SELLING MY BACKYARD PRODUCE TO CELEBRITY CHEFS!
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Come with me, Chef Mikey on my Friday Restaurant deliveries. Learn how I sell my market garden produce to James Beard award winning Chefs including Joseph Lenn, Blackberry Mountain, Kopita, and many of Knoxvilles finest eateries! How these chefs are serving up my backyard produce to "A LIST" Celebrities. And I will not only show you how I got here! But I will also share with you, part of my journey which includes how I used to be a Chef for "A List" Celebrity Dolly Parton myself. I Hope you enjoy!
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You are one of the best small scale market gardeners i have seen on the internet
thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks so much! It’s great to get such positive feedback! I really appreciate your support! 🙏
I like your down home narrative style. Also like how you insert interesting footage while you're talking.
Ah! You’re very observant! Most people probably don’t even notice or think about that type of thing! You should go check out my first video! I didn’t even know how to hold the camera the right way 🤣 I counted today that this is my 21st video. Every video I learn a little more. And get a little better. And more comfortable talking to the camera. I’m definitely working to build a skill set for video editing. My goal is to put out very high quality gardening/farming content. I need a new computer now though. My computer has been struggling to keep up! Anyway, I appreciate your attention to detail! And I’d be tickled if you go watch my first video to compare 🤣 thanks again for watching 🙏
Top quality content mate
Thanks so much! I really appreciate your support 🙏
Hello from beautiful Antigua🇦🇬. I love your attitude and how you have a flexible system that works for you.
Thank you! Thanks for watching! I love that CZcams connects me to people all over the world 🙌
@@chefsharvestfarmthe internet is awesome…..
@@juliarroberts1621 heck yeah 🙌
Your hard work is definitely inspiring…looking forward to keeping up with you here in Canada
Thank you! I appreciate you following along 🙏
Awesome thanks for the video! I would have thought most restaurants already have their supply chains and wouldn't bother. Seems like the higher quality restaurants are looking for higher quality produce 😊
For sure! Definitely gotta go for the high end restaurants! Thanks for the positive feedback! I really appreciate your support 🙏
Much respect to what you're doing, I grow veg in my backyard and I know how much work goes into that 👏🏻
Thank you 🙏
Thumbs up from France 🇫🇷 👍
Awesome! Thank you 🙏 love that CZcams helps me make friends all over the world! Thanks for watching 🙌
France?! Awesome! Hello from Maryville, Tennessee ☺️
@@monicagreen748 so cool to connect with people all over the world! Thanks for watching 🙏
Very impressive man. Just found your channel and I'm binge watching. Really enjoy your videos.
Thank you! I’m glad you’re here 🙏
@@chefsharvestfarm As a home gardener for 46 years I've evolved into a very similar garden set up, but, way smaller, about 22 x 50. Your channel is going to be huge. Keep up the great work
Thank you for sharing these videos. I'm having fun and learning so much.
Thanks for watching 🙏
Please keep making these videos. You're teaching way better more practically than most other market Gardener CZcams channels. I'm just getting started in Crossville, Tennessee about 45 minutes away from you. Bought 15 acres and will be growing for market pretty soon. I'm super excited!
Awesome! Thanks for following along! 🙏
I love the hustle! Keep it up.
Thank you! Thanks for following along 🙏
So awesome. love the content
Thanks for watching 🙏
❤ You are an absolutely a hustler and an organized one at that. Fantastic!
Thank you 🙏 you actually watched till the very end 🤣🙏
Real deal work there 💪 respect and thank you for the insight
Thank you ! I appreciate it 🙏
Gotta keep on hustling. Beautiful
Thanks brother 🙏
Great video I’m so happy it’s paid off for all the hard work u do 🇳🇿❤️
Thank you! I appreciate you watching 🙏
Dude awesome story and awesome story teller, your videos are great
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Thank you for all of your extra insight. I like that you said that the customers may not always buy from you and that's ok. Things like that are what we don't think about but we need to know. I love your content and your garden looks great!
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate it! I’m glad you found it valuable!
Hey man, I gotta go home to my farm 😂. Love that story. Keep it up, love seeing the small scale local successes
Thank you 🙏
So much love for you Mikey! Inspiring us noobie gardeners here in switzerland! Amazing work and I can't wait to see your market one day in the flesh!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it! Love that CZcams connects me to people all over the world! Thanks for watching 🙏
@@chefsharvestfarm I'm also wondering how you find the companion planting of beet root and tomatoes! Is that working well for you? I tried with nasturtium flowers but they seem to compete with nutrients and so far the tomatoes have performed very poorly! I'm also a no-till grower. Thanks again!
