They Lived In A Tent To Start Their Dream Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- I visit Ranchito Milkyway Farm, a local market farm in east county San Diego where owners Christian and Alyssa got extra scrappy to make their dream a reality. From reusing everything they possibly can to living in a tent for their first year, they made the most of every penny, and just 2 years later they're a successful local market farm and a staple of their community!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Meeting The Owners
00:47 - How It All Started
01:16 - Farm Beds
04:06 - Bed Prep
08:27 - Greenhouse
10:25 - Uranus Plot
11:46 - Kitchen Space
12:40 - Tool Shed
13:25 - Farm Stand
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This is so very cool!
I think it's awesome you promote and showcase hardworking folks like this who are really trying to make a difference. Thank you for doing that and for sharing Christian and Alyssa's story with us. You often speak of blessings in your videos- your graciousness is a testament to your character. I am deeply convinced of the truthfulness of the saying- Be a blessing to others and you will be blessed." Well done Kevin
Well written.
They are right down the street from me and I had no idea! The family will definitely be stopping by!
It's amazing how many vegetables they were growing in Uranus
I love when she says "heck-it" like it's one word! Super cute!! Well done! Congratulations!!
I have considered buying land and living in a tent to get started. It's cool to see someone who has done it successfully.
I'm considering it as well. Definitely will need a good savings to handle the lifestyle changes.
And need a partner who shares the dream and plan.
Same here. I don't mind a bit of hardship if I know I'm working my way towards something better.
@@jlseagull2.060 well theres someone above them looking for it. maybe they meet on a youtube channel.
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices in order to get ahead and achieve your goals.
Omg! I grew up with Alyssa! Such an amazing person and so cool what her and Christian are doing at Ranchito Milkyway!! Love this!!!
I wish them great success!
The produce looks delicious but I love that care has been taken to make the space look good as well.
What a wholesome and special story
I love how excited she got about the planet mini plots. ❤
I'm in the process of trying to be a market gardener, this video actually gave me inspiration and hope that i can still become a successful market gardener thanks so much for the video
If you're still interested in market farms, there's a great one in Ontario, CA called Amy's Farm. It's just a couple of hours away from you in San Diego and they've got a great philosophy. They host field trips to teach students about growing your own food, provide produce to local restaurants, and even have some livestock for petting and protein. I'd love to see them tell their story and I think you'd love their land!
I can’t see to find it. Would you mind sharing their website?
Its an inspiring story, thank you for sharing this with us ❤
I love this. We did something similar where we lived out of a VW bus while working our homestead. The first building was a barn, built around that old VW. By the second year we had started our underground, earth sheltered home with sweat equity.
Happy people doing their happy things🥰
Greetings from the great grow state of Michigan
Another Michigander in the house💃
Such a lovely couple. I wish them the best 😊
Great video, may they thrive!
Christian and Alyssa, this is really beautiful.
Stay Awesome! ❤🙏
Visited this stand on Sunday July 30 with the grandkids. Alyssa showed us around the garden. We brought home some nice veggies. Will go again, being she is in our area…impressive story…the compost pile area was really ‘cooking’!
@@EpicGardening_1..i won something? Explain please!
Very cool what they've been able to do in just a couple years. Thanks Kevin for sharing and thanks to Alyssa & Christian for doing what they do to make the farming world a better place. Amazing story that I only hope gets better from here.
Inspirational 🙏
Beautiful and super functional setup. I absolutely adore and admire this place and its people.
What a lovely setup! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing Love the little farm gardens n their story
You're so on target with the overwhelm that a gardener can experience. And if you're doing it semi-seriously for a more secure future there's a drive to get to a stable point. Like where the list of things you want to know how to grow well is under control or rather, you're attempted and maybe failed, but you have all the failures and basic learning done and now all you have to do is execute. Like you've worked a solution or two for every problem that shows up every year and you can just react to issues you see quickly, that's a sweet spot I'm just at this year and I've been seriously gardening for seven years. If you're doing it mostly alone, keep it to fewer plants of priority items. Add only one a year. I tried to do too much too many years in a row and it creates frustration. Also, ask for a little help from whomever might be willing. An hour with a second pair of hands is like a breadth of fresh air. Such a relief. Offer help as well. Helping someone else for an hour or two feels good. Good luck everyone ❤
14:29 Wow!! Calamansi very known citrus fruit in the Philippines, popularly used for culinary and beverages. Considerably effective too as home medication supplement like for cough and colds.
