A Hurricane Hits the Mountains + Immediate Organic Certification? And Wild Tomatoes (sorta)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to episode 1 of Growers Daily!
We cover: Can you just let your tomatoes go wild? Can you certify a farm organic in the first year? And what the heck Growers Daily is.
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We typically decry our sloped land. It's ALL sloped. We have had to terrace every planting bed.
We have done that because the second year we were here we had a major, multi-day rain event. Neighbor's houses and fields were flooded. Our fields were soggy, squishy, and muddy, but never under water. It taught us to prepare for extreme amounts of rain, utilizing swales and ditches/ponds.
We haven't had that kind of rain since, but it's good to know we are as prepared as we can be for the next time.
The photos coming out of NC, TN, SC, and GA are heartbreaking.
Jessie, you sharing how you felt in the midst of a flood is probably the most valuable info you could share. One of frustrations of emergency planners is evacuation orders are often disregarded when posted. People often wait until they feel they are in danger, often that is too late.
Rather than "organic" think of my garden as providing "better food, smaller footprint".
Had to hit pause at the first break and say - brilliant! I've long been wondering if I'm the only one freaking out/thinking about disasters and how ill-prepared I feel I am. I could-and may-say a lot more but in case you are still online...bravo on this daily show! Daily is great but even if only once per week it is really going to build community and with that we will all be more informed, confident and prepared moving forward. Thank you so much!!! now back to part 2 :)
I hope you and your family stayed safe! Always love your vids man !
Southwest Virginia here. High in the mountains. We got 11 inches of rain in 37 hours. Crazy high winds. Trees snapped in half! 60 inch diameter tree blew over! Our road washed out and we are trapped. 90% of my county has no power.
I just built my first Farmers Friend caterpillar tunnel this summer. Thankfully, I dug footers for the end walls and anchored the walls to the footers. I cut the end wall oak lumber with my bandsaw mill. The wind blew like a banshee but the tunnel took it like a champ! No tunnel damage. Didn't lose one tomato or pepper! Super thankful!
So very sorry. What help do you need?
@@cherylskornik1512 We are in good shape. Thanks for asking. When living in Appalachia, it pays to be prepared so that's how we live. Always have extra fuel, extra chicken feed, extra chainsaw, extra tray of lettuce, etc. We live by the motto, "Two is one and one is none." If one breaks, we still have another one.
All I know is government agencies are not always reliable in catastrophes like Helene, but neighbors always are. Soooo many people are stepping up; making meals, buying bottled water & sundries, people on farms not badly affected offering space for farm animals & pets from flooded farms or households. We are stronger together. I live in Greene County, TN...luckily the drier side.
I lived through Hurricane Katrina. I think your line/question of "What is it like to survive?" was a great question. Living through the storm is bad. The aftermath is a nightmare.
My heart and prayers go out to everyone who has lost loved ones or property from Helene.
Keep the Faith! One day, one hour at a time. God has this!
I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!
I know of a man who was an engineer who built a Levi around his entire property like in a box, put in drainage with commercial pumps.
Everyone thought it was eccentric & a bit crazy but the heavy rains came years ago.
His whole property was dry. Everyone around him were in high water.
Point is do what you can afford to do if allowed by authorities & not worry about neighbors opinions.
WOW and a great first episode .......................................... as expected, Thank You! Really devastating and all the damage done by hurricane Helene! This is the male speaking here. In the sixties and early seventies. I was telling all who would listen ...................... almost no one. About how we are destroying Mother Earth and the consequences ahead. Here it is 2024 and well they all still think that I am crazy. On a side note the same basic "excuse" and not pruning our tomato plants. Is it live and learn or is it will I ever learn?
I'm in South Carolina. My farm is gone. Literally. We're throwing in the towel after 15 years. Switching to homesteading.
My farm in Chapin is a mess. Greenhouse shredded and trees down everywhere
@@heavymetalbassist5 Sorry to hear that. This season was the worst season I've had in all my years farming. It's a combination of the weather and bad product being sold, IMO.
All our tomatoes (800 plants) got bacterial speck this year, which is seedborne. That is what I get for using organic seed. We made ZERO dollars on the tomatoes. The blight was so severe the fruit was not marketable.
This fall we got contaminated potting mix and lost 48 trays. Appears somehow herbicide got into the mix. This is from a so-called reputable source.
Last reason I'm throwing in the towel is that customers at our farmers market all think they are entitled to cheap organic food. They roll their eyes and scoff that I charge two dollars more than the grocery store. They really do not appreciate what I am doing, so they can go back to eating pesticide from the grocery store.
