A Simple Compost System | Mountain Roots Farm

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Today we're getting the low-down on the composting system used at Mountain Roots Farm in TN. Paul Wargo is a great grower and uses chickens to help fertilize and decompose his compost before applying it to the garden.
In this video we address: How to use chickens in composting, screening compost, the value of a small tractor, and more.
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@hairyhoudini5565 3 ай бұрын

With the starter culture deposited on Farmer Jesse's sweatshirt he was able to augment his own compost pile. We nerds thank you for taking one for the team.

@timware5943 3 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. I don’t think Jesse was impressed. 🤣

@andruloni 3 ай бұрын

We have acquired your biological distinctiveness and added it to our own.

@pixelrancher 3 ай бұрын

Off camera, he was able to extract that culture from the sample collection device.

@glassbackdiy3949 3 ай бұрын

Rather than a very expensive screener, build a trommel, I used an old cement mixer, cut the drum and extended it with bars covering it in 10mm mesh, using the existing mixer stand and an old wheelbarrow as a hopper, I can load it with mini-digger or by hand shovel, with room for two wheelbarrows underneath to catch the compost, there's loads of DIY trommel designs on youtube

@midnull6009 2 ай бұрын

YES! that's what I made! Laziness = innovation :)

@glassbackdiy3949 2 ай бұрын

@@midnull6009 work smart, not hard!

@magsterz123 3 ай бұрын

Love this. Sean, from the channel Edible Acres, also has great videos of his chicken composting set up. Highly recommend. Love your channel, Jesse!

@nathaliegibson1032 Ай бұрын

You mean to tell me I’ve been researching & doing this since last Fall, in 2 FB groups, on my second quasi hot pile & NOW I find you?!?! UGH, I DID subscribe so I can learn from a PROFESSIONAL who simplifies this complicated new obsession I got myself into!!!

@julie-annepineau4022 3 ай бұрын

I put food scraps and garden waste in a covered run with woodchips for my chickens to work over all winter. A few soaked seeds to help the soil microbiome and I have a good pile of beautiful compost to spread over beds and around trees this spring. Learned it from Edible Acres.

@Psa141 3 ай бұрын

Gardiner's know all the best dirt!

@reginaldwinsor2759 3 ай бұрын

The geese were upstaging you guys, lol. Great system & can be profitable for an enterprising person who has access to chicken manure & other things. Good quality compost is in high demand.

@KyleTheFountain 3 ай бұрын

Good idea. I've sort of been doing something akin to this just keeping my coop from getting muddy.

@Detour4it 3 ай бұрын

Man... got my cover dirty! 😅😂😊

@jeremiahthomas2669 3 ай бұрын

I need to buy your book. I think its time. Thank you for all the knowledge and time you take to make these videos. I hope your blessed. Health and wealth

@rickthelian2215 3 ай бұрын

Hi Jessie, let’s head down to Paul’s😊 Thanks Jessie, nice set up😊

@phildizzle88 2 ай бұрын

Love this video! I enjoy all of your videos, but this one especially. I have four chickens, and it’s amazing how fast they can break down the woodchips I put in their chicken run. All garden scraps go in the run and help feed the chickens and break the woodchips down faster. The compost they create is absolute gold. My plants are on steroids!

@BeeBeorn 3 ай бұрын

When i had backyard chickens i throw everything in to the chickenrun. Big compost. I read something about a Lady Balfour who did the same 100+ years ago..Chickens are almost essential when you like to have good compost..So easy..

@RT3Creations-Learn 2 ай бұрын

Man, such great content. Thank you for this video as it will greatly improve my composting success

@teedub1990 3 ай бұрын

Paul is indeed awesome.

