Welcome back my friends to the Epic Gardening podcast featuring the Garden Hermit, Jacques, welcome Jacques. Hello, hello. So he's back. We teased a little bit yesterday.

I really do encourage you guys to go subscribe to Jacques's YouTube channel, different style, sort of a similar flavor,

but not the same dish, I guess, of gardening. You know, Jacques, he likes to go in depth. He gets analytical into the research of things and

some of the videos that he puts out, you know, you can you can play when you're out in the garden and listen or if you're making a meal and soak up a lot of

knowledge that gets into the particulars of some of the stuff that we talk about on the Epic Gardening channel. So how has it been starting the

channel, Jacques, and what are you doing in the garden right now that people could look forward to? Yeah, so I mean, it's it's been really interesting. Sort of starting a video like a YouTube series,

because on Instagram, before I always kind of did static pictures with long descriptions, which I still do, but I'm kind of trying to bring that over to the YouTube, where rather than try to make like when I talk about a topic, I like to really get into it. So sometimes, you know,

if I get carried away talking on a topic, I could really go for quite a while. And my main concept here from the beginning for those who are interested is to sort of walk you through the whole details and like not just the things that you should do. But the reasons why I do them. So I like to kind of get into the background of if I'm doing something that might look very innocuous or just kind of something that I ignore and don't mention. I want to actually mention it. So I want to tell you what I'm thinking.

Why I'm doing it and the reason behind why I'm doing it. So that's kind of like the main goal for those videos is to really give you the full details of what I'm doing. And, you know, coming up, I have a couple different things that I want to talk about. So I've talked about like low-tail bedmaking. I've talked about seedlings. I want to talk about overwintering compost. How to build an orchard that's dynamic with your chickens. So you could kind of blend chicken raising and orchard management in your bag.

So I'm trying to get into more of like partnerships of different things interacting in the garden.

The thing that's interesting about your approaches. You really are describing it almost stream of consciousness. Exactly what you're doing. I was watching your overwintering one, which is yet to come out. Little teaser on eggplants and peppers, which I've done a video on. And, you know, I'm trying to go, okay, well, here's, did you know you can do this. You can overwintering.

You can overwinter an eggplant, a tomato, a pepper. Any of those really. And actually quite a bit of the quote-unquote annuals that you think you can't, right?

Yep. And so I'm sort of saying, okay, let's introduce the idea. You can do this. Here's the basic idea. And here's how to do it in a simple way.

And what's cool is now we can send people to your channel and say, if you want the exact thought process of, why am I taking off this branch and not this branch, for example.

Or why am I leaving a little foliage in this spot? And why did I remove an entire other branch? It seems like you should just do one or the other.

You're explaining exactly why that's happening. And speaking of the chicken orchard, I know we did tease this a little bit, but do you want to just describe really quickly how that's going to work and why, why at chicken orchard? Why is it that thing that makes sense?

Yeah. So I mean, the main chicken coop that we have right now is built where it has an enclosed run. So it actually does have an area where they could go outside all the time.

But it's almost impossible to keep anything alive in there, of course, because they're going to scratch it all up.

Yeah. So what we're trying to do is, so the run area is like 10 by 6 right now. But what we want to do is basically make the whole orchard area available to them.

And the idea is that if we grow like forage or cover crop in that whole area, that gives them something to eat.

And then as you go around digging up and cleaning up the soil, they're also going to be creating manure.

So all that manure will slowly kind of break down on the surface and sort of feed the whole orchard.

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