This is a first-person vlog/update by farmer and author Richard Perkins summarizing his summer activities: farm work (poultry processing, clearing gardens, painting a roof, assembling a kit house), teaching regenerative agriculture courses (including a design course in Wales and travel to Gotland), and showing market-garden design (no-dig beds with perennial breaks). He promotes his books (sold direct from his farm/websites) and previews more detailed farm updates coming soon. The tone is practical, reflective, and instructional.
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Welcome back to another video folks. It's been a while. It's been hard to get time to make videos this summer. I think the last time I made a video we were putting the liner in the swimming pond and running the regenerative agriculture design course. A lot has changed. All the broilers are gone, the turkeys are gone. You can see the gardens are getting cleared out, the cows have now gone. And so this video is just catching up a bit with the time I spent at the end of the course and going over to Gotland to visit Simona as well as going to Wales and running a regenerative agriculture design course there. And then the last couple of days since I've been back. So it's a whirlwind update tour and I'll be giving you a bigger update on what's going on at the farm in the coming days as well. Okay. Everything's happening at once. Hatafar's house is arriving flat packed. Another job smoking chickens. First time for a while. Very nice. Now main thing is that chickens are even height and you measure and attempt it at the height of the chickens. Well, I haven't seen you guys in a while. Just want to say at the start of the video, I've met so many people this summer on trainings who have read my books, particularly Regenerative Agriculture and it's changed their lives, changed their careers and so they. These are the books that I have for sale from the farm, direct from me, the farmer to you. This is an instructional builds manual of how to build all the low cost infrastructure as a compendium to my main book, Regenerative Agriculture. You can find both of these in the links below. They're only available direct from me. I know that there's someone in America selling copies of this for hundreds of dollars on Amazon. I don't sell on Amazon and I never will. I only sell direct from my websites. They're in the links below. If you're in America or Canada, then that's the place to get them. Okay. Look at that. Beautifully done. Pastured turkeys, pastured rabbits, pastured lamb on the barbecue.
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So this is my little Viking longhouse where I'm gonna stay. Look how cute this is. So cozy. We're right under Snowdon, the big mountain in Snowdonia, here by the coast. Kind of grazing. Grazing units core. Things I love is. I used to love those like. Those like Enid Blyton, kind of Arthur Ransom. Because we don't really keep the sour over winter. It's a bit like. So over here in Wales, Nice sunny afternoon after some drizzle. And I wanted to show you folks this setup for the market garden. I've been teaching people about no dig market gardening for years and showing my idealized setup where you integrate trees and perennial crops in a sequence. Here it's every 10 beds and I've never done that on my farm because the market garden was set up on the neighbour's land. That's unrented land, so I couldn't plant trees. But Matt here at Hembant, where we're doing our regenerative agriculture training, has done this and it's a really nice setup. Simple no dig setup. 10 meter beds in this case and every 10 blocks of beds you've got perennials with flowers, other crops, trees, bushes, etc. It's a very nice way to set up a market garden. And then here on the sides you've got perennial hedgerows. This is just laid out mulch from it's old silage bales rolled out and planted into with a mixed hedgerow. Giving windbreak and pollinators and insects habitat. It's a good setup. They're using a mixture of local tree wood chips that they get free here. And pretty nice setup, I think you'll agree. A view of Snowdonia in the background and looking down over the ocean here. Very nice place to be. All right. Poultry processing with a seagull. This is like seagull's nightmare. Potato. England's catching up. Oh, the wind's blowing. Oh, come on England. Come on England. So, bit of a sad day. I'm cutting trees on this side of the road. They gave me the option to dig a ditch all the way down. But they lose money to upkeep the road if we don't get rid of this. And well, fair enough. I can just replant them on the other side of the road. They've got Quite big now, 5 meters on the taller ones. So it's a bit of a shame but. Well, it is what it is. We can keep the ones on the other side and see how that looks. Well, it's a big day, folks. Finally got my spray gun. Paint this roof black. This obviously makes very quick work of a job like this. And I'm very happy to finally, after all these years, safety third. Get this roof black. I. This will be easy. This is just a T shirt and pants. You can see I've missed a little bit here where it's hard to reach the angles. But we'll try and do this side today. Look at these Aspalas. This is beauty of Bath from near where I grew up in the UK. Just awesome. These are about 5 years old. They get a lot of water run off from the wash pack station from the market garden. Meghan, what have you got? Toads. It's actually Anne's villa's and mine. So painting's been going on in here too. Got the black stuff to do, but the traditional fallow red has gone on most of the barn. Got to do the other side of this barn, other side of this roof, all of that barn. But we're getting there. Hopefully the dry weather will last a little bit longer upside down. Hey, Toad. Hi. Maybe Toad wants some broccoli. Yes, he does. Toad wants some beetles and bugs and maybe some worms. Oh, my God. We should watch that. Oh, I haven't watched that. Winds have changed. There's some great clouds coming in and we're expecting a lot of rain in the coming days. So you can see some good progress. Got the sub basin for the Aterfels house. And so that's going to be popping up. As it's a kit, it's going to really pop up quickly once the basic structure is in place. Basically you've got all of these panels that are slotting together, so it should actually come up pretty quick. Very happy to have a black roof finally. I've been talking about it for years. Lots of painting still to do. I've got to paint the walls. I've got to paint other things. You see, the root cellar behind me has all been painted now as well. It's super nice getting some of these jobs done. Finally. It feels like the summer's coming to an end and now all the work that I had planned for most of the year is beginning, which is sometimes the way it goes. But that's cool. I'm happy with progress in the last days since I've been back. Lots to do. I'll bring you along in some videos. I've been pretty useless at making videos this year, but I have been prioritizing. A lot more rest and a lot more getting out and about and fun stuff that has been much appreciated. Thanks as always for watching folks and you can find out a bunch more in the links below. We'll see you in a video soon. Bye for now.
