Category: Natural Fertilizer

Weed Tea

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Weed Tea

This Post features a Briden Farm Garden Tour done 11 August 2022. It’s of our main garden where we’ve pastured pigs, goats, and chickens. Goats and Pigs last year, and chickens in April of this year. We use no Commercial Chemical Fertilizer, and mainly Weed Tea!

No! No! Not that Weed! 

Here’s what I mean… 

See, when You weed your garden, you save the weeds! The weeds, while they’re growing, are sucking the micronutrients out of the soil. So, when you pull the weeds, don’t just toss them aside. Put them in a half bucket of water for a week or so. Then pour it off, or strain the weeds out of it. Then add water, so half weed tea and half fresh water. Then use that mix for watering the garden. It replaces the micronutrients.

I use half tea, half fresh water, to help insure it’s not to hot, or to strong, for the plants. I also do similar teas with the waste left over when we go flounder fishing. Thus creating our own liquid fish fertilizer. 

So, most all of our fertilizer in the garden is from Weed Tea and a bit of our own Liquid Fish Fertilizer, which we call Seafood Chowder

 

Making Seafood Chowder for Our Gardens!

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Making Seafood Chowder for Our Gardens

Here at Briden Farm, we try to do things, as much as possible, the natural old fashioned way! That includes making Liquid Fish Fertilizer! Actually, because it often has clams, or other things mixed in, we refer to it as Seafood Chowder for our Gardens! The following Video is humours, and shows how we make it, although it is not for the faint of heart as it does show the raw guts of the operation! So, if you’re faint of heart, you may not like it, but otherwise, I hope you enjoy, learn something, and also have a few laughs…

Hope You enjoyed that, and my helpers! If you’d like to learn more, come visit us at Briden Farm. Call Brian at 902-907-0770 now to Book Your Visit! 

Growing A Self Sustaining Future

Creating Compost

When we think of growing self sustaining, we often think of gardening and the meat we can put on the plate. However, to be truly self sustaining we need go deeper than this! We really need to begin and work from the ground up! For only then can we truly become free! 

We need to produce our own fertilizer, preferably natural fertilizer, and develop our own food and feed. Without fertilizer, without the ability to create our own fertilizer we will always be beholden to others. Dependent on the System! 

Perhaps that is why it gives me such immense pleasure to see us turning animal waste, manure, hay, etc., into well developed compost. It will in turn be used in our gardens, and eventually to help grow livestock feed! 

While manure and compost may not be the end all and be all, it sure does provide an uncanny sense of accomplishment! Just knowing we’re that much closer to being able to grow our own food, and survive when the crap hits the fan! 

Creating Compost helps a Self Sustaining Future 

Want to learn more?

Call Brian at Briden Farm to book a visit: 902-907-0770