@lisamcdonald1415 3 ай бұрын

Another awesome video nerd! I have seen people put there chickens around the compost so you don’t have to move it

@joescott3393 3 ай бұрын

People have been using chickens in composting for a millennia. The Hollar Homestead and Edible Aces are just 2 that come to mind. I have been using chickens and wood chips for probably 30 years. God Bless Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch

@jonathanschadenfreude9603 3 ай бұрын

It's a shame that the public school systems in this country haven't come full circle to realize that what you're teaching and learning and expressing here should be in every school every curriculum throughout this nation to start young minds learning how to be self-sufficient

@oxygenium92 3 ай бұрын

System wants consumers, not people who can take care of themselves.

@jonathanschadenfreude9603 3 ай бұрын

@@oxygenium92 I'd do anything to be able to change that "system"! Even learning canning too!

@jarredkushnerd13 3 ай бұрын

People have too much faith in our public school system

@denniskatinas 3 ай бұрын

In The Netherlands the media is now saying home fed chickens produce PFAS rich eggs… 😂

@user-jz7ny1qc6j 3 ай бұрын

That would be nice. Instead there was a recent article from the WEF or a WEF affiliate saying that small farms produce more emissions or are somehow less clean than large farms, so I fully expect governments to also begin attacking even these small, regenerative farms that are so much better for the environment. It's all about control, because control means power

@ValleyFarm-ix2lq 3 ай бұрын

So Awesum. Thanks from South Africa.

@dnawormcastings 3 ай бұрын

Great video on composting 🇳🇿❤️

@aileensmith3062 3 ай бұрын

About six months into our desire and making our own compost. One thing that we would love to have would be wood chips and leaves. Hopefully we will find some semi close in the near future. As always Thank you for another informative video!

@jenifermorgan7328 3 ай бұрын

Check where your local landscaping companies take their leaves. Most people don't leave them on the yard long enough to get toxins on them.

@aileensmith3062 3 ай бұрын

@@jenifermorgan7328 Kind of true, we have spoken to a couple of landscaping agencies. Most will do multiple lawns/yards and mixing everything together. We basically live in the desert. The amount of YUCK these people add to their lawns/shrubs is not acceptable to us. Thank You the the reply!

@misterwolf9227 2 ай бұрын

Great channel.

@davidpenfold 3 ай бұрын

Gotta love the geese. 😅

@aenorist2431 3 ай бұрын

I am blown away with the prices you mention. Granted, what I get is just landscape waste composted by the municipality ... but I pay 20 bucks a ton. Depending on how much you slap on each year, thats a few hundred bucks an acre. My entire farm would be covered nicely for 2k$, and half of that is just the transport.

@theoraclesisl330 3 ай бұрын

10 min after watching and im still resisting the urge to brush off my shirt

@rondavis2791 3 ай бұрын

Why?

@theoraclesisl330 3 ай бұрын

@@rondavis2791 lololol, ask farmer Jesse

@jonathanhill7026 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for all your videos. I love gardening, but I'm a videographer by trade. I noticed a rather large dark spot on the top left quadrant of the frame on some of the b-roll. It's likely a bit of dust on the sensor of your camera. Just something you might want to check if you haven't already. :)

@tomsaunders383 3 ай бұрын

Im fascinated how slow American compost is. Longest i have done fully composted in 25 days in Australia. But the coarse material does to the bottom of raised bed as drainage and mycellium acceleration

@zmblion 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure it does compost fast you guys live in the gates of hell on top of that everything wants to kill you

@catfunksfabulousfinds 3 ай бұрын

I was always told two parts brown 1 part green.😊

@cannabinerd9665 3 ай бұрын

I used to do this but due to insurance regulations I can no longer find any places willing to give me their food waste. Instead it goes in the trash.

@bettinaripperger4159 3 ай бұрын

So sad 😢

@bettinaripperger4159 3 ай бұрын

Now I have to go out and buy a 📚 book, t-shirt, 🚜 tractor, 5k screener, and get chip drop to start piling up wood chips. I gotta go to tractor supply now- I think chick 🐥 days are still going on !!!! 😂

@mezenman 3 ай бұрын

This is how I compost. I do it without a lot of this stuff. Just not as quick. My chickens tear down the piles. My tractor is a shovel. I have a 2x4 piece of screen that fits on top my wheelbarrow. I would love to have the tractor and fancy screener. All depends on how much time you want to spend on your compost.

