We are The Hoffmans! We are a 5th generation farming family in the North Willamete Valley in Oregon. A family farming berries, grasses and grains, which comprises of 20 different crops. Along with our farm store that is opens to the community for Berry picking, Pumpkins, Christmas Trees and more! This is our farming story, as told by the farmer’s daughter. Educating, entertaining, and telling the story of how we work as a multi-generational farm. Thank you for joining us on this journey and watching and subscribing to our page. Welcome to the family!
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What a delightful farm! We had the pleasure of visiting this bustling place today. Hardworking folks, with a great sense of humor. Delightful experience, thank you for all your hard work!!
how do you keep the birds from eating your crop? I have a small patch (8 bushes) and if I don't cover them, the birds will get every berry. I live in VA.
The strawberry farm that is the closest to us in Northern Kentucky, looks like a child's beginner garden compared to your strawberry fields. Wow, it is beautiful.
You are! Dad says it’s a more “old school” approach to making sure he centered on the row and marking where he needs to be. Jayson uses more GPS when marking his rows, but dad prefers this approach.
What is the purpose for the little arm that sticks out? I’m thinking it creates a guide line for the tractor to center on the next time down the line… am I close?
I have a group of blue berry bushes that have grown huge plants, almost tree like. Could I use a chain saw and cut them back to waist high without killing them?
Wattle was originally a dialect word for willow in the UK, a very flexible wood initially used for fencing hurdles. These then proved suitable for infill for wooden frame buildings, which were then chinked with mud in a very similar way to frontier log cabins in the US. This was called wattle and daub, and is the origin of the US term mudding for plastering internal walls. You've branched wattle for roads from fencing wattle.
We had a little trouble with our camera during this video. We are doing another video of pruning our legacy plants and will post that soon. Thank you for your understanding.
@@davedixon508 we are so glad! Subscribe if you haven’t yet and keep following along. As spring and summer come there will be lots more to share on the farm.
Yes, that is what we recommend on established blueberries. We like to see a healthy amount of new shoots and few old hard wood shoots on a plant. That gives the best possibility for yield output. Thank you for watching.
Sorry for the delay! Here is the video for you with some tips. We also are happy to email back and forth if you have more questions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KFf9b-Oy1YQ.html
Birds are sadly a huge problem, we loose fruit each year to them but try to use less invasive tactics. For example we use predator noise speakers to deter the birds in our fields. They help, but it’s still something we fight each season.
Hey there! Hopefully you guys still see this: I'm growing in the Seattle Washington area and my four blueberry bushes are on the Southside of my house so they get all the sun. One of them is a wild blueberry bush I found in a stump on our property and transplanted. The other three are I believe a liberty or a legacy, a pink lemonade blueberry, and I can't remember what the other one is. Last year only the wild bush fruited and the other three only gave me leaves. I made sure to fertilize in spring with an acid fertilizer from down to earth fertilizers. They always had water as I had a soaker hose under wood chip mulch. What can I do to increase the odds of getting fruit? Anything maybe I did wrong or should be doing?
We are always happy to help. Jayson, who is pruning in the video you watched had a few tips for you. Fruiting issues starts with pruning and how the bush is managed throughout the winter. Blueberries set the fruit buds in the late summer and fall of the previous year. Putting on fertilizer too late into the summer can make the plant not set fruit for the following year as the plant wants to grow instead of set the buds. Be careful to not over fertilize and to not over prune and remove the fruiting buds in the winter. There is resources at WSU and OSU for fertilizer rates by variety. They give out recommendations that is in line with what commercial growers even use. If you have more questions or would like more detailed help please email us at hello@hoffmanfarmsstore.com and we would be happy to help more.
It has been a very wet January 🌧 The buggy and technology is impressive. 🚜I am hopeful the clover will provide a bountiful harvest, thanks to Jayson's efforts. 🌾
Our southern high bush varieties do not drop their leaves, but if it gets cold enough they will drop some of their leaves. If you want to talk more about the varieties you have and questions email us at hello@hoffmanfarmsstore.com
Hi neighbor! (We live near Petrich’s 😊) Was out trying to prune my blueberries last week and found myself forgetting all the tips you gave me last spring when I picked up bushes from you 🤦🏼♀️. This video was very helpful, thanks!
