Thank to you i found a farm with candy onions. Very yummy and fesh. Lots of work. Peerless is a good boiler because you can oreder and replace the sections if need be. Not easy but can be done!
This is the kind of video that I want to see from you. Awesome. Now, if you take your wife to New England and Emma stays behind, then my theory of Emma being the ol lady is blown. Unless of course, there is no wife at all.🤔
Thanks! Yeah, I only met Emma this past May. My wife and I have been together for 31 years. She has been in several of my older videos briefly from many years ago on my other personal channel but she refuses to ever be in one again.
@@wishwellfarms Good stuff. I also meant to comment about a recent video with you and your brother and the Old Man came to check on you. Maybe interview him for a video? Could be cool and most likely informative.
That faze of sunset is actually called * nautical twilights* because the horizon line can be seen clearly , and the brightest,most important for ancient sea navigation stars can be seen already.So, not so long ago ,in GPSless or satelliteless era, you saw these two points of reference-horizon and stars,and could navigate.
Wow, 6 miles of drip irrigation! That’s a serious commitment to sustainable farming. Do you find winterizing the greenhouses the most challenging part of the process?
The greenhouse winterization of disconnecting and flushing pipes is not bad at all, I just dread doing it. But Cleaning the plants out of the greenhouses is not fun at all. As far as my drip irrigation not being a sustainable type of farming, I would say we are a very insignificant footprint in the grand scheme of things, growing less than 10 acres with plastic mulch and drip irrigation when there’s hundreds of thousands of acres of it in the United States every year. Aside from those 10 acres, everything else we grow is no till and some with cover crops.
There is not really much of a break at all...always something keeping us busy year around in the greenhouses and on the farm...just a break from harvesting.
good suggestion, but it makes no difference because once you are several hundred feet away from the start it just slides across the ground and it will catch stuff from time to time.
◇How do you take care of your used drip lines/plastic? I'm asking because I'm heavily considering getting a Rain-flo system for our new farm. ◇Does the biodegradable plastic break down by the next season? I appreciate your feedback from your experience. Thank you for sharing ❤
in Fridays video I will be talking about the bio degradable mulch more and disking it in. It will all be gone by spring. We have to burn our drip tape...we just throw it on the burn pile with our cardboard boxes. I will not put it in a landfill, and it's impossible for us to recycle it...we have no facility that can take it around here.
You should utilize the green house year round you have heaters have covers water no reason not to figure out something do water er to make a dollar instead of wasting money even if you grow little plants to sell at the break of spring
Our greenhouses are set up for hydroponic tomatoes only and they have to be cleaned out, sterilized, and replanted. We seed them in January and start picking in May and finish them in Oct and start over...there has to be at least a month of downtime to clean out and restart. I've been doing this for nearly 25 years and I don't want to farm year around. At one time I did, now I need several months off to regroup and enjoy other things in life other than farm work...hope that makes sense. Farm sales from May to October is all I want and need. It is 6 months of very intense work that most people could not handle.
I’ve learned to just not talk about it on my channel because I get so many uninformed, misinformed and ignorant comments that I don’t even want to deal with it anymore.
We do 5 foot center to center, but I have done 6 foot before and put straw down between the rows to keep everything nice and clean and weed free. I don’t see a reason to go 8 foot unless you have some kind of cultivator you’re wanting to run up and down the aisle ways.
Plastic row cover, plastic drip line, plastic greenhouse covers. Seedlings grown in plastic trays and plastic cells. I'm a farmer and guilty too, but I really wish it were illegal. But, the drawback is you are going to have to pay me double what you are paying me now. That pound of lettuce is now $25 dollars. That head of broccoli is now $12 dollars, and so on and so fourth. Which way men and women of Earth? We're all going to be half plastic soon. Barbie people. Do you have a video on how you sterilize that tomato greenhouse and equipment? I'm just curious.
no video on that yet. In the grand scheme of things, we use very little plastic on our farm...the greenhouses are only changed out about once every 7-8 years instead of 4-5 and I've never replaced any plastic trays and inserts in 24 years of doing this. The plastic mulch is 95% biodegradable corn starch based plastic and the rest of our 1,300 acres is no tilled and some even with cover crops...trying to do our part...
our biodegradable mulch is corn starch based and just is eaten up by the soil microbes. I would never landfill my drip tape...unfortunately there is no recycling plant that can take that drip tape near me.
I don't like squash! It's stringy, slimy and it has those nasty seeds in it! The last time I was served a plate of squash, I threw it on the floor like a brat!
