Alright, this is John Kohler of growingyour greens.com, today I've got another episode
for you; i'm traveling, i'm here in Warren Vermont; I think.
Almost standing in the middle of nowhere and I have no idea of where I am, I followed my
GPS to get here and where i'm at is the Kingsbury Market Garden and they sell their produce
through CSA, the muddy boots CSA and Some other CSA's as well as the local outlets.
The reason i'm here today is to show you guys a different kinda farm or garden that I usually
visit because this is a commercial operation driven by profits to make money, because if
the owner Aaron doesn't make a living, he can't pay us more, you know all this kinda
stuff.
So, I want to show you guys some of his growing practices that allow him to be successful;
whether you want to have your own farm, be successful or whether you're just a home gardener,
you can gain knowledge from this information to adjust what you're doing, so that you can
be as successful as Aaron.
One of the first things I want to talk about is the fertility that he brings to the land
here: its next to a river, with silty and sandy soil, that's definitely not optimal
but he has being bringing and adding fertility through local and inexpensive resources, to
build fertility at the lowest cost so he can keep his profit's up.
So that's what I want to show you guys first, what he uses to fertilize and add nutrients
to his garden.
So let's go ahead and check it out, I think we've got some piles right over here.
So, this is the fertility that he uses primarily, right?
He wants to get local resources and use them on the farm here, so that there's minimal
cost for his imports.
One number one is actually the Wood Chips, the wood chips gets dumped here by abreast,
that need to get rid of them and normally would dump them.
In the olden days, there is an area actually over near the farm where people just dump
the chips and they'll just build up and build up overtime, and they'll actually just harvest
the well decomposed Wood Chips for a good fungal rich compost.
So he continues to add Wood Chips for this fungal activity, but also for the cabin that
the wood chips contain.
Now more of them are just the Wood Chips, another thing that he uses; that actually,
we don’t have any piles of is actually the chicken manure's.
That stuff would stink and he said its composted chicken manure, so we don't have any raw stuff
to show you, that's two; and so the you've got the cabin sauce, you've got the nitrogen
sauce and the manure, then you've got this sauce right here, and this is the stuff that
he's banking on and really he believes, made a difference in his garden.
This stuff is known as the Bricks Brand (Rock Dust), by Rock Dust local which he gets delivered
here by under $70 a ton.
So he gets a lot of this stuff and he's being adding this to his soil for the last four
years, he's being farming on this property for like five years or something like that.
So he's being using it almost from the beginning, and he has seen a difference in his growth,
because the soil is not so fertile and he believes by making fertile soil, and from
what he's seeing , he's getting higher yields and less disease on his land so that it can
be more productive and more importantly, more profitable.
So once he's got this three imports, what he does is he actually combines them over
here and there's a parking sign; but obviously, he combines the Rock Dust here on top, with
the Wood Chips, with the manure, so it’s all mixed and harmadronized together in a
compost and then he spreads it out on he's fields, maybe using the fall or something
like that.
This adds to the fertility, plus he also uses some foliar sprays of *4:02* and some other
minerals as needed.
Epsom salts to add further trace minerals into he's plants, so that they could grow
healthy because he's formally a believer in the power of trace minerals.
He believes unlike standard organic farming and garden that "compost is the answer", keep
throwing on compost, everything will work itself out.
Well I have seen challenges where just adding compost and compost, especially if it’s
good quality compost, can cause challenges and you're not going to get the best growth.
He believes that by adding the minerals, the plants are going to be healthy because after
walking through some of his garden, I could definitely vouch for that because of all the
farms and gardens I have visited in my time in Vermont, this one truly looks like the
healthiest by far.
So what I'm going to do next is to actually walk through and show you guys some of the
field's, some of the crops he's growing, how good they look and the production he's able
to achieve here in Vermont.
