Your determination in the face of adversity is inspiring. It's been a hard year but hang in there, you have a great vision. Looking forward to watching your dreams become reality,

Chin up, things will get better. With ups, there will be downs. But yet with death there is also life. Things will get better and we all are here to support you! 🤗🙏🏽❤️

Hang in there, with any luck we'll get a long Indian summer, even if the light diminishes, we could get seedlings still to have a wee start for the 2023 season.

For the winter, I sometimes put leaves etc on the ground, then add plastic on top of that. It doesn't rot down completely but will be adding some nutrient to the soil and encouraging beneficial microbes.

If you have live stock you have dead stock...just remember that... 💕 Don’t pull the trees out as mine have somehow started to turn back green...

You are such a lovely man and I wish I was your neighbor so I can help or just give you a hug 😍 You have so much hope and that’s so important ❤️

Think We have all struggled this year with the heat and lack of water and other stuff, hang in there, next year will be better, look forward not back 🙏👍🏻

I’m sorry there’s been some knock backs. But I’m so glad you can talk about your mental health. My cousin couldn’t and he committed suicide two years ago. Never give up! You’re doing a great job!

Here's hoping lots of good things replace all those knocks, and Summer sun with some rain continues..

Very sad about your turkey chicks, but it’s Great to see your land greening up. You’ve made it this far with some really bad luck but I’m sure there are better times ahead for you 🌳🌻🐓

Hey Geoff. I'm sorry you've had to endure more losses- on top of the produce lost over the summer drought conditions. As my Mum used to say, turkey poults under a month old have a death wish, so please don't beat yourself up re. these. Good to see your fields greening up, hopefully we'll have a long autumn and grazing can continue to be useful but less nutritious. Yes you'll be flushing your ewes, as we shall to a lesser extent as we don't want triplets up here really, twins ok but singles do best in our upland situation. So pleased that you have taken heart from the 'surprise' chicks, yes of little value but sometimes we need a lift and that kind of thing can provide it. Without me sounding patronising- please don't take the setbacks on board. You'll come out the other side, stronger. Take no notice of my ramblings, lol! We wish you the very best. 🤓 Johnny and 🧔🏻‍♀ Jacob, oh and Lily 🐶

I know it’s disheartening when things go wrong but see all the wrong things as a learning stage , enabling you to improve on things next growing season . Chin up and stay positive .

I’m the same at the moment I think the seasons effect me a lot. Sorry about your turkeys, I think you said they were hard to rear. Good to plan ahead. The little chicks are lovely.

May I suggest postponing the sows being bred? The heat and overnight temperatures may not show up in their health, but it may show up in the piglets. Hopefully the rains coming this week should help put more healthy conditions for all the animals. They're far more stressed than you can see. Slow and steady will get you through the fear of things going wrong. It's incredibly tough, but it means you also have time to pinpoint your priorities. Maybe fewer animals, maybe limit the garden to mostly what you know people buy, maybe just watching nature for clues about the changes coming.

It has been such a lossy year! I’m not trying to sell anything, but I’ve barely produced anything to eat, I’ve lost chickens and my colony of bees. I can’t imagine how tough it must be if you’re also trying to make a living from it. 🤗

Hello sir i am first and I am Indian

I live in Thailand had the same problem with the turkeys they started to die when they were 3 months old. I had 7 that had hatched but died not in one gO but one by one on a weekly basis.No idea why this was the frustrating part of it. Keep it on love your VDO

Ah bless you hun! I seriously feel for you. I did notice that it was starting to look greener there. Our grass is bouncing back but still patchy. I am hoping that the dead grass will act as mulch. We had 8 primary school kids for a birthday party. The grass was still wet. No shoes in the house didn't mean the garden, so we have trails of mud, dirty socks and feet that day! So sad about the turkey chicks. Do they still need a heat mat when it is still warm? Would the hen accept the turkey chick in the brood? I've seen some weird mixed mother/chicks combos on the The Chick Called Albert channel. I didn't know that the sheep couldn't eat the dry plants in situ. Is it because the dry hay that you buy has been fully grown? I think with the pigs, i agree, best of waiting for everything to get a chance to bounce back before getting another hungry mouthed sperm donor. (I write this and still remember that reality program where that lady had to obtain the sperm from a pig! lol) I had no idea that male pigs had corkscrew willy's! Also that puzzled Oh as to why some pigs tails are curly and the Ah when you think about it! lol Do you have an aerator or know someone with a cultivator? Chop and drop it all if it's no good for the animals with those and cover crop the lot. The poo will get mixed in with it all. It might also help with those plants that you said were not good for the animals. All for well having a Charles Downing no dig plot but you need to have ground water in place. This is what gets me as people talk about Zones and altitudes. Being in London, is so different from West to east as it is north and south. I am learning what grows well here. I can apply general rules but a lot of what i have found as sources is mainly US based videos. I guess i could post what is going on here in our garden. I am camera shy as i normally like to be behind the camera. I really think there should be more exposure for UK growers, especially like per region or county. Like using #UKRegionalGrowers #London for example. It will be harder for me to film and edit as, other than disclosing my location to weirdos, i don't want to infringe my neighbours privacy. I may have to voice over as we have interesting new neighbours, renting the place next door. So yeah i can do a voiceover video, sharing what is going on a typical, post war London house.

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Hi Mate love your videos. I just wondered can't you dig small ponds around your farm so you will have water in most places? .. I'm only asking as I will be buying land soon and I'm just thinking of water priority first, then animals and vegetables etc

Hi, thanks for sharing. I’m about to get 4 acres of land. I’m considering raising some store lamb. Very new to farm. Do you think we can make money out of this? Thanks