May Update

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[00:00:00][music] [music] [music] >> These are the tomatoes that you saw Tammy planting about oh, 5-6 weeks ago.

[00:00:52]And uh now we have tomatoes, many tomatoes still on the vines.

[00:00:58]If you look down through there, many tomatoes.

[00:01:06]And they're growing, as you can see.

[00:01:08]Very healthy plants.

[00:01:10]Uh haven't been sprayed with any pesticides yet at all.

[00:01:15]Uh we're hoping we don't have to.

[00:01:19]Uh as you can see today I'm wearing a coat.

[00:01:22]It's early May and it's cold outside, extremely cold for this time of year.

[00:01:28]So, we're still pouring heat onto these girls in here.

[00:01:33]And we pollinate them every other day with a wind [music] leaf blower.

[00:01:37]So, they're they're still on schedule.

[00:01:39]Outside >> [clears throat] >> we are planting corn.

[00:01:43]Uh what's covered is uh growing.

[00:01:47]What's not covered isn't growing much.

[00:01:50]Uh seem like every day it rains.

[00:01:54]And so, we have to go through our tunnels and we punch holes in the the tunnels cuz they're getting weighted down with rainwater.

[00:02:03]So, now that's going to happen later today for us, too.

[00:02:06]Uh but this is house number two. You This is called the our early house.

[00:02:12]And strawberries are coming, too.

[00:02:14]Strawberries look okay. Look like they're going to be early this year.

[00:02:18]Uh if things uh stay somewhat normal from now on.

[00:02:25]We are in a cold stretch, though.

[00:02:27]So, let's go to another house.

[00:02:33]Here you see the uh side curtain rolling down.

[00:02:37]It's on automatic controlling the temperature inside.

[00:02:41]They're naturally ventilated. So, we don't have any big fans running. You notice there I right here, there's some lettuce growing in here. That'll That's available at the farm here now.

[00:02:53]Uh >> [clears throat] >> You're looking uh at this view of our pepper house.

[00:03:06]These are bell peppers, sweet bell peppers, and some banana peppers are in here. We even got some jalapenos.

[00:03:13]But they're growing under protected culture. And uh this is we'll stake them up, tie them up as they grow, we prune them, and do all these nice things to them.

[00:03:22]So, they they live in a a sterile clean environment. So, they are growing.

[00:03:28]And if you notice down along the side there, you'll see the uh different names of the different kinds of peppers we have.

[00:03:38]Now, they're They all have their own tag of what's in the row.

[00:03:45]Paladin, that's a green one. Market that one green.

[00:03:50]Here's Redfish. As you can imagine, that's a red pepper.

[00:03:55]Uh sweet summer, that's a a banana pepper.

[00:03:59]And then here's Bianca.

[00:04:01]That's a pepper that grows white >> [music] >> and then turns red. We like to call her a blush pepper.

[00:04:07]And then here's a jalapeno.

[00:04:09]He's got quite a name or number.

[00:04:14]That's all growing here in the the nice protected environment that we give [music] for them.

[00:04:23]These peppers will get up here, this tall as we go through the summer.

[00:04:34]They're now right now setting peppers on.

[00:04:38]The very very first ones are getting ready to set.

[00:04:44]So, they'll be coming in uh July.

[00:04:48]July will be their time.

[00:04:52]Next house.

[00:04:53]Here we have our rhubarb uh and asparagus patch. But our rhubarb is just getting going.

[00:05:00]We have it for sale now at our at the farm um along with our asparagus.

[00:05:06]Um we get rhubarb up on request and our lettuce, too.

[00:05:11]Uh we don't like to pick it unless there's somebody who wants it because we we want it very very fresh.

[00:05:17]And so, the rhubarb [music] is just getting its nice stalks here.

[00:05:20]And healthy.

[00:05:22]Um it'll be in great shape for uh time of uh uh we're here at Mother's Day and also by Memorial Day. We'll have lots of asparagus, lots of rhubarb, and lots of lettuce coming at that time.

[00:05:49]>> Nice red uh rhubarb.

[00:05:55]Ours is our our [music] kind of deep red.

[00:05:58]>> [snorts] >> Well, right now we're here at our uh bee hive area. And I'm going to open up a hive. I'll take the lid off and show you what we're doing for our bees. We're feeding them sugar water. It comes in a jar like this with little holes in the top of it. And the bees can suck that sugar water out. And this supplements them while there's no food out here for them to get here in the spring time.

[00:06:28]Um so here we go opening up the hive.

[00:06:32]There's a There's a jar in here.

[00:06:37]And they're feeding uh at the top of the hive uh on the sugar water. They can suck put their little stingers through there and suck that sugar water out. And that sustains them until the warms up. Um >> [music] >> now it's important for us to feed them because they have to raise a lot of brood. In about a month from now, the cantaloupe flowers should be blooming. And we'll be taking them to the field. And so they'll be pollinating the zucchinis and cucumbers and and um >> [music] >> cantaloupe, watermelon. That's all coming out from under those under our covers.