Americans really have no appreciation for food because farming is subsidized. This is not a free market and subsidized farms have an advantage. There will be no small farms left in 20 years. Take the pumpkin business for example. You cannot grow an acre of carving pumpkins and sell them for 5 bucks a pumpkin like you see in the box grocery stores. I'd have to charge 9 to make a good profit, but I'm not subsidized. All the pumpkins sold in the grocery store are actually paid for by your tax dollars. When you buy a $5 dollar pumpkin from Kroger, it's actually $12 dollars, you just already paid the taxes on the other $7.
America has no free market. It's an illusion.
❤That is sad, I wish you a smooth recovery
Hi, I'm from South of Brasil and we too give up but after 8 months and some help we are turning around. All the best and good rest as we need some times to go inside for the inter and be ready for spring 🙏🏼
I'm so sorry! I can't hold the tears back hearing about all this loss.
This is very lovely, Jesse!!! It is always lovely to listen to you, so this is really nice! I hope you are doing good!
That Nashville flood was scary stuff. I lived in Nashville and it was devastating!
I’m in Australia but have been watching the Helene developments. Sharing with vulnerability is a wonderful gift for the community ❤❤❤
Like any stressful time, there are going to be those who are dishonest, willing to make money from the misery of others. Yes, it's incredibly hard to find a reputable contractor when all you want to do is get back up and running.
Beware of people coming to your house, property and telling you 'I know what you need and I can do that ", especially if the price isn't realistic.
Don't get scammed. Please do your best to avoid dealing with jerks.
Thanks Jesse,
Heavy winds, heavy rains and drastic temps can have both short and long term effects as you know.
One word comes to mind... Diversity.
Try not plant mono culture crops. Try and have both water loving crops as well as drought tolerant.
Same with housing, Food, Water, Energy.
The more redundancies of everything from elevations to temp to dry storage.
We cannot plan for all events, but IF we develop a community where there are many diverse conditions.
When one farmer looses something, another might be high and dry and in good shape to help out.
Then we have to consider the community itself, both in good times and bad.
Prayers for all affected.
Global warming has certainly shown that you may now need a boat to harvest crops and get them to market.
Depends as to where you live. We will have a high of 97 today. Hey manana is October One. Also we have also received a whopping six inches of rain this year. Drought, floods, heat, cold, I believe that climate change is having an impact on most everyone!
Well if the government would stop the manipulating the weather it might help, lol
@@ediddysmith2500 You lost me on that one. Thinking it might have been sarcasm?
After the driest summer I witnessed and about 2.5 inches in 10 weeks the rain came to Ohio and it's only been a 3 day soaking as a great rain couldn't be better. It's been a good blessing here mid Ohio.
Sorry for any damages to others .
Rain up stream can build up into dangerous weather.
Thanks and praying for all.
i did jungle pruning two year now for Kirm and amish paste. I am also by myself. Its brutal. this year the amish paste snuck in and took over my squash tunnels.
Glad you are well after Hurricane Helene. First hurricane I saw the devestation from was Camille, there was definately canoeing over the roads. Love the show.
Heartbreaking! I’m very appreciative of your reporting! I want to know it all, not just see the wow videos that the MSM publishes over and over. God bless you as you and your colleagues recover.
As always, the newspapers are doing an excellent job of reporting on this storm. If you watch TV instead, you take your chances.
The NPR of farming hahah
beard up Farmer.. its gonna be a cold icy winter. great info..
Thank you for always providing great content.
Suggestion..... weekly "Dad Joke"
😂 great idea
Weekly!? I'm going to have a hard time not having a daily dad jokeTBH
I love the smell of tomato plants in the morning.
Jesse, whatever this daily podcast covers, I will be here at every opportunity. I told Ray Tyler that I follow you pretty closely because we are in similar climate zones, ridge tops, and soil types. Also if there are farms that need real help with clean up volunteers. I would be willing personally to go and help. Maybe farms that are hurting could let you know and you can help get the word out.
Nice to hear, Ronald. Instagram is a good source for finding those opportunities right now.
Great video! ❤
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Jesse, I recommend Lazy Dog Farm as part of your weather network. I like Travis and have watched his videos for a couple of years now. He's located near Valdosta, Ga right in the path of all these gulf hurricanes. David the Good in LA (Lower Alabama) is an excellent option as well. Love your stuff.
