PROFITABLE farm growing lettuce in 20 CATERPILLAR TUNNELS year-round!
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Learn how Elliot and Emma have built a profitable business growing lettuce and greens year-round in 20, 100ft Caterpillar Tunnels for local restaurants, all while providing full-time employment for themselves and their workers! Prepare to be inspired!
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I love your videos, they are so well done and so informative ! I've started backyard homesteading on the edge of productive farmland and I've just started to document it on CZcams. Thanks for giving us inspiration and info!
Hey that's awesome! Thanks for the kind words and encouragement!
I watched all the episodes again! ♥️ I always wanted to do a series like this here in our country. I want to share the inspirations and motivation i got from watching this series.
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks.
It's very useful to farmer
Low cost green house.
I'm in love and can only dream about having this one day! Thank you for sharing your story!
Wow! You had really a nice farm! Love it!
I am very glad these videos exist. keep it up.
Thanks! We've got several more episodes of Season 1 still to come! Be sure to like and Subscribe to see more!
this farm definitely had the best business model.
Omg... this is the perfect life 😍😍😍 let me come work for you guys for fun. I love gardening. This looks so fun 😍😍❤️❤️❤️
Loving this series and the stories!
Thank you! :)
Awesomeness. Love it
beautiful farm beautiful life
4:38 I love the soundtrack guitar. Love it! I hope to find it
i love these videos and this channel
Got my hoppy .i ll b here every day
This is an amazing farming channel with dope camera and editing skills. RESPECT ✊
Thanks, Sam! Really appreciate that!
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Great , very nice !!
Bonita la vida en el campo. Bendiciones y saludos
Nice and inspiring story
Very beautiful I like your idea
I am from India and I am really inspired by this Video I will definitely construct the Caterpillar Tunnels in my farm
Glad you were inspired! :)
Your colour grading always 🔥🔥
So Awesome !!! 💋
Greetings from Indonesia 😊
Love this
this video awesome that ,when watch is happy, thank you
Glad it could make you happy!
Howdy from Miller Hobby Farms, I just found your channel and I'm inspiring into being a hobby farmer selling produce in my area. Still learning but I been at it alone for about 1 year now and just got my 4th green house
Awesome! Welcome to the channel!
One of my goals in life is just to live like this!
Same
Jump into it Campos😃
Same! 😊
1 year on, how have you progressed to reach your dream?
@@Lifegrowsonandon I've been participating in a training program for engineering students. By the end of this year I'll graduate and be officially an engineer. There's a height probability that'll be hired to the position of chief of operations, which means I'll be able to save money. Right now, I've just collected information and wrote down an article with the best construction solutions based on my region environment conditions to achieve higher levels of production and comfort while working/living.
Your parter is the secret to success make you live in your own world
Have the own farmer don't have price, product the food with yours hands, it's fantastic!
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the tunnel👍🔥🔥
Very smart.
Nice!
Nice video
Hey Guys, an excellent video. A question I have ask a dozen "experts" is about structure orientation. BTW, I have received conflicting recommendations. Since you have vinyl structures going opposite ways, what is best? Do you prefer North and South or East and West? Thank you for you answer.
Please keep making such videos
We plan to! Thank you for the encouragement!
This is my big dream.. One day god bless me a farm like this.. 🙏🙏🙏
Where you from?
It’s also my dream, i am from Dubai, how can i do this
Cool video. 😎 What about crop rotation? I’ve heard to prevent disease/pests one should not grow the same product year after year in the same spot. How do you mitigate that? Do you even have those sorts of issues? Thanks 🙏 in advance!
Wish I could visit your farm
I wonder if they lose as much sleep as I do on windy nights and I've only got 4. I traded anxiety for when the next rain would hit, to wind anxiety when I built mine. Also wish I didn't have snow for half the year so I could put mine so close together.
Love from Nepal🇳🇵🇳🇵
Thanks!
Waw amazing... I love your video keep it up god bless I am also farmer from India. I love farmers. 🙏🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚
Thanks a lot!
@@FarmersFriend thanks from depth heart for reply to me 🙏🙏😊😊
After watching a few of these episodes, my questions are:
1). who invented the QUICK CUT HARVESTER ...because it sounds like a God send from all you lettuce farmers that are giving it high marks.
2). do you guys experience a lot of back pain in your profession?
Enjoyed your story.
Great questions.
1) The Quick Cut Greens Harvester was invented by Jonathan Dysinger roughly 10 years ago when he was about 17 years old. Since then it has become the go-to tool for small-scale farmers growing significant amounts of salad greens.
2) Back pain is greatly minimized by the fact that the tool harvests greens so quickly. Even though you're bending over to use the tool, you will only be in that position for a few minutes to harvest large amounts of greens. Multiple customers have shared that they are able to harvest greens 10x faster with the Quick Cut Greens Harvester than by hand. In just 10 minutes you can harvest up to 30lbs of greens with the Harvester, whereas that would take almost two hours to do by hand.