So awesome that they were able to build such a business so quickly! I do have a video request- would you make one about controlling weeds? When I had all raised beds, it was manageable, but after introducing a large in ground bed this year, I feel like I can’t keep up with the weeds and I know there’s some tricks I haven’t learned yet. Thank you for all your content!
I’ve heard of people putting down cardboard and then covering that with your mulch
First of all there is no such thing as weeds, you're referring to "pioneer plants" that are often first to repair damaged soil. Most of the time their seeds need sunlight to germinate so you can do two things to make sure they don't pop up: 1. Plant something you would like to grow in every square inch of exposed soil. 2. If not planting right away, cover the soil with about 3-6 inches of mulch such as the ever-popular and free wood chips. You should be doing this anyway to prevent evaporation and keep the soil temperatures from baking in summer heat.
@@TheRealHonestInquiry Weeds are, by definition, plants that are growing in a place they are not wanted/intended, so yes I am referring to weeds. And Bermuda grass doesn’t care about mulch lol. Either way I am interested in seeing the different weed management methods of the people on the Epic Gardening team.
What a great little farm, thanks for sharing this Kevin
" We all live in the Milky Way Planet right ? " Cute ! Thanks for sharing !
impressive operation, and nice folks - I'm sure they'll soar
The notes on no till throughout are really good. There are good reasons to till and in most situations a one till at least is a good idea
Great video!
RV/Marine filters sold at home or farm stores are a great way to easily filter water. I have a couple hooked up to my timers and they work great!
Nice to see more space farmers out there!
Kevin - would you do a video on how to do that chlorine/chloramine filtration?
If you're small scale such as a backyard garden just buy a filter such as the Boogie Blue (designed to not kill the microbes when brewing Boogie Brew compost tea) or one of equal quality, screw it onto your spigot first then attach your hose. They're rated in thousands of gallons they can filter before needing replacement.
This is very cool! I've actually been trying to convince a good friend to start something like this! Thank you for promoting something like this, i really enjoy it!
Hard work filled with a good heart that ends with satisfaction.
Great idea, I could see myself doing this !
Great video!
Very interesting. 👍
love what they have done with starting from just vacant lot.
I like how galactic this got. Growing food in space is my very nesh interest.
Amazing ❤️
love when she says "heck-it" like it's one word! Super cute!! Well done! Congratulations
Absolutely Fantastic a couple. I love what they have done, how they did it and where they are at now! TY for sharing!
What a great little farm. I love how they mentioned they learned everything on YT. There is so many great videos online, and so much great infomration.
When they said that their success comes from watching all these YT videos, i laughed because I have a family member who watches "Homestead Rescue" who constantly mentions how some of the people on that show will say they learned from YT. Each time I tell them that just because someone learns from YT, doesn't make it YT's fault... They look at Homestead Rescue as the Gold Standard of learning how to Homestead properly........
To me, HSR is staged, with a number of complaints against the show from the actual homesteaders they "helped." I don't need to follow reality TV to learn how to farm. Even if the ones who are "rescuing" have experience. They aren't the only ones who know what they are doing. I also rather get information from 1000 Homesteaders, compared to 1.
the last channel on earth i expected to hear "uranus" jokes on xD
I have very clay soil. I have raised beds that I used a mixed soil in. I also have in ground areas that someone tilled for me. Unfortunately the person doing it did it before I could get compost down. Next year I am going to have to till again or put in more raised beds. I'm leaning towards more raised beds.
