My name is Ryan Martin. I am a first time first generation farm owner. I have 10 years of experience as a fruit and vegetable consultant. I have always wanted to have my own operation and as of Jan 30 2020 I finally have the opportunity to live my dream. I will by growing approximately 25 acres of various produce including 6 high tunnels with various intensive tomato and pepper crops. I intend to limit my help as much as possible to my family of 5 children and wife. My only source of income to pay off my farm loan will be the produce that i grow. I intend to show how I grow all the different crops and educate on problems and issues that appear through time. I hope this channel is interesting as well as educational. Please subscribe
That planter is absolute genius!! Reminds me of my youth when I worked for a large Christmas tree grower, sitting on the planter and placing bare root balsam seedlings , 1000 to an acre an planting a 40 each spring. I also in later years ran a shearing crew that sheared close to half a million trees a year. Lots of swinging of shearing knives.
A portaband saw 18V Fuel Milwaukee for cutting clean tops , and the bottom board is refered to as a grade board. Rock on brother, love seeing someone constructing . Especially anything agricultural!!
Thank you for your support!! We couldn’t do any of it without people coming to buy it!! We try our best every day to grow and produce the best food we are able! Thanks again for your encouragement!
I’m so grateful for everything you all produce. I’ve been buying from you since the beginning (around 5 years I believe) and love watching your farm grow every year. Thank you for providing my family with the best! And your kids are so sweet.
Thanks, very inspiring =) Im wondering how much one of those greenhouses cost to build? and is it possible to cool it down from 40-50 Celsius to 20-30 Celsius ?
Without the heaters cost range from $15 K to $18 K. Heaters are going to be about $3K by themselves keeping in mind you can only cool it down to the temperature that is outside, but you can get roof vents, which will allow you to cool it down, the way you’re mentioning. The downside is roof cost about $10 K as an addition. These are very nice and I would like to do them in the future, but because of the cost, it won’t happen for a while for me.
@@theproducefarmer8427 ok thanks for answering. Ok so you mean that around 28k with the cooling vents? Do you recommend solar for that? Some months it can get up to 40c so I really need to cool it down to at least 25c but don't know how much solar and vents I would need for that in one of your greenhouses?
I will spread fertilizer for the pumpkins about three weeks after they are planted. I plant seven rows each section which is 49 feet wide and so I can straddle the center row and broadcast each patch.
Yeah, in hindsight, I feel kind of dumb about it, but I was just believing what I was told. Guess you can’t always believe everybody. Made for funny memories though.
Haha I asked my dad what it looked like and he said it’s “nothing” so I didn’t bother with it right away. The nurse told me don’t ask my dad next time. Ha Definitely could’ve been worse though.
Great video. Hope you still get comments and can respond. When you install the second layer of poly, do you wiggle wire over the first wiggle wire on the first poly, or do you remove it and only use one wire for both poly layers? Thanks for your videos.
Yes, you use separate wiggle wire for both layers. Put the first one in and then you put the second one right over top of it. I do have plans to put up one more small greenhouse this fall… This one I will post videos of the progress, and how I do each step.