Dad jokes aside, we grow with no chems or pesticides, and this was our first season selling any produce. We also do meat chickens and got a permit to sell from the farm in Washington state. We advertise with clunky words like "grown with no chemical fertilizers", and "no pesticides", or locally grown. I wish we had a label that producers created like "Better Than Organic"....or hopefully something better than that. Do you think this would be worth the effort it would take to create a recognized label? It would take up less space on the label if nothing else. I know that I grow the best possible probiotic and prebiotic whole food and we fully realize the health benefits of eating such foods. But how do we communicate that to our customers?
My labels, on what we wholesale to grocery stores, have a little space, in a smaller font, with "No Till - No Spray - No Chemical Fertilizers". At our weekend farm stand the sign just says "No Spray".
General public has little clue about No-till or the pros and cons of chemical fertilizers. On a label, if they're reading it, they can take the time to do a little Google search to look into it, if they wish. Driving/walking by a farm stand or farmers market stall - the no-spray speaks to them immediately.
interesting question--might have to tackle that in an episode at some point.
Excellent first show! My heart goes out to those affected by Helene…I cannot fathom. Our entire property is an incline…our barn sits on the flattest ground and everything is downhill from there. We’ve had mild flooding with heavy rains and like others we’ve brushed it off…thank you for bringing topics forward like thinking proactively vs reactively. We’ve got to get drainage set up before it becomes a problem. We appreciate your forward thinking…thx on the organic content…honestly did not realize it could be sections not whole farms. We have your book and have embraced no till growing. We’ve had great success with our fields pumping out great products with sunshine and aged manure, yard clippings, pine bark mulching. Like you, mid summer got the best of us and the heat & drought burnt us out. We are second stage of life farmers, both work full time and have so much energy…sometimes survival mode is the only mode. To next year! Thank you for your knowledge, your personal approach and dad jokes!
I am not in position to Patrion atm, but I want you to know that any knowledge shared is deeply appreciated and useful to me. Than you! (Bulgaria) ✌🥦
Please help us know where to donate to make sure 100% goes to actual farmers--thank you
I live in SE Texas and live under the threat of hurricanes every year. Can't imagine what it is like to be hit out of the blue. During Harvey we just watched the water rise for days after the rain stopped waiting for the creek to crest. Was the weirdest thing. I am wondering if there is a specific group I could donate to that addresses the needs of devastated farmers.
The damage is massive and we are praying for all these people.
That said, why are people not more prepared? I know this storm was wide spread but still if not a storm, then a fire, earthquake, arctic blast,. I do have experience with this type of thing and people in my area weren't prepared either. In May 2024 East Texas got over 40 inches of rain, 15 inches in less than 24 hours. Then we had a derecho in June that took out 20 huge (oak and pine) trees on our property, taking out fences, and buildings. In May our garden flooded and was destroyed. So we started over and were very late getting our garden growing. But you get up and start over. Why are the hundreds of people and channels depending on GoFundMe? This is ridiculous. Stop depending on the goodness (or stupidity) of others.
Sorry for the rant but this is ridiculous. Get prepared and be ready to move on or start over.
Having damage is one thing.. A lot of people have lots everything. They have just the clothes on them.
Just a foundation left where there home was.
No job as they was lost too.
No cars, they were gone
And some folks, huge funeral costs on top of rebuilding from nothing
@@thedorkasaur I understand that and those are not the people that I have been hearing from; I follow a lot of homesteading and farming channels. I am talking about setting up fundraisers for a new greenhouse, a new fence, for food.... I live near the dam that failed in Livingston TX, where they let out water to save the dam for weeks. continually flooding peoples homes. I showed up with food, clothes, blankets, I opened my guest house to people flooded out. I get the devastation. I am not heartless. I am prepared. We had 12-30 inches of water on our property for days after the 15 inches of rain we got in May, trees down across the driveway, we couildn't get out. Our area had no power for weeks, no internet for week. Our road was a river and then gone. I get it! But we were prepared to take care of ourselves. Not expecting people across the US to send us money. This has become people's go to, to solve their problems.
Not to minimize what Helene did..hey from Crystal River Florida..was cat4 hit the big bend weakened to cat 1 then tropical storm over Georgia. I feel bad for all y'all up north. Helene was a monster. Godspeed in your recovery. Again my heart broke when she passed by because I knew she was pissed off and stressed out. I prayed y'all got out of the way. Though I'm sure many couldn't. We get hit with twice as many of these storms and maybe we're just used to them. Good luck y'all
Know if you live in a Flood Zone. Each state publishes maps and designate where these Flood Zones are located. Down Comforters can be very warm ! In Germany they sell high quality ones and they keep you very warm especially if power goes out ! They sell them in the USA but it is harder to know the quality. Fresh water and a ( wind up crank) radio so that you know what is happening !