I always pronounced those little Filipino citrus, Kala-mon-ding
Thank you for doing this and sharing 💯❤... I'm watching from 🇳🇬 Nigeria
Wonderful video🌹🌹🌹🌹
Love your vids you inspired me to grow my own garden that I love 😊
That's awesome!
Good
Awesome nice work!.. very inspiring...
I just got a Springwell whole house water filter and I love it 10:48
BUT -
Does it specifically remove CHLORAMINES??
Happy gardening ❤
My GSD loves chewing on broccoli plant roots 😂
Ranchito Milkyway!!!
coolest farmers ever 🤩
Something highlighted in this video that other people talk about including Jesse from No-Till Farming, is it often doesn't work.
Jesse's definition for "No-Till" is minimal disturbance, and he doesn't use the term "no-dig", and he also highlights the word "DOGMA". Meaning, don't get so hooked into an idea that you aren't paying attention to what's actually happening. Most people are never going to have good experiences laying down cardboard on clay soil. Just not going to happen.
So, before you get hooked into some idea, you have to REALLY understand that idea AND your environment and your soil. If you have clay soil and that clay is pretty deep, you're going to have to till very deep and work a lot of compost/mulch into it along with topping it off with compost and it's going to have to sit for some period for life to get established in it. Clay is too thick for almost any life. But, clay does have nutrients in it that can be useful. I've seen the suggestion of bringing in a lot of sandy soil and mixing that in along with compost and mulch and once again tilling very deep, deeper than the plants roots can work their way to, and with that change along with continually adding compost for a few years that soil will become more loamy.
The main point being, you have to know the soil you have before you start doing anything.
Sand is possibly the worst thing you could add to clay, it turns it into cement. Cow manure you can't go wrong with and certain clays benefit from Gypsum.
The way you showed using the broadfork and the other device is tilling.
Beautiful
Charles Dowding also has 75 degree summers and black fertile soil. He's not talking to us.
Great, Good luck!
See, I’ve been gardening now for over a 10+. So I’ve known all about the issues with food for a long time. just recently I was over on a live broadcast where they were talking about the new meet problems happening. And everyone was just talking about it but doing nothing about it. I was warning him that they need to maybe move someplace different and buy some land? They need to work to three jobs to buy some land? Because the point where people need to start growing their own food is five years ago! But now, for sure, I mean, it is getting crazy. No one was like yes you’re speaking truth. They all just wanted to talk about it. I would’ve definitely if younger head done exactly what these people did, living in a tent to get my land. So it’s not like I was telling those young people to do something I wouldn’t do myself because I would’ve done this. But the Lord has blessed us with wonderful land to grow on and now we’re even looking to do a 15 to 20 acres in the center of Florida.
I am unable to go back and edit on my TH-cam channel for some reason lol. So since the little snakes in the grass decided to change my comment as they do when I send it out I hope y’all can get the just of what I was saying
Awesome! I think this will be the way that we will need to do it when we eventually find some land 🤞🤞😄
I'd loved to do that one day , buy a small land and plant lots of garlic to make garlic chilli oil just 2 item .
Does anyone have information on growing honey beans?
How do you control insects, especially caterpillars?
Row covers work well, which appear to be used here based on the netting I see on the ground.
We use insect netting as well as soapy water + oleander herbal solution, which we learned everything from JADAM's Ultra Low Cost Farming book!
Kevin, how are you? Well done for all the farm works going on. Can we get connected because I have a lot of questions to ask you personally that might help us to move forward in our moving to a new home stead for a new start on the farm, thanks
It is impressive!
They deserve Jacque's sensual love! 🖤🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🖤🖤🤍🤍🤎🤎🖤🖤🖤🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤎
Dope Content!
I’ve been watching this channel for so long I’m gonna finally subscribe ❤
I love what they're doing, but there's a big difference between young and broke and old and broke.
yes but that just means you have to be more creative. I am doing flowers and my garden is very small but I use a lot of wild flowers to create my bouquets. I only have my bicycle but I put small buckets in my bags and harvest what I need. start small and work your way up. I am still working on improving my soil fertility. I have rabbits they make great fertiliser and they are tasty too.