So here you guys are seeing a nice couple of rows of carrots and he really parks this
guys in; really tight, tighter than you'll normally plant carrot's and actually this
are some hybrid carrots that's growing really well and he's not quite ready to harvest this
guy’s yet, but you can still harvest them and pick them.
Check this guy out; we could pull this guy out of the ground, look at that, that's one
nice beautiful carrot.
Now, he's growing hybrid style carrot and you know although he is certified organic,
you know there is an organic standard that says "to be organic certified, you have to
grow minimum: 51% of crops grown with organic seeds, but the other 49% or smaller percentage
can be from conventional seed stock, if they are not available organic; so that's what
he does.
I want to encourage you guys, whether you're a market grower like Aaron here or whether
you're a home gardener, you would want to pick the right varieties because growing the
right variety of crops can make you or brake you and as much as I like the heirloom's for
certain treats; which are part of our home gardeners, On a commercial scale after talking
with Aaron, it has become evidence to me that heirlooms are not always the best crops to
grow for him, from the trials that he's done.
This carrot here are more resistant to certain diseases that he would be prone to getting,
plus with the rich soil, he doesn't have any diseases on this carrot's, this carrots looks
absolutely beautiful.
I could vouch, that one sweet, delicious carrot; I think, it’s the best one I have ever had
in Vermont; hey!
I think it’s the only carrot I've ever had in Vermont.
So what we are looking at now is actually some of the Beet's planted next to the carrots,
and actually one of the core thing is; you know, when Aaron moved onto this farm and
started farming on this land, he actually couldn't grow beats because they'd get a lot
of disease and problems and I'm sure some of you guys out there have problems growing
some crops, it just never seems to work.
Once he started adding the Rock Dust and building his soil, he didn't have a problem and this
beet's look fabulous.
This is a soil right here, we could pick this up, look at that; I mean this is like sand,
not very nutritious but he's adding the right minerals to allow him to do this.
Now the other thing about Aaron is if you look at this field next door, you would see
his nice huge, big tractor tracks.
Now as much as I would like to know a few gardening styles, I want to always let you
guys know that they are pros and cons to every garden method, he uses the tilling method
and he has a couple of three maybe four tractors now, and he really cuts he's labor cost to
a minimum because he's fully automated.
He also is very efficient in how he works, So he has minimal labor working at this farm
with him, and just with a man and a tractor; I just saw him drive off right now, almost
into the sunset.
He's able to manage he's farm with little labor cost.
As compared to farmers I've spoken to, they do the no till and actually their labor cost
is sky high but because they do no till and their labor cost is sky high, they are also
more productive than this maybe; they still make good money.
Aaron had to keep it simple, he does the tractor, the tillage and continues to add organic matter
and the trace melts in the soil and gets amazing result.
So no matter where you guys are at, you guys have got to figure out what's right for you.
Now for Environmental reasons and for nutrient reasons, I believe still, no tilling is the
best but yes, it’s going to be more labor and this comes into play in a big business.
When you're trying to run a business and if you're at home just gardening, I believe you
guys should be doing notes to a garden at home on definitely smaller scales, because
it’s a lot easier.
Anyways, I want to go in now, into one of the hoop-houses here that's right behind me,
and show you guys what he's got growing.
Now, he uses this hoop-houses because I want to remind you guys that we are in Vermont,
it does rain a lot and some of the peppers and the tomatoes, they don't like too much
water so they kip the water off of it; plus, they can control the environment better.
So it’s warmer inside the hoop-house than outside the hoop-house, the base looks a bit
warmer, they also got some tomatoes growing.
In addition, this also allows them to start the season earlier and end a little bit later,
due to the covering overhead.
Once again, I've visited a hand full of farms this trip to Vermont, and Aaron's stuff looks
like the healthiest, most bountiful; due to his practices so, they must be working.
But if we walk down this row here, you guys just see a lot of greeny there but I want
to get down a little.
If you get a little bit lower, if you look a little closely, you guys see all the peppers
in there?