Hope that helps!
Wow.
Im just wondering how you manage to plant lettuce during winter time?
Hope you read my comment thankyou..
Do these do well with high wind gusts?
This episode could have been boring but but the camera skills are amazing well done
Thanks so much! Any feedback you could give as to what would make it more interesting to you would be super valuable!
Is it still needed more workers, specifically to make the garden house ... ??
Nice video! Greetings from Ukraine
Thank you!
Hey! Loved the video. I am an organic farmer from the south pacific islands. Is the caterpillar tunnel to prevent too much sun on the lettuces?
It partly helps with sun, but also helps to keep the beds from getting too wet with rain. When growing under cover the farmer can completely control the amount of water that gets into the soil so it's always ready to plant and harvest.
Where do you guys sell the lettuce ?
Great video.
1. Is the first time year (absolutely no expierence) profitable if done on beginner scale? Also what would start-up cost be for 1/4 scale of farm in video.
2. Can this be done in hot house type of structure?
3. Can it be done in shipping (average) container?
4. Focusing on erbs & lettuce (60% Erb 40% lett & other veg) can it be done by 2 older people or how much help is needed?
Thank you for your response.
These are some excellent questions that unfortunately go beyond the scope of what could be covered in a youtube comment. In short, farming isn't easy-get as much experience as you can by working on other farms to save yourself many costly mistakes. There is endless creativity regarding what types of structures can be used to grow successfully. You'll find examples of all the ones you mentioned and more on youtube. It is definitely possible to make a living with two full time people, but again, it takes a lot of work. Some knowledge or experience in both business and marketing is super helpful too. All the best!
Very good information. Some years I've had a poor garden when we start wet and cold replant and replant and then end wet and cold. It looks like a tremendous low cost boost. And you do seem to attract naysayers that's realy too bad they just get in the way of innovation.
The cinematic are.....wow...!!!!
Thank you!
Please what are the benefits of growing veges in tunnels
Is profit equal to a working person's salary? For example, in USA, average salary of 5-days working per week is 1000$ after tax?
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Salam, comment est-ce que vous arrosez tout ça ?
This looks like mostly continuous lettuce without crop rotation. Do diseases build up with this system?
2 questions : isn't drip irrigation unusual for lettuce ?
Second question : do you really grow 5 crops of lettuce a year in the same tunnel ? No pest or disease problems ?
1. no
2. Yes
Do you add end walls in the winter?
We do sell end walls for our tunnels that could be used, but I think Fair Share Farm just uses spring wire to attached a single sheet of plastic onto the ends during the winter.
That's so awesome and sexy business!
How the idea of the farm started. How did it start?
If you watch their full interview here (czcams.com/video/Wvo621DO1kk/video.html) you'll learn more about how their farm got started!
@@FarmersFriend that link gives a 404 not found error just FYI
Ah, thanks. Try this: czcams.com/video/Wvo621DO1kk/video.html
nice where do you purchase your tunnels?
You can purchase them at our website, farmersfriend.com. :)
is it an advertisements for that harvester thing
You need one
What is length of your pipe and breath of your tunnel and hight of tunnel
We sell four different variants of Caterpillar Tunnels, but for the specific ones that Fair Share Farm has, the tunnels are 14' wide by 100' long with a peak height of 7' 8". The bows are made from 3 sections of pipe which are slightly over 8' long. Hope that helps!
Thanks i am made waking tunnel thanks for information
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Who made this video?
Rest is kryptonite to burnout.
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How big is this farm?
Roughly 1 acre as I remember.
can i use your video for make my content?
Unfortunately not. This content is the property of Farmers Friend and isn't licensed for use in any other way or by anyone else.
How much you make money
Am I getting some uneasiness
Is this farm orgainic
I don't believe that they are certified organic at this time.
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Perfect. Though they will all have hemorrhoid's from bending over and cutting lettuce all day. I know this for a fact.
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Will the cost gets lower if electricity is free?
Hello sir, you started awesome series :) May I know what are the colorful lettuce varities at 4:50, I checked their insta profile found the same post instagram.com/p/B4ah4IFBUr7/ but the names I searched on google are a bit different.
I think they are Salanova lettuces from Johnny's seeds.
You should easily find it by googling.
@@noble7453 Thank you 🙏
Salanova. The easiest to grow, and LEAST FUN. I hate that my market demands more salanova type lettuces now, than they used to when I started 15 years ago. People used to love my full sized, wild, leaf lettuces of all kinds. Ones you had to space 8in apart. Now everyone wants little tiny tight heads, packed in clamshells. I hate it. But you won't make $ growing lettuce unless you grow salanova.
Has the pandemic hindered your profits?
My mesquite died a while back. Look like the diseased olive trees in italy. Prepare.
I assume that since you don't mention it you use fertilizers and pesticides. Is that quality food? Your production method is only focus on business but not considering the environment or the health of your customers.
@Stevospeedo And you both know that how?
Poor thing looks homeless