Farmers Market Season
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2017
- In this episode of Our Wyoming Life - Farmer's market season begins and Erin takes us through one of our first harvests, shows how we wash vegetables and how to package for farmers market.
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Join us on our journey as we leave a life in corporate america to come back to Wyoming and help on the family ranch.
Our Wyoming Life features our Wyoming ranch and our ranch family. Giving you a look into the workings of ranching from raising cattle to raising and harvesting crops. Erin will join you weekly out of the garden, showing you how she helps provide for our family through growing produce and selling at local farmers markets, and Mike will take you along as he tends to the animals and land of ranch, from calving to fencing to planting and harvesting hay.
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Erin, old hay for mulching between the rows; extends your watering cycle by five. The mulching builds the soil, especially old alfalfa hay. Your weeding will be reduced by ten. Love your goodness
Here's a tip for dealing with wind and cucumbers not trellising properly. Use that green or orange snow fencing sold at many home improvement stores, maybe farm/ranch stores too. The holes are small enough that you can poke the cukes through, like a sewing stitch in/out pattern on both sides of the fence. Very easy to work with, not heavy and won't scratch you, can install it quickly with cheap steel fenceposts and plastic zipties. Works perfectly. Cukes will stay in place, this will also save them from wind damage/death when they wind whips them back and forth when they are old enough to get whipped around, so it's key to get them on the fence as soon as they are long enough. We have awful winds in ND/MN. They will wipe out half the cukes if they are not quickly trellised.
Also those yellow/black striped cuke beetles are bad here. An organic control method is neem oil and dr bronner's sal suds which I got on amazon, find the recipe on a youtube video search and spray it onto the plants. Nearly all bugs hate neem oil. Or, you can grow some tobacco, soak the dried leaves in water and a bit of soap to help it adhere to leaves, and spray that on. Nicotine is a nerve toxin that kills or scares off bugs.
Despite the speed bumps the crops are looking good!
Thank you, you never know how things will go one year to the next and you just have to roll with the punches. -Erin
great video 👍 Blessings ❤️
have you ever heard of straw bale gardens... we did that this year on our farm and it worked amazinly well....we too were sick of pulling weeds and this is a practically weed free garden now u do get some but very very few weeds .... the straw becomes a compost and it is super easy to maintain we love it if you havent heard of it you should definetly look into it and maybe even just start a little straw bale garden to try it out you'll love it trut me if you dont like weeding then this is definetly something for you
I have seen it done, it looks wonderful. Not sure it would work on such a large scale as mine as I would need a ton of bales. I think it could work for some of the things I grow though. Thanks for the great suggestion! -Erin
my second job, as all ranchers have second jobs! was working in a produce rack in a grocery store, I wish commercial folk took the time that you do to provide clean processed goods. Thanks again for sharing
oh yea, i bet you saw some interesting stuff! --Erin
I like black seed simpson as well. I like to throw in a little early prizehead lettuce, a loose leaf type it adds color and is like simpson it tastes great. Radishes I like French breakfast, a friend of mine owns a green house and has bulk seeds, he tells me the French variety out sells his other type, (I live in Neb.).
Very inspiring, thanks for the great info!
Thank you and thanks for watching - Erin
New viewer. Stumbled onto your channel. Both my parents were farm kids, I’m 60, and have done working vacations on my uncles farm in Iowa when I was a teen. Square bale by moving, grinding feed, and I know how to start a John Deere Model B tractor with a flywheel.
Enjoy your content so far.
It's very nice think
WOW! What a great garden you have!
It's starting to really come along. Thanks for watching! -Erin
Great
Would love to see a video on all of the details in regards to actually selling at the market. How many vendors, how many customers, your interaction with them, what sells the best, how much money you make that day, lots of video of your booth setup, keeping your vegetables cool on the tables and anything else..
Erin, oh my, am I one jealous gardner!! Everything is beautiful! I moved to Estes Park, Co five years ago. The elevation is 7500 ft. I've found that all I can really grow outside are cool weather crops. Cukes and zucchini (who would have thought zucchinis had met their match!), just can't keep fruit on with nights in the 40's and 50's! Rats! Best of luck on your return this year!