I mean this thing is loaded up with peppers, i’m scared to say that this pepper plants
are more loaded up than my pepper plants.
So he's actually growing better peppers than I. I mean this is really impressive, how much
yield his able to harvest off each plant, when you give the plant the right nutrition
they need.
So yea, this whole thing has a lot of peppers in these two rows, basil, tomatoes, and let’s
goes ahead to the other greenhouse to shear with you guys, the tomatoes.
Now we’re in the hoop-house with the tomatoes and this plant look like they are super healthy,
super vibrant and once again just come down a little bit.
Look at this, look at how much yield you get on one tomato plant, growing the right variety
and actually have good nutrition in the soil.
I mean, those this look better than your tomatoes?
That's why Aaron's in business and he's doing this day in day out and he's being doing this
since his first job.
He's first job as a kid was working at a farm, he's growing all this years and he's improving
his skills over the years so now he could grow healthy plants like this.
Now, Ill let you guys know one of his secrets besides having good soil, he has this red
mulch down here, at the bottom of his tomatoes.
I've not seen that anywhere else in the farm, he uses some black plastic mulch on some other
plants, but the other thing is that he's using grafted tomatoes.
So this tomatoes, they have being grafted, they're on our wild work stock with tomato
plants up top and he says they are more productive, and more resistant than standard ones.
You guys might want to look into that and you know, I've experimented with the grafted
tomato before, they are kind of a little bit expensive and I didn't notice too much of
a difference when i grew them at home; but, he totally vouch his performance, he says
"he wouldn't really go any other way" because as you guys can see, this is tomato heaven
right here.
So now I'm going to go ahead and enter another pepper hoop house here, and Aaron really features
and focuses on growing peppers for few reasons: number one, you guys could see, there's a
lot of pepper on here and he appreciates peppers, he actually grows less tomatoes than peppers,
he grows more peppers than tomatoes and I want to encourage you guys to grow more pepper
than tomatoes.
So he sells this fresh, which command's greater dollar than the tomatoes but, the secret on
why he grows too many peppers is that he also roast's them and then freeze's them.
So, this allows him to maximize his income during the winter months you know, so he could
harvest this guys, process them throughout the winter to still have income, when other
farmers that are growing fresh vegetables and try to sell fresh stuff, are long gone.
So that's one of the reasons why he grows all this peppers and this plants, they just
simply look amazing, I wish I had all this peppers, I could grow more on less space,
if I use his techniques.
So, now one of the things I'm going to show you guys really quick is how Aaron is staking
up his peppers, he doesn't stake every plant so this is kind of cool.
What he does, he just puts this stakes in about every couple of (3"4") feet and he basically
just ties some strings, to make like a little fence on the edges because the middle plants
support itself, but the edge plants are held up by the string, they stay out of the walk
ways.
So, looks like he has only actually per bed which is about 2ft wide, he has about two
plants.
So the strings help hold the plant, keep them in growing towards the center, so that he
could easily get in there and harvest all the delicious peppers.
So he always encourage you guys to grow vertically and use some kind of support system that works
for you, so that your plants don't fall over and they don't get crashed or stems broken;
when you're walking by because that will cut your yields.
So another way Aaron improves his soil and brings and adds fertility is by planting some
cover crops.
So we've got some legume crops here, behind me he also likes to plant the buckwheat which
is also a good beneficial plant for insects and he builds fertility in this soil by planting
the cover crops and turning them under, to add more fertility to his soil.
Now on a big farm I think this is an excellent idea, especially when you have so much land,
you have fallow land and you know that's not always planted.
He has like six acres under cultivation in this space, plus he has another off-site space
that he's growing food but in a home space like for me personally, I live in a standard
American tracked home, my lot is less than ten thousand square feet, eight thousand square
feet, and I don't have a lot of room.
