And these are organic, right? The dirt from Watsonville is probably one of the
richest soils on earth. That's the capital of strawberries in the world, strawberry.
The big companies are down in Watsonville. We're just a family-owned
small farm. Here we are in the exhibition hall at the seventh edition of the
National heirloom Expo, and I have with me, Dan, Dan, tell them your name. My
name is Dan McAllister, I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, originally, and I'm a very nice
boy. And you know my friend, Luis. Dan lies. Luis Tobon, from Lakewood, and
this guy, you probably had some partners, but he's gonna tell you about the crop
swap app to get on your phone. Yes. So we came up with this idea, actually I
did, like two years ago just gardening. I'm a gardener. And, basically, why should
I be buying fruits and vegetables from a store that were picked like two weeks
ago, sprayed with chemicals, and sat in a truck for a little bit, when someone down
the street from me has that very thing? So, we have an app that's called Cropswap
that makes it possible to buy, sell, or trade homegrown produce.
That's awesome! Yeah.
So, just basically, how does it work? So basically, you just upload what you
have in your garden, what you have extra of so, let's say, I have some lemons. I
would take a picture of my lemons and write a little bit about them, "Hey, these
lemons have, that this tree has been in my yard for ten years. I have no idea
what kind of lemons they are, or, this is a special type of dinosaur kale from
from rare seeds. You plant it, you can kind of give it a profile, and then you
can sell it, or trade to anybody near you. Give your vegetables a profile. I love
that! Right. It's like set it and forget it, in Ron Popeil talk. And so where
do you get it and how much is it? Yes, it is $100,000,
no it's frizzle, it's free, my friend. It's in the, it's on the App Store so by the
time you put this out it should be live in the Apple App Store, not on Android
yet. We are going to release it for Android, but we're just a cheap
technology startup with two people, so yeah. Let's don't call you cheap, let's
call you,... Not cheap, I didn't mean to say cheap. Inventive, inventive! I meant, I meant to say... limited
resources. Well, now, Luis has actually been beta
testing, would you say, this app, and tell us what experience have you had with the
app so far. I love the app. I mean, I got the gardening group on Facebook to kind
of help me move the produce, because like dan says, you just go way too much of
something. You may be horrible at growing tomatoes, but the guy next door down the
street isn't, and you got way too many cucumbers he likes to make pickles so we
can swap them out. Yes, but has it worked/ Have you done it? Yes, it's been amazing.
We've been doing the mock trades and beta testing. I've been trading out for
peppers I've never heard of, ha, ha, and it works wonderfully. Let me say something else on
that really quick, is you know people have been doing this for, you know,
thousands of years, bartering absolutely, bartering, right, this is nothing new. So we're not
even claiming to be like super creative technologists. We're, we're just kind of
giving form via technology a thing that people are already doing and, and, and
Luis is also a member of groups that that trade already so there's already
people that are that are swapping crops. We just want to make this as, like,
easy as possible for everyone. So, do you have to kind of belong to a group or
is it just you're there, and you can search for whatever you want in your
neighborhood? Yeah, and this, in the same way that you sign up for an Instagram
profile and you can just put whatever your name is, you can do that with our
app. So, you can just simply sign up and see who's around you. Wow.
That is so awesome. Thank you so much. My pleasure, my pleasure.
Thanks, Luis. You're welcome. He keeps showing up
in my videos. I know. That's what he has in his garden. He had some kale. I'm gonna
trade him some peaches, and then some radishes, and I'll make a deal. And then
we'll confirm. Wow. that was so fast. Yep. Look at this. When I upload something,
I can either do a seed, or plant, or like a harvestable plant, you know? It's
amazing. Isn't that cool? Yeah. And then, this is just for you because you're a garden nerd.
Here's the best part. I can tag all of the cool things in my app. I can tag the
things that people like us care about. Like you like, look at this, these are all
the tags for tomatoes, seed starts, organic farming, in ground, use chicken manure,
isn't that cool? Wow. Fancy!