Episode-1664- More Updates and Planning for Nine Mile Farm
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Tomorrow I have to drive out to Saline Louisiana to teach at Nick Ferguson’s workshop so I need a bit of a simple to deliver chat with Jack show today, so I thought this would be a good subject.
Today we discuss how we are continuing to evolve our plan rather than be married to our ideas. This is a key thing for many people who want liberty and freedom in their own lives. Doesn’t matter if it is farming or any business for that matter.
Too often people come up with an idea or a design or a concept and become married to the vision and when reality shows flaw, they ignore reality. This soon results in failure. Today we discuss how to avoid that using our farm based activities as an example.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- Why people get married to ideas and why it is bad
- How to get unstuck and remain fluid in your decision making
- Some things we are doing and what our hope from them is
- Quail aviary systems
- Microgreens – delayed until after the busy fall and why
- Tea – delayed to after our fall event and why
- Irrigation – why we have to go on automation
- The West Pasture – locusts to the rescue
- 2016 – Full Focus on Food Forest and Zone One Only
- The Pond – not sure what it will become at this point
- Ducks and More Ducks – what I am learning from them
- My thoughts on taking ducks larger scale, my dream project
- Minimum 5 acres, good soil and ponds are easy to build
- 5 Paddocks, 5 ponds, central holding area
- Silvo Pasture System based on major overstory such as pecans, apples and plumbs
- Mulberry as a fodder crop
- Support trees – black locust, mimosa and honey mesquite
- Likely a leader follower system with cattle in front of ducks
- Highly likely the quail aviaries could be taken large scale
- Everything I just said could be wrong
- What we learn from this level of thinking
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Jack, Shade cloth on your Aviary short term, Vine crops long term? leaf cover in the summer, then leaf drop for full sun in winter. Quail eat Hardy Kiwi, Muscadine or Maypop?
Love the show, looking forward to seeing your plans flesh out.
Shade cloth never fails.
Jack,
I have had very good luck with rain bird 12v irrigation clocks. The clock runs on aa batteries. If you put your clocks near your valves there is very little wire required. One set of batteries lasts me all summer. Might be worth the consideration for your design. Good luck!
Asking honestly b/c I don’t know. Can you chop and drop with Black Locust? I thought that it was highly rot resistant?
You can chop and drop, but the drop isn’t going anywhere while you’re alive… Use the locust as fuel or raw material for craftsmen or fenceposts.
Rotational grazing question: Is four paddocks enough for a grazing animal?
I’m not nit picking, honest question, no matter the scale don’t you have to segment enough to allow preferred species to recover between rotations? I realize that this gets strange on small acreages, but if not, I assumed you’d end up disadvantaging the preferred plants over the others and slowly converting the pasture to less attractive plants.
The reason I ask is that this thought process lead me to plan for dozens of paddocks to have a net positive system using grazing in a Silvopasture system I was designing. This same reasoning explains the methodology of chicken tractors as they create hundreds of tiny little paddocks that are allowed to completely recover before the chickens return.
Good show Jack. You made a great point that we need to step back and analyze our decisions and the outcomes of previous plans to see where we are. We can then evaluate and move forward from there. As you said, this applies to more then just plant installations.
I have come to the same conclusions you have about the need for shade first here in the south. After having multiple fruit trees die despite attempts to baby them until establishment (I’m in E TX), I put in multiple mimosa trees this past spring. Several of them grew 3’+ just over the summer and are already providing some shade. I plan on putting in more mimosas and some locusts this year to shade the area and help with the heat and water retention.
Amongst the thousands of free moments you have (sarcasm), would you post a quick sketch of your quail wagon idea?
Let us help you with tweaks to make easier before you build it.
Jack,
Really enjoy your shows, always gives me tons to think about.
Reading of the poem twice recently reminded me of something Alan Watts said about what would you do if money were no object. Wanted to share it with you in case you had never come across it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOaAHK7efc
Thanks for all you do.
Hey Jack, you mentioned buying Black Locust trees for $0.80 each, where did you find that amazing price?
http://www.coldstreamfarm.net/categories/deciduous-trees/locust/black-locust-robinia-pseudoacacia.html