How We Prep Hard, Desert Soil for Planting | First Fall Harvest!

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Our soil here in Arizona is a bit of a challenge, to say the least! With the baking sun and dry weather it makes for VERY hard dirt that can be very difficult to plant in. Today we're showing you one of the ways we're prepping desert soil for planting. We also get our first harvest of the Fall season!
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@sgrvtl7183 Год назад

Busy , busy, you two are very busy! -I like seeing your chores and keeping us abreast of all that goes on. Thank You for sharing~!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

This is one of our busiest seasons and with a little cooler weather we're able to stay at it a bit longer!

@Blaqjaqshellaq Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm During World War II some Conscientious Objectors were employed on farms, and veteran's groups complained that farm work was too easy! (How many of them had worked on a farm?)

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

@@Blaqjaqshellaq neither of them had it easy, that's for sure!

@birdiesbloomz Год назад

The first channel I ever seen that truly CARE for their pigs. Just stumbled on your channel. Thumbs up and new Sub.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Hey there, glad you found us! Pigs are one of our favorite animals to have here on the farm. They are just like teenagers....very destructive teenagers!

@Pamsgarden213 Год назад

I saw someone else use their feed bags to make reusable grocery bags. The farm looks great!

@suzisaintjames Год назад

You can also use them to make grow bags (pots for seedlings). They sew up real easy by hand or sewing machine. 💖🌞🌵😷

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Now there's someone who knows how to use a wasted resource!

@suzisaintjames Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm , here's a link to making the grow bags. He used a different fabric, but feed sacks work the same way. P.s. see my comments below his video as I explain why not to cut the corners off. 💖🌞🌵😷 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vq3aBghgGfo.htmlfeature=shared

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

@@suzisaintjames Thank you, heading over there now!

@cclarke9301 Год назад

Another good to watch video. It’s so encouraging to see all of your wonderful progress you have scratched out of hard desert earth. Don’t forget you two, pace yourselves, no end of year burnout😊 I’m always glad to see a new video from the Edge of Nowhere homesteaders♥️

@JynxieTheMermaid Год назад

Happy anniversary guys 🎉🎉🎉!!!!!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Thank you!!!

@aussiebushhomestead3223 11 месяцев назад

What you have achieved is amazing! I am in a dry subtropics area of Australia. Water is always an issue and we have enrered an el nino weather pattern, which means prolonged dry/drought. Your farm has inspired me to keep going, when I was ready to throw in the towel. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

I'm glad we can encourage you to hang in there. We have a lot of viewers from Australia, so I imagine you have some similar challenges to what we face here.

@mirleydamazio628 8 месяцев назад

Conheça a sintropia. Tem funcionado na Austrália em áreas secas e quentes. Conheça o trabalho de Ernest Gotsch e Antônio Gomides, no Brasil.

@travisjenkins7287 Год назад

I am loving seeing the fall flush come in for the farm! The kitties are looking happy and I’m excited to see your upcoming videos mentioning how many rodents Willow gets I hope. We have an indoor cat and my wife knows I want to get a cat to help take care of our rodent population. I can sit out in the morning or evening and watch them running up and down the trees.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

The Fall flush is always exciting to see. After a long, hot summer it's a reprieve for everything and everyone on the farm! We're hopeful for the cats as well. Every time we see a mouse, rat or ground squirrel we think of them wandering the property and taking them out!

@MuzikHead Год назад

My figs are just starting to ripen…things look great guys!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

That's a good sign they're ripening up for you now. A few more weeks and we'll be a little too cold...hopefully!!

@andreac7223 Год назад

much needed video, help was sent thank you🤗

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Glad you enjoyed this one. We planted a few grasses in this area last week and the soil turned like butter!

@zarcon31 Год назад

I am a painter in the valley. Totally enjoy your channel. I did a job, not 1/2 mile from you. Keep up the great content.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Glad you're enjoying the content. You'll have to stop by for one of our farm tours and say hello!

@sdraper2011 11 месяцев назад

Wow, you are so lucky your caliche is 18"+ down! I was wondering why you never seemed to use a jackhammer or excavator to prep your soil. We live just outside Tucson and our caliche is RIGHT below the surface. We have to use both jackhammers and excavators to do any planting - just in our residential yard. 🙁

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

That stuff really is our biggest challenge from a soil standpoint for most of us in AZ. Our first property was on the side of a hill, so we had about 12" of fill dirt and then solid rock, so it can get worse!

