This Farmer Earns $20,000/Week Selling Nutrient Dense Veggies! 

Nice to see Richard included in the mix. All star cast there

Lol

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5 years later, how are you doing? You said you were having a slump of a year. I hope you're doing better!

I did in the videos last year at his place.

For sure. Just that he was saying how excited he was to see the results of what he was doing and how he may not even have to net anymore (super optimistic). Just sounded like last year that he felt he was just scratching the surface with how powerful they could be. Just wanted to see if there was any new revelation. Doesn't matter, so much cool stuff going on there!

A long time from France...

If you're in the Washington area, we'l both be in Spokane at the Farm / Food conference in November. It's on my website.

+NateGeoffrey working on it

Gross size of plots. I think we have about 75 50 foot beds on our farm for a quarter acre.

These methods work anywhere.

+mikemorrison281 There's no guarantee that anyone can be successful. However, if you say you never will be successful you're guaranteed to not be.

Urban Farmer Curtis Stone I got hurt pretty badly in KC which forced me to move back to Houston. Then I got rear-ended and totaled my car which put me in the hospital. It's not that I'm scared of starting, I physically can't right now. :/

+Shane Millard kind of, but in the walkways not on the beds.

Urban Farmer Curtis Stone oh okay. Makes sense, the fungi might be able to be spread anyway

He wished he could but the certified organic thing is holding them back at the moment.

The paper pots are not certified organic? What is up with that? Is it because they don't break down that fast?

Glue

Oberyn wan Kenobi nah

why?

Saffron is a very high value crop partially because it is so labor intensive to harvest. Each flower contains 3 usable stigmas which must be hand harvested. There is currently no machinery that can harvest the stigmas. It does not meet Curtis' model for high rotation crops because it is a perennial that is harvested once a year; Curtis doesn't grow perennials in his market gardens. If you have the spare land that can contain the undisturbed crocus bulbs year after year, go for it! There's a homesteader in Northern California that posted a video about it last year. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6s1W_2THFtI.html

Maybe the saffron crocus would be a candidate for the edge of a flowering hedgerow, like JM's? It's a tiny plant.

+mayatilou yes. Both farms are certified.

Pippi Elvesse Bernstein everything about him is just cute. His wife is one lucky woman. I won't mind melting in silence when he starts speaking French. Lol

+Grazeland Farm all kinds of stuff. He mentions it in one of the old videos.

25 weeks... you cant run a farm in the cold

I'm not sure, but even better, they're bringing her to the farm.

belverkungol who knows

+belverkungol scalability really just comes down to market demand.

Good point, thanks. I was thinking more in terms of management. Is there a point when it makes more sense to run two or three farms rather than one large farm. I know it probably hasn't been tested with this sort of system, but wondering what your initial thoughts are. And is there are point when the techniques of small scale agriculture are less applicable?

A lot of that again, gets bake to market. There are many farming systems that locate in a variety of places within a reasonable drive but yet spaced out. In Midwestern states the reason is so that not all your cropping of one type is in one location. Weather plays the major factor to planning this way, i.e. delaying or extreme weather can cause loss of income when you are not able to meet market demands. You loose part of your crop, I have extra to cover. Your crop is extra great, I'll trade you for some of your extra, selling off my lesser crop at a Farmer market while keeping CSA members happy with the better crop! Your Crop is delayed by weather, I have "extra" of a different crop to add to your CSA boxes. It also allows labor to be pulled in some cases, to work the best opportunities. Again, too wet here, move to a better slot on other location and get a crop in on time. Too wet to harvest there, come on over here and pitch in. Such arrangements can also be done on a Co-Op, with several small farms working together to keep profits within the group, increase quality, offer options and allow room for variation in crops. Think of this for doing such things as plant starts, buying seed and supplies, even specializing for composting efforts. One such arrangements happens locally where in buying a farm, a friend got a large track of hilly ground, better used for hay cropping. He grows the green materials a "composting digester", build on another farm, then shares with two others. All stay organic and healthy while sharing the wealth of having on space for that process and knowing where the stuff comes from. Just like here, share knowledge; learn from teaching; network; and GROW: mind, sprite, and community.

It means branch in french so wood chips created from branches. Supposedly they are more nutritional and break down faster? Still researching them myself.

thanks also ramos in spanish I have a truckload on my garden now seems strawberries really like it

Yes, but there's a lot of costs associated too.

On what planet do you think JM is making the same wage as the labourers lol. They're probably getting closer to 500 a week each, with JM or other management earning substantially more than that.

that's a good point richard. seems like curtis' method is then more profitable considering that it takes less people to run a smaller area of land, but i guess the profitability is also contingent on the geographic market value of crops.

I was concerned about this too. $20K a week sounds huge! But then take the labor, taxes, mortgage, overhead, and land into account (and I'm not sure 7 months is accurate. Maybe 10) and. . .Curtis seems to be doing far better. Plenty of things I don't know about here. I don't think JM has fully embraced CS's Pareto Principle. I could be wrong. Hopefully, more enlightenment to come.