When they spoke next to the veggie stand and the owner said that they “try to encourage and teach people that they can do this themselves”, is such a selfless and humbling gesture. He could’ve easily not say that and try his best to be greedy and tell everyone that his veggies are the best and that they have to buy only his. Also when he said that “there’s not much youngsters coming into the farming/gardening game, and it’s kind of a scary thing/feeling”, man that gave me goosebumps. It is absolutely TERRIFYING to think that. Not only is it scary but very sad. The MATERIAL INFLUENCE within the world especially social media, has really changed the way these kids think and feel about themselves. Without farmers or even backyard farmers, the world is in a whole lot of hurt. I really admire and appreciate people like this man and you also Kevin. I’ve been an avid gardener for decades and haven’t gone to a commercial scale but I do grow more than we can eat and give away at least half of our produce. The smiles and hugs we get is amazing. And most of all REWARDING. That’s what life is about. Keep it farmers and gardeners. We all can change the mindsets. It’s not too late….. Much love and Aloha ✊🏼🙏🏼🤙🏼

Thank you for introducing us to so many MARKET FARMERS who have made the world a better place by caring for the environment 🌎 and providing healthy produce.

I love how fast you both talk with excitement about what is clearly your passion. I thought I had my playback speed set for faster but it was just your natural mutual enthusiasm coming through. WONDERFUL video. Great job limiting the fossil impact of your farm in so many creative ways.

Sage Hill is simply the best. If you ever see their display stand at a local farmer’s market in SD you will know just how incredible their produce is. So awesome to see this collab!

“No fossil fuels” dude that is a nice gasoline powered quad 😂 all joking aside I love that farm

I love the enthusiasm. When plant people get together to nerd out on plants it’s a beautiful thing lol

Kevin it’s a joy to watch you grow as an individual and as a professional. I love this new series of videos featuring farmers! Very inspirational and no doubt will inspire younger generations to consider starting a farm. Beautiful farm featured and continued success to the farm and you my friend. Please keep these types of videos coming! Hugh

As a fellow market garden Farmer I really enjoyed seeing this video. I would say the title is a bit misleading as there is no farm I know of, including this one, that can operate without fossil fuels (in the background was a four wheeler that was used to transport produce, the landscape/greenhouse plastic supplies are produced with such fuels, the greenhouse was heated with propane on cold nights, etc.) I understand this farm is labored by the hands of people instead of tractors but still uses fossil fuels in certain appropriate contexts. I do not say this to take anything away from his video because I loved it, just thought the title of the video was very misleading. I loved the terracing work that this farm is doing!

This is so cool! I wish there was an app to find local farmers that sell their products to locals would be super dope

loving the farm tours as starting a market garden or farm is something i am considering in the future and seeing some of these guys get it done is pretty inspiring.

I mean technically the plastic of the high tunnel, the quad & plastic ground covering ARE fossil fuels! But excellent progress!

I bet this guy took the Neversink Farm course. A lot of similarities. Neversink Farm is incredible.

I love how much he's creating habitat and using native wildlife to benefit and maintian his farm. It's the natural way to do things! He's just missing ducks to eat the slugs & snails. LOL

This is the direction my family’s lives are taking and I’m so happy to see this. I need the wheeled hoe for sure! Wishing all abundance and a successful growing year.

I love this!! I am starting a market garden currently in South Africa. this gives me so much motivation! The farm looks spectacular

Thank you for this video. There's so much useful information for all gardeners. I need to watch this again and take notes.

You may not consider the quad a tractor, but it sure looks like you are using it like one...

These small farm operators are amazing. I hope you do updates of these entrepreneurs. I'm so impressed how they ramped up so fast.

I have a dozen or so washer/dryer drums I grow in. They make great raised containers to grow in!

Awesome fit farmers with so much work to do everyday which beats working retail any day ! Awesome tour of the way a farm should be ran : hard work, no pesticides and protecting crops with easy methods like insect netting... or mammal netting. I am glad that you don't have Gophers which are tricky monsters who suck plants down through the hole .

I am not a purest, but if you are going to caplock NO fossil fuels, you might want to edit out where he said he used a tractor, used a propane heater and had a gas quad.

Enjoying the farm tours... Thanks Kevin! And a huge thank you to Spencer as well. The next time I'm in San Diego, I'll be sure to stop by the farm on a Saturday.

This is awesome! My wife and I own a 6-acre market farm in upstate South Carolina. This season we are growing 6000 tomatoes. Even though I do use tractors I do a lot of the same things this guy's doing except for one thing. We don't have a wash station because when you're harvesting that quantity of produce you don't have time to wash everything and our customers are well aware of that. We don't even wash our lettuce and I can't keep up with demand

It's always either the tomatoes or the cucumbers that struggle. If it's dry, the tomatoes are good, if it's humid, the cucumbers are happy. Depends on the year. In the last summers, the tomatoes did better at my place.