So if I'm planting cover crops, that means I'm giving up space that I could be growing
food crops and the most important thing for me to do is to eat, and I would rather bring
in inputs to add to my garden, to add the nitrogen, add nutrients as I need to, instead
of (in my opinion) waste space for cover crops, in confined growing like I'm in.
So I think I'm going to go for the one more section of his farm where he's actually growing
lettuce mixes and show you guys how he's doing it and how beautiful it looks.
So this are the baby salad greens that they grow here on the farm, they've recently plucked
this guys all mechanically, and they see them really closely and basically they come through
with a harvester and just clear cut them.
After they clear cut them, they grow back again and Aaron believes that this is due
to the fertility in the soil, a lot of growers would grow stuffs, they'll cut it and it will
not come back but because of the fertility, Aaron believes that this stuff comes back
so he could actually continue to harvest more and get more yield, out of the same amount
of space.
So, has things like the really good looking Spanish, different colors of lettuce's and
it looks really cool how he has it all laid out.
Without being said, this is really labor intensive form, you'd rather grow some carrots or you
literally plant something once, it grows then you harvest it, so it’s like minimal time
dealing with the crops.
Here he has to come out like every couple of days, plant new seeds, having the next
round growing, come out with the harvester, he has to harvest his stuffs, take it inside
to wash it and process it, bag it and then cash.
You just take out, wash, sell them and you're done.
So he's really trying to get more efficient and hopefully one day he'll be able to actually
cut out and leafy green business, and get into things that he can be more efficient
at and even make as much or even more money from because after all, this is a business
form and that's when it comes down to dollars and cents.
Another part of Aaron's operation that I really want to show you guys here, is actually how
he runs his after harvest processing.
He has a couple of really cool tool's that I've never seen before in my life, so I want
to shear that with you guys and how they work and how he's more efficient even in after-harvest,
and processing the produce he offers into the public.
So now I want to show you guys into one of his green-house's here, he has tomatoes growing
in the back but in the front, this is a harvest processing area and basically he's got a lot
of onions in sheds, you can see some sheds here, he's got onions over there and he's
got some machinery; some of them looks kind of old but still works, in other to save him
time.
For example this machine right here, you don't want to get your finger stuck in this one
for sure, this is an onion topper, it takes that top off the onions, we put it in here
and it just literally pulls them all out because I do them by hand, but I don't have a ton
of onions literally, like he does.
So once he pulls of the tops, then he has this old-school machine here, that's an onion
bagger.
So it basically rolls up the top here, and then he bags up his onions in a bag and sells
them at market.
So you can see, so here's the total onions that are now harvested, topped and waiting
to be bagged and being able to get sold; and they really like the onions because the onions
you see here, he has a couple of powers for them; well stored, they'll store a full year
and he will not lose his investment and his time, the nutrients he's put in, the fertilizer
or anything with the onions whereas the tomatoes.
They go bad relatively quickly and if they're not sold and he doesn't dehydrate them and
sundry the tomatoes, he's going to lose his investment.
So as with the peppers, he could actually sell them fresh or he could actually roast
them, and then he freezes them and he could sell them through out the winter time.
I want to go actually to his little shop there, where he does some other processing; and show
you guy’s some of the cool equipment he uses and how it's actually quite efficient
in his set up.
So when its come to farms and visit peoples gardens all over, i always learn something
new and part of the most important thing I've learnt here is: he actually has a washing
machine that he uses to spin dry his salad greens.
You know the fresh salad greens that you guys saw, anyways; more important than that: he
uses this (washing machine) to spin his salad greens, he actually has all this one wheels.
So this could move in and out and if noticed, everything in this room is actually on wheels,
he can stand up in this room the way he wants to.
Some days its processing carrots, some days it’s used as a CSA pick up, some days it
is used to make tucker and all those kind of stuffs and it's really cool that he putted
everything on wheels and he has no motor and you guys can see the shelve newly built above.
If something is not used every day in this room, it doesn't even belong in this room,
it belongs somewhere off-site.