@@ninirossau2304 Sounds like you missed the point. How does all that help you when you're old and broke and you have no insurance and can't pay for stuff old age requires? You just gonna rely on the state?
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This is the true American Dream !
Very good 👍
How did they get the soil for the gardens ready to grow so fast ? It's taken me seven years to build up my soil on my own homestead, and I'm just now getting good results.
Government freebies
I’m getting amazing results with cheap Home Depot soil 😂.
Unsure what the people in the video have done, but I have had good success with planting cover crop radishes and grasses like Eastern gamagrass, especially the grasses are a champ at building topsoil, you can't plant into it for a couple years but it's worth it for spaces not immediately in use
V this kind of stuff!!
WHAT is that water filtering system that removes chloramines?!!!
I've been looking for filters which do that & all the home filtering systems are THOUSANDS of dollars, (which I don't have)
and they still don't really pay much attention to the CHLORAMINES - which, have made me very sick after ignoring them for 10 years. I couldn't even take a shower without passing out.
Granted, I have a low immune system.
So it's really important to me to remove the chloramines!
And all the other horrendous stuff in city water too.
I have found a hose end filter, because I DEFINITELY do NOT want to eat those chemicals in the food I grow!
However, those are expensive too.
I NEED a reasonably priced
whole house system!
Pool filters with the final filter being activated charcoal ?
@TheEmbrio
I don't think that would work for chloramine removal... ?
There is only one type of filter which removes chloramines.
It's called a KDF filer.
Charcoal filters do nothing for chloramines.
But I like your creative thinking!!!
I was thinking on getting land but i really needed a job so i got a house in town. Maybe if i ever get enough money, ill get something in the country.
I actually think it's sad that they had to live in a tent to get their dream market farm started. Good for them
Really Sad? Why? That sounds like a great two years and now they have their dream farm.
@@codya.k.a.nlnjacr1tt3r It's great they got it to work. They seem like decent people. Living in a tent for an extended amount of time is a tough experience
@@gardenboydon I don't think it's sad, anything you desire can come with sacrifice, they had a vision, worked towards that vision and now ripping the benefits. Nothing sad about that, you going to sacrifice one way or another to accomplish dreams. I'm sure they could have rented an apartment, and work the farm part time, they chose to go all in can focus all their resources including financial to the dream
@@gardenboydonHomeless people do it everyday, day in, day out. They were willing to put aside their creature comforts to achieve their dream and look where they are now. They're truly living their dream unlike the "dream" we sarcastically talk about. I give them a lot of credit and respect for what they were willing to do and achieve it. They weren't starving and had a least some kind of shelter. At least where they are doesn't get like northern winters that are deathly cold. They didn't have it easy, but they got where they want to be. Sorry this is so long. Thank you for reading.
@@gardenboydontough experiences make use stronger after the experience is complete…believe it or not some people thrive in these type of situations and come out even stronger after it’s done.
Is Alyssa related to Anne of All Trades? Their voices sound so similar!
Are they growing broccoli in summer??
Well, Kevin is wearing a coat,
AND actual SHOES.
(not flip-flops)
Plus, you already seem to know that brassicas are a cool season crop, so...
To me,
and I'm just observing what's in the video, but -
it's looking like this was filmed during the Winter months.
Right?
Right.
But that broccoli plant
IS
more than one solid year old !
So it does live through the hot Summer months.
But Kevin doesn't wear coats & shoes in the Summertime.
These broccoli lived from September to May! We have broccoli growing now too, we will see how it goes!
Yes
the legendary... fruit of the Philippines... the Calamansi!!!
That's weed right? I think that's weed.
My thoughts exactly... It looked like he was so hoping to be asked about them haha.
Well, they ARE in Cali !
Nice
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Pull those broccoli’s and put them in some thing, a pot or store paper bag,