Solar Panels on Farms + The Market Garden in The Dead of Winter

[@hanks_backyard]

Would love for you to do a deep dive into the solar question - so thumbs up on that one.

[@inthewebnotoftheweb]

Our nations best farmland is under attack by big solar!

[@annekec4666]

@@inthewebnotoftheweb It's true, and it's up to us to show those bozos how to do it right, without harming our agriculture!!

[@robertsexton9230]

@@annekec4666 @inthewebnotoftheweb don't forget developers that take arable land and existing farms and turn them into warehouses!

[@theburnhams2925]

Mount panels high enough to graze underneath and space panel runs far enough apart to provide for the forage. During our peak heating season most grasses would "appreciate" some moving shade each day. Basically, just mount panels as high as practical (even if grazing is not contemplated) and take care of the soil's cover plants.

[@79PoisonBreaker]

For me in the north, I saw some studies showing bi-facial panels mounted strait up n down with rows run north south facing east west, did better in useable energy production in year avg due to snow reflection in winter. no more adjusting or angles needed . I was thinking for orchard type setups this could be a easy win win.

[@jeredjackson1504]

Taxes. I believe the steady increase of taxes on cigarettes over the past few decades did way more to curb smoking than the labels did.

[@davidmgilbreath]

Agreed; think of all chuckling/eye-rolling done by people outside of California, when they see that little warning label that reads something like: “…is known to the state of California to cause…” 😅

[@bradical2723]

​@davidmgilbreath cigarettes don't say "known to the state of California to cause cancer" They say "according to the surgeon general"

[@davidmgilbreath]

@@bradical2723 thank you, yes, my comment is in regards the ineffectiveness of warning labels in general - as eluded to by OP.

[@thecampfirechef8531]

Speaking from my own experience, the knowledge of what it does to the body and the constant coughing and sinus infections is what made me stop after 15 years of smoking. But it goes to show how much our knowledge on medicine has changed over the decades and centuries. My grandmother was prescribed cigarettes by her doctor back in the ‘50s. She was a widow with 5 kids so naturally she was stressed as all get out. She talked to her doctor about it and he said “ on your way home stop and get a pack of cigarettes. Go home and make a pot of coffee and sit and drink your coffee and smoke a cigarette.”

[@FlokieLooney]

That and vaping. Millions and millions quit with vaping.

[@angelajohnson4550]

I always perk up when you mention community involvement. If you feel like sharing any of the avenues you discover to meet up with good people and do good things together, I’m all ears for it!

[@Aglaja_]

Look into the work of Stefan Verstappen. He is a Canadian who builds communities and has worked on establishing strong structures to face what is to come.

[@jaymcgee4359]

Came for the "farm knowledge" - was rewarded with a Voltaire dad joke..... life is good ;)

[@allonesame6467]

Loved the Voltaire joke!

[@davidmgilbreath]

Same 😂

[@theburnhams2925]

Yup! Tricky, that Jesse!

[@donaldshifflett8850]

I have been using solar panels to water the garden for years. It is easy to connect a 12 volt system to a 12 volt on demand pump to a rainwater collection system. I would love to see more small scale uses for solar. I love the concept of Agrivoltaic farming but it might be nice to see more system that would come to the market that would solar based power.

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

[@davidmgilbreath]

Haha, do you post that on ALL No-Till Growers videos?

[@peteredwards876]

Thanks as per usual! I wonder if photo voltaic ag has more (cost per Ha) potential in warmer or more tropical contexts with longer day lengths and lower seasonality (no spring, winter, autumn - more wet and dry). Integrating it into providing power for your operations may pay off in the long run. But as you said, upfront costs may be exorbitant. Looking forward to hearing more about your planting/seeding planning. Here in Maryland I have a better indoor set up this year (grow lights etc) but I don't want to start too early. Thanks again for all the knowledge!

[@davidmgilbreath]

Howdy from Texas 👋🤠 By no means knowledgeable on the subject, but have been poking around the idea for a while. Daylight hours/day are a prime factor, as are non-overcast hours and air quality (dust and wind blown particulates). From what I’ve seen, my guess would be that desert or hot/dry climate (equatorial) locations have the greatest benefit. (There are some conservation efforts being made in combination with photovoltaics, in Arizona iirc.)