@mesutozsen903 Год назад

Eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel video için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Mesut'a teşekkür ederim. Umarım Türkiye'de her şey yolundadır!

@mesutozsen903 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm herşey yolunda bir sıkıntı yok sert toprağı yumuşatmak akıllı bir cözüm 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎

@RedandAprilOff-Grid Год назад

Enjoy seeing your weekly updates and tips! 👍🌱🏜️

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Hey guys, glad you're hanging in there still!!

@bruddylee606 Год назад

I love you guys ❤️ Thank you for all of this

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Glad you enjoyed this one!

@AbidAli-bv2gl Год назад

Excellent video. lot to learn. We missed jujube tree

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Hey Abid! Yeah, no Jujube in this one. They're starting to lose a few leaves now that we have some cooler weather. They really like the heat!

@OurNotSoSeriousLife 11 месяцев назад

You guys are doing great.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

It's definitely coming along.

@MrFlatTaxi Год назад

Always top quality ❤

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed this one! ❤️

@threeriversforge1997 Год назад

Bunch grasses coming soon.... I'm a little excited to see what you picked, and hope it's something native. Maybe some Panicum "Cloud Nine"? Could I be that lucky? Nah, you really need that for the back area just so you can enjoy the view. Maybe Big Bluestem? I'm really looking forward to your report on the Tepary beans. It''s too wet to grow them here, but I might have to order some just to see how they are in ham-n-bean soup and/or chili.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

We're having a heck of a time finding switchgrass starts. There are a few other "grasses" in the local nurseries, but I get the feeling we may need to wait for Spring to find the "good stuff".

@threeriversforge1997 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Getting starts might be a problem, yeah. Even the Pheonix Home Depot's website says they'd have to order in the Switch Grass. That's for a 1-gallon pot, though, and you'd have to divide it yourself. I checked with Izel Plants, and they say they can't ship to AZ. That might be an issue with State law, worried about "invasive" plants. Weird that you can get Vetiver all day long, but a native grass that actually grows in the state is No Bueno. I'll continue the hunt!

@lisad4054 Год назад

Nice. So much work. I really see you both love it. I'm learning so much from both of you. Thank you

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Glad to hear it. It's one of the reasons we try to capture as much of what we do as we can. Both the good and the bad!

@rikuka 11 месяцев назад

I love the work y'all are doing. Thank you for sharing your journey.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

Glad you're here with us!

@tammytomasinorodmartinez3867 11 месяцев назад

Your channel is so inspiring. I found your channel by searching raising chickens in Phoenix. We haven’t started homesteading for a few reasons, but one of the main reasons is travel. We love to travel but don’t know who would take care of things while we’re gone. In this video you mentioned that you went on a trip, so I was wondering who took care of the animals. Did you recruit family, or did you hire someone from thumbtack or similar app or was it a neighbor? I would love your tips on this issue. Thank you for creating this RU-vid channel…I’m really enjoying it.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

Glad you found us and are enjoying the content. We do have a few challenges here in the desert, but many advantages as well! We try to automate as much as we can here on the farm, so it's easier on us and also anyone who helps us out when we're not here. Usually it's either family or neighbors who cover for us and we plan our time away from the farm around peak times. This way there's far less for someone to do when we're gone. Of course, how much you're doing has a big impact on what someone would need to do for you. Also, what kinds of things you're growing or raising. Fruit trees need no daily maintenance and with irrigation can go many weeks with no input. Garden beds can be automated as well and only need occasional work. Chickens are easy and only need egg collecting each day as feed and water can be automated.

@mctechies745 Год назад

Your supply room is coming along great! wow!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Funny you should mention that. Our accountant always has us print a detail on our small tools and equipment thinking we're miss labeling a capital expense. We keep reminding him that we're a farm and it takes a LOT of small pieces of equipment to keep things chugging along! Not to mention the feed!!

@HorseDogandCatPawWow Год назад

Great channel, where do you guys get those yellow lids for the 55gl blue plastic barrels, much appreciated if you would share the info, thanks.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

We found these at Uline. They are technically for steel drums, but they work well with plastic also. There are 2 types, one for closed tops (we saw the lids off of ours) and one for open tops. Here is a link to the one for closed top drums; www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-19366/Drum-Covers-and-Lids/Rigid-Drum-Cover-55-Gallon-Closed-Top?keywords=S-19366

@tdh7865 Год назад

Look into planting jujube fruit trees. Great desert tree

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Excellent suggestion. We did a video a while back on one of the 4 we have planted here on the farm. I'll link to it for you here; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A191ULwAweU.html

@tdh7865 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm awesome. Dried they are going $10 a pound on Etsy. I like them fresh. Cool channel.

