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hey everyone you're here with Mark Boutwell, so today I am so grateful that I
took the time to clean up my garage a few days with my kids as you can see
here because I was able to find everything I was gonna need to grow this
season I found my pots of my extension cords my water hoses I found any
fertilizer nutrients everything I was going to need and I was able to create a
strategy this season to really max out my gardening and my production of food
because it like we said this whole corona thing the shelves are kind of
getting ass ain't empty there's a lot of still panic happening people aren't even
allowed to go into grocery stores without masks so if there was ever a
time in life to ever grow your own food and max out your production and food
that it would be this year normally we could rely on the commercialized system but
there's definitely hiccup in the system and we don't know the significance of
the butterfly effect and we just don't know what's gonna be happening so if
there's ever time to grow your own food it's definitely gonna be this year I
have pretty much everything I need to be successful this season and the only
reason why I'm not going to be successful is because I don't take
action and that's the one the biggest things I read a book a few years ago
called the art to start and I picked it up and in the first page if I remember
straight is basically put this book down and just start you know if you want to
keep reading it go ahead but the art to start is to just start and I really love
that viewpoint in consideration and that's what I'm gonna be doing today I'm
gonna be filling up all my pots you'll be watching me and prepare my soil
prepare my growing beds I'm gonna show you where I'm gonna be extending my
growing bed into my deck and putting into pots this is because of
the ensure of possible eviction or even because I am divorced and living
with my ex-wife if things get better I was planning to move out the last month
but because everything went down we decided to stay together for in the same
household for another few weeks or a month until this blows over so I
definitely don't want to leave my food here I want to take the majority of my
food so growing pots and being sure you ensure there's gonna be food here at the
house after I leave it's gonna be important for me as well so let's go
ahead and get started and I'll show you what its gonna be looking like hope
you're enjoying this season of growing with perfectgardens.com so a lot of
times with pots when you're storing them for a long time
there might be black widows or brown recluses depending where you live I
personally have went through a lot of my stuff sometimes I might be the praying
mantis eggs in it because there's a lot praying mantis where I live here in
Colorado just naturally I in the grass so if you are just be careful make sure
to shake your stuff out and make sure you don't have any bugs or any other
things like that that could come out and bite you okay so
as you can see I just doubled my grow bed basically I got filled up my pots
there's more than enough space the majority of what I need and as long as I
know my environment I can grow in pots throughout the entire season it might
need a little more watering it might need a little bit of other maintenance
but for the most part I just doubled my grow bed and I just doubled my
production these are the types of things you want to take into consideration as
you're growing your garden how can you grow more food with what you already
have you know how can you take something off the shelf that you aren't using and
create value out of it versus trying to go buy something that we really don't
need so now I'm going to go prepare whether I'm going to be growing and I'm
just going to get out the weed whacker I'm going to get rid of all the grass
then I'm going to cut down a little bit of trees lay down some plastic and then
move my pots from here up to the top and I'm gonna double up my grow bed a double
of my growing space alright guys let's move my mother my
father Mark and Juanita Boutwell are two of the people that you probably will
never hear of or industrial agriculture you might just be finger brands like
Driscoll or BUD or T&A but a lot of people don't really think about the
people and corporations and how those corporations even came to be so my
father his ideas are just incredible you know I've learned that there's two
things there's going faster and improving and you could tell someone to
run faster but improving really comes through a mental thought process you
know taking a moment to sit down and think what can I do to make an
exponential improvement so my mom my mom's always been the leader of people
she's always been able to herd large amounts of people by the age of 18 she
was in charge of over 2000 people in the fields back in the 70s she was hired
when she was 15 years old and I thinking that the she was 18 19 and they thought
she was 21 but she was really 18 in charge of close to 2,000 people my mom
was about 23 24 years old when she actually met my father he just got
out of Cal Poly he was a veteran and he graduated with master's in agriculture
and I don't know exact degree but immediately when he graduated from San
Luis Obispo came over to Monterey my mom was had already been working in the
fields as a migrant farm worker for a 7 to 10 years by the time already and by
this time she had already had massive crews anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000
people underneath her so my mom though she was incredible at getting people to
move faster but she didn't because she was so busy with busy work she wasn't
taking the time to think of the system some processes for her harvesting
packaging and distribute lettuce so at that time in the area the maximum anyone
could really harvest was about 1,500 pounds of mixed greens or lettuce or
carrots or onions just mixed greens basically and my father came in and
started really making improvements in the industry and I'll give you an
example let's say there's a bathroom initially the bathroom is only 20 feet
away from the crew but as the people move down the field still harvesting
let's say back in the day they would leave the bathroom whirls at that was
the procedure once they park the bathroom they leave it there but as the
people who keep moving they still have to use the restroom and so throughout
the day they have to walk further away from the bathroom which slows the
progress down and this is just an example they could go on for years until
someone says hey let's move the bathroom and the water with the crew and let's
move it alongside them so throughout the day happens then have to walk as far and
we can keep up with our numbers are our production numbers a lot of times people
would just say move faster get to the restroom to get there and get back as
soon as possible but it takes time to think about hey let's move the bathroom
with the crew and that's an improvement so I know it's just a small example but
it's the same thing here I'm always thinking about my parents and what
they've taught me because watching them operate with that mindset over a course
of 17 years every year those improvements compounding yields
increasing and productivity getting more proficient they were able to take the
numbers from harvesting packaging and distributing from 1500 pounds an hour to
close to 65,000 pounds an hour over a course of 17 years every single year
taking these small little improvements these small little things that they are
becoming aware of and making sure to just not fall back into the loop of bad
habits and they every single good habit only scaled up and what you ended up
seeing is this ripple effect because these farmers will go and congregate and
talk together it's really funny there's a smaller restaurant where all the
farmers still meet in Monterey at a lid I don't want to mention it because it's
kind of their little safe haven keeping people away from like salesmen of stuff
all these farmers would meet up and in Monterey they grow everything from
not just Monterey there's Monterey Gilroy Hollister this little really
Mecca this Mediterranean climate that allows food of all types to be grown
there was this Mecca so all these farmers would talk me like hey all these
improvements are happening and then what you started seeing is all these changes
started to happen in the orchards in the tomato industry in the in the wine
industry because all these varieties of crops were being grown in that area even
on the small scale down little garden one thing they'd always tell please try
not to touch anything twice so if you have a pot move it once you know have
your hands on it don't try not to move it too many times because every time you
move it you're wasting time and so I just want to share that with
you as you're going through just trying to keep these things in mind there's
every time you touch a tool you pick something up you ask yourself do I have
to pick this up right now can I do more things with it while it's in my hand and
get it closer to the in production versus finking and move it here move
it there move it there before you know it you really haven't completed anything
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