[00:07:14]>> [clears throat] >> And so they have to have a lot of bees ready for that to happen. So we supplement them with sugar water now. As you can see them, I don't want to disturb them too much cuz they're busy eating. It's actually lunch time for them, I said.

[00:07:28]>> [music] >> And uh >> [clears throat] >> so the little stingers are all uh they're out there. And now to tell you about honey.

[00:07:37]Let me put this Let me put this lid back on here.

[00:07:41]And >> [music] >> we have six hives here of our own and [snorts] they will go out to the fields, pollinate the melons and stuff, and pollinate all kinds of other flowers around here.

[00:07:51]It's important to note that local honey here that we have is non-medicated.

[00:07:57]Many bee raisers are medicating with antibiotics and stuff to overcome disease problems they have because they have a lot of bees. We don't do that. We also don't cook our honey.

[00:08:08]Uh we don't ultra filter it and cook our honey, so it has pollen [music] still left in it. And it has all the enzymes alive.

[00:08:15]Uh if you go to the big box stores and you buy honey, uh they will have honey that's been processed and cooked. So it kills enzymes and and and everything is in it.

[00:08:27]So all you have is basically a a nice-tasting sugar.

[00:08:31]Our honey, along with other local growers that you see with signs alongside the road says "Honey for sale" or "Raw honey", uh are [music] producing and and offering to you honey that is uh non-cooked uh and non-processed.

[00:08:49]So it's much more healthy. It has all the enzymes in it to make it alive.

[00:08:54]The reason that the store the big stores are processing their honey is because they don't want it to [music] uh become sugary.

[00:09:01]They don't want it to uh harden up. Ours Ours will.

[00:09:06]And so you have to keep it warm.

[00:09:08]And that's why they would uh not want want to have their honey uh do this, so they process it.

[00:09:16]Um the best thing to do is have raw honey and use it regularly.

[00:09:21]And we produce that without antibiotics.

[00:09:29]Here you see a field uh that has been tilled. You can see our cover crop, our rye winter cover crop, has been tilled in and we were disking it, preparing it.

[00:09:39]This area here will actually be used for our [music] our late August and September corn for this field here.

[00:09:48]But we till that rye in so it our cover crop so that it can be rotting up and [music] and uh uh ready for the corn crop that we're going to plant here uh in June to be fed [music] by this uh good natural uh organic material >> [music] >> that we till in.

[00:10:15]So we just plowed it and tilled it this week, but we will have to till more [music] as time goes along.

[00:10:22]We don't use Roundup.

[00:10:24]Uh we don't uh do burn downs and stuff like that on this crop. We do it the old-fashioned way. We we use we use the plow, we till we throw the the cover crop under the ground and it naturally decays. [music] Um something we do here that's very unique to us. We feed our cover crops.

[00:10:44]We fertilize our cover crops and that's way we and uh really add nutrition to the soil.

[00:10:50]Um >> [music] >> we also use uh uh manures from our our neighbor's barns and stuff. But uh we'll use that to balance out our nutritional needs for our soils.

[00:11:03]It's a it's a fun way to farm.

[00:11:06]Um today is Saturday, June or May 7th. I wish it was June.

[00:11:10]>> [music] >> Uh May 7th and we are out here at the uh corn field [music] where this is the transplanted corn we kept talking about.

[00:11:18]You once you saw coming up in the greenhouse, if you're following our videos, you saw the little seeds sprouting in the little cells. Then we saw out here planting planting this stuff uh uh recently, covering it, and now it's under cover, you see here that the corn is going up underneath the covers, pushing up the plastic.

[00:11:40]See the leaves are standing here. I'm going to open one up and I can let you see the how the corn looks like in there.

[00:11:47]There's how big it is, tall, leafy.

[00:11:50]And uh I would say in about 10 days we're going to need to be taking these covers [music] off.

[00:11:57]So, we'll have a nice little video of that for you. But, in the meantime, we have to maintain these covers. Sometimes they like to blow off.

[00:12:06]And sometimes, like every time it rains, they got water on them. Because the tunnel here is is flat. [music] See, here's the wire support. Well, no longer is the just the wire supporting the plastic, the plastic the corn is pushing up the plastic.

[00:12:22]>> [music] >> So, it makes it flat on top. It likes to hold water when it rains, like right here. So, we go through there when we punch holes in it and we let the water out. So, guys are coming 1:00. If you'd like to come and join us, we're going to walk up and down this whole wide big field out here. Plastic as far as you can see and far over that way as you can see. And we're going to walk along here and with these sticks and jam holes in that plastic to let the water out.

[00:12:48]Fun time.

[00:12:50]Uh we did it yesterday and we did it the day before. If you guys are praying for rain, I wish you'd stop because we got enough.

[00:12:59]So, um it's quite an event to see this plastic come off. We pull it off by hand.

[00:13:04][music] And uh so, this this gets quite involving, but uh you can see here how big this corn is. And the corn [music] it's uh uh planner thought to cover well, it's basically non-existent at this time of year.