by Richard | Jul 30, 2020 | Farm Updates
Ridgedale has become one of the most renowned regenerative agriculture farms and training centres in Europe. We demonstrate a bunch of solutions, e.g. pasture raised livestock moved daily onto fresh forage, agroforestry, Keyline design, slaughtering on-farm, meeting...
by Richard | Jul 25, 2020 | Farm Updates
The farm is quiet again now that the training participants have headed home, and I felt like taking you on a stroll round the farm. Everything is nice and lush this year thanks to lots of rainfall. We’ll look at compost, the market gardens, berries, windbreaks, nut...
by Richard | Jul 22, 2020 | Aerial Tours, Farm Updates
The past ten days have been extremely busy and exhausting and amazing, running our Farm Scale Permaculture Design Course here at the farm, then slaughtering the last batch of broilers. Today’s video features footage from these events, as well as the July edition of...
by Richard | Jul 10, 2020 | Farm Updates
People are arriving from all over to participate in our Farm Scale Permaculture Design Course and we’re very much looking forward to it. Meanwhile the veg and the animals are doing their thing. We still haven’t cut haylage because it’s been too wet, and this affects...
by Richard | Jul 7, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
In order for an enterprise to be succesful, all workflows must be set up to be performed as quickly as possible. And so to have our pastured broiler enterprise be as profitable as possible, we’ve not only built our own on-farm slaughter facility but also carefully...
by Richard | Jul 6, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
This year chicken slaughter has been planned around when I’d be on the farm, as I was supposed to spend most of the season on the road, touring Europe to document the reg ag scene. That means we get a bigger difference in weight than usually, but because we have...
