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- Emma Jagoz's Moon Valley Farm is a leader in the organic, sustainable food movement--growing her garden on a single acre into a 70-acre vegetable farm in Frederick County, Maryland.
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Transcript:
When I tasted the food that I grew it tasted way better than the stuff in the grocery store.
So much of you what you get in the grocery store is hydroponic and it really doesn't taste like that much. So real soil grown organic food tastes so good and I really wanted to share that with people who didn't have the capacity like I did at the time. So I
started the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program because I thought it was super cool. I love the CSA concept.
I started in my parent's backyard in Baltimore County...own organic system plan.... 25 acres in Frederick County. The benefit of having my own land was the ability to invest in infrastructure....We grow crops in two different ways: we direct sow them into the ground and we transplant them. With transplants we can really get a jump on the season, and the weeds, and disease as well, and pest pressure by keeping them in a controlled environment before we put them in the ground.
We have a germination chamber that puts the seedlings at the correct temperature so that we get really good germination. Aand then we grow them out in here. These are all our Peppers we have a bunch of different kinds of herbs here. You can see this fancy kind of Basil is that purple. We've got cilantro and lettuces and a bunch of brassicas. So we're growing an array of specialty crops here. I like to say 'specialty is our specialty.' This is our water wheel transplanter. These get filled with water and also some fertilizer. All of those trays that you saw in the greenhouse sit here, and up here, and here. That's mushroom compost that we get from farms in Pennsylvania. I don't know if you know that Pennsylvania is the mushroom capital of the world. All of our equipment is set up for this bed system. So all the tractors have the same tire width, so that they fit on either side of this bed. Which means that we can not only prep the soil, and put the compost, put the nutrients, create a bed, transplant, but then we can also cultivate. Bryce: Are you able to reuse a lot of this plastic? Emma: No.
Right now the national organic program does not allow
biodegradable plastics to be used on an organic operation. So we do have to remove them each year and
throw them away in order to keep our organic certification.
We have an apiary here (beekeeping)
They pollinate our crops and so they help us get better yields because more of the flowers are pollinated. They've been working day and night on creating new boxes, and making splits, and they're also catching swarms in the area.
Swarms are really really docile so even though there's bees all over you you can just walk right into them and they're not going to sting you because bees only sting to protect their house, but when they're swarming they're looking for a new home.
We also invest in our soil, that's a really big one. By treating our soil like it is the key to human survival, which it very much is. And that does require a long-term approach. We're able to weather harsher conditions by investing in organic matter and all of the different nutrients that the soil needs to really increase its ability to hold and drain water. It's one of the most important things I feel like I'm doing taking conventional land and regeneratively farming it and nurturing it back organically is not easy, and that's the situation this planet is in. Somebody's gotta roll up the sleeves and do the hard work and that is farmers. Creating a really resilient food system based on our local economy is how we're gonna thrive in a time of climate change. I just don't see global pandemics, and supplies chain disruptions, and wars or political strife putting us to continually relying on international or across-the-nation food for our daily subsistence. Now that we're several seasons in and actually acquiring more land. So we're on 25 acres, but this year we're actually going to be on 40 acres, and next year we're going to be on 70.
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What happened to the megacities series? it was great!
It's still going, just adding another series to the mix to keep things new and different (for both me as a creator and y'all). I've been working with a video journalist in Mumbai to capture original interviews. It's coming along nicely and should be published in the next two weeks!
The owner has an incredibly energy. I love watching people talk about something they enjoy and are passionate about.
Thank you so much!! 🥰
This is incredible. She's doing everything that conventional farmers tell me are too expensive to do.
Agriculture runs the world! This was so interesting to watch, so much respect to farmers.
Thank you! 🥰Farmers certainly feed the world and it wouldn’t be much fun without food I’d say! 👩🏼🌾
This video is criminally underrated. Good job!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!
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An excellent channel
Gosh! She's a business genius. ❤️👏
I know, the amount of knowledge and experience Emma has gained in a little over a decade of farming is quite impressive.
Not only has she built a thriving, growing business, she understands the importance of supporting her employees. Other business owners, take note.
daww, thanks so much!
I have so much respect and borderline jealousy for how capable this person is. Such a strong entrepreneur and leader
Yes, her managerial skills and team-oriented attitude are inspiring!
Great well produced & presented video, I would love to see more of these
Really impressive businesswoman and a great video. I joined my first CSA in the early 1990s and have been a member of many since.