[@Farm_Boy_Education]

Have you thought about setting your tunnels up with thermal batteries to extend your growing/starting season? I went down the rabbit hole and saw two versions one where there are just a bunch of drain tile pipe buried 7 ft in the ground and air is circulated either to charge the ground or heat the greenhouse, then I saw a Canadian version that made a sand heat sink under the greenhouse slab charged by piping and heated by roof panels, except for the really cold part of the year they maintain the green house temp year round by solar and stored energy. Do you have any thoughts on these systems?

[@daveordie]

Hey Jesse, all you need is a single reference book for your pears and fruits if you plan on learning fermenting into alcoholic beverages. All in all you can get a conical fermenter OR a carboy and some big plastic buckets (with airlocks...get the simple design), a portuguese level corker, a siphon, additives, bottles and corks for under $300. I recommend 6 gallon batches (up to thirty 750ml bottles)

[@CDJMiniRanch]

Thank you for the great info.

[@Failfer]

As a Californian I wanted to say thank you for your kind wishes. I hope we can all try to help fortify against and slow climate change, we already started to prepare but look how much its still is getting our state. I wish everyone the best of luck and always love this channel

[@Aglaja_]

There is no climate change, and if it were, it is one of many phases in history. There is massive destruction of woods and good land for windpower, and contamination by detoriating rotorblades, and massive destruction of good land for solar panels which will contaminate the land when breaking due to military-made "weather-events". The skies worldwide are being sprayed. Meanwhile AI and EVs are using massive amounts of electricity. Even if there WERE climate change made by mankind, it is not you and I who would hold it by using solar panels and paying hefty taxes for the privilege of living.

[@doncook3584]

Jesse is top drawer. Mother Nature is on duty today as for billions of years. Humans lose sight I think sometimes and let their desires Trump good common sense. I think you will find that indigenous peoples around the globe select their homes away from rivers and streams and away from forested areas. Modern mankind does things because they can. We’re an advanced civilization. Or are we? Our ancient ancestors might question where we pitch our tents. Just saying. I’m in boring old sod buster Nebraska. We actually have 2 so called national forests hand planted and weak. No one lives in them

[@larrystrayer8336]

Just a thought; What if the solar panels were made narrow ie. -12 inches wide skip 12 in. More like a lath house 50% shade As I have discovered in Mississippi tomatoes do better under 40.% shade cloth. Just a random wondering.

[@tomichelled]

JESSE, I LOVE THE NINJA TURTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! huge fan and thank you to you and Jackson for the Book for my FREE SEED SWAP last year. It was raffled off and was the most desired book out of the 7 we gave away. (may have had something to do with my NO Till growers hat I wore all day).... So happy to listen and watch your knowledge cloud daily.

[@wwm8795]

Thank you for this

[@ExoticTerrain]

You could put lights under the solar panels. LEDs use very little power

[@janew5351]

In our area South of peterborough , ont. There are large 12 by 20 movable panels in fields. I have no idea what income the farmer receives. Usually groups of 3. Must have access to a road.

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

I'm improving my grow center table so I can level the table for watering trays. . I'm trying more cover crop this fall I planted the huge radishes and buckwheat and believe it's going to be great. I'm 70 plus and the only one in my family that didn't follow my parents example.. Thanks

[@omermann]

Waiting to stop losing money to join the Patreon. Thanks Jesse 🙏🏻 I’ve been following your videos for the past 3 years and on my final months before getting to manage my own farm. We’re located in northern Israel. I’m going to manage 1/3 of an acre that was no dig with very nice chicken and cow manure compost. I’m looking to transition away from no dig (with lots of compost) and more bio insulates (compost teas and such). I’m finding myself a bit lost trying to figure out what is the right way to approach this. I’ve seen you mentioned in your book uses for a scythe in the market garden. I’ve seen people using to create clean hey mulch. Do you think that something that would work on a market garden scale? Can you estimate how big of a field you’ll need next to you garden for something like that? Thanks in advance

[@FelixChatsworth]

Does anyone else think a CDC''s main role should be Health? We all know here we are walking, talking bacteria and fungi swimming in a sea of viruses. The clarion call must be immunity, for humans and our feathered friends. Wild anything is not the problem and never has been, industrialised animal factories need to be dismantled.

