He Mastered the Art of Easy Vegetable Farming (Jarhead Farm)

Been gardening/farming my whole life . Best thing to do is ALWAYS hear the other guy out . Find what works for you and blend into your own style of farming . I appreciate this video

Ran into an old lady a few years that gardened this way. The old timers know and we should listen!

Best gift I was ever given was, "The Ruth Stout No Work Garden Book". It's the basis for my current garden. I'm in the desert in Arizona and simply compost kitchen veggie scraps, coffee grounds, eggshells, sand, weeds, green grass clippings(when I can find some) and whatever else blows into my lot. I'm in a very close neighborhood setting. I don't shade the plants, I let weeds grow and have tons of volunteer plants that produce prolifically, especially butternut squash. I DO have to water, though. 😂 Surprisingly, even at 120°, everything bounces back from the direct sunshine as soon as the shade shifts. Thank you!

We have been adopting the No Dig garden for the last 10 yrs. It works. We have just bought a 161 acre hay farm/ pasture/trees. Its rolling fields and glorious. We will be adopting regenerative farming on all our land. Never will we disc or Till. My surrounding farmer neighbours think we are nuts. Bless their hearts😂 We live in Alberta,Canada in zone 2. Its May 21st 2024. We had a small frost overnight. Will plant out tomatoes/ peppers next week when risk may be less. I mulch with wool from our sheared sheep.

no watering, no weeding, no fertilizing, sounds too good to be true honestly. kudos to him. good vid.

Dang. Interviewing people is sooo much more difficult that most people realize. This was done incredibly well.

We need more farmers like him.

Love this. I would love to see his garden when "things are growing."

My grandparents had a garden like this. They weren’t out there weeding or watering the garden. In fact I don’t remember them doing any maintenance at all. Just went out to pick the produce.

I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to see and hear an more mature, Southern, male living to benefit the future of children and our environment! ❤️ He teaches, shares, and openly welcomes 🎉🎉🎉🎉 beautiful, simple, loving, and tacit knowledge 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥳🥳🥳 really doesn't get much better than this ❤️ I wish I had money for a ticket

She asked great questions!

Vegetables do not absorb flavour from manure Grazon and other broad leaf herbicides do not wash out of round bales not matter how long you leave it. Amazing how people will listen to a doctor rather than us old farmers.

I love that he shared about pacing yourself with homesteading. That’s what I teach people too. We don’t have to do ALL OF THE THINGS. 😊

Make sure the person that cuts the hay Don't spray his field with Grazson or any other pesticides or herbicides

Oh my goodness this is exactly how my grandfather and my dad taught me how to do my garden to this is amazing I thought that not too many people knew about this understanding of the natural environment for getting the best garden in the world

I love this guy fantastic, so thanks for the video. I love the hippys. What a world we would live in if everyone was a hippy. It would be a beautiful place to live.

His way is like Ruth Stout’s “ No Work Gardening” I read her books last yr and thoroughly enjoyed them. I’ve enjoyed listening to this Jarhead too!

Here in Louisiana I can add my green grass clippings straight into my garden in little thick piles around plants and fruit trees and the heat, humidity, crickets, worms, pill bugs and microbes quickly break them down into rich soil and I have to mow about every 3 to 4 days so I`m constantly adding more. I had to build soil from scratch because previous residents here added gravel to a lot created by bulldozing a hill down to very hard packed red dirt. I had to use a pick axe to plant my fruit trees. I also mow over leaves in spring and fall and add pine straw, flattened piles of forest soil, leaf mold, twigs, weeds etc. I scattered organic fertilizer with 20 added soil microbes and bone meal and some organic lime pellets too because our soil is acidic and I wanted to add some minerals to the mix. I noticed tubers needed these to form and I added it and used turnip transplants and radishes to get the levels just right. I`m slowly building layers of rich soil and I don`t till. I may loosen the soil some if needed to mix in very rich leaf mold in some areas or dig a small hole for transplants but that`s it. I also leave the roots of plants in the ground and cut the plant stems when I need to remove them. I burn small amounts of leaves, twigs and pine straw here and there too and water it in. And something is always growing 365 days a year and usually a variety of things are planted together because I`m always experimenting and filling in empty spaces. There`s a huge amount of life underneath all the organic matter on the surface and a whole bunch of fish bait if I need it. But my garden isn`t neat and pretty in any way and this confuses pests and creates a nice habitat for predators and a larger variety of foods.

Thank you for being on youtube!!! I love this way of growing our food. When I move, I will be doing mine this way, God Willing.

This validates our 12 foot garden concept. We are in Central Alberta, so we don't have permafrost,but we do get deep frost and fewer growing days than Cliff. We are only 2 years in, so this willbe the first year growing in these gardens. I'm not a Jar-head, but I am a veteran, so HOO WAHH to Cliff. Cheers.