BIG DAY at the Famers’ Markets: Employees React to HEAT WAVE

Filmed on June 22, 2024. Farmers' Market Day! Getting trucks and the mobile trailer loaded for a big day of sales and unloading upon their return home. Also, their reactions of how the markets went during the brutal heat wave in the midwest.

[@_Elijah_1979]

Watching your channel and business operation is wholesome both physical (friendly) and crop wise (health) - may the Good Lord continue to Bless and Prosper your family and business 🙏

[@oby-1607]

Awesome video. Love anything about the markets as we do markets as well. $5,000 is about our ceiling for a good day but we don't get that every day. Natalie drives that truck like a pro. She has a good teacher, you. Thanks for sharing and glad you are doing well.

[@zeevon9]

Came over from Jason Wish KZbin Channel. So envious of your lifestyle. I would never be able to buy anything since I live several states away, but I would buy a T -Shirt or hat. Do you sell those items? You are a hard working family and have earned whatever success comes your way. Enjoyed watching!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks. We have company T-shirts but not for sale currently…maybe next year I’ll have some available.

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video. You are.so very well organized. The markets look like a great experience for all.

[@FOLLOWINGWALKERSWORLD]

Really interesting video. Great crew. Your younger brother sounds just like you. Must be very satisfying having a productive day. 👍👍

[@unclebilloutdoors136]

I'll be hitting the Worthington market next week. I'll be sure to stop by.

[@Athos96]

I really start to enjoy your channel. It is different in a nice way from others. It will be nice if you show us how your brother does his products. Have a nice day!

[@wishwellfarms]

Don’t worry, I plan to make several videos of all of my brothers items, including our commercial kitchen and the story of about how he nearly lost his leg in an auger when he was four years old.

[@chetreed2198]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@KrazyKajun602]

Just noticed from the video, looked like your driver's side trailer brake light bulb is out. Safety first for all your trucks and trailers.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks. This is a old video and it has been replaced long ago

[@billking5407]

Great video Jason ,lot of work to get it all done, remenber those days, thanks for sharing

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Bill! Sometimes it’s hard to film. A lot of the details happening behind-the-scenes because it just takes so much more effort, hopefully the videos of us harvesting our crops will be a little easier

[@hydrodude2948]

I noticed you guys sell candy and salsa along with your produce at your farmers markets. So when we do our farmers markets for our farm we recently starting making kettle corn at the market as well. It’s pretty sad to say but we now make way more money off the kettle corn than the farm. The farms profit margins plummeted with our inflated overhead cost over the last 4 years. Food for thought kettle corn is a goldmine if you need extra cash. The kettle corn has saved us so we can keep farming.

[@danrussell9207]

Can't wait to have tomato's to make my salsa! I really hope I have the time and tomato's to make a bunch to can this year! It has been too long since I had any of it! Hope your able to have some corn to capitalize on the holiday and make lots of folks happy!

[@beagrine2657]

WOW, WOW WOW.

[@mikewalter8547]

Great video. Really portrays all the work and people it takes to do markets. Well Done. We finally open on Monday be nice to see some $$$$$

[@EliseoReyes-n2r]

Great job

[@edschultz5718]

oh, i see. You run overnight fkts during the off season so you can stay in shape for getting upi at 4am on saturdays to load the trucks and work on the farm during the growing season. I gotta get out there soon to check it out. Love watching the videos!

[@ManMountainMetals]

Get a couple hives of bees to take care of in your copious free time. Sell bee vomit, marketing term 'honey'. Keep your Morning Glory fields pollinated 😂 also.

[@andrewtyler4551]

I miss market days!

[@Boldo75]

Another great video! Did you hit the $ goal?

[@davidclark8855]

Watching ftom CT. We are also on season on some of out early swert corn fot oit jome fstm stand put otside tomatoed ot on the way fruiting clusters Sofat do hoof. Uep were getting the heay wave herr aldso eith some oddbsll thundetstotms n winds Your offering grest hsndd on real as you can gey on vids of yout opps on the farm and personal onsights Thank you and god bless you and your family and all your farm familys.😊

[@RonaldEdmonds-wi5sn]

How do you stager your planting so you have fresh all season ?