[@igneousc]

The CDC does what they can for health under our current system. Unfortunately your pie in the sky ideas arent going to help them manage public health, and I have a feeling the things you think they should be doing are detrimental to the health of our citizens. Managing diseases in a capitalist, highly populated society is complicated, but thats their job. It's not their job to change how our society functions

[@FelixChatsworth]

@igneousc you may need to actually think about what I said a bit more, feels won't get you there, perhaps a paradigm shift in your conciseness might. Maybe vegetables could teach you if you listen carefully.

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

😊great video

[@D0praise]

Hmm, nice foresight to warn booze affiliated growers to heed winds of change. Just thinking on this warm and dry January day people aren’t too keen on heeding warnings. It takes something more

[@anthonyenosis1]

consider bi facial panels oriented to capture East West sun (skipping high noon), giving a larger footprint to plants, and further increasing the efficiency (but lowering total power output) of the solar panels. basically turning the solar panels into defacto fence panels orients north to south.

[@tanjawestfall-greiter9814]

On photovoltaic: based on experience in Austria, where private households are making a big contribution to the grid, beware of ROI in the future. If the grid can only handle so much, the conditions change. I personally think there's enough parking lots and buildings to use. It restricts the use of farmland significantly, which might not be wise in the long term.

[@sbmiller3699]

Please, more about solar panel integration on the farm.

[@dorcasrodriguez2901]

❤❤❤

[@toldt]

We wanted to do this 2 years ago, but the politics and regulations are prohibitive. We love in a somewhat rural area and smaller utilities and co-ops are forced to buy a large portion of their energy and limited in how much they can produce. The biggest energy companies have a strangle hold on production, not unlike oil. Many rural areas also only have single phase power, which is another limitation.

[@bobbler42]

“Voltaic” relates to Alessandro Volta, I believe, not Voltaire. He is what the volt is named for, and has a stronger association with electricity.

[@abydosianchulac2]

His playwrighting was horrible, though.

[@bobbler42]

@@abydosianchulac2 ...but both could really light up a room...

[@danphillips4590]

One drink per day, AG calls u an alcoholic.

[@JeremiahThomas-mt5zq]

Hey I wanna make a little net for messing around playing some soccer. What brand ball do you recommend. Without spending to much $ Brand-model name

[@thatoldcomicsmell56]

Vaping killed cigarette smoking. I also think cultural shifts and the dying off of the older generations has alot to do with it too

[@danphillips4590]

Raw milk rules

[@cliffpalermo]

Have you had hop water? Stop drinking myself as it became too expensive physically, emotionally and monetarily:)

[@abydosianchulac2]

"Photovoltaics" is the word describing the publicity photo shoot for productions of _Tartuffe._ "Agrovoltaics" is the hate people are feeling at me for that pun.

[@MiriamPendleton]

Here in VT we are having some winter, for a change. I think this 4 degree weather is replacing the one or two weeks of twenty below we used to get. But it's strange you are having the winter weather you are getting in KY and it's horrifying the fires they are experiencing in CA. Way early for fire season out there. It would be great to pretend that human caused Climate Change isn't a thing but that will do us no good. Let your representatives in Congress know that this needs real action on. Policy can really accomplish amazing things if enough people are on board with real effective strategies for dealing with the climate crisis.

[@Aglaja_]

There is no climate crisis. There is arson.

[@Cyclonut96]

Instead, why don't you write about local governments allowing chemical spraying in the skies and causing many of these calamities...

[@immortalgenetics]

Lol, voltaire. Good joke.

[@bobbler42]

“Voltaic” relates to Alessandro Volta, I believe, not Voltaire. He is what the volt is named for, and has a stronger association with electricity.