@marschlosser4540 Год назад

The sound of...scratch... Sung to the tune of the sounds of silence. Tepary beans are good. Cowpeas, uhhh (Lurch moment!). Green beans, forget it. El Nino has been a very bad experience. Leaves on pretty much anything not native are half the size of leaves in other parts of the country. With the cooler weather new leaves are bigger but not a lot. El Nino stunted everything, even natives. I thank God, tho, that you're thriving! Hasta, kids!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

This summer really was a doozy. The complete lack of rain with the consistent hot temps really pushed everything and everyone to the brink.

@marschlosser4540 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Temps aren't a problem for acclimated plants. That rain, tho, ouch. It has so much more in it than just wet. Tap, even well water, cannot compete with negative ions, natural nitrogen and CO2 being washed into the soil and so on. niio

@JynxieTheMermaid Год назад

P.s. I’d totally pay money to see you guys dressed as jack sparrow and poison ivy for Halloween!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Ooh, now that would be fun!!

@taylorvanbuskirk8040 Год назад

I'd be uncomfortable walking through the high brush in the chicken pasture for fear of a rattlesnake.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

It's always a little scary walking through that, but even tough it looks really thick, it's usually patchy enough to see through it.

@pubdefendr 11 месяцев назад

I really enjoy watching your videos. I learn a lot! I am in Yuma and am going to plant an orange, banana, mango, and lime tree on my residential property that is about 1/5 of an acre. It seems that my soil is sand for at least 1.5 feet below the surface. Do you think I should add cactus/citrus soil to the hole in which I am going to plant the trees to improve the soil before putting in the trees?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

Hey Travis. I wrote out a response that didn't post for some reason, so forgive me if you get this twice. If your soil is extremely sandy you can mix a bit of screened topsoil (dirt) and/or some compost to give it some structure until the trees are accustomed to the soil. Also, I would HIGHLY recommend starting with the citrus trees and holding off on those tropical trees. They are VERY difficult to successfully grow here and they produce very small yields. There's a reason you won't find any videos on our channel about mango trees and the only banana tree we have was gifted to us. It's surviving ok, but 2 years in and we have not seen any harvest (with none in sight still). In contrast, our 2 year old citrus trees gave us dozens of pounds of fruit in their second year. Same with peaches, apples, mulberries, figs, pomegranates, grapes and blackberries.

@KimWilliamsystunisia Год назад

Hi Guys, came across your channel by accident and love what your doing. My question is about water, what is your water source? Have you experienced any issues with the quantity this year? We have a small market garden in Northern Tunisia where the "soil" is compacted sand, like you we dig trenches and fill with animal manures, compost and wood chip. Keep up the great work and thanks for the encouragement.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Glad you found the channel and are enjoying the content! We did a video on our water a while back that I'll link for you here; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mD-ucHVNseE.html

@KimWilliamsystunisia Год назад

Thanks for the link, quite a setup you have there. Here in Northern Tunisia our system is much simpler. Not ideal, but you work with what you have.

@lorenbush8876 Год назад

Is the reason you put the hardware cloth so far out around the trees is just in case an animal urinates around them that it doesn't drain down to the roots and kill the tree? Just curios, some trees and plants are sensative to sodium and it will kill them. Thanks

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Great question. The primary reason for the hardware cloth around any of our plants is to keep rodents and rabbits from the trunk and new shoots of young plantings. The amount of urine that might be applied wouldn't be much of a problem for these types of plants. That might be an issue with young, annual plants though.

