Ain’t it purty. The pic is a link. He’s in upstate NY and has no tractor and is no-till. All done with hand tools. Rarely uses the walk behind tractor. He does hire help and I’m sure he gets top dollar being where he is. He grows and sells all kinds of stuff that people here in MO would look at and think it’s alien food or something the cattle might eat, at least in the rural place I live.
Arugula? Isn’t that the sound the old car horns used to make?
He also named off a lot of Johnny’s Seeds F1 hybrid varieties which are 30-50 cents per seed. Grafts all his tomato plants.
BUT - his techniques with using hand tools only, I think is pretty good. He’s put a lot of thought into everything and has a common sense approach to things.
Funny thing is, I found his videos right after making a post here talking about building or buying implements for my little tractor.
Of course he doesn’t show the early years when he was probably pulling his hair out while pulling grass out. Existing grass is a whole lot different than later weeds. Probably took several years of hard work to get things weed free. He’s also one of those that is selling courses. Low low price of $2800 for lifetime subscription. LOL
Who’s lifetime? My 19 year old daughter or this 50 year old youtube guy?
As usual, I’ll gleam whatever knowledge I can get from free videos and articles but my situation is completely different than his. I did give my email in exchange for a free mini-course. One of four videos was pretty cool. It was about marketing techniques at the farmer’s market and he had some good tricks as far as presentation up-selling and attracting attention. The latter is actually something that walmart uses. Low price leaders.
His market allows putting a couple of small tables in the walking area in front of his booths so he sticks 3 for $5 deals out there, then his checkout arrangement makes people walk the length of his booth so they see everything up close while standing in line. His display is like his farm, mixed colors, grid like patterns. No big glob of several green items. Spices close to the cash register. Whoever works the register knows the twofer/3fer deals so if someone walks up with two $2 maters because they missed the 3/$5 deal, they point it out and probably hand them that third mater and get that dollar.
Whose place is that?
Upstate NY has some pretty good soil.
I miss it. It’s far better than the stuff we have here in NH.