Brian Karlsen

My best heating  hack is my usb powered heated vest im a farmer and work outside in freezing temps all winter the small amount of electricity  it takes to charge the battery lasts me all day and when i come in at night i can have the house at a lower temp and have vest on its low setting. Its kinda like pauls heated mat but for my whole torso lower power and with me wherever i go.

Ive used cinnamon before scatter the sticks around in the dark spots they like to hide in.

ive been reading and watching a lot of videos on Dr Elain Inghams soil food web stuff and have learned that i need a fungal soil ( I work on a u-pick farm mainly producing strawberries blackberries and raspberries) I was wondering if just mixing the spent bags from growing mainly oyster mushrooms would be a shortcut to achiving these soils or is this the wrong type of fungi I was thinking of mixing these mycilium bags in with the more bacterial compost to ament the beds before planting.im also planning to mulch all the walkways between the beds with woodchips the encourage the fungal soils.

Hi there Lily what area of the uk are you in I just recently moved here from SA myself curently working on a fruit veg and christmas tree farm (used to farm lvestock and bees in SA)and looking for my own land.  im keen to meet like minded people for frendship or more. havent met many people since i arived a few months back.

thanks interesting info on the slopes and their makeup. it going to be quite an adventure adapting from farming in hot dry south africa to cold wet england sure not going to miss going 6 months without ran though

So far ive fout a 6 acre piece for £120000 in guildford which looks like good pasture in the pics unfortunately  it on a slight north facing slope not sure how bad it is but i think being so far north the north facing slope will be more of a problem than it is here in SA

Hi ill be imigrating to the uk at the begining of december and am starting to look for land ill be working in Surry so that general area. If anyone knows of anything please let me know I know from experience most farms are not sold by estate agents but by word of mouth within the comunity.  my first piece of land was teribly dificult to find but once I was part of the farming comunity i was regularly offered fields to rent or buy to expand my operation. Thanks

in a recent podcast Paul and the made a comment that thy thaught cement buildings wouldent last long and this confused me as here where i live in south africa i currently live in a brick cement house that is over 150 years old and is still in almost perfect condition after all that time the only isue being some of the wood roofing timbers that had been atacked by insects that we are busy replacing. when I was in England i also visited some places built in stone and cement that were over 1000yers old again with very little sign of wear  is there something im missing maybe somthing spicific to the north american climate that would lead yall to belive cement buildings dont last from what i see your timber homes seem to need to be replaced or repaired much more frequently not to mention them just disapearing with floods or hurricanes where cement buildings stay put.

I under stand the argument against them in terms of energy ect to build but i dont understand the longgevity argument.

just came across this article wonder what other fruits it would work for.
https://wire.farmradio.fm/farmer-stories/burundi-farmer-finds-new-technique-for-preserving-tomatoes/

with chickens rabbits and deep beding their pee and manure will compost adding a few BTUs more every bit adds up