A No-Till Farm Carved out of a Clay Hillside | Mountain Roots Farm

Today we're getting a slightly more detailed look at Mountain Roots Farm in Tennessee and how Paul has transformed this hillside into a productive growing space. WE also get to see inside of his wash/pack station there and get some great details on the tools and system he uses.
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[@theoraclesisl330]

I know these videos are time consuming for you and the team Jesse, but dang, I sure am learning alot! Thanks!

[@notillgrowers]

Thank YOU! 🙌

[@OwlMoovement]

Speaking as a Calgarian who worked the Stampede - a big midsummer rodeo/midway/casino affair - many businesses would build thematic wooden cattle fences and decorate with straw bales for the ten days of it. I asked about composting the bales or using them as mulch and was informed that the decorative bales were also sprayed with a fire retardant to, well, not catch fire among the public. Paul's haloween bales may have had a similar treatment.

[@AdamvanKuik]

I really enjoy these farm tours/interviews you put out. One thing I would like to see asked during the interviews is how old the people were when they started their own farm.

[@nommindymple6241]

Minor technical comment: it sounds like you've got your sound channels reversed. At the start of the video, you're standing to the left of him. Yet, your voice is (mostly) coming out of the right speaker while his coming out of the left speaker.

[@tacticlSport]

I know nothing about making videos and what little I know about farming I learned here. Thank you for helping the information be presented better

[@VictoriousGardenosaurus]

I had my first plant sale of the year a couple weeks back. All of the signs i staked down, got blown over. While i did accomplish a lot of chores in the 8 hours of waiting, and got some one on one time with my toddler, i sold exactly two plants. However, i traded up some salad greens and tomato plants for a decade old plum tree! Some fig cuttings were included.

[@JoyoftheGardenandHome]

Don't give up. I'm at year 3 selling seedlings at the local community center 1 weekend and another weekend at the community yard sale.

[@VictoriousGardenosaurus]

@@JoyoftheGardenandHome I figure, worst comes to worst, I'll give em all away to the neighbors who will take them

[@wes16b]

The price of the gravel it would have cost to cover that hill is more than I make in a year.

[@scotthammond4364]

Great video! One incorrect comment was the comment that "it's common practice to spray straw with herbicide before harvest." Straw comes from small grains such as wheat, rye, barley which are all determinate plants meaning they go through their lifecycle to produce seed and then die once the seed has matured. All of these crops are selectively bred to be very similar so they all mature at the same time. (Which is why you see the whole field die at once.) To kill the crop with herbicide before harvest would reduce yield as the plant wouldn't be finished filling the seed, as well as wasting money on herbicide to kill a crop that was going to die soon on its own anyway. Generally the only pesticide to be "sprayed" on small grain before harvest would be a fungicide to keep certain fungi from growing on the wheat head and reducing quality of the grain. Small grain grown as cover crop is often sprayed to terminate it prior to planting the next crop, but the grain and straw are not harvested from this herbicide terminated cover crop. I hear this misconception dropped a lot so I just wanted to shed some light on the topic from the commercial agriculture perspective! Love the videos though, keep it up!

[@lisamcdonald1415]

My favourite time of the week, nerd videos, and another beauty! Keep up the great work Jesse

[@aileensmith3062]

we will never have a tunnel to grow crops in. Then it is always interesting and seeing how others produce their products. Continue with your Sunday morning fun videos!

[@TaxEvasion777]

A tunnel greenhouse is tempting

[@larrystrayer8336]

I really enjoyed the 2 videos. On his farm. Thanks for your interview skills.

[@jeanmuehlfelt7942]

I dont market garden on a small scale anymore. I still learn so much from your interviews! Thank you. I also enjoy your book very much. 😊

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@billiverschoore2466]

Indeed, Paul, what is a certification worth; most "organic" is only "corporate organic"; why pander to the wishes of those who would see humanity at their service? Absolutely fab wash station! Jesse, how does one avoid/remedy spider mite in tunnels... ? Am lóving your quirky quick-witted attentive insightful earth-wired ways! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚

[@123WorryFreeGardening]

Jesse thank you much! Love the DIY attitude and the great solutions. The washing machine spinner - favorite thing!

