by Richard | Jun 7, 2021 | Farm Updates
In today’s video I’ll take you around the farm. You’ll se us moving the cows back on our land, I’ll tell you a bit about how we run the layers and broilers, you’ll get a glimpse of the pigs, the sheep and the gardens, and you’ll se me turning the dunk tanks in the...
by Richard | May 31, 2021 | Farm Updates
The pigs have arrived! After some years without pigs, I’m excited to have 4 of them in the forest, so that we can fill our freezer later in the year (bacon is one of my favourite foods). Likewise, we’re planting rice for the first time in years. Join our mini series...
by Richard | May 25, 2021 | Farm Updates, Starting a Farm
I’ve decided to give the e-book edition of my book Human-Scale Regenerative Farming – Stories from the Pioneers away for free for a limited time. We’re running a free mini series right now, called On Profitable Regenerative Agriculture, and when you sign up for...
by Richard | May 24, 2021 | Farm Updates, No-Dig Market Gardening
I actually came into farming through organic crop production and horticulture. But not finding what I was looking for at ag school, I luckily came across the work of Charles Dowding, and this year it’s been 20 years since I built my first no-dig beds. Things have...
by Richard | May 23, 2021 | Farm Updates
Today we’re starting slaughter week. We’re splitting 1000 broilers into 3 batches and doing back-to-back slaughtering and packing over a 6-day period. It’s the first time for this year’s team, so whilst a 330 bird slaughter normally takes around 5 hours, it’ll...
by Richard | May 20, 2021 | Farm Updates
The day just got way better: We got an exemption to get our birds out on pasture! We live in an area of Sweden that is considered low risk, and we applied for wellfare reasons because it’s getting too hot in our tunnels for the birds. The exemption means that only...