It’s important to note, though, that organic farming like this will not enable us to become sustainable as a planet. As George Monbiot explains in his recent book “Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet”, farming like this simply does not scale to feeding more than a small wealthier minority of people. I wish it was otherwise but we need to look at the numbers.
I’ll have to check that book out- I appreciate the dialogue. I do believe that since there’s not enough farmers nor time, direct market farmers like us should grow bigger to feed more people, employ farmers, steward more acres. The more CSA & restaurant support we’ve gotten translates DIRECTLY to the bigger impact we’re able to have. Thanks for being a CSA member for so long- it truly does make a difference!!
What a great idea, Bryce! I love your concept for this Good Work series! 👏
Thanks Robin!
This week, Dave Brandt, the farmer behind the "It ain't much, but it's honest work" passed away this past Sunday, aged 76. Coincidentally, this video game out. You must have been working on this while this happened. I like to think that this episode is a tribute to Dave. He did a lot of good for sustainable farming, too.
Rest easy, Mr. Brandt.
An inadvertent tribute, indeed. Thanks for the comment, aku. More on Brandt: www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/fairfield-county/ohio-farmer-known-for-it-aint-much-but-its-honest-work-meme-dies-at-76/
I love this!
What a great idea, Bryce! I love your concept for this Good Work series!
This channel is so good😊 keep going
Great work 😊🎉
Thank you. great video
Glad you liked it!
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Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Good short term gains of having the Organic certification. Probably not the best long term planetary results. Bio-Dynamic farming is organic, but uses methods like composting to improve soil health and produce healthy plants.
I'm so glad you're doing this. But I don't live near you and I'm sure I can't afford this. And USDA Organic food is really Organic, its just a label.
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Shame about the black plastic beds, would love to see a zero plastic approach- but imagine that would be very hard.
Yeah I agree but if it preserves fresh water I guess that’s a decent trade off
@@kenlehigh6363 we're forbidden to by organic standards! We're working on decreasing our use of it by replacing with straw mulch
Plastic is everywhere on earth.
@@scvboy1yes, preserving water is a huge benefit! And our soils dry out very quickly, unlike clay types that retain water well. We also have, like most, a limited water supply plus large stretches of heat/drought so conserving water is very important.
@@moon_valley_farm What about using gasification for the plastic? Heat it up with some water in a zero oxygen environment and it turns into a mix of carbon monoxide, hydrogen gas, methane and carbon dioxide. It could even power a generator or provide heat in winter.
It is viable because the type of plastic used for the bags is low density polyethylene. It contains no chlorine like polyvinyl chloride does. That stuff can turn into hydrochloric acid and destroy equipment. That's the downfall of trying to use the product for landfill waste or mixed plastics. However the farm does not use landfill waste and can control the inputs.
There is a good video by CNBC called How Gasification Turns Waste Into Energy. It's where I learned about the technology.
Love that organic food is becoming more mainstream. You could tell this farmer is scientifically minded when she referred to her unborn child as a fetus, which gave me a chuckle.
Me too, Zach. We just joined a CSA and try to buy organic whenever possible, but it was Emma's argument for a robust local food supply that really resonated with me.
“Local is the new normal” is what I said when COVID hit and I’d add local and organic! Shortening the food supply chain in my opinion is a matter of regional security, and adding to that, local and organic food tastes so dang good and makes you feel good it’s hard to argue with!
wow
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how do i start doing this in my area? What would this job be?
Who can grow true Immortal fruit? Like the 3000 6000 9000 year Peaches? I have the stone the tree. And also Apples. Gold Apples also have the stone and the tree. Glad to also have a wheel of time. And some other stones too. Many think it is only myths.
I wonder how she can stay away from OF;) People with her will and character deserve all respect in the world.
Aww thank you! I had to look up what OF stood for, spending too much time in the fields I suppose! ;)
@@moon_valley_farmYou are special Emma
You're welcome! Don't look, stay in the fields;) It is a site where promiscuous persons sell their bad character.
What materials needed
What materials needed
iam very interesting for organic farming,, may i learn from you ?
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lot of plastic to throw away... surprised they can't try some kind of natural fiber mats instead
Ideas like these will help improve our systems, but it's just currently not economical. We've already invested in some new ways to decrease plastic use, tractor passes and increase organic matter in our systems since recording this! :)
Cultivation and plastic, nice
you lost me at " growing fetus..."
🤷Hard to have perfect word choice in front of a camera! ;)
Yeah weird thing to say.
@@moon_valley_farmyou can just say baby. Not that complicated.