It's a very wet winter. The water table at Incredible Farm is at ground 0 and no the ducks and geese are not particularly happy about it. It is very muddy.
Jed is showing Jan M the way into the compound, whilst below he's happily throwing sodden hay for the hot beds.
... whilst inside the compound Mike protecting some cuttings.
... and our latest recruit, apprentice Jo-Yo, plants tiny seeds in the first polytunnel.
I helped Mike plant rhubarb in a
Hugel bed. These are last year's seedlings raised at IF from seed. The bed is basically a pile of logs, branches and brash covered with soil, muck, compost and cardboard. So the plants are lifted sufficiently above the water table and the decomposing materials will feed those plants adequately with no additional fertilisers. There's an
American account on you tube whatever. In other regions they have the opposite climate problem to the upper Calder Valley - they have insufficient rainfall. This system works there too as it conserves moisture.
On my own raised bed the brussels sprouts are over-wintering well and coming edible nicely in succession - as planned.
... And latest whizz for the Future?
Oxen!
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