one step at a time...life is a long journey! newfoundland is great....but yes the season is short. this year we didn't have a day above 10 C until about the 20th of june and had a frost warning on the 25th of june I belive. it hit 2 C overnight and there was some frost on the roofs of several of the neighbours houses. I hope you come visit when you come home again. I would be happy to show you around the homestead!
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Ah, yes, we want to try flax, too. One day, a few weeks ago, I was thinking to myself that I should try planting flax next year for the seeds/oil, and the very next day my oldest daughter said to me, "Mom, do you think we could grow flax here in Maine? I want to try weaving my own linen." I have a great daughter; she is fifteen today and she is already so much more skilled than I am in many ways! :) We would absolutely love to visit your homestead! We will be in Newfoundland for a couple of weeks next August (2024), and I will be in touch before we come.
Hi I’ve made the sourdough bread I followed your instructions but it taste and it smells like the starter sourdough is that right or did I do something wrong.
yes there are several types. Hulless and hulled. Hulless oats have not hulls once threshed. Hulled oats do. You need a dehuller to remove the hulls before grinding hulled oats.
What a great video, looking forward to watching the other parts. I did bokashi this winter as I am in a new home and have yet to set up a hot compost. I highly recommend. I was actually adding bokashi compost to a bed today! I keep the one like what you have in the video under my sink, then I bought a huge rubbermaid container which I store in my basement. When the sink container gets full, I dump into the big one. I was pleasantly surprised how decent it was broken down, I started in February and the stuff I was mixing into my new bed was maybe 60% broken down. I may continue to use the partial compost into new beds or I may put into my future outdoor compost, I haven't decided haha. Anyhow, I thought I would share my experiences with bokashi and one final note I am currently fermenting rice water, just the stuff I rinse my rice with before cooking and I will give it a try in lieu if the bran. I would like to be able to bokashi without having to buy something on a semi regular basis. Cheers and I hope you have a great 2023 growing season
Thank you! I don’t do bokashi but I have experimented with anerobic fermentation for making fish hydrolysate. We make about 10 gallons per year and it does wonders for the garden. Hot compositing is great. We have multiple piles right now and lots of compost….it helps to have chickens if you have the space. Their manure is great for composting. Btw, the second part is under the hot composting playlist on our site but here’s the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-METOs6qzCA0.html Thanks for watching and good luck with this growing season!
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock HI Following up to my last comment! I started my pile yesterday afternoon I "think" I have the right balance lol approximately how long does it take for temps to come up to peak?
@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Ok thanks, it's been 24 hrs now, nothing. I will give it 2 two more days to see if it changes and if not, I'll add more nitrate. Thanks for the reply.
Here in Northern France, I just innoculated logs with mycelia plugs for oyster mushrooms, Lion's Mane and shiitake. I tried winecaps in a bed last Fall and nothing happened. And it was a bit shadier than your spot, with fresher material, as recommended. Mushrooms are not necessarily as foolproof as is made out.
I have 3 areas planted that produced, another are was populated with another type of wild mushroom but I decided to throw some winecap spawn in there also. We’ll see this year how they work out living with another type of mushroom!
That is what I am doing! I threw down a bag of chicken scratch so it was literally dirt cheap to buy seed (13.99 for a 50# bag). I live in town so my neighbors probably hate it lol. I planted the oats in my high traffic back yard under my fruit trees😊. The oats are about two inches now after two weeks
It's very important to fix this problem! I have a very sweet hen that I have to keep separate from the rest, because I didn't notice until it was too late that one of her toes bent backwards... She is very docile and will not defend herself, and couldn't run fast enough to get away from the others, and they almost ate her... Fortunately, she's all healed up now, but she suffered a lot! She was able to get a new roommate... A broody hen! The broody hen is too busy with her eggs to be mean, and the little sweetie sits beside the broody's box, and watches her all day...
It was mostly fixed and she lived for a few years. Unfortunately other issues came up with her. She had a funny eye that was half closed and developed a prolapsed vent they we couldn’t fix. I had to make a choice as the vent was pecked and it was a mess. Nature is like that. Sometimes cruel, sometimes kind.
