SUPERCHARGED VEGGIE HARVEST: THE POWER OF TEAMWORK!

[@treomoe]

I remember doing this type of work on a farm as a kid growing up in GA. It made me work harder in school because I didn't want to do it as an adult. However, I went to school, majored in AG, and now I finance operations like this with a smile on my face. Hard work makes you a better person.

[@wishwellfarms]

Awesome story, thanks for sharing!

[@mllee2008]

Farm kids are just built different. A healthy work ethic is instilled when they're young, and pride for a job well done. It would be so great if there were programs for city kids to spend summers on family farms, working and learning right along side farm kids. Gaining a different viewpoint and learning where our food comes from and how much hard work goes into bringing in that harvest!

[@treomoe]

There you are; you just have to look.

[@Dr.MohamedHassan1]

You guys doing great job 👏 and you’re great team as well

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@paulprigge1209]

September 1 this mid Midwest disabled country boy just found this channel. Really good thank you.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Paul. Where are you from?

[@paulprigge1209]

@@wishwellfarms Illinois Missouri Iowa corner. 20 miles cross the creek From Quincy Missouri side or 40 minutes north west Hannibal.

[@goshenfeedmill]

Farm work is hard work but without it there's no food for humanity. Big ups 💪to the ones growing food in and out of season.

[@auracruz6211]

Love your channel. I'm a new sub..! 🤗👏

[@indiranaicker8394]

Best wishes from South Africa ❤ your content

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video. Jason, you are.truly blessed to have such a great group of young Americans helping on your beautiful farm. God Bless you all.

[@braddobson2060]

You are definitely a true farmer, it's to wet its to dry that was the wrong kind of rain it came at the wrong time all the while your having a great crop!

[@PoffWorld]

Jason, love watching your channel. On your last video you asked if it was worth it. My market motivation is how many families do I offer fresh produce to everyday. Also, you do some Wic markets and the voucher program. If it wasn't for you, these less forchanant families would not get any fresh healthy produce. God bless you Jason and thank you for what you do!

[@AgriculturalProcessing]

Great video, Thank For Share

[@Soniyaaktar-47]

A true hard working farmer

[@_Elijah_1979]

Glad you gave yourself a break 👍 the cantaloupe, green peppers, cucumbers and zucchini's look full and ripe 💯 hoping your watermelon harvest will ripen more - I take it you like adventure and the outdoors? 😃 another Great video 📸

[@wild_insomnia]

Come rain,come shine,canteloup,you will be mine ,and I never will change you for another ) That quote of a child song fits that canteloup picking like a glove.

[@martinbelzak5153]

I absolutely love your channel. A true hard working farmer. God bless!!

[@conniejohnson3110]

You work very hard.

[@sandib4234]

I love 🍉, peppers looked really good and the bigger zucchini are awesome for zucchini bread, which I've already shredded up several bags. You have some great young people working for you😊

[@waynecriswell6859]

You're lucky enough to have some youth willing to work. Here in Mississippi if the kids can't ride or drive the tractors they rather play video games.

[@sandib4234]

Well in my opinion they need to be made to work whether they like it or not, once they see that paycheck maybe then there'll be more enthused to work!

[@rhondavigil795]

It's not luck. It is how they are raised. A work ethic is taught.

[@KhlaBaiTong]

So amazing 😊

[@kennycayson1485]

It's so wet on our cattle ranch in FL most of our pastures have standing water lol it sucks sometimes being a cowboy can only imagine being a farmer

[@wishwellfarms]

Wow! It’s amazing how much different the weather can be in other regions.

[@kennycayson1485]

@@wishwellfarms I agree it's been a wet one this year

[@LyThiHangDailyLife]

Your harvesting skills are impressive

[@stephenjones852]

6:00 I knew i seen a whole child go through that thing! Had to do a rewind, so now i need to know what brand washer that is! Gotta get me one of those 😆

[@wishwellfarms]

Lol, I didn’t even know about it until someone in the comments mentioned it. It’s just an offbrand made by a small Amish manufacture in Fredericksburg Ohio called hogback manufacturing.