[@wishwellfarms]

It depends on what Crop you are referring to because it’s different for almost all crops, for example we seed cucumbers, zucchini, and cantaloupes three times, plant sweetcorn 10 times and green beans 14 times.

[@newoldvideos989]

You can probably save a lot of money if you get some white cardboard coated so you can use dry markers on them, and you wont have to throw them away when you change prices, just erase with a sponge. :)

[@daveklein2826]

Go back to your recliner, he knows what he is doing

[@paullhommedieu2795]

Ya I usd to live in urbana! Don't remember seeing that place tho. Do you do anything with strawberries?

[@wishwellfarms]

Not sure what place you’re referring to? I grew strawberries for 20 years on about 7 acres when we peaked, we did you pick and pre-picked and had to hire 30 extra kids just to pick them and I had the baby the Crop year-round, best decision I ever made was to get rid of them.

[@paullhommedieu2795]

@@wishwellfarms I was talking about the place where you get the raspberries from..ya we used to do strawberries as well. Had like 10 acres..and you are right had to have alot of extra kids around for sure..we also had a big retail operation where we sold a good part of the produce that we grew..now I do just wholesale. Wish some days that I had a retail outlet to b honest..I feel that these wholesalers make as much money as me on the produce! Do do anything with pumpkins or hard squash?

[@wishwellfarms]

@@paullhommedieu2795 grew pumpkins for 24 years until this year, takeing a year off. we still grow butternut and spaghetti

[@treesawlimbnahbirch6788]

I was wondering if you had made your market trailer or had it made for you.

[@wishwellfarms]

The canopy and steel frame comes as a kit for a utility trailer or flat bed wagon. I built all the wood display shelving inside. The kit is from Rainbow Industries in Springfield Ohio.

[@Stacey-Ann_]

How often do the trucks go out?

[@wishwellfarms]

6 go out on Saturdays, 2 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and only one on Monday and Friday.

[@rosesmith6208]

custemors are struggling farmers are struggling and shippers etc, seems like the only ones not struggling are polticians, and corporate owners. citizens are their atm machines. hence rising prices are not your fault, people are just frustrated. your doing a good job from what I can tell, your food looks delicious too. would love one of your watermelons just to see how sweet they are. around here watermelons are hard to pick a sweet one.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, we can usually grow some pretty darn good watermelons here on our farm. Most customers realize we’ve had to raise our prices just like everybody else but there’s always some old timers out there that just don’t get it and think prices should be the same as they were 30 years ago

[@briannelton9153]

woah 90 cents per ear of corn, pricing around here is dozen for $6

[@wishwellfarms]

That was our cheapest corn we sell, around Columbus it’s one dollar an ear and nine dollars a dozen or five for a half dozen

[@wishwellfarms]

Six dollars a dozen was the price we were charging five or six years ago. With inflation and the rising cost of inputs corn should be selling for $15 a dozen at least but there’s kind of a price ceiling on it because no one would pay that much

[@newporg6887]

Ive watched 6 videos and in every video you say "thatll be coming up in a video" or "Ill make a video about this later" ..and you never do.. lol. Anyway, cool channel.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yeah, I know I always have good intentions but sometimes hard to remember what I talked about in a prior video since I’m filming so often, but for the most part it eventually gets film, but not in the order I had originally intended. I better just stop saying that from now on lol

[@viclovingood3005]

My 2 markets I run on sat I bring home 150.00 doller that's both together and on my Tuesday market I might bring home 40 dollars

[@markcatzoutdoors]

A great vid showing how the kids involvement is so important to the process, not to mention, they get recognition !! 👍

[@munchkin5674]

You have no help loading your trucks and trailer? Obviously you can only hold produce so long, (hours, days), even in coolers. What do you do with the produce that does not sell at your Saturday morning markets?