[@leahtruckenbrod1279]

Great start for a Sunday! Thanks for all your motivation, Jesse :)

[@julianzenker6679]

Those farm presentations are super interesting! Keep them coming, keep it Green; peace

[@cherylstarke5206]

Absolutely awesome! Thank you! ❤

[@Followyourlight420]

I love this sh*t!! So many great ideas!! RESPECT

[@tinag9507]

Mountain roots farm....so true😊

[@joestatuto5287]

Great video! Love the wash station.

[@chompers11]

Loved the whole vid. Super interesting

[@clarkansas6590]

Good job

[@lulajohns1883]

Thanks, headed out to clean chicken coup and prep beds.

[@dnawormcastings]

Great looking farm 🇳🇿❤️

[@paraskroubi4642]

great video

[@songweaver6076]

Horray!

[@roweyurboat573]

You should walk and talk more in these video interviews. It's less awkward than just standing there. Love these videos. Just some constructive criticism

[@billiverschoore2466]

you just want to see Jesse take a tumble, don't you? 🙃😂

[@CarterHewins]

How does he heat the high tunnels in the winter time? Or does he not need to?

[@DavidEnahoroOguname]

Hi farmer Jesse, a quick suggestion - why don’t you make e-copies of the living soil handbook available on sale instead of having to pay all the shipment duty fees? For my country, shipment charges is about 90% off the actual cost of the book. It’s crazy! I have followed you for more 3 years or so now, you motivate me to do better. I’d appreciate a feedback from you. If I do get a feedback, then you’re awesome! lol Cheers!

[@notillgrowers]

Hi David. Unfortunately the publisher won’t allow us to do an ebook through Notillgrowers. Sadly, you can purchase it from Amazon but not NTG. And indeed, the shipping is awful! I recommend trying to find it locally. Best of luck!

[@DavidEnahoroOguname]

@@notillgrowers Thanks Jesse, I will explore these options

[@chrisgalloway2682]

Great video. But 5 (10 if you don't skip) ads for a 25 min video. Idk if you did that or if YT did. Still love your stuff though.

[@ardenthebibliophile]

Sorry if I missed it but do they spin salad greens then put under a fan to fully dry? Or put them under the fan while waiting for the spinner?

[@lifeofintention4711]

Put under the fan after spinning to remove the last 5-10% of moisture.

[@georgelee9099]

Howdy nerds 🤠

[@jf3457]

Jesse, you should do like this guy and take seriously your own compost production. Make some investments. It is impossible that compost does not pay off on the medium term.

[@jenniferdavenport7203]

I would bet money that making compost also takes a decent amount of time and physical space. Sometimes priorities dicate choices.

[@juniorzamora225]

What tunnels would you recommend buying?

[@TaxEvasion777]

Depends on your weather and wind conditions

[@dantheman9135]

Crush on...

[@DistrustUS]

Does anyone grow outside anymore??

[@markengelson9051]

People without greenhouses and caterpillar tunnels do ;)

[@scottbaruth9041]

Yes! More of my new customers want to know if the produce was grown outdoors or in a greenhouse, than if I am organic or use spray. It's mostly about taste. They claim outside tastes better. I'm wondering who else hears that? Also, IMO my small market can't justify the cost of a greenhouse. I would never be able to sell more than one 50ft row of lettuce, so to make it worthwhile I must be selling "non" greenhouse vegetables, such as potatoes, asparagus, fall decorations, and multiple succession crops that grow just fine outdoors like summer squash, and zucchini. Also, season extensions using hoops and frost covers work, but small Midwest towns stay inside come 1 Nov and don't seem to come out except for football until mid April. Grocery stores only pay you what their invoice says they pay from a warehouse. Your only edge is that the warehouse sells by the box, so if a grocery store is throwing 1/2 a box of beets away, they won't order it. If they can buy from you, that helps them and you, but again, at a very low "non tunnel" price.

[@lifeofintention4711]

Guess it depends on region, but as was discussed by scottbaruth9051, season extension is a valuable bonus by growing in tunnels and for the cost versus value, they are quite affordable on a commercial scale. Lots still grow outside of course, like lots. If growing no dig organic, inside or outside doesn't seem to make any taste as the flavor is provided by the soil a fair whack.