Dude every video I watch of yours my little dream to start a backyard market farm feels one step closer. This dude is gonna go far with his gardening career.....he’s got that work ethic and intelligence
So cool to see a young guy like Byran into small scale farming. Wish more young people would do the same. I am impressed with his level of farm knowledge in such a short time.
We are going to get a lot more young people into it! Wait till you see the upcoming tours I'll be putting out from my trip in Dallas, TX. Lot's of inspiring people doing big things!
Bryan, you are not just a backyard farmer, you are an intellectual, I love it. You are deep and way mature beyond your age. I just wish my students in the College of Agriculture would see your journey.
Every February I binge watch these videos for a refresher and motivation. My career has been getting me used to contacting businesses so I feel a lot more confident when I am ready to sell.
A Master's in computer science, eh? That sounds like the absolutely perfect set up. Urban farming seems to me the best job for overall well being but you can do quite a bit, at home, with computers, too! Much success with your urban farm venture!
I love this, especially me being a beginner as well... It's all about finding your niche! One thing may flourish in one part of the garden and die in another part. Thomas Edison said, "I didn't fail. I just found 2,000 ways not to make a lightbulb; I only needed to find one way to make it work."
Oh wow! What a smarty and yet settled for a hobby that makes him happy. Watching him makes me smiling the whole time. I love gardening and I would love to someday owe a flower garden with vegetables. You guys needs to move to the east to owe acres of land to do this if you're so passionate about it.
I was really impressed with this entire video and farm. Been watching stuff like this for years and I remember when Natures Always Right was starting up. It goes to show how these efforts bring abundance in the world, youtube, and the farming community. This was a great look into the life of a small farmer and sparks inspiration!
I really admire and treasure you all farmers cos you all are advocates of nature and we should really protect it so that we can live like in the old days, healthy and happy
You both are awesome. I wish I could have volunteer at your farm while I was living in SD. You are very good at teaching, hope to take some classes from you in the future. Keep up the good work guys. God bless you🤗
see if you can pick up some milk cartons for those cut worm protectors, they're waxed cardboard and wont break down in the water. A lot of the grape growers up here in the central valley use them to keep the rabbits off the vines before they harden up. The property looks great!
This is the wave of the future especially considering the food insecurity looming. Good luck to you both I wish you both the best of success in your calling!
Cool. Farm looks good. I thought I had a cutworm problem years ago. I got up early one morning to do some planting and found it was birds doing the damage. A bird pecking at seedlings looks just like cutworm damage. Just throwing it out there. Good luck Bryan. I think you will fare well.
This video is gold. Wonderful interview - loved the description of the almost philosophical, spiritual nature of growing food like this. It's something you find deeply satisfying if you're wired this way. Great work guys.
Yes I can testify to beer working for me and slugs as well. Trouble is getting it to cover a large enough area but smell attracts them and self alike. I either get slops from the local pubs and bars as well as looking out for out of date stuff being sold at local supermarket. Hope to see Bryan gain for an updater session.
Yes Stefan I have found you from epic garden video and found Curtis from your videos. Now I am down to the rabbit hole and getting ready for my backyard gardening strong.
If you put out small cups of beer the slugs will go in and die happily drunken in the cup, they can tip them over and waste the beer though so would recommend securing them in the soil a bit, I usually "bury" the bottom quarter of the cup
The second you mentioned NOT packing soil when starting from seed, I looked over at a flat of seedblocked tomatoes with a sparse 12% germination....thank you for the knowledge
Regarding the spigot outside. All spigots are attached to the wall using a wall mounted pipe clip clamp, this is to prevent the hammer affect plus accidentally pulling the pipes. This would be especially needed with the PVC pipes particularly at that height, making them more flexible.
I noticed what looked like an empty in ground pool? I have found that filling my in ground pool with wood chips, and having a flock of chickens and ducks inside are a great way to have a compost pile that provides awesome black compost after a year. Every cutting from my yard goes in the pool, every scrap from my food (coffee grounds, egg shells, fruit, etc.). I just have a simple hoop setup (kind of like a pvc greenhouse (but I actually used metal)). I got the idea from "gardenpool.org". They are on youtube I think too. I have the deep end "dammed" off so that when it rains, a pool of compost tea fills the deep end with pure rain water. I then use a cheap electric bilge to water all of the gardens. Seems to work well. In his climate he might be able to raise tilapia in the deep end of the pool.....again, check out gardenpool. Good luck fellow introvert!
@@hometohomefarms9143 Well, when the profits start rolling in, you can buy a house with a fixer upper pool and then you'll be set! lol Rock on brother, everything you're doing looks great!
Warms my heart to see this as it doesn't get any better than this ! its a win win win ! to be a part of someones introduction into such a beautiful lifestyle change ! a career born out of love for life , its not job when you love what you do . and to top it off , " you've also made a friend for life no matter the outcome ! Right guys ? lol I really enjoyed this video ! I've been an avid organic gardener for 50 yrs and was a nurseryman and landscape professional for many of those years and you never get tired of seeing this exchange take place as I just witnessed ! Good luck to you Brian and sending love to all here for this lil endeavor ! Ps ! have you discovered(Felco ) pruners ? they are high end and made in Switzerland but .... they are a little piece of heaven in your hand ! I do not say this lightly ! their is No finer pruner on the planet and the very best money you'll ever spend in your farming endeavor ! my suggestion , " Felco make several models of pruner and the #2 is my personal fav. kep them close as they grow legs very easily ! a small wet stone and a can of 3m oil is all you need ! they have replaceable blades and springs ! enjoy !!!