Hi Nerds 🌿
Helpful is intentional.
Clean food is part of our sovereignty. Any help to provide that in any way contributes to humanity in the best way.
Speaking of storms, this is the 2nd year in zone 6a I've had storm damage from high wind and hail. There are good notes to be taken afterwards, and shared. For instance, I grow on average 9 different Bell pepper varieties, in 50ft rows. Normally as a seller your looking for plant size, large bells that hold their size through the entire growing season, good leaf cover to protect from sun scald, and high production. Storms give you great notes. As example, 1819 pepper plants are a favorite, but were destoyed in a storm that Boca, Ninja, and 8302 survived quite well. So for me, that is a huge deciding factor on planting next years crops. I'm sure every grower out there has some storm lessons they could share, that you will not see in seed catalogs. Crop spacing, and row direction for storms could be another great conversation to be had.
I live in the Northeast and it's hard to imagine a 400 mile wide storm of such destruction. My heart goes out to all those affected by the backside of Mother Nature's hand. You're right Jesse, it's all too easy to take weather for granted, until things get really bad. It's always good to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. 😊
I am so glad you did this! AND that I stumbled upon it. I am most glad that it sounds like you weren’t beaten down by the heavy rains. I was worried!
Sadly this alienates anyone outside of the US, can you put sections in the vid? Then I know which bits to skip, thanks.
I’m from Nashville & couldn’t believe the devastation from the flood, not to mention the tornadoes that ripped through during the pandemic. It missed our home by two streets. Not gonna lie, tornadoes were definitely one of the reasons we decided to move to the UP where our “worst” weather disaster is a TON of snow. My heart goes out to all of those affected - there’s nothing like it😢💚
i had multiple cherry tomatoes donated by birds in every flower bed. some were 8 feet by 4 feet when i pulled them out. of coarse the beds were wrecked, and i couldn't pick them all, so will have more come up in the spring.
Love you will be doing a video/information often!
There was a lot of rain overnight on Thurs night and continued through Sun. Thank God I live in the Plateau(high ground 1,800' elevation), not to mention I was on the West side of the track. For us this storm was a blessing, we desperately needed the rain. I pray for all those that were devastated.
How fun; happy to see more from you! I'm a one woman show and by August I'm exhausted and the sun is killing me so lots of things get dropped. The destruction in the east is horrendous from what I'm seeing; My heart hurts for all the people affected.
No till soccer field! That's a goal !!!
Thank you for this video 💙✌️
I live in Wyoming. We get an average of 11 inches of rain per year
Yes you brought back that beat!!!!🎉🎉🎉❤😊
Great show! Thank you!
Yeahhhhh
I do have your book, but would love gardening 101 segments on how to grow the different vegetables. 😊
Oh that will happen for sure
Here in coastal Central Florida, we got a storm surge that flooded the gardens with about 8" of seawater. I don't have a farm or market garden, but I do have a small nursery (and personal gardens). I spent the day prior tucking everything into the greenhouse, but the wind knocked half of it down during the day. So, I picked it all up and placed it closer to the ground to keep it from getting blown down again. Then around 11:30 pm, the sea water started to creep in. And creep in. And creep in. About 2/3 of my most valuable stock ended up inundated with salt water. Salt burn is not pretty. Anyway, love the idea of a daily show. Your Sunday episodes always keep me going through another week.
dang so sorry to hear that. Wishing you a strong and speedy recovery
First of all, great choice of intro music!
Has anyone from the state ever attempted to verify your claim of organic farming certification? If so what did the state representative do to prove authentication of the soil and practice? Other than verbally does the state take soil / veg samples or food tests post production?
Good question. No, not to my knowledge.
Thank you very much
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
I’ve been wondering how your farm and family fared in Helene. Thanks for the update.
I wonder if everyone made this face when you mentioned it. 😑
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We went to visit my Grandmother’s niece in Laurel, Mississippi and she had some gorgeous tomato plants. I had just learned about cutting the sucker leaves off the bottom so I asked her about it. She was about mid 60’s or so, kinda sassy lol..she asked me “Do you want a pretty plant or do you want food?” Made sense to me! lol.