Wow that's amazing that a zucchini won't grow! 7500 ft would be brutal. We're at 4500 and it's tough sometimes. Our gardens struggle with low nighttime temps too. The only good thing about the heat wave we've currently been having is that temps have been staying in the 60's. Before it got hot we had a low of 38 on June 23rd I believe. It was the second day of summer and only 6 degrees above freezing. You should try a small hoop house. I bet the zucchini would do better in one! Thanks for the comment and for watching!! -Erin
The High Tunnel would be a great topic. What kind of maintenance does it require? What type of material did you use, or is it a kit? Do you use additional heaters or fans is solar enough in Winter?
This year we are going to be growing in it in the winter, we have an episode planned all about the high tunnel, should be great. Thanks for the suggestions. -Erin
How do you decide on what crops to grow? Do you grow strawberries? Are ornamental flowers a thing that will sell? Patches of wildflowers will attract pollinators and you can sell the bouquets.
My main focus is vegetables. I have plans in the future to add some berries to production. We planted 10 apple trees this spring and in 2-3 years will have lots of apples. At this point when I decide to add a crop I have to think about yield and time involved in getting that product to market. Also when will the crop be ready and will how much supply will the market be able to handle. Bouquets would be awesome and who knows what the future will bring but for now I'm only one person and there already isn't enough time in the day sometimes. Great comment and thanks for watching! -Erin
nice video
Thanks Chad!
I love watching your videos. I am as far south as you can get in Mississippi so very different climates. I am trying a startup vegetable farm but finding it very tough. If you don't mind can I ask if you do this as a fulltime job and make a living or is this a side hustle? My goal is to farm full time
Did I miss any videos on the outside garden? I only saw the High Tunnel ones.
I did an episode in the big garden called the Simple Veggies where I planted potatoes and onions. Other than that I haven't covered much that has happened out there. Pulling weeds just isn't very entertaining!! We will definitely have more videos in the two outside gardens now that they are in production. Thanks for watching!! -Erin
Nice video, you can get a free greenhouse in the ascs program soil and water get the one with the top vent and put cuke in it will last of3 month
I'll have to look into ascs. Next spring we are adding another high tunnel. We went through the NRCS program this time around. Didn't with the first one. Top vents make me nervous here! Wind blows 70 mph sometimes. Definitely want to add a heated greenhouse to our gardening program at some point! Thanks for watching and for the tips! -Erin
How do you like your Chef Master salad spinner. We are looking at getting one off of Amazon. Any good or bad comments would be appreciated. Thanks for sharing.
I like it, it definitely speeds up the process. Thanks - Erin
Where do you get your water? Are you on a well? Do you depend on rains for irrigation?
We do use a well to irrigate the gardens. If we depended on rain it would be very brown and crispy by now! Thanks -Erin
What does a bunch of radishes or a bag of lettuce sell for in your area?
The radishes sell for $3 a bunch and lettuce sells around to $3.00-$3.50 mark. Thanks for watching! -Erin
I grew 200 beautiful heads of romaine, sold about 5 all season in the fargo/moorhead region of ND/MN. People aren't interested in salad greens here. They like berries, melons, squash, potatoes, zucchini, cukes, tomatoes. That's about it, nothing else sells.
Not a single tree around, why?
lack of natural moisture. Thanks - Mike
Farmers markets where i live are such a rip off, its at least 2x the price of the grocery store. Plus there are so many fakes at the farmers markets that just buy grocery store produce and mark up the price.
Unfortunately there can be some down sides to markets especially if you don't have enough local growers. It's definitely within your rights as a customer to ask them about their growing practices. Here our prices are very competitive with the grocery store and sometimes I am actually under the grocery store price. Remember though if you do find a local grower it can be worth the extra price. There is a freshness factor that the grocery stores can't compete with. I hope you find a market that works for your needs! Thanks for watching! -Erin
Is there sweet corn at your farmers market? Wait you are at 4500 above sea level, so I bet you do
There is, although the season is pretty short for it. Thanks - Mike
Just found your channel. I’m diggin it. Thanks.