@@Collapsonauts hmmmm…. I do not have issues with beet root under tomatoes at all. It’s one of my favorites!
@@chefsharvestfarm Oh that's great news! I'm going to give that a go! Thanks for the answer ♥
@@Collapsonauts happy to help! I wouldn’t think nasturtiums would be much different. They’re all pretty heavy feeders. So I would definitely make sure you a little extra nutrients if you’re having issues. Beets are also heavy feeders. I also put down azomite before I plant beets. They always have great tops when I do that.
I can’t wait to see your channel grow. You got a great niche in content. And you’re super jacked!
Thank you 🙏
Love the videos and your drive to success would
Absolutely love to do this in my area gardening is my passion maybe some day 👍
Heck yeah! I hope you’ll follow along! I’ll show ya everything! Thanks for watching🙏
Thanks man I’m so glad I found your videos if I every get down your way I would love stop by and see your garden -I’m in Ohio 👍
@@brettkennedy8832 sorry we don’t actually have visitors at the farm. I meant I’ll show you through videos 😉
Yup, cukes in a tunnel = fewer diseases keeps the rain off the leaves. Big difference. Go-getter Energy IS your marketing. Love your style! Don't change a thing. You are hittin' a groove, man! Awesome!
Thank you 🙏
Nice job mate!!! Bloody hell, you're a busy bee though! It's so satisfying to grow & sell though, or in my case... I give away as I'm just a small backyard food farmer.
Thank you 🙏
Reminds me of a pot grower learning his value...
Sweet! Thanks for watching 🙏
Question:
With a backyard garden like yours, what is your watering system and how often do you water?
If you get a chance, could you do a video on that and your system from when you started gardening to what you are doing now?
I have the entire garden set up on a combination of overhead and drip including the high tunnels. I have some rain water catchment and the entire system is controlled via Wi-Fi control from my smartphone. I will definitely make a video soon.
The drip lines are running about 5 hours a day in the summer. Water bill last month was over $400.
You are the best!! Thank you. I'm trying to get into the farmers market but it's a bit intimidating. Thank you for breaking it down for us ❤️
Heck yeah! I started growing 1 tomato plant in my apartment. And I took that tomato plant to my parking spot every morning. Then I’d bring it in every night. I got 1 tomato! And now I’m here! And I’ve recorded the whole thing! I’ll plan to continue and share how I got here! I hope you’ll follow along! Thanks for watching 🙏
Fantastic video 🔥 I've worked exclusively in operations for small businesses the last 8 yrs and there's so much work that goes into what you're doing. Whether you're working with a small team or alone, growing a large enough portion of quality crops to make a profit to continue to grow your business is challenging, not to mention inventory management of fresh products, sales, customer service, logistics, maintaining good relationships with existing clients, filming, editing, and uploading to YT, etc the list goes on. I spend 22-26 hrs each weekend gardening in the burbs of NJ and though it's a lot of work, it's the best part of my week. It's great to hear how this all got started and how persistent you have to be to grow. I have a feeling your channel is going to blow up in the years to come so best of luck to you growing your crops and business 🙌
@@domo_mother_of_plants you are absolutely correct! So much more than just growing! Thanks for showing me support! I really do appreciate it 🙏
I just had this idea today and now I randomly find this video lmao
The algorithm read your mind! 😂
@@chefsharvestfarm I was actually looking for it great video! Have you thought on transitioning to hydroponics or are you going organic?
@@Tony_Sab I may dabble in hydroponics someday. But I’m more interested in acquiring more land and doing larger scale, No Till tractor based farming more than I would hydroponics.
@@chefsharvestfarm the great thing about hydroponics is that you can go vertical, but its only gonna work for leafy greens and micro greens and the cost of entry is pretty high so yeah it might not be the best idea for now.Anyways best of luck to you i hope you keep uploading more of your journey its very intresting
It appears that you grow a 'ton' of produce in your 'back yard' and have developed some clever strategies to make less work of it. (Love the cool bot trailer). I'm curious ... with all the produce you produce how do you enrich your soil / fertilize your crops????
@@MikeV607 thank you 🙏 I use no till methods to grow. I just dump about 3 wheelbarrows of manure based compost on each bed 2-3 times per year. And if I just need a little extra fertilizer instead of compost I’m using the neversink blend which I purchase from seven springs farm supply in Virginia. It’s the best place to get organic amendments, shipping is expensive… but worth it!