Nice video I enjoyed looking at your mates farm. He's doing a great job already! You can shade out your microgreen more to make them leggy. I think they have too much sunlight. All the best
This guy is rocking it in a short amount of time (rockstar status in my book). The one thing I did notice is he is growing very close to the house in some areas. The house was probably built in the 60s or 70s does he worry about lead from the possible house paint chips in the soil. Maybe he can make his walkway against the house to give The plants a little buffer between the house. This is a small nitpicky thing but sometimes that’s how my brain works. PS this is a great set up and I hope more people get on board.
Not sure where my original comment went, but I'm replying again in case others are wondering. Yes heavy metal contaminants were on my mind when I was looking for backyards to farm in. I had the soil here professionally tested by sampling various points in the backyard and sending the soil to a soil lab in southern California. Lead was shown to be low at 1.822 parts per million. When I first made the beds I put down a healthy 1 inch of compost on every bed. Going forward I''ll avoid growing root vegetables directly next to the house, and I'll continue to add more compost to the beds.
May not help but, leaves can turn from green to red when temperatures dip to freezing. This is not harmful to beets. Some varieties have naturally red leaves. If the leaf margins turn red, leaf tips die, leaves become crinkled, corky black spots in roots or roots cracked it's most likely a boron deficiency. Test the soil. If deficient, add 2 ounces of borax per 30 square yards. Boron deficiency is usually found in soil that is either too alkaline or too acidic so opposite ends of the spectrum. I don't think it would be boron as your growing in compost but if you are getting tests done you may want that testing too just in case as you can't get your time back. Thanks for the video.
This is slightly random but ingesting small amounts of borax can be helpful for a variety of things, I drink it in my water regularly. Never thought to add some to my garden because I just assumed it was already there, thanks so much!
Great job guys! I saw a vid that talked about using Beneficial nematodes to control the cutworms and other 'bad bugs' in the garden, they can be ordered online and mixed into the soil. Not to be a know it all lol, but the micro greens are actually getting tooooo much sun, which is why they aren't growing tall. Cover the flats for 3 or 4 days after sowing the seeds, then put them in a shadier spot so that they have to reach for the sun more. :) Anyway, keep up the good work and TFS!
awesome, farming need more young techies! I know steven thinks knf is the next step for market gardening, me on the other hand believe in iot/smart home devices... xiaomi plant sensor/plantlink + smart sprinkler controllers and other non-smart devices with a smart electric outlets. Something for Bryan to look into when mastered the basic growing :)
I really love gardening and would love to do what you are doing and I love it. However, we live in the U.K. and it’s got rubbish weather. Two or three months of summer is the most you can get. And that’s mixed with rain and wind etc! The rest is winter!! Keep it up young men that’s the way to go.
Nice backyard veggie garden. Not sure you can live off of the farm, but it sure provides you family with some fresh veggies with some excess for sale...Look like you are in the warmer climate area, likely in the southern California, which is great for veggies and fruit trees. I'd suggest that a few fruit trees in the front yard will compliment your veggie garden well...At least you can take advantage of the space off your backyard which appears to be public land for some fig trees or orange trees 😉. They are easy to grow and less work to care for...
I did a video on it, I can't remember how good it was though. Let me know if you need more details than this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DExElqMmaG8.html
Thomas Jefferson was a lot like what you are doing. He had the wealth to do a lot of experimenting and shared his knowledge and techniques with lots of other farmers. Not on youtube of course. ! think he did his on the early chat boards.
Woooow... for a first year gardener you are absolutely killing it !! Great job !! Go big or go home 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼😊 this year is my second year and my garden looks NOTHING like yours lol 😂😂 I got to step up my gardening game
For Micros, half a tray of growing medium then cover them with a tray that doesn't have holes till they're almost the length you want them uncover. I would probably do a small shade cover a couple feet above them so they don't burn in the sun when they first get uncovered. Check out Pepe Fassos on RU-vid. He does both indoor/outdoor micros. Good luck, looks great.
hey guys i'm right behind you ! ! i'm in arizona and find scenario's you'll never dream of . rock hard earth and boiling hot water and wind gusts to name a few . i'm not quite ready to put up vids as my volunteers are out performing my well intentioned attempts ! this will be my first year of thoroughly prepped beds with seven loads of wood chips in my back yard composted down for a year with yard waste turned in . doing small areas with vermicomposting due to being in the desert and with the heat, earth and wind conditions. i'm waiting on my first large scale drip system and just today tilled all the soil and chips/compost and will be making orderly rows and will get something in the earth to see what grows ! as soon as i get consistent results i'll present myself to the world..... what do you think of some names to call my urban farm ' the underground' or 'ground zero' ? love , love ,love your work.... even thou i had the intentions first 'lol', looking how to do it ....you are doing it and i'm hoping to get to your level 'in arizona' . i put myself out here like this to push myself so keep an eye in your rear view mirror !
Great video! As gardeners, it's always a learning experience and each season is always different. It even gets more challenging with the climate changes. I've noticed it in past few years now in my area zone 9b. Really good gardeners have all experienced some type of failure in growing something, and that's how we learn, hands on. Thanks for sharing.
Time alone is why I garden. Get married and have some kids...you'll never feel alone friend. This is 2yrs later but I hope all is well with this young man's farm.
I tried searching up his farm and couldn’t find anything on Facebook or instagram.. is he still trying to farm?!?!? His urban farm is awesome and would like to ask him some questions. Be safe everyone!
Taking notes on those drip lines! This looks like something a neighboring plot has and it has caught my eye. How much would a system like this cost? I have 3 plots and together they sort of look as big as Bryan’s
I'm new to your channel and just watched this video. I can't find Bryan's page on Instagram or his website. Did he later choose to stop his farming enterprise? If so, I would be interested in hearing more about that. That is probably a common occurrence and would be a good way to learn more about the realities of urban farming - sometimes people make the choice to not continue it as a full-time job or a total "lifestyle." Thank you.