[@stephenjones852]

@@wishwellfarms Boss turns his head for one second! 😂 Thanks for that, enjoyed watching your content as my own farm grows slowly.

[@bobdoyon4275]

Again you are blessed with good rains. We have been abnormally dry here in sw Ohio. Some areas going on 4 weeks with no rain.

[@wishwellfarms]

Wow, that is terrible, we’ve actually had two more massive 3 inch rains since this video. We are very wet. I wish I could send some your way!

[@bobdoyon4275]

@@wishwellfarmsfor many years up until the 2021 season your rain pattern was down here - I was always dealing with too much water. Then the rain train seemed to shift a bit north and left us with this infrequent rain pattern. Mother nature at her best 😊.

[@stayawayfromislam712]

I love farmers, they feed all. Keep up ...rain or shine. God bless u.

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks!

[@AndrewsVeggiePatch]

you are back. good job that is a lot more veg than i have :)

[@albutterfield5965]

Keep up the good work

[@yolandalaughter944]

Like your videos I wish they were longer lol I know you busey also more of the markets

[@wishwellfarms]

I will, glad you like the longer format!

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

The products of labor are truly valuable, love

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks!

[@dnawormcastings]

Great video 🇳🇿🙏🏼

[@wishwellfarms]

Thank you!

[@MsTJPink]

Hello, I'm a fairly new subscriber, I just want to say how great it is you have the kids working with you, teaching them so much, not just about farming but the value of earning their own money. What a great sysem you have Jason x

[@timwolters1969]

So wish I lived closier :), I love to Watch you shoe

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks!

[@charliequincy8884]

Really enjoy these video's. It looks like you have your sons and daughters and there friends helping? What is the story behind this? I'm just curious. I think you have a great set up. I've worked for 2 farmers and they were both extremely hard working and you seem right out of that mold. Keep up the good work!

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks Charlie. My oldest son still helps until he graduates from nursing school next spring and my youngest daughter will still help during the summers while in college. My middle son who is 21, was the one that I thought would take over but he is now a full time KZbinr making good money and has no desire to farm. My daughter helped get us about 7 kids from her senior class this summer but the problem with this is that now they are all leaving for college this week and I have no help except for a few home school kids, a nephew and two adults now…it’s going to be rough.

[@Forsgren530]

Great video. I like the way you shared your variety of tomatoes. What variety was the nice looking bell peppers you harvested?

[@wishwellfarms]

Thanks! Our favorite is actually a number, PS 04651819 I believe, and we also like red fish, paladin, and classic. This year we did not plant paladin and classic just the one with the number and redfish.

[@PlanetaryHealer-in2sf]

I love your channel. One thing I would like more of is showing the tubs of picked fruits and veggies. I mean focus on the bounty of picked fruits and veggies. Give us a good long look.😅😅😅

[@paullhommedieu2795]

Looks like you have a big crew for picking? Wish I had that many kids working for me!

[@BrianMurphy-sv6ei]

Jason, have you ever looked at the profitability of your greenhouse tomatoes versus field tomatoes; with all cost considered by growing method? Which is more profitable? I know you have mentioned in earlier videos, as the trucks head off to earlier farmers markets, the produce you buy grown further south has limited margin and you also state although the tomatoes are your own, there are higher costs when grown in the greenhouse. Love the videos.

[@wishwellfarms]

Great question and sorry it took me so long to reply. Yes I have crunched all the numbers many times but it’s been years and years so I stopped doing it but I have a pretty good idea. We make 10 times maybe even 15 times more money on our greenhous tomatoes than we do on our field tomatoes. Greenhouse tomatoes are harvested for as long as you want to keep the plants going, but we choose to do it for 3 to 4 months. Field Tomatoes will last for about three or four weeks and then their shot and then Frost comes shortly after. If we didn’t have our Greenhouse tomatoes to sell along with some of that southern Produce, we obviously would not be going to any markets and losing out on huge amounts of revenue during May and June and the first half of July. With only about 12,000 ft.² of greenhouse space we can gross over $100,000 on those greenhouse tomatoes. So it is so worth it to spend $7000 on Propane for Heating and the other approximately $10,000 on all the other input cost, not including labor. Furthermore, by the time our field tomatoes come on the demand for tomatoes at farmers markets, plummets at least 75% because everyone has Tomatoes being sold, including all the gardeners that no longer come and buy because they have their own. Hope that helps explain it. Thanks for watching all the videos.