If something is used every day, it needs to be a little bit higher up and if it doesn't
get used maybe more than once a week, it gets higher up and things that are used not as
often are even higher up, and this is the way that I believe I should try and organize
my house.
You guys might want to organize your house and even minimal your garage or your garden
storage shape, this will make it a lot easier and try to keep your space clean.
Put things on wheel, so you can move them in and out of the way, you can have maximum
flexibility with your space.
I think I'm going to head outside now and show you one more cool tool that Aaron uses
to save time, here on the farm.
So here's yet another tool that Aaron uses to save time on his farm and be more efficient
so he can save time and labor cost, instead of having one man spray down carrots like
most farms might do, he actually has a specialized tool to do carrot washing.
This is not a compost *21:32* or something like that, this is basically just a large
wood slot or something like that actually spin around.
It takes the carrot in there and will wash all the dirt off, with the water coming out
of this PVC pipes, the dirt’s goes the bottom, it gets washed down and he adds that back
into his farm and the carrots come out clean.
Once the carrots comes out, he has a little converter belt thin that rotates the carrots,
so you can easily identify the carrots that are bad or good and pull out the bad carrots
with bad sprogs so that they don't make it into the ones that are being sold to the customers.
So we really like that Aaron is really working efficient here, not only with post-harvest
but also pre harvest.
I mean one of the most efficient things I believe gardeners at home and farmers is add
the Rock Dust, because it hits some of the work load off you and this is what he's found.
This is why I want you guys, whether you’re a commercial farmer, you're a home gardener,
just start using a Rock Dust.
What I want to do next is interview Aaron and shear with you guys, some of he's things
he has learnt about Rock Dust, some of the tips and techniques he's learnt over the years
farming since he was a young lad, so you guys can approve you're garden or your commercial
operation, should you have one.
John Kohler: so now we're with Aaron Locker from Kingsbury Market Garden and he's the
owner and also the farmer here, you guys got to see this amazing garden.
I wanted to go ahead and take him aside, and tell him about a few things.
The first of which actually is, where we are right now, we are on your property, this is
part of the farm, and you have a beautiful river, stream.
Aaron Locker: yes, so this is the Mad River, right now it’s pretty calm but it gets mad
from time to time.
It's a very narrow drainage in here, so it’s not uncommon to get a couple of inches of
rain for this water that makes this river to go up several feet’s, and then back down
over the course of a day.
John Kohler: wow!
This probably affected the quality because this river has being here for quite a long
time, and this affects your farm because a lot of the stuff's in your farm is the salty
like stuff that was partly deposited by the river, thousands of years ago potentially.
Aaron Locker: yes, that stuff was washed out of the mountain sides.
John Kohler: yes, you were telling me that your farm is not that really fertile, so you
had to bring in things, I showed you guys what he's using.
So I specifically want to ask you about bringing in the rock dust, why you choose to bring
in the rock dust and what you saw before and after using the rock dust?
Aaron Locker: well I choose to bring in Rock Dust because, I felt like I needed to do something
aside from adding compost and fertilizer which I was having very good luck with, and read
something’s about Nutrient Intense Farming, Balancing Nutrients and particularly about
trace elements like cobalt and Boron, things like that.
So four years ago now, I did my first Rock Dust application, three different application,
10 tons the acre of each.
I'm now starting with my second round with ten one *24:53* of Tom Beneca's Brick Blend
Basalt.
Next year, I think it will be some port sight from mountain, which is just over the mountains
here, and probably some *25:08*.
John Kohler: yes, so he's using different kinds of Rock Dust, they all have lots of
different minerals to balance the soil.
So, how important is that for you that you're soil have a balanced amount of minerals in
the right proportion for your plant growth?
Aaron Locker: I think that the idea behind this Rock Dust is that you're applying relatively
large amounts of relatively unavailable nutrients.
