Why we plant COMFREY EVERYWHERE! | FOOD FOREST PERMACULTURE FARM & NO DIG MARKET GARDENING

In today's varied video we begin by meeting the geese who are in on of our small scale silvopasture systems - a wood fuel alder coppice - where they are grazing in between the young trees and making the grass grow as fast as they are eating it. It's then time to move the goats into another area of agroforestry and look at the Gallagher smart fence electric fencing that we use to contain the goats. We have a quick look at some hops that are making good use of vertical growing space (growing wild up a willow tree) and some of the fruit trees that are producing in the forest garden including medlar, apples and damson.
We then visit the market garden and learn all about why we plant comfrey everywhere around the farm, its uses as a dynamic accumulator, as a mulch plant/chop and drop, as a protein rich animal feed, as a wildlife and pollinator/bee plant, a green manure and liquid fertiliser and as a herbal medicine. We dig up some comfrey, divide it and make root cuttings before planting the comfrey in our new forest garden tree row.

About Tap o' Noth Farm:
Hi, we're James and Rosa! Welcome to Tap o' Noth Farm, a quarter acre Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden and 8 acre permaculture designed food forest farm and homestead in Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland.
We practice home scale to small farm scale agroforestry and regenerative agriculture methods to produce organic fruit and vegetables, raise dairy goats for all our raw milk needs, Shetland sheep and geese to graze our silvopasture and coppice systems and laying hens, moved around in a Chickshaw, for an abundance of eggs.

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Introduction 0:00
We've got 10k subscribers, thank you! 0:02
Collecting water from our forest garden pond 0:27
Harvesting veg for the veg box 1:20
Drone shot of farm 2:30
Geese in our silvopasture coppice 2:45
Moving the goats to new grazing 5:32
Gallagher smart fence/electric fencing 8:05
Hops 9:18
Apples 11:20
comfrey uses and planting 12:18


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Growing comfrey
Comfrey in the market garden
silvopasture for goats
silvopasture for geese
Scottish food forest farm