BIG DAY at the Famers’ Markets: Employees React to HEAT WAVE 

Don’t worry, I plan to make several videos of all of my brothers items, including our commercial kitchen and the story of about how he nearly lost his leg in an auger when he was four years old.

Thanks Bill! Sometimes it’s hard to film. A lot of the details happening behind-the-scenes because it just takes so much more effort, hopefully the videos of us harvesting our crops will be a little easier

Go back to your recliner, he knows what he is doing

Yeah, we can usually grow some pretty darn good watermelons here on our farm. Most customers realize we’ve had to raise our prices just like everybody else but there’s always some old timers out there that just don’t get it and think prices should be the same as they were 30 years ago

that is your opinion...are you buying and sellng these everyday? Do you have any idea how much it cost to raise and harvest these? The input cost to purchase the plant stock, the years of irrigation, fertilizering, pruning canes, land rent, labor, fungicides and insecticides, application cost of machinery wear and tear and fuel, the huge labor cost to harvest these, the cardboard flats to pack them it and the wooden pints to put them in, marketing and advertising cost, the huge risk a farmer takes with how perishable they are...the list goes on and on, and $7 per pint still barely leaves any profit margin. The cost to raise them is more than $3.50 per pint, I guarentee that. If you find them that cheap, then the farmer is loosing money.

@wishwellfarms raspberries are easy to grow 3 yr cycle for them, I have been harvesting them myself in my yard I've got red ones and black ones

@@meddler69 entirely different ballgame when growing dozens of acres of them commercially. Glad you you're able to grow some good berries.

That was our cheapest corn we sell, around Columbus it’s one dollar an ear and nine dollars a dozen or five for a half dozen

Six dollars a dozen was the price we were charging five or six years ago. With inflation and the rising cost of inputs corn should be selling for $15 a dozen at least but there’s kind of a price ceiling on it because no one would pay that much

Not sure what place you’re referring to? I grew strawberries for 20 years on about 7 acres when we peaked, we did you pick and pre-picked and had to hire 30 extra kids just to pick them and I had the baby the Crop year-round, best decision I ever made was to get rid of them.

@@wishwellfarms I was talking about the place where you get the raspberries from..ya we used to do strawberries as well. Had like 10 acres..and you are right had to have alot of extra kids around for sure..we also had a big retail operation where we sold a good part of the produce that we grew..now I do just wholesale. Wish some days that I had a retail outlet to b honest..I feel that these wholesalers make as much money as me on the produce! Do do anything with pumpkins or hard squash?

@@paullhommedieu2795 grew pumpkins for 24 years until this year, takeing a year off. we still grow butternut and spaghetti

The canopy and steel frame comes as a kit for a utility trailer or flat bed wagon. I built all the wood display shelving inside. The kit is from Rainbow Industries in Springfield Ohio.

Yeah, I know I always have good intentions but sometimes hard to remember what I talked about in a prior video since I’m filming so often, but for the most part it eventually gets film, but not in the order I had originally intended. I better just stop saying that from now on lol

6 go out on Saturdays, 2 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and only one on Monday and Friday.

Add that to my shortlist

Just part of the farmers market story, they’re only in the trucks and barn during farmers market hours, any other time they’re in my safe

Great question, I answered this in several past videos, but if you haven’t seen them, I will explain. All the markets we go to, except 2 require you to only sell what you grow, but we have two of them that allow you to sell neighboring farms produce. We don’t grow berries, but some of our friends down the road do and we help them sell some of their fruit at those two markets only.

some is able to be sold on monday and tuesday, the rest is either taken to a food bank or thrown out.

Rivulets and sebum 🤣🤣

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@@matthanes2050 we did that for years and it was the biggest pain in the butt constantly having to have new markers and chalk in everybody’s totes and ways to clean them off. And those markers are not cheap nor are dry race boards and when you got seven locations, this is a very expensive way to do it not to mention most people cannot write neatly especially the guys ha ha

@@wishwellfarms fair point I didn’t think of that. I’m up in Canada we can get all that stuff at the dollar store and when you said $12 for the cards you use and that’s USD which is $16 CAD give or take ya I agree that’s outrageous.

I just have a small (11) raised bed garden and absolutely love it. I do grow both pickling and a slicing cucumber. I notice you store everything in you walk in cooler, and everything looks good for 2/3 days of being in there. Where my cucumbers after a day or so start to feel rubbery. Could it be the type of cucumber? I do a string trellising system under shade cloth, it’s no green house, but it does work. Thank you

@@wishwellfarms I'm sure you've tried everything but just in case you haven't. We used to use pricing signs that would flip. This was in a produce department at a store, so there may be reasons this wont work for you, but I just wanted to mention it - they are commonly called accordion pricing strips. Hope the reason of the season goes well, best wishes and happy 4th.

@@Evansdotcom thanks for the tip