@ardenthebibliophile 3 ай бұрын

Man that goose was dying to get on camera! Pretty slick system though. OMRI requires a certain amount of time for the compost to ferment before it can be safe to use right? I thought they said they combine piles so how do they keep track?

@XMcBainXUSA 3 ай бұрын

What are the cost inputs for a system like this? How much for tractor, how much for screen, etc?

@andrewmckinley6571 2 ай бұрын

What are your thoughts on using saw dust in place of wood chips?

@tinkeringinthailand8147 3 ай бұрын

I'm struggling with 40 + degrees C. my carrots and beets are hangi

@treynash5876 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@notillgrowers 2 ай бұрын

Thank YOU! 🙌

@ckhenson 3 ай бұрын

Dream job.

@jf3457 3 ай бұрын

Take care, woodchip compost requires HUGE ammounts of water and TIME to really degrade the wood chip material. If your source of N is chicken manure, and your chickens are not properly dewormed, the cysts might resist the composting process and end up on your veggies when fertilizing your fields.

@rochrich1223 3 ай бұрын

I keep wondering how well a multi-vitamin would work to supply micro-nutrients in a garden? Can anyone estimate how big a plant could use 100% daily minimum requirement of minerals?

@petanisukses_garden 3 ай бұрын

Organic fertilizer is great for soil and plants

@dontbea7237 3 ай бұрын

If you want the screen it down a little smaller maybe trommel 16:30

@jarnevanbec2886 3 ай бұрын

Chicken are great. Whatever excess mulch and woodchips I can't use on my pathways, borders or vegetable garden I throw in their ren. Same for excess waste for the garden or kitchen, if the compost heap is temporarily full, it goes to the chicken. Nothing organic ever goes outside of my property.

@garrettscott4094 3 ай бұрын

Cat's are quieter than geese.

@YOOTOOBjase 3 ай бұрын

Their eggs tatse horrible though

@garrettscott4094 3 ай бұрын

@YOOTOOBjase Maybe so, but their milk! Chef's kiss!

@michaelschreiner95 3 ай бұрын

@@garrettscott4094 you tried milking a cat?

@ardenthebibliophile 3 ай бұрын

Geese spot predatory birds and alert the flock

@Greenflowersnfowl 3 ай бұрын

Those geese 😂

@tonymatthews445 3 ай бұрын

Unfortunatly, and annoyingly, we are not supposed to feed food scraps - that have been through a kitchen to chickens,in the UK.

@louishill7326 3 ай бұрын

Why

@tonymatthews445 3 ай бұрын

@@louishill7326 Until now our APHA guidance has always been that it is illegal to feed your hen kitchen scraps unless you live in a totally vegan household. This guidance was brought in following the Foot and Mouth outbreak in the early 2000s to avoid cross contamination caused by cross-species feeding. Due to an out break of a disease, that only seems to affect chickens, if they are deliberately infected, that was accidentally released from a facility that messes about with such things, we can not give chickens vegetable peelings if they have been in a kitchen that may have at one time or another had meat in it. See, perfectly resonable and scientific 🕵‍♂🤦‍♀.

@tonymatthews445 3 ай бұрын

@@louishill7326 According to the reviewed literature, domestic birds (chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks and geese) have been experimentally infected with some strains of FMD viruses and may develop lesions suggestive of FMD such as vesicular lesions on the comb, wattles, eye lids, and feet.

@wesleysnellgrove 3 ай бұрын

Don't snitch on yourself and you should be fine.

@tonymatthews445 3 ай бұрын

@@wesleysnellgrove I would agree, unjust laws etc, but even if you have just one chicken, you now have to have it registered. Wouldn't take them much to work out that you are not buying chicken feed.