Quitting Your Job To Farm on a Quarter Acre In Your Backyard?

My friend Steven Cornett just quit his job. He quit so he can start his NEW job...farming in San Diego on a quarter acre in his backyard.

His farm is called Nature's Always Right, because he believes that the best way to grow is to study natural systems and emulate them in his urban plot.

In this video we do a DEEP dive into every aspect of his farm as well as where he's at in the journey. I HIGHLY encourage you to go subscribe to his channel for more urban farming goodness!

1:47 - Overview of Plot
6:55 - Chicken Coop Design
11:14 - Chicken Feed and Watering
13:58 - Compost & Fertility
16:29 - Black Soldier Fly Larvae Production
19:25 - Vermicomposting
22:25 - Carrot Tips and Row Planting
27:07 - Post Processing Station
31:12 - Final Thoughts!

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1:47 - Overview of Plot
6:55 - Chicken Coop Design
11:14 - Chicken Feed and Watering
13:58 - Compost & Fertility
16:29 - Black Soldier Fly Larvae Production
19:25 - Vermicomposting
22:25 - Carrot Tips and Row Planting
27:07 - Post Processing Station
31:12 - Final Thoughts!

[Ashleyswanson]

I’m sad that nobody took the time to acknowledge the amazing “chick inn” sign on the coop

[susanm]

Thrilling to see young people learning farming and creating new methods. I've been gardening my whole 60 years, still learning and changing my methods. Thanks for sharing.

[alloounou]

As someone with a lower back injury, this guy's focus on his own health in the work is super nice to see.

[nibblesd.biscuits]

Eye was Browsing YouTube and came across this gem.

[Umiizack]

Love this guys passion for farming. He’s also really educated and knows what he’s doing.

[GaryMcKinnonUFO]

I can totally appreciate the planning, design and hard work that went into this, what a great use of the space.

[lisakukla]

I just made an offer on a little quarter acre spot and this has me feeling so energized! I don't plan to do a market garden, just a micro homestead, but this demonstrates to me that I could definitely feed myself and share a lot with others just from my little place. And have a few side hustles probably, too.
Go! Go! Go!!

[christykendall]

I LOVED this video. This is the first person I've seen REALLY talking about efficiency in gardening and taking a hobby and making it a career in SO LITTLE SPACE. So awesome, so inspiring <3 Thank

[cherylsxavier]

My uncle used to get ALL the leaves in the neighborhood! Everyone brought him bags and bags and bags of leaves for his garden. He tilled the leaves and chicken poop from his brother chicken farm into the garden area and planted about 1/8th of an acre of land. He had tomatoes corn yellow squash onions collard greens mustard greens carrots okra green beans eggplant zucchini cucumber. Fig trees plumb trees pecan trees. It was a wonderful garden. 🙂

[noneya]

well informed man, zero ego. very interesting

[guillermone]

I'm am going to be honest. I had my doubts when I first started to watch this video, almost started to laugh, but now the laugh is on me. I never invest more then 10 maybe 15 minutes looking at any You tube videos, but after the first 5 minutes you caught my attention. I finish seeing the whole thing from start to finish, at the end I was humbled. Very impressed with what you did. Congratulations to you and wish you many years of future success.

[jokemartin]

Brilliant. I am living in South Africa and have more or les the same idea. 40 chickens, 100 banana trees 30 papya trees grapes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, chilli, wild tomatoes, brinjal and african potato as a sustainably ( survival) garden on a 800 metre square semi tropical coastal property.

[alexandersong]

That's an amazing setup! As great as everything is I think my favorite thing is the worm bin setup with the main container to collect the worm tea/leachate using smaller bins. He's really thinking about long term applications and preserving his own physical health while doing that. Way to go Steven!

[karla]

Amazing how much he's getting done in a small piece of land. Loved this video

[cryzzn]

I LOVED this video. This is the first person I've seen REALLY talking about efficiency in gardening and taking a hobby and making it a career in SO LITTLE SPACE. So awesome, so inspiring <3 Thank

[Agrinihan]

Thank you for sharing your story. Very inspiring. Very informative and very helpful for us to build our own backyard farm. With that im inspired to improve my channel to promote bayanihan Filipino culture. Helping our local farming by sharing my knowledge gain from different people. Thank you for inspiring me to do more.

[RisherTNgarden]

Wow his farm was amazing. I watched both episodes just now. And then went to his channel and realized he’s now in Tennessee! My husband and I are also from Southern California and move to Tennessee three years ago. I have my backyard garden going. So now I’m really catching up on what he’s doing and subscribed to his channel. So glad you shared this!

[sonyagriffy]

Love men that can grow stuff ♥️. Says alot about a person when their plants are happy and healthy. Thank you for sharing.

[Gamingguy-mywn]

Let’s appreciate the fact he’s still hearting comments to this day