[@wishwellfarms]

some is able to be sold on monday and tuesday, the rest is either taken to a food bank or thrown out.

[@keithclute5424]

OMG please tell me you make enough to replace the curtains in cooler door. Please clean up for food safety. Just because you don't have to be audited doesn't mean you don't need to do some cleaning sometimes!

[@wishwellfarms]

Add that to my shortlist

[@kenwoodcoda]

Why can't you sell the berries in some locations?

[@wishwellfarms]

Great question, I answered this in several past videos, but if you haven’t seen them, I will explain. All the markets we go to, except 2 require you to only sell what you grow, but we have two of them that allow you to sell neighboring farms produce. We don’t grow berries, but some of our friends down the road do and we help them sell some of their fruit at those two markets only.

[@meddler69]

7 bucks for a pint of raspberries is outrageous 2.50 to 3.50 is about right, that's too much

[@wishwellfarms]

that is your opinion...are you buying and sellng these everyday? Do you have any idea how much it cost to raise and harvest these? The input cost to purchase the plant stock, the years of irrigation, fertilizering, pruning canes, land rent, labor, fungicides and insecticides, application cost of machinery wear and tear and fuel, the huge labor cost to harvest these, the cardboard flats to pack them it and the wooden pints to put them in, marketing and advertising cost, the huge risk a farmer takes with how perishable they are...the list goes on and on, and $7 per pint still barely leaves any profit margin. The cost to raise them is more than $3.50 per pint, I guarentee that. If you find them that cheap, then the farmer is loosing money.

[@meddler69]

@wishwellfarms raspberries are easy to grow 3 yr cycle for them, I have been harvesting them myself in my yard I've got red ones and black ones

[@wishwellfarms]

@@meddler69 entirely different ballgame when growing dozens of acres of them commercially. Glad you you're able to grow some good berries.

[@phud9657]

I don’t think I would advertise the money boxes

[@wishwellfarms]

Just part of the farmers market story, they’re only in the trucks and barn during farmers market hours, any other time they’re in my safe

[@hawkeye7435]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@wild_insomnia]

it seems you have pretty cool employees. But man, in that heat I would have rivulets of sweat and sebum on my face, and they look so fresh ! Man,I envy them in a good way )

[@wishwellfarms]

Rivulets and sebum 🤣🤣

[@Boldo75]

😂

[@matthanes2050]

Why not use a white board or chalk board for your price signs that will save huge money.

[@wishwellfarms]

@@matthanes2050 we did that for years and it was the biggest pain in the butt constantly having to have new markers and chalk in everybody’s totes and ways to clean them off. And those markers are not cheap nor are dry race boards and when you got seven locations, this is a very expensive way to do it not to mention most people cannot write neatly especially the guys ha ha

[@matthanes2050]

@@wishwellfarms fair point I didn’t think of that. I’m up in Canada we can get all that stuff at the dollar store and when you said $12 for the cards you use and that’s USD which is $16 CAD give or take ya I agree that’s outrageous.

[@caseyarmstrong7064]

I just have a small (11) raised bed garden and absolutely love it. I do grow both pickling and a slicing cucumber. I notice you store everything in you walk in cooler, and everything looks good for 2/3 days of being in there. Where my cucumbers after a day or so start to feel rubbery. Could it be the type of cucumber? I do a string trellising system under shade cloth, it’s no green house, but it does work. Thank you

[@Evansdotcom]

@@wishwellfarms I'm sure you've tried everything but just in case you haven't. We used to use pricing signs that would flip. This was in a produce department at a store, so there may be reasons this wont work for you, but I just wanted to mention it - they are commonly called accordion pricing strips. Hope the reason of the season goes well, best wishes and happy 4th.

[@wishwellfarms]

@@Evansdotcom thanks for the tip

[@daleolson3506]

Kill the music

[@ateadelaidachannel8756]