Assess Pond Weeds & Solution

hey there folks this is Josh Donnie rich farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful day as you can tell here on the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and today we're going to be talking a bit about Pond Science ok so we've got our pond here it's a about a 2 and 1/2 acre farm pond and we have some grass issues in our pond in other words when you come out here to go fish and your reel in if you hit the bottom you're gonna pull the water grass about this big out so today we're going to talk you through and show you what we're going to do to help control the grass here in our farm pond and this could apply to your farm pond to a pond in a neighborhood or to a pond pretty much anywhere it's all about pond science here today on the Stoney Ridge farm all right free to word freedom [Music] that's my freedom I tuned as well as you can keys alright guys so here's what you need to know this is a two and a half acre farm pond right here we do not let our livestock in our waterways here on the farm we're trying to do everything the right way we are building fence and if you caught the last video on the farm blog we're getting ready to have the fence videos coming out hopefully tomorrow so what we're going to be doing here is introducing a species of fish to our pond that we put in about every year and I put about five to ten of these fish in per year they are called sterile grass carp these sterile grass carp will go in and they'll graze this grass I'll get you a little shot of what the grass looks like right now so that is the grass that the sterile grass carp will eat now the stocking rate for these sterile grass carp and I'm going to show them to you here in a second the suspense might be killing you they're all in bags over here and we're going to be stocking two ponds today on the farm today we're going to put five grass carp in here last year I put seven grass carp in this pond and it cleaned it up so this was not pristine and beautiful when we bought our property it was a slimy nasty looking absolute disaster of a mess and what we've done is restore this ecosystem we still leave some grass on the sides of the pond banks here and we still leave a little bit of grass we don't want to over populate our pond with grass carp and eat all the grass because that's going to take away some of the fish habitat we also throw old stumps and Christmas trees and all kinds of stuff in here to help with fish habitat so we grow big bass one of my…