FOWL PLAY. Rounding up our geese with a drone - Episode 33
Good morning everyone
We hope this upload finds you all happy and well.
Join us this week as we share with you our trials and tribulations over the last couple of months with all of our feathered creatures on the Ramshackle Ranch. We wonder if anyone else has used their drone to herd geese or could this be a free range first?
As we discuss at the conclusion of this video, we feel comfortable with our current livestock choices. Now we are looking forward to putting together our gardening videos for you as we launch into picking and preserving the summer harvests. As mentioned in a previous episode, we plan to rebuild our least successful bed in a similar method that we used for our beans, corn and melon. We will film this process as we consider it worth sharing with you all particularly since we are so pleased with the results from the first trial. This rebuilt bed should be ready in the next couple of weeks ready to plant our Autumn seedlings.
We've also been spending some time filming operations with regenerative farmers, Jeff and Michelle, at Southampton Homestead, who Troy mentions in this video. They are based near Balingup about 45 minutes from us and are doing some seriously inspiring work. We look forward to sharing their story with you soon. Just a little taste of what is to come over the coming month(s) on Free Range Living.
With our most sincere gratitude for your wonderful support.
Troy and Pascale
Fowl Play: Rounding up our geese with a drone - Free Range Homestead Ep 33 (YouTube)
Comments (12)
Your music is great! Who was that while herding the geese?
Thanks David. It was a track called Vargtimmen by Da Sein.
Loved it, guys! Jet looked so funny jumping over the fence. 馃ぃ Heidi said you's gotta get a 馃珡 next, i replied "yeah but a donkey can go in the smoker" Great episode guys, 馃憦 we had many a giggle 馃榾 Looking forward to the garden update, those 馃崊馃崊馃崊!!
A donkey! I think we'll have to rest on our laurels for a spell till we get some bees going. Especially with piglets starting to race around everywhere.
Yes, it seems a lot of the US is getting some time in the deep freeze, though I'm sure much of California would have liked to break the drought in less dramatic fashion!
Nice to take a break an watch your video and get my mind off of our on going record winter. Thankfully I am located just at the transition elevation from rain to snow leading up the hours drive to Tahoe and Donner, (my old home base for many a year). Have a look > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqMZn5gAQA&t=243s Cheers! Rob 鉁嶏笍)))
Your tomatoes look fantastic! You certainly gave the geese a fair chance at a home. You seem like great neighbors, and I think you are very wise to insist your livestock follows the rules.
Sorry for the late reply, but those tomatoes have demanded that we spend some time putting them up with our new pressure canner. We are going into winter with some solid stores this year! In other cases, we have shrugged our shoulders and gone on when a livestock choice didn't work out, but we really liked those geese and hoped it would work out.
Great video, guys. You seem to be settling in very nicely. I like the informed, methodical way you are developing the homestead wrt livestock. It seems somewhat complex (or at least trial and error) in terms of managing existing conditions with the livestock and crops you want to develop. But as always, you make it look easy. TY for giving us a peek!
Once we have established order in one area of our lives, we like to throw some other aspect into chaos! I'm reminded of the motto, said to originate in silicon valley, to 'fail fast' in order to learn quicker. That's the story we're sticking to anyhow...
The Okanogan region of British Columbia, Canada has a lot of orchards with peaches and apples etc. It is pretty standard to see heavily loaded branches supported by poles with a forked end.
Oh, we should have thought of that! I remember seeing that as a kid; pieces of wood nailed into an X under fruit laden branches. Thanks for that, it may save us some trouble next year.