Designing A New Biointensive Market Garden | How Seattle's Ecolibrium Farm Is Growing Its Vision

[@nicholasmacinnis1486]

My heart sank when he mentioned "we can't have ___ do to zoning restrictions". Regulations stifling innovation. Nice operation, enjoyed the tour.

[@dr.rev.lindabingham]

Blessings to all!

[@brianmccune4363]

I'd love to see how they're new location has been going! @TheMarketGardeners

[@outerspaceguts]

That's the thing with infrastructure. It's really something to have engineers, carpenters, and mechanics to apply their expertise.

[@Ptitnain2]

And architects I'd say.

[@jeshurunfarm]

Fantastic Respect from Africa 🇿🇦

[@JoCStyle]

As a CSA member of Ecolibrium, I loved hearing Alex’s vision for the new land and community building. That soil is fecund with so much promise. Love it and thank you

[@jackspatch14]

I think the farm to table events is the real money maker for small growers. Few of them a year is a nice income and really gives people an experience. JM id like to see a video with one of the chefs you deliver too, if possible. Talk about why they use you over the usual wholesale and speak about the importance of the flavour benefit and knowing the grower. How farmers approach these guys would be cool too.

[@TheMarketGardeners]

Great idea ! Thanks for the suggestion 😁 Hopefully we can do something like this soon

[@lauramonahan9343]

My backyard and some of my favorite people 🙂🙂🙂

[@matthart722]

thank you!

[@clairehaven3387]

So awesome. Thank you for sharing. We are about two hours north and are looking to set up our farm using these same principles. Would love to see more about how they are setting up and growing the farm business.

[@TheMarketGardeners]

That's awesome! Yes we plan to share much much more about this project as it develops. We want to dig deep on all the design considerations as it comes along

[@TheMujiFuji]

Looking forward to seeing this develop👍🏼👍🏼

[@TheMarketGardeners]

You and me both! We're pumped to share it with you in the coming months and years

[@scottcarlson8502]

Super cool ideas! Thanks for sharing!

[@marilynclayton3430]

This was amazing to see. I love it. Thank you 🙏

[@TheMarketGardeners]

Glad you enjoyed it Marilyn 😃

[@torbengram3028]

I love your videos, thank you so much. I bought your book aswell. At our litle farmplace here in Denmark we started last year with a market garden. I follow your book. Best regards Torben Gram, Denmark

[@TheMarketGardeners]

thank you Torben!

[@isakoscarsson666]

I would be really interested in seeing how you plan your hedge rows. What plants you put in there and why.

[@TheMarketGardeners]

Good idea for a future video ☝

[@shaunms328]

i'm also interesting in hearing about the hedge row plans

[@DD-rt9lc]

Wish you all the best.

[@fisherforsure]

I'm also interested in hearing more about hedge rows in the market garden setup.

[@ricoreich9462]

How is the Garlic called at 5:20 ? It looks amazing

[@Guylangloisartist]

We have the same type of soil at Shelter Farm. 56% organic mater

[@paulhansen5376]

JM, do you punch holes in your silage tarps for rain to penetrate when covering plots for the winter?

[@westernmac5944]

Love the farm. Love the channel. Love the mag. Love the vibe. Love the whole farming movement these days. Seeing my fellow people in masks enrages me. I will speak out with righteous indignation until this psychosis ends. Be brave people. This ends when we say it ends. We have all the power. No fear.

[@summermucha5207]

Yaaaaay!!!!!!! You are in my neck of the woods JM - excited to see more! 🥰🎉

[@GeoffHou]

I think the whole grant and subsidy topic is something that should be talked about. I'm a bit believer of the direction Allen Savory takes on this topic. We're talking about regeneration and sustainability on the land but should we also pay more attention on these topics on an economic level?

[@alexmeizlish5499]

Curious to hear more. What resources do you look at/into on this topic?

[@lauramonahan9343]

Address on the website is the old farm. Did you end up moving?

[@wifiwarlord]

Makes me wonder as I explore business from starting urban and looking to expand rural. What there is for soil like this in my area? central AB. Between Camrose, Ponoka and Bashaw. Lacombe. Are there mapping software that would help someone find this type of land? Hoping one day to talk to @TakotaCoen about this as he's about as local as I can get here.

[@monkeymon1327]

In germany 7% of the farmland emitted 37% of greenhouse gases, because these 7% farmlands are drained bogs. So there are recommendations of scientists to rewetting these farmlands to reduce the emissions. These farmlands can be used to produce other products, but not classic vegetables. Agriculture on wetlands is called paludiculture. I just wanted to throw that in to point out that this is a problem with the use of peat soils. Nice video anyway! :)

[@alexmeizlish5499]

I am aware of the carbon sink that are peat bogs and find your comment interesting. I would like to learn more about this case study (Germany) to learn if style of agriculture has an impact on greenhouse gas emission. For example, I could see the constant tilling of such lands being a major source of the emission. Would a no-till approach reduce the effective off-gassing of the peat? Also, is it initial conversion when a lot of CO2 is released or is it constant year over year. This land was first farmed about 60 years ago Not sure about any of these answers, but would like to know more. If you have any links to papers or articles, feel free to post in a reply here. This is a great example of the challenges and conundrums that must be wrestled with when trying to figure out how to feed people - on a systems level. Thanks for bringing it to the conversation.

[@williamattwell992]

Question! I've heard your story of how you got to where you are now. From what I understand you travelled and volunteered on other market gardens before starting one yourself. As you know volunteering on other market gardens isn't paid for the most part, your just provided board & food for work. So how over the years did you managed to go from volunteering to running your own market garden? I believe you said before that you got an opportunity from a wealthy friend and that's how it all started but I've noticed a lot of market gardener's have started volunteering then going on to run a market garden. I guess my question is where's the money coming from for people to go straight from volunteering to having their own gig? Thanks, loved it once again.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Well, it’s not complicated! Either you live on your savings, have a partner with a good job, or work two jobs.

[@НатальяКрисанова-е5х]

👍🇺🇦

[@stop8388]

i don’t have any insight or deep thoughts, i’m a beginner to a lot of this. commenting for the algorithm!

[@davefroman4700]

It feels like a peat bog because its a flood plain.

[@jellojoe00]

Fancy chefs are a barrier. Don't you want to feed everyone not just the rich?

[@alexmeizlish5499]

I think that there is real opportunity here to find a model that allows the farmers to be compensated appropriately, while also allowing broader access to the food we produce. The video here and some of the ideas presented are the vision for the land and property. We didn't exhaustively discuss where the incredible amount of produce grown will go, but we have had partnerships with multiple food banks for 3 of the 5 years we have been farming and there is no reason to think that won't continue, if not increase, as we move forward. I think your question speaks to the concern of only focusing on one form of clientele and know many small farmers who discuss these issues and work hard to improve access to their produce while also ensuring they can make the farm financially viable.