@carolleenkelmann3829 Год назад

Looking so proudly at the chickenrun's green belt, I can't imagine you ever getting "pale" yolked eggs. Is your farm making any money? I get quite concerned thinkink about the self-sufficiency of your wonderful undertaking there in the desert. Have you ever seen any UFO'S?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

You're correct on those yolks. The only time we see them pale is now when we're overseeding the pasture for the Winter months as they're kept in the coop for a few weeks while the new grass comes in. No UFO's, at least not yet! As for profitability, we did an episode on that earlier this year that I'll link for you here; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WiP92Ao3LbI.html

@madamfeline1994 10 месяцев назад

What you gonna do about the cats going to the bathroom or knawing on the crops?? Or chasing the ducks and chickens?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 10 месяцев назад

Great questions. We'll acclimate them to the ducks and chickens, but I'm not concerned with them. We have other neighborhood cats that wander onto the farm form time to time and they don't bother the poultry. As for crops, we already protect any that the cats would get into from other pests (jack rabbits, etc), so that shouldn't be an issue. If they do the job we "hired" them for, they'll reduce the overall varmint pressure on the farm which is a big problem for us right now. If we have to cat proof a few areas I think it will be worth the trade. I suppose we'll see how it pans out!

@madamfeline1994 10 месяцев назад

Hope it works out for you. And I have to say, kittens are always too cute!! 😆😆

@HorseDogandCatPawWow Год назад

Also wonder if you do not have much trouble with coyotes out there, I farm in n the SoCal high desert and would not know how to protect my livestock if I would not have my Great Pyr?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Oh yes, we do have coyotes on the property every night which is why they all get locked up in the evening. We do have plans for LSG dogs and Great Pyrenees is at the top of our list right now!

@chetnash5991 Год назад

I’ll bet the goats would have done your mowing for you! Happy Anniversary!

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

@@chetnash5991 they would definitely have taken care of the alfalfa!

@suzisaintjames Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, think about donkeys as livestock guardian animals or llamas. Donkeys can also be used for hauling. Llamas also haul, but you can use or sell their fleece. 💖🌞🌵😷

@nancytownsel419 Год назад

I live in Valley Center. We have coyotes often. We have to lock up our animals.

@oldhamegg Год назад

Raising cats now? How do they taste?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Finnicky....at least one of them!

@gordybishop2375 Год назад

What is your best nectarine to grow?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

We only have 1 variety that we've been successful with and that's Artic Star. Fantastic tasting, white flesh nectarine.

@taylorvanbuskirk8040 Год назад

My soil is about 90% rock.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

That definitely makes for a unique challenge. About the only thing they are good for is allowing root penetration between the rocks....after you plant the tree by removing a bunch of rocks!!

@taylorvanbuskirk8040 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Cactus seem to like it. Rocky soil drains well.

@cs7717 Год назад

Okra - Now there is a veggie I've never really understood. They have more slime than snails. Yuck!!! What in the world do you see in them?

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

Well, once we tried the pickled okra this week we've decided to feed them to the pigs and never grow them again! 😂😂

@cs7717 Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm It would be funny as all get-out if even the pigs won't eat them! LOL

@NanetteLoves2Budget Год назад

I eat them raw. Great crunch and no slime.

@cs7717 Год назад

@@NanetteLoves2Budget seriously? What do they taste like?

@TheFatTheist Год назад

@@EdgeofNowhereFarm we slice them and sauté them in a little butter with eggs for breakfast. They are pretty good that way. Very good for you but I agree that they aren't the best tasting. They grow great in our summer though and we have a limited number of things that grow in the summer here.

@ameliastark688 Год назад

Please discuss rodents.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

We've discussed them in the past, but our primary goal moving forward will be the barn cats we're now raising up to help control them. Was there something in particular you were wondering about?

@ameliastark688 Год назад

Are they eating fruit off your trees? We have an acre and want to plant fruit trees, but I don’t want to attract rodents.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm Год назад

@@ameliastark688 very little. The majority of our fruit loss on trees is from birds. The major attractant for rodents for us is from the animal feed on the farm and even with that, we don't see much fruit loss from rodents. Some encouragement - you can see what we're accomplishing on this farm and we're only using about 2.5 of our 6 acres. On the old farm we were on 1 acre and had a tremendous amount of fruit production and harvest on it with just over 100 fruit trees planted. While you may have a few more rodents than you do now, that's completely normal when you're growing food. Every farm in history has had rodents. If you're really wanting to grow your own food, there will be challenges, but it's well worth it in my opinion. And if we can do it, so can you!

@harishrv 11 месяцев назад

Non vegetarian farming is a third grade, ,तमोप्रधान quality, be it a permaculture. .... they are are low grade, third class food as per bhagawat gita texts.

@EdgeofNowhereFarm 11 месяцев назад

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying vegan/vegetarian farming is the highest quality of farming? In other words, no animal inputs whatsoever (manure, urine, etc)?