At the beginning I was just working on conventional agriculture.
So we participated in a farming course in Chile and a guy gave us Jean-Martin's book:
The Market Gardener. I am a little stubborn so I said no this is not for us and Javier said
like no look at it this is really interesting. So we took the book and we started reading.
In USA, I spent a year over there working on a farm just to realize that farming was hard, hard
work because I didn't have the techniques. I had the idea, the motivation, the love for it, but the
tools and the know-how, it wasn't there. One day, I was researching how to prepare raised beds and
ecological farming and all of these things and I saw this guy JM in a video here at La Grelinette.
And that's how I find the Masterclass.
The masterclass gave me this structure and the information that I need to be aware of
to run my business in a better way and to be more productive in the work that I do.
It teaches a lot about how systems can work it helped a lot with the planning. Always having
something to go back to and reference in that way. For me, it was a lot of information at the
beginning: 30 crops, crop planting and winter harvest and everything. I was
really happy because it helped me a lot to improve the system of the garden.
Farming is it became easier.
I had the luck I guess to start using the Masterclass and start
a farm from zero from scratch it was a big change because my life changed.
When I first opened it, the Masterclass for me was like arugula beach so nice all of this and then
this guy showing excel sheets and we're like oh right this is not that interesting for a farmer as
the other things. But then it's the most important when you realize that all of the other things
couldn't happen without the planning part. I reference it constantly so if I'm going
to start something, I go and I look and I see the videos and I have like printed out
the specs from each crop. You can watch it every day
so that is the most important thing for the team and all the group in the garden. It's
like having an extra member on the staff that knows tips that will help you do it better.
While I'm farming I kept going back to the Masterclass probably every week, sometimes twice
a week. If you are selling produces just calculate how many beds of lettuce will pay the Masterclass
and then you will have a quick decision because a few beds of success will pay it
like that. It's a really good tool at the beginning, it's the best investment.
The Masterclass helped increase our sales by helping me increase production.
Raising the sales like 50%, 60 %. The Masterclass is not just about crops, it's about also humans.
We are in the Masterclass, our other friends Anto and Tamara for example, they are in the
Masterclass as well. We speak the same language. We talk to each other how do you do this, JM does
it this way maybe it works for him and doesn't work for us or it works for him and for us.
It's a community that's growing so I think it kind of aligns a lot of the small-scale movement
throughout the world. We are in Chile and we're doing things very similar to here.
I think the Masterclass inspired us to start a garden and we
inspire other farmers. The most beautiful thing is
that you realize there's many people around the world doing it and we are all a network and we
are all kind of brothers and sisters. The future of small-scale farming for me is just promising.
My name is Javier Soler My name is Francisco Vio
My name is Antu Rios My name is Tamara Bogolasky
How we are going to feed the world is through small farms everywhere.