I wanted a Free Garden, so I made one! 🌱 In this video I show you exactly how I built my first NO-DIG garden beds using FREE and natural materials I sourced locally around Town & our Homestead. From cardboard and organic manure to compost, mulch and backyard “waste”, this is a real step-by-step guide to starting a productive backyard vegetable garden on a $0 budget 💰🌿 Checkout Hoselinks Great Range of Products, we LOVE em!! https://www.hoselink.com.au In this video you'll see 📦 Finding free cardboard 🐴 Sourcing organic manure 🐓 Using natural backyard materials 🪵 Turning “waste” into fertile garden beds 🍂 Mulching pathways 🥕 Preparing for winter crops 🏡 Simple & traditional gardening methods 💰 Building garden beds on a $0 budget 🌱 Starting a backyard food garden from scratch Whether you’re starting a backyard veggie garden or dreaming of growing your own food, I hope this inspires you to just start...even with no money!💚 Email us at: homestead.otr@gmail.com Visit our Website: https://www.homesteadontherock.com Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:28 Preparing a Space 01:18 Finding Free Cardboard 03:58 Ripping off Tape & Stickers 04:37 Cardboard Weed Barrier 06:13 Setting out the Rows 06:32 Free WoodChips/Mulch 07:42 Soak the Cardboard 09:01 Branches & Sticks 10:09 Free Manure 13:43 Charcoal & Ash 17:05 Fallen Leaves 17:48 Unfinished Compost 18:49 Chicken Manure 19:35 Wood Chips from Run 20:22 More Manure 20:50 Crushed Egg Shells 21:14 Worm Castings 22:28 My "Best" Compost 23:05 Water it in with Hoselink 24:29 Mulch Pathways 24:42 ALL DONE! 24:56 My Big Mistake 25:29 Green Manure 26:26 Feeling Grateful #NoDigGarden #Homesteading #Gardening #GrowYourOwnFood #VegetableGarden #SimpleLiving #OrganicGardening #SelfSufficiency

Can Chickens REALLY Prepare a Garden Bed? 🐓🌱 | Winter Garden Prep Experiment I need to sow a Winter Garden ASAP so I put my chickens to the test to see if they could clear weeds, till the soil, and prepare the beds… without me needing to touch a hoe... 😅 Not everything goes to plan but by the end, we rebuild the garden beds, suppress weeds with cardboard, add compost and nutrients back into the soil, and finish Sowing a full winter vegetable garden🌱 In this video: 🐓 Using chickens to till soil naturally 🍅 Harvest & Cleaning out old tomato plants 🌱 Winter garden preparation step-by-step 🐛 Chickens eating bugs and worms 🌿 Dealing with invasive couch grass naturally 📦 Cardboard weed suppression in pathways 🪵 Red gum wood chip garden paths 🐓Chicken care Tips & Tricks 🌾 Planting peas to restore nitrogen to soil 🥬 Planting cabbage, pak choy, carrots & spring onions 🏡 Slow living family homesteading in autumn A huge thank you to everyone supporting Homestead on the Rock ❤️ This week Colin Supported us with a new microphone which we used throughout this video and the audio quality has been amazing! THANKS COLIN!!! 🌱Support us Page: https://www.homesteadontherock.com/support-us 💻Link to our Website: https://www.homesteadontherock.com 📨Email us at: homestead.otr@gmail.com #Homestead #WinterGarden #Chickens #Gardening #OrganicGardening #ChickenKeeping #BackyardGarden #SelfSufficiency #HomesteadingAustralia #GardenPrep Chapters: 00:00 The Chicken Plan 00:21 Tomatoes & Basil Harvest 01:33 Removing Tomato Vines 02:17 Day #1 06:20 Day #2 07:24 Day #3 09:18 Day #4 09:26 Day #5 (FINAL DAY) 10:54 Firing Chickens 11:47 Tilling Myself 13:00 Cardboard weed mat 14:04 Subscriber Support 14:52 Woodchip Paths 15:15 Feeding the Soil 16:40 Sowing winter seeds 19:27 Final verdict

🌿 We Visited The Diggers Club… and it's better than you think! 🍂(🎁PLUS 30k GIVEAWAY!!) This is not just an online seed shop… its an incredible homestead-style garden full of fruit trees, edible gardens, autumn colours, rare plants and inspiration everywhere you look + Everything a Garden needs in the Shop! This video is a Celebration for Mothers day but ALSO we hit... 🎉 30,000 Subscribers 🎉 As a thank you for all your support, we’re also doing a GIVEAWAY in this video with prizes from the Diggers Club 🌿 Giveaway Rules 🎁 - You can Enter for all 3 prizes! - 1 Comment per prize, per person! - Entries Must be in Australia - Entries close in 2 Weeks! (24/5/26) - Winner announced on our channel 31st of May! - Make sure you are Subscribed so you don't miss the Winner Announcement! In this video: 🌱 Exploring the Diggers Club gardens 🍂 Beautiful autumn colours in Daylesford 🌳 Espalier fruit trees & orchard inspiration 🌿 Rare plants, herbs & edible gardens 🫐 Picking fruit trees for our homestead 🥬 Seeds & winter garden shopping 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cozy family homestead vlog moments 🎁 30K subscriber giveaway prizes 🏡 Real conversations about gardening & homestead life 💬 Question for you: – Have you ever visited the Diggers Club? – Where should we go next? – Which giveaway prize would you want most? 📧 Work with us: homestead.otr@gmail.com 📖 Buy our Cookbook: https://www.homesteadontherock.com 🌐 Visit our Website: https://www.homesteadontherock.com #Thediggersclub #gardening #homesteading #familyvlog #organicgardening #growyourownfood #fruittrees #kitchengarden #selfsufficient #homesteadlife #gardenvlog #daylesford #ultimateGarden #gardenparadise

Frost hit our garden overnight… so we rushed to save what we could ❄️🌱 In this Family homesteading video, we harvest the last of our summer crops, preserve tomatoes, collect firewood for winter, and plant garlic for the next season. This is real-life homesteading and not everything goes to plan! 🐝Check out Superbee Here and Start eliminating Plastic in your kitchen! https://www.superbee-australia.com.au Discount code "ONTHEROCK" Winter is coming… learn with is in this video about: 🍅 Harvesting the last summer vegetables ❄️ What frost does to your garden 🥫 Preserving tomatoes with water bath canning 🫙 Trying new canning jars (Aussie Mason jars review) 🪵 Collecting firewood for winter 🐝 How we us BeesWax Wraps & Bags 🧄 Planting garlic for winter harvest 🏡 Learning homesteading skills as a family 💬 Question for you: – What’s your best firewood collecting tip? – Do you pick tomatoes early before frost? – How many garlic cloves do you plant for winter? 📧 Work with us: homestead.otr@gmail.com 📖 Cookbook: https://www.homesteadontherock.com/category/cookbooks 🌐 Website: https://www.homesteadontherock.com #homesteading #gardening #winterprep #canning #preservingfood #growyourownfood #selfsufficient #australia #homesteadlife #firewood #garlicplanting #backyardgarden #organicgardening #familyhomestead