[@bighurk30able]

Nice video we was in drought weather then we got 5 and 1/2 in in the past 2 weeks splitting all my tomatoes cantaloupes melons everything 😢

[@wishwellfarms]

😢

[@LtColDaddy71]

Try and get as many hoop houses as you can as the USDA allots them. I think it’s 1 or 2 per county. I haven’t used the program in 3-4 years, but in my experience, good tomato’s require perfect application of water, or they split like those did. Hoop houses provide perfect control.

[@wishwellfarms]

I had a half acre of hoop houses for 10 years and it was a management nightmare so I sold them. We have much better luck in our 14,000 square-foot space of hydroponic greenhouses.

[@bobdoyon4275]

Cucumber beetles are the bane of my existence in the garden. Even with routine spraying they are always what ends my cucumber and melon season early. They are the only garden pest I know of that when disturbed fly right at you even though they do not bite or sting. If I do t spray my pumpkin vines every week I will never have anything to harvest. I know you limit spraying but maybe I need to spray something stronger earlier in the season to prevent them from getting a foothold.

[@wishwellfarms]

They seem worse than ever this year. I can spray those little boogers twice a week and they’re still out, starting to wonder if they’re getting resistant to the insecticide I’m using may need to switch it up a little bit with something that has a little residual or systemic action.

[@veronicapeters2413]

We are having the best pepper year ourselves. Are you working on the kitchen video? Would love to see the commercial kitchen.

[@wishwellfarms]

Yes, it is a great year for peppers, That’s for sure! Don’t worry, I intend to make several videos about our commercial kitchen, but it’s gonna have to be something later this month or early next month when things on farm slow down a little for me.

[@pywifishingandoutdoors]

I've been inspired to upscale my family farm, we're a bit smaller, so we focus more on hand labor than machinery of that caliber. I will look into more smaller scale machinery and wash stations for next seasons harvest. Looking to consume more content and learn what other ag farmers are doing.

[@wishwellfarms]

Check out Yoders Produce supply in Fredericksburg Ohio, they are Amish so no website, and Martins Produce supply in PA.

[@hawkeye7435]

😊😊😊😊😊

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

When you pick the tomatoes, can you specify which varieties they are? I might want to try some of your varieties, but I would like to see how they do in your fields before I decide which seeds I am going to buy.

[@johnkeynes8873]

Hi Jason how far apart should I.plant my tomato plants,I'll be growing them up on tomato hooks your catslopes look great

[@wishwellfarms]

Our hydroponic tomatoes are 16 inches apart with two plants in each bato bucket but out in the field we give them 2 1/2 feet on the raised beds, we used to plant in a high tunnel with raised beds and plastic mulch, and we put them at 2 feet apart, I would not go any closer on determinants But indeterminates in Greenhouse can be much closer

[@johnkeynes8873]

@wishwellfarms ok thanks have a great day

[@bigjon1558]

Just curious what keeps you while picking corn from laying the totes out on the trailer in a grid filling them laying down another grid and so forth. I'm sure you've thought about it but it's seems like a time saver. Or maybe the totes could cause crop damage being lined up edge to edge.

[@wishwellfarms]

Several reasons: first, as you mentioned, as we are tossing the corn in it would all be damaged as it hit the edge of the tote, we have padding inside the wagon and around the side boards, so the corn does not get damaged. Secondly, you wouldn’t be able to get even half the amount of corn in those totes without it being packed by hand, when it’s just loosely thrown in there, you can only get a couple dozen in them. Believe me, we’ve tried this in the past and it does not help at all, just creates more work. Thirdly, even if we did pack them as it’s getting thrown in there’s nowhere to stack all the corn without it all falling over as we drive through the field. We put over 300 dozen in those wagons and that would fill nearly 4 skids five tubs high and it would all just fall over as we drove and there’s nowhere to store it in the wagon to be able to continue picking. Good suggestion, though, thanks.

