This is a YouTube video by Richard Perkins giving a farm update during a rainy day: he thanks people for gifts (books, hand-carved spoons), describes recent beneficial rains and abundant vegetable growth, and explains an overproduction problem with salads because restaurant orders dropped. He walks the pasture with his child Ragnar looking for frogs, notes trees, berries, mushrooms, livestock, and maintenance work, reflects on past videos documenting the farm's change, and mentions upcoming events (a Scotland tour, a farm-scale permaculture design course, and chicken processing).
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Well, rainy day. It's delivery day. But right now Ragnar and I gotta go find frogs in the rain. Now people often send us lovely gifts, but I haven't really highlighted them. But I think I should because quite. Gordon sent us this great book, reinventing Organizations after hearing me talk on a podcast about integral theory and spiral dynamics. Thanks so much for that, Gordon. That's awesome. And it looks like a great book. And then Eric has sent us this lovely hand carved spoons. He sent us this postcard, swedish trolls fishing. And he was really excited about Ragnar exploring the coast. So he made us these beautiful spoons for next time we go camping. You can see his Instagram and website here. Actually got his website up. Here's Eric. Thanks so much for that. It's a really sweet gift and we really appreciate that. Thank you very much. Well, after the dry start to the year, we've certainly had a nice bunch of rain in the last week or two and it's really been needed. Beautiful veg coming out the garden you see here. Going out to the deliveries today. One issue we've had this year is just the overabundance of salads. We've got a lot of mesclan and lettuce heads that would typically go out in big restaurant orders. But obviously with the restaurants closed, we can't keep up with it and we just. We're not totally sure what to do. We're selling quite well to private customers that we can't really extend that. There's not enough customer base to support it. So without the restaurants, there's some wastage this year, but it's going really well. We're selling right now what we would typically sell in a month from now. Sales sort of ramp up into the summer and then go down again in October. So things are going good, but we've certainly got an overproduction. Having not been able to really adjust our plan according to what's happened this year, and that's partly due to our rural location. There's just not a big enough customer base to expand into. It's. It's. Let's go and find a frog. Okay. Ragnar's got his waterproofs on set for any weather. I've been really enjoying this rain and it's nice to actually get out and be in the rain because it's been baking hot and just too much. But we've been looking at all the frogs developing their legs in the ponds. But we want to see if there's any adult frogs around. Cuz Ragnar's really into amphibians right now. These are cool little mushrooms. Tasty. It's. Oh, Morning moves. Long grass, it's over your back. Clover. Me. Grass is over the cows backs. Hello Winston. Black walnut done from seed and actually there's a whole row but the bigger ones are up around the back here. And this line. Black walnut certainly does the best here. It's gonna be so good. And then. Can you put some sugar on top? Raggi, you want the sugar? What are you making right now? What is it? I don't. Here they come. Hey Winston leading the pack. Come to call this one here, she has a bit of a rash. She gets bitten by the little knots, the little midges. Skin. Can you see the one looking at you? She has like a little skin problem. So we wonder about her because she got it last year. Look at her, look at her cooling. So Alex has been clearing a bit around the silver pasture lanes. A lot of berries coming on that will be ready for harvest pretty soon. So this is our kind of annual maintenance. We'll come through and just clear out under the bushes to give us ripening and get in there. Lots of pods on the Siberian pea shrub. Lots of berries. Soon we've been getting a lot of strawberries. Now it's going to be time for the berries to come on. And then it's the wild berries and the mushrooms. A few stray red carrots. Beautiful. There's honeyberry on the back here. Quite small. They should plump up a bit. These are wild hops growing just below the pond up this birch, coming right up into there. I've really enjoyed looking back at some of the older videos we've put out in the last years and for those of you that follow the channel it's Yeah, I don't know, some of you have watched all of our videos I guess. But just yeah, really appreciating everything that we've done over the years and looking back to photos of what the farm looked like when we moved on. Just unreal. You know it's really cool to do that here and there just to get a sense of. Of how things change because when you're living with them incrementally it doesn't register necessarily. But that's been a really pleasurable thing I've enjoyed a couple of evenings ago just watching that old videos and how things have changed and evolved. Super fun to have all that documented. Alright, that's it for today folks. A little update and I'm busy on the tour. I'm in Scotland right now and super enjoying the episodes. Come and join us over@farmlikeahero.com to hear 75 of Europe's up and coming regenerative farmers. Super enjoying the insights and sharing that's going on there. We've got another busy week ahead with chicken slaughter and then we've got our farm scale permaculture design course, which is just an awesome time. Super excited to have people at the farm bring the energy for that. So I'll try and keep you updated as we go and where I have time, but look forward to seeing you in a video soon. Bye for now.
