I really like that you allowed the chicken in the background to cluck away while you were talking. You used to stop the camera, and do a retake until the farm animal stopped squawking. I like the squawking. It tells me you live and work on a real farm! Yee haw!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊. Isn't it just wonderful to see nature surviving in the desert. I lived for 2 years in sugar cane country in North Queensland, Australia. We used to see ( znd smell) them burning off the cane fields. Some farmers harvested with machetes and some with huge machines. The rats, snakes and frogs were a problem. That was years ago. At times we would even chew on the sweet pith of the cane..
Glad you enjoyed this one! I (Duane) used to travel to Hawaii for work many years ago and I recall a few times smelling them burning the cane fields on Maui.
Glad you enjoyed this one. Those cats are just like the turkeys, budding little gardeners. Now to get them to focus on chasing mice and ground squirrels!!
P.S. I love that wheel barrow. Fits perfectly to my idea what a wheel barrow should be like. Very light, strong, stabile, functional and multi purpose.
I havested half my sugar cane. I didn't expect to get so much on my first year. Productivity was out of this world. Can't wait to see what you guys do with yours.
Sugar cane plants only live about 4 years so it’s important to propagate. There are three types. There is juice type that’s good for eating raw. There is a syrup type and there is a type best suited for making crystal sugar. I guess we will see what type you have that grows well in the desert!
@EdgeofNowhereFarm check out Deep South Homestead. That’s where I learned about growing sugarcane. They replant every other year I believe so they’ve always got young plants. They’ve got the whole setup for making syrup. Pretty interesting process.
Thank you! Yes I do follow Wanda and Mr Danny! They are amazing! Check out the websites for land grant universities in cane producing states like Florida,Hawaii and Texas A&M. Love you guys!
Those tubs you used are ideal for planting, ditch the pots, what a load of work! Just cut a full length and plant. You will get about five plants by 3 rows and the spacing is already sorted for you when sticking them in the ground five at a time. Oh and if a node is the wrong way around, don't worry if will figure it out, its been planting itself, falling onto the ground, for millions of years, its had plenty of practice
Looks like a very nice harvest you have there. Here in Louisiana, they have been harvesting since October. I live just a few miles from Alma Plantation, where they grow and process sugar cane.
Super cool! Makes me wonder how much I can zone push here using the greenhouse to overwinter/propagate. It was 12*F today though so makes me pretty content with my satsumas when it does that LOL
I say give it a shot. They definitely do NOT like the cold, especially once you're under 30 degrees, so I would just harvest them before you hit those temps and start more for the following season from some of those cuttings!
#HAPPYNEWYEAR @EdgeofNowhere I MISSED YOU GUYS!!! Catching up on all year postings and binge watching your videos, too. Got a snowstorm coming tomorrow n.e Arizona and finishing up projects rn. I love you guys! Ya'll still looking amazing af. Any agriculture resolutions going on for this year? This year I'll be traveling. Can I come see yall for a hug and happiness. I could sure use some. Stay amazing yall! ❤❤❤❤❤ #MuchLove #MuchRespect praying abundance with your prosperity and God Bless you and yours #Keepupthegreatwork 😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Happy New Year to you as well!! We're getting prepped for some really cold weather as well, but no snow storms this far South! No ag resolutions per se, but we do plan on having more events and workshops this year so we can connect more with everyone in person. Next time you're going to be in town, shoot us a message on FB or Insta or drop us an email so we can connect.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm most definitely. This year is travel year and meeting the amazing locals doing their Thang. I am so coming through. #Keepupthegreatwork
Happy New Year! Viva el ron? Dominicano lighter fluid. Demon rum. Me? I bought a can of beer for New Years and that's it. Last year I made a case and had a couple of bottles and gave some away. Last two bottles went flat. If interested, ask folks who still raise their own sorghum for sugar about getting a stripper. Cane strippers used to be common, but they're here rare now. Right now, radishes are coming up, but I didn't get the bird mesh over the beds in time and lost a lot. Same with the garlic. that and onions, thrashers tear out to check the roots, then go to the next plant. Quail just rake over it all looking for seeds. Mission fig still has leaves, but the rest, nope. Some cutting are wrapped in wet paper and a plastic bag in the fridge. They were soaked in water, then sprayed with a fungicide before wrapping. They one who gave me a truckload of leaves wasn't sure what variety of fig, "Maybe Black Jack," but "Man, they're good!" he said. Peat moss to set them in, in February, is soaking in tubs. So, ya, made Turkey stew, but instead of making pho I was going to make soba noodles, then make buckwheat cakes (not a lot of starch in the pantry). i got a few, Termite got a few, then when I went to get his dog food, I hear a crash. Just as he was going to chow down on the flapjack I wanted he got busted. That was hours ago and he's still hiding under the bed. The flapjack went in the compost bucket and a lot of citrus peel over that.
Quick question: why don´t you plant any native support species? You could use for example grey water to water a little forest of hardy pioneer species. Which you could use for mulch and compost. There are some really good low maintenance species out there. Love your channel.
Great question/suggestion and the plan is to do some of that on the back of the property. The initial set up of the farm all needed to provide an income for us to make the project self sustainable from a monetary standpoint. Sugarcane will be another, albeit small, income source for us and also provides both food and fodder for the farm.
I kinda tried to grow sugarcane last year. There’s a local grocery store that gets whole stalks in every year but we were living in town while our house was under construction and I kinda forgot about it with all that was going on with the house. Ended up planting it kinda late and never got any to sprout. This year things have calmed down and as soon as I saw it I bought a few stalks, chopped it up, tilled a fresh row in my garden, and got it in and am anxiously awaiting spring to see if it sprouts. I’m hoping to eventually use it as a privacy fence on the north side of my property.
You should have good success with these out your way once they're started. We also have these growing near our banana to give it a nice solid wind block. It will be interesting to see how long they'll last if you let them keep growing.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I think my plan is to chop them up and replant them yearly or every other year. Whether that happens is yet to be seen, lol. I’ll definitely at least plant a nursery row or 2 in the garden each year so I don’t lose them.
Some of the tropical oriented nurseries have it from time to time, but we do plan on having some starts this Spring. Make sure you join our customer email list through our website as that's the only way we announce things we have for sale. 😉
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Yes is the short answer. You are denying yourself many benefit to be had from an anaerobic biodigestor. It will help you recycle nutrients and water in the Sonoran Desert of which Arizona is an integral. It will not break bank to make one or buy one.
Great question and you're right, the mulch will break down over time. We pull the mulch back in order to fertilize which moves some of the new soil to the outer part of the ring each time. You can also manually remove some of that new soil and use it elsewhere (like in a garden) as it is a fantastic growing medium!
Those are tough for us here in Wittmann. With many mornings down as low as 20 degrees it can kill full size mango trees pretty easily. What Lori would do for a mango tree though!!
@EdgeofNowhereFarm Indeed. The area I mentioned is within a Valley with temperatures as high as 117 Fahrenheit in Summer and as low as 50 Fahrenheit in Winter.
Conheçam o sistema sintrópico de plantio e restauração de solos, em qualquer bioma, que Ernest Gotsch "desenvolveu" em terras degradadas, em local quente e com pouca água. ❤❤❤
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm No Brasil, moemos a cana e misturamos o caldo com suco de limão ou abacaxi e gelo. É delicioso! Damos o nome de garapa .Existe uma máquina pequena para moer a cana que se assemelha a máquina industrial para moer e transformar o caldo em açúcar ou álcool.❤
