Introduction to Organic Gardening and Winter Preparation

folks today on the Stony Ridge Farm Channel we're going to show you how to take your old Amazon boxes and use them in your garden for weed control and to put your garden to bed for the winter come along let's have a little bit of fun and give you some great ideas [Music] hey there folks this is Josh Stoney rich farmer welcome back to another gorgeous day here on the Stoney Ridge Farm this is going to be a quick tip Stoney Ridge farmer video I'm going to show you guys what I do to prepare these raised garden beds for winter and how I compost with my chickens right here so raising a garden is not only rewarding for you your family your home and for your tummy and your body it's also great if you have backyard chickens if you can integrate backyard chickens into your operation so come along today I'm going to teach you some stuff and we're going to show you how to use old Amazon boxes to put your Winter Garden to bed [Music] all right folks welcome to the Stoney Ridge Farm this is your first time here this is a first generation Farm project here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina that is a big old pile of soil that I made for my raised garden beds and these are raised garden beds that I made they're four by eight and I milled them right off of the wood Miser Sawmill down here we'll get you some cool footage of that so these boards are made of white oak stay tuned for a future video we're going to show you an awesome product to help defend it's called wood Defender to help defend this against rot so that's coming very soon probably be the next video in this series so I've cleaned the garden beds out it's just about time for fall gardening and I also cleaned out the chicken coop so what we use here is no fertilizer no anything other than organic material and soil amendments so what I have down here at the bottom of the hill is I have the local tree company always brings their Mulch and debris and dumps it here on the farm so we use that for weed control and so we use that for putting our garden beds to bed for the winter now what we're doing is something different and I'm trying a few different things in each garden bed so that you guys and myself can also learn how to not waste so much we are a society of waste and we've got to get away from that so if we can find a secondary use for something like a cardboard box then let's do it so let's get into this garden bed and show you what we've got be sure you stay tuned