[@Appleman1965]

Jason try Red Duce very good field tomatoe. Cheers

[@wishwellfarms]

@@Appleman1965 I grew it for several years, pretty good tomato

[@efdear1730]

Anyway..you'r super handsome!

[@agapapowers]

On rain here EllETTSvillE Indiana live atsmal

[@106pricey]

Ha, go to 6:01 minute mark. The kid in the gray tank goes through the veggie washer. I thought I saw that and had to slow the time-lapse down. Yep, he went through the washer.

[@JohnWeems-y3e]

That Corn Rash is going to be painful.😖

[@richardlay1492]

What that equipment that you wash with

[@mikecorcoran6834]

I wonder if people view these videos 100-1000 yrs from now, what will they be thinking?

[@TheBzybees]

What variety are your peppers & watermelon

[@wishwellfarms]

Watermelon are El Capitan and red garnet and peppers are red fish and PS 09941819

[@Brianhomestead]

Are they all your children?

[@wishwellfarms]

No, I have two sons and a daughter, and none of them are interested in farming unfortunately

[@jasonkelly7930]

Did I see someone go thru the washer 😅😅

[@wishwellfarms]

I asked my employees if someone went through it and they said they did but somehow I did not catch it. I’ll have to rewatch the time lapse lol

[@wishwellfarms]

That’s hilarious that you actually saw that!

[@jasonkelly7930]

@@wishwellfarms it's at the 6min mark

[@jasonkelly7930]

@@wishwellfarms good content deserves attention

[@jasonkelly7930]

@@wishwellfarms 6min mark

[@DanielMendez-up6ws]

How do you control the damage of the raccoon?

[@wishwellfarms]

Lots of trapping in the off-season by my son and neighbor

[@wild_insomnia]

some tomato varieties' names are Elon Musk's children names alike

[@violetwoodard3981]

I would like to see more picking done and less talking and explaining everything, because I like to hear the crispness of the vegetables when they are being harvested.

[@paullhommedieu2795]

Do you grow any pumpkins?

[@wishwellfarms]

We grew them for 24 years but not this year, we’re taking at least a year off from them to do an RV trip for three weeks in New England.

[@paullhommedieu2795]

@@wishwellfarms well if you come to NY you r more than welcome to stop for a vist.

[@wishwellfarms]

@@paullhommedieu2795 where are you located? My wife and I will be going through NY on our way to New England this Oct.

[@wishwellfarms]

@@paullhommedieu2795 We will be going through NY on our way, where abouts are you located?

[@paullhommedieu2795]

@@wishwellfarms I'm in central New york.richfield springs love to meet you guys!

[@kentitus7550]

I always thought farming was perfect because you get to live on a farm. And you get to live in a house build outside. You are sure missing a lot of peppers still on the vine and large. Great crop though.

[@wishwellfarms]

We picked all the good ones, camera angles don’t show actual size and blemishes very well.

[@IsmailElahouel-love]

1 🎉

[@paullhommedieu2795]

How many y acres do youfarm?

[@wishwellfarms]

65 acres of vegetables and 1300 acres of corn and soybeans

[@paullhommedieu2795]

@@wishwellfarms wow nice! You plant all those corn and soybeans yourself?

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

Do you pay all of your workers the same rate? Or do you pay some of them more because of the jobs that they do? I think I would want to be riding on the wagon catching the cantaloupes. I get tired and my back hurts just watching your videos.

[@wishwellfarms]

They all take turns and only first year workers get paid the same rate, everyone else else is paid based on how many years they have been there.

[@debramathews7339]

Why do y'all not save your own seeds

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Most of his plants are hybrids and seeds from a hybrid plant will not produce the same crop as the original.seed did. The seeds are most often patented as well.

[@wishwellfarms]

Exactly what Becky just said

[@ateadelaidachannel8756]

[@pawpydaniel160]

Looks like somebody need a lesson in tying the tomato are setting down on the ground