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I've become entranced by the Youtube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone. I played around with the idea of starting a farm like this and the labor involved turn
by willholloway 10y ago
I've become entranced by the Youtube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone. I played around with the idea of starting a farm like this and the labor involved turned me against it, but I can listen to his vlogs for hours while doing yard work or painting through my wireless headphones.
There is something very human about one person teaching another person to produce food in the kind of detail he goes in to, and I think time farming lends itself to quality thinking and reasoning for a philosophically inclined intelligent person.
They are essentially rediscovering the way humanity grew greens before tractors and herbicides, but there are some new innovations that are making these farms work:
1) Growing things like romaine lettuce in holes cut in landscape tarping is eliminating weeding.
2) They are cutting time from harvest to plate by a few days, and the resulting quality is much better, and they are not using toxic chemicals to control pests and weeds.
3) They are using no-till methods, the only input is compost and earth worms do the tilling work.
I wish that there were more farms like this in my area, because I really hate the selection and price of organic produce in my supermarkets. It is very much lacking, or insanely expensive.
- Spooky23 10y agoSetup a square foot garden, and get a couple of earth boxes for Tomatoes. It doesn't take a ton of time, and is very rewarding.
- imaginenore 10y agoTomatoes are truly one of the easiest things to grow, but they seem to be too cheap to bother with the large-scale production. They also get infected sometimes, we lost all of our plants at the end of the season a year ago. But then 2016 had been fine.
- internaut 10y agoI have become convinced I must start a small tomato patch. I encountered a dreadful tomato last week. It contaminated my BLT sandwich to a luricious point where even the bacon was no longer enjoyable. I don't think I'll ever buy a tomato under plastic wrap ever again.
- saycheese 10y ago> "YouTube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone" https://youtube.com/user/urbanfarmercstone https://youtube.com/user/urbanfarmercstone
- dwc 10y agoI've recently started watching Curtis Stone. It's very interesting. I have no plans to start a small scale farm, but it's something I often think about. It would take finding some local niche that was very profitable. In the meantime I'll just continue trying to grow more for personal consumption. Along those lines I've found OneYardRevolution[1] to be a nice channel. 1. https://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution https://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution
- up_and_up 10y ago> They are using no-till methods, the only input is compost and earth worms do the tilling work. Actually they do use tillers. They use walk-behind tillers like BCS which are common in Italy. These dont compact the soil as much as a full tractor and are cheaper. My wife and I have a 1000 sqft garden and have been watching Curtis' videos as well. We are considering building a mini-farm business on our property. Other good resources are Jean Martin's farm (http://www.themarketgardener.com/ http://www.themarketgardener.com/) and Eliot Coleman's (http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/ http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/)