#16 Another Epic Harvest From Our No Dig Permaculture Garden

I'm Kieran and this is Sarah and two years ago we bought a farm in the forest without any previous experience. We grow our own food, harvest our own wood and water and build with secondhand materials. It's a hard life but it's also really rewarding. Subscribe and follow along on our journey. Our garden has been incredibly abundant and productive this year and it's been so fun to not only learn new garden techniques and skills but also to see that we've learned a lot from last year. We grew several new types of vegetables that we've never grown before and nothing really failed this year except for cauliflower because we only got one but it was also the most beautiful cauliflower we've ever seen. We expanded our garden a lot this year and therefore we also got a lot more food. This year we are focused more on preserving food and so far we have 30 jars of pickled and fermented food and countless bags of blanched produce in the freezer. We also grew different types of vegetables that were good for storage so in not too long we will fill up our basement with potatoes, carrots and cabbage. The more self-sufficient we get the more I realize how extremely hard it is to become self-sufficient especially in Norway where we live because what you eat for a whole year has to be grown in a five month period. But our goal has never been and never will be to become 100% self-sufficient but we're definitely going to try to get as far as we can. The feeling of empowerment and satisfaction we get from growing our own food is unbeatable not to mention that in the long run it will save us both time and money. However I will say that starting a garden from scratch especially this size is an insane amount of physical work and in the beginning it might seem like it's not worth it. But we're only on our second season and it's already starting to feel like the garden is giving more back than we're putting in. We've gotten a lot of questions about how the ducks and chickens are doing specifically Kevin Nugget and they're all doing great. Let me find Chicken Here we have the little babies. They've come out of the coop and they're eating outside now. And that's Kevin Nugget. He's become a teenager and he's impossible to catch. I don't think I'm gonna catch him so fast. He's completely forgotten that he was a domestic chicken when he was a chick. But that's good that's what we want. We want him to become a fully integrated member of the flock. I got him. It was a struggle. But here he is. Starting to get his little mohawk in and his little teenager floof on the butt. Come here baby. Okay I have to go deal with this. Hey knock it off. Stop. Be nasty. Be nice. So funny. Just as I was saying that all the ducks and chickens were doing great. They all just started fighting. Oh my god. They're just... You mating? Don't mate with your sister and brother. Oh they're just fighting like crazy. This is not normal. I think it might be because they're hungry. Oh my god. Ken! Be nice. Which one started it? Oh my god. We've been training with them to fly. Not that it's necessary but it's fun to throw ducks into water and see if they can try and fly a bit. And some of them have actually started getting really good. Soon we're gonna have 11 Muscovy ducks flying around here. It's just gonna be chaos. We made a pond here for them. It was already very wet and like a small pond already but we just made it bigger and a bit deeper. And the ducks are just loving it. They are there all the time. Good job. Here you go. Who did this? That's disgusting. Look at them ducks.