So you're building mineral depths, so you're conventional agriculture and your conventional
organic agriculture, you tend to apply relatively small amounts of relatively available nutrients.
So the fact is that once I apply the *25:55* which has high levels of potassium in relatively
unavailable form's, but it will slowly be available to plants 26:04* or sulphated potash
that has readily available potassium in it, that would not necessarily be way to available,
could leach, leaching is a big issue here with the sandy soils but the idea is to make
a soil that plants exude their acids and actually weigh up potassium and make it available,
instead of having just like a kind of free flowing in the soil solution.
John Kohler: he does not use any water sibal nutrients because obviously he has a river
right here, and if he uses water sibal nutrients like many conventional agriculture do, you
know chemicals, nitrogen's and all that stuff, there's going to be contamination and run
outs or wrecking of water supplies and contaminating places.
I'm really glad that Aaron is doing gardening and farming, the smart way.
So Aaron, what differences have you seen, using the Rock Dust, or do you believe that
you've seen from using the Rock Dust?
Aaron Locker: well, I believe I've seen a big difference from using the rock dust, and
a couple of other things, the Rock dust are a big part of it.
The health; the health of my produce have very few diseases anymore, apart from diseases,
I don't have very many pest issues, things are brighter, they grow faster, they are heavier,
they tend to taste better and yields have gone up significantly.
John Kohler: yes, I mean I've seen really health stuffs here, in this farm I've tasted
some spinach, some carrots and they are absolutely good.
I guess the only thing I want to ask you is, would you recommend the people out there,
the farmers and home gardener's to use the Rock Dust?
Aaron Locker: yes, I absolutely would.
One of the things that's actually interesting about it, is that the price per pound, like
different nutrients like for instance the Berry Graner which is local potassium, local
Garner source is high in potassium, it ends up being like 20 cents a pound versus maybe
a dollar a pound in like sulphate or potash form.
So it’s a really good bang for the buck, as long as you're able to make that long term
investment in your soil.
Which I think it’s really what makes sustainable agriculture; sustainable agriculture.
I guess it’s still not really sustainable because it’s a byproduct of a mining industry,
but it still a relatively available by product and it’s also the kind of thing that will
have an effect for a long period of time.
So it’s not a reactionary thing at all, it’s a very pro-active approach which was
the way that I want to do things.
John Kohler: awesome, I think a pro-active approach in life is really good.
I mean before you get a heart attack, stop doing the things that will cause a heart attack.
Eat fruits and vegetables like the one's Aaron grows here, highest quality, so you could
not eat the bad things and displace the bad stuff and just like you know, grow a garden,
not using the chemical fertilizer that gives you an instant reaction but then have negative
consequences in my opinion.
Use something more long lasting, what I believe Aaron is doing is beyond sustainable because
he's actually regenerating, the land here is better than when he came, do you have any
comments about that?
Aaron Locker: no, I think it’s true, it’s definitely true, I pride myself on that and
it makes my life a lot easier.
I've got hopefully another couple of decades of farming on this property, and I would like
to think that it would continue that way and I'll continue to have really good tasting
carrots that everybody, every mom in the town wants to feed their kids, and that would allow
me to grow old farming, basically.
John Kohler: awesome, this is really the new farming, chemicals and GMO's (in my opinion)
are not the answer, it’s getting back to roots, you know the old school days when we
used things like Boucher, rock powders to mineralize the soil but we've lost all this
knowledge, and all those stuff.
Many of you guys may not even have heard of Rock Dust, maybe even before this video which
is quite sad but, another thing I want to talk to you about Aaron that you're really
into and a lot of my viewers may think hybrids are evil.
I personally think that any plant that is not genetically modified through man made,
artificial means is good.
Whether its hybrid or air loom, I don't think they should be this fight because there's
more important fish to fry or whatever they say.
Why do you choose to use some hybrid in your production and how has that made you more
profitable actually?
