GARLIC GALORE! HAND HARVESTING 20,000 GARLIC ON OUR VEGETABLE FARM 

Thanks for the detailed comment. I really appreciate it. Sounds like you have some really hard-working folks and I hope their health continues to allow them to farm for years to come, but it definitely takes a toll on your body over time. We are actually scaling back about 50% next year because all my kids are grown out of the house and none of them want to come back to the farm so I am in search of a farm manager otherwise it’s all gonna go away someday because I’m ready to start slowing down at age 50. It’s been a good career , but without the right help on the farm it’s just too much for me to continue on the way I’m doing things So we’re really gonna work on simplifying and streamlining things for next year.

Thanks John! We kind of all do our own things on the farm but it works well for us that way...allows us to be more diverse.

I will be putting a long farm history video together this winter, I want to do it right

I appreciate the kind words!

Wow, I can barely handle the mid 90's, I can't even imagine!

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Thanks, gotta have a strong work ethic to be successful at farming that’s for sure

Thanks Becky!

glad you enjoy them!

Yeah, it will be a really fun one for me to put together but will have to be a winter project. In the meantime, here is a short veggie farm history video from about 9 years ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T_WnueyMZRM.htmlsi=h7HZHMTXr_K6VdOe

Thanks, appreciate that!

Your welcome, thanks for watching!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

thank you!

Thanks! We did, hopefully you did as well

I believe the pantry would be best, my brother told me that a cooler is too cold and can make it sprout, 55-65 degrees with low humidity the best

I definitely will very soon!

Yeah that sounds like some serious manual labor there. We are in North West Central Ohio

I never really thought of it as a popular item but we are able to sell quite a bit at our 9 locations throughout the week, usually pretty close to 3000 pounds a week

We sold the dairy in 2001 because we were all tired of milking cows and it was a good time to get out with prices being high. And my produce business was really taking off at that time as well and I went full-time that year. We use a combination of synthetic and organically labeled products. Nothing synthetic touches my greenhouse plants and most of the insecticides and fungicides I use outside are organically labeled, but we still use synthetic herbicides.

Yes we use dual as well but I also add command 3ME on everything but tomatoes and eggplant. I also add 1 oz of Sandea/Permit/Promote.

@@wishwellfarms awesome! Thanks for that. I'm trying to improve every year.

actually Joel has tried that and many other things but when it comes to pulling it up out of the soil it you need some leverage sometimes since they're anchored in pretty good...

Yep, we sell it all every year at the farmers' markets...when you go to nearly a dozen locations weekly it goes quick!

He just put it on the trucks last week and I'm trying to remember the price that I saw, I believe it was $1.50 per bulb for the big ones and the small ones he puts 4 in a pint container for $5.