Aaron Locker: well, the profit example I think, is determinant habit.
On things like tomatoes and in some degree even pepper plants, if we are here in Vermont
I've got 120 days growing seeds.
So to grow in determinant tomato plant, it’s going to be 10 feet tall and the potential
has like 25 tomatoes on there but, September 20th comes and I get to frost and I pick and
I pick the first 10 pounds, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
So I'm more choosing to grow determinant tomatoes that grow to about chin height, and produce
a lot of tomatoes; I mean, we are going to pretty much be done by the time the frost
hits them also.
I'm choosing peppers, they tend to have more of a determinant habit so I can actually get
more fruit because, no matter how nutrient intense my produce is, once it gets to the
20's, it’s going to die and I want to be able to harvest as much as I possibly can.
John kohler: awesome, I always encourage you guys to not only have the most nutritious
soil but also grow the plants that are going to do well in your area, that's something
a lot of people miss.
If you just go down and buy plants from your local nursery or big box store, you might
just be getting the exact right ones that are actually going to do the best and perform
the best so that you and your family could eat more from the garden, than out of the
grocery store.
Speaking of grocery stores, where can people buy this produce that I've tasted that is
absolutely amazing?
Aaron Locker: just basically here in Vermont, for the most part I sell the Mehuron's market,
our local independent super market, Easton community market our local co-operator and
through CSA programs, one of which I'm a part owner and the stuff primarily goes around
the Boston area.
John kohler: so yea if you live in Boston, you could get one of this good stuff that
Aaron is growing.
So Aaron, do you have any last comments you would like to shear, messages out to my viewers,
about anything happening to do with gardening, farming or maybe the direction the industry
should be going, in your opinion.
Aaron Locker: well, I don't really like to speak on the industry so much but I would
like to say that this whole Rock Dust thing, the whole remineralization thing is really
the best way to get the highest quality produce that you can.
I do think that from the industry perspective; eventually, I think it’s going to go this
way where they're going to be able to tell you, what kind of quality it is.
Like they're going to say this carrot are bricks ten carrot's or brick fourteen carrot's,
and that's going to be fantastic because you're going to go into the supermarket and be like
"oh!
These apples are really good for me and it’s proven".
In a short term, the way that you can do that is by applying lots of organic matter, lots
of Rock Dust to your home garden, around your food orchids, around your asbars, all that
kind of stuff and yes, you can grow some really high quality food.
John Kohler: yes, I definitely recommend doing what he's saying and I totally believe it’s
true, I also want to encourage you guys to go out and get a bricks *34:12* where actually
tested bricks from.
Watermelons from my local farmers market and actually they weren't that good, the ones
at whole foods where better.
Kind of insane because not all farmers know what they're doing, I'm glad Aaron is one
of the people that knows what he's doing so, hope this video goes out to even some farmers
that are watching this and works to improve the quality of the stuff they are growing,
because not all of it is good I mean there's a lot of crap out there.
Most farming is done for profit, this is Aaron’s life, this is his business, he needs to make
money or he's going to get out of business because this is his life.
So he's really doing the smart things as you guys saw, he's using some really cool techniques
and being efficient with his time, his labor and also efficient with his soil by adding
the Rock Dust and I believe you guys should also be as efficient as you guys can, in your
garden and as well as with your soil.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed this episode, if you guys enjoyed this episode, me here
at the farm with Aaron, please give me a thumbs up, let me know and I'll be sure to come back
and visit Aaron next summer in town, to see how his farm is doing in the future.
Also be sure to check my past episodes, I have over eleven hundred episodes now in all
aspects of growing food at home, especially when I get to visit farms like this which
I learn a lot of stuff's too and be sure to click that subscribe button down below as
you get updates and notified when I put new episodes out, I should try and get an episode
out every three days for you guys.
So once again, this is John Kohler coming at you from Vermont and we'll see next time
but until then remember, keep on growing.