Gotta be the “well ackshully” guy for a sec but only because of the timing: you said “no fossil fuels” with a poly tunnel in frame! made me chuckle and i had to say something lol but seriously, this guy is living my dream right down to the acreage. what an awesome project and beautiful farm.

2:18 That quad doesn't look electric. Maybe is natural gas...but that's a fossil fuel too. But San Diego Power uses natural gas, so even if it's electric, you're still using fossil fuels.

WOW! This episode just knocked me out! I don't usually "comment" online, but I have been watching and learning from gardening info videos for a few years and this is one of my favs so far. I am a 81-year old USAF veteran/amateur gardener living in a confusing USDA "ZONE", Southeast corner of Kansas. We border on 3 other states...Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. and it seems to be a "toss-of-dice" to plant the right stuff at the right time, even with the inpput form the "PROS" ( lovcal Kansas farmers) now due to a touch higher than normal weather. As kids ( 1950's and 1940's ) it was a contest who could get their picture on the front page of our local Sunday newspaper...frying an egg on the sidewalk in front of your house! Thanks for great content!

I absolutely love your tours, it's different when you see other people doing stuff and the different innovative strategies they have used to make the best of what they got. Its so inspiring.

Thank you Sage Hill Ranch Gardens and Kevin for this field trip! I really enjoyed it. Please consider doing more in the future.❤

Hey Kevin thanks for sharing this small farm with us. It’s right over the hill from where I grew up! I visited today and what a great place they have. Great values and great people. I encourage EVERYONE to visit and support their farm stand Saturday mornings 9-12:30

I sometimes set videos to play @1.5x speed. Well after first watching, I had to pause & come back. & @ around 17 minutes, when I pressed play, I had to look, because I thought I still had it set @1.5 but nope... he just talks extremely fast! 😂

Loving the farm but one question I have about the plastic silage tarps, I've worked on a farm that used them and found the tarps created anaerobic soil, attracted pests from the humidity and obviously the break down of plastics can cause unknown health problems long term. Just wondering why so many eco-friendly farmers are using a non-eco friendly product like silage tarps instead of living pathways/mulch

Really cool setup. I like how he works with the bumps and dips in the land.

Disclaimer: Zero fossil fuels *Minus the plastic tent*. Otherwise cool video, thanks for another great upload Kevin.

Thank you! Thank you for your sharing your time and knowledge here on KZfaq and thank you Spencer and Sage Hill for sharing with you and us. Both of you are so good at what you do and i just wanted to be sure to let you know that your talented and appreciated!😊

Really loved this one because almost all is done by human energy. Need more of "THIS "

Dear Kevin, Thank you for always keeping your videos very hands-on and practical. They are Great for people who are getting out there and getting their hands in the soil.

Hope that hoop house is covered with ethanol based plastic 😂

I logged on just in the right moment, posted less than a min ago. Love learning from here! Thank you

I believe that 4 wheeler uses fossil fuel and the plastics on the high tunnels were made by way of fossil fuel as well. Title of this video is very misleading

Great interview. I liked learning about the water source and the varieties being grown. Love these market gardens.

Except for the plastic - which he used to make the greenhouse- which is made from fossil fuel side products. Plus I saw a quad ATV - what does that run on? Electric? Fossil fuels?

Such a wealth of knowledge. I would love a way to learn from his experience and know exactly how his farm is ran. I want all the details!

What's the plastic in the greenhouse made out of? ... Propane heater?

Thanks for featuring interesting farms and farmers like these!! Would love to see more content like this….it is very inspiring!

->no fossil fuels ->immediately shows plastic

So much awesome farming wisdom in this video! You guys both rock! I'm super interested in starting a market farm, and you are so inspiring!

What an amazing and thoughtful farmer. His products look amazing. Does he really have all those tunnels and fields on 1/2 an acre?

I love these types of videos. It’s great to see how many different ways you can farm.

Wow, great set-up! Thanks for sharing. So many moving parts!!

Loooove these longer form videos showing how small farms work. Fantastic content.

Beautiful Farm would love to visit it! Truly wonderful way to farm! Congratulations on all your hard work.

"Here is our no till garden.. have a look at all the tilling tools we use!"

How is the plastic made without any fossil fuels?

I need some of these tools for my (much smaller) setup at home.

Love what you all are doing -- Sage Hill Farms looks wonderful! Kevin thanks for bringing so many different stories to us via your channel.

This is awesome. I will definitely be doing this very soon. Thank you for this information and video.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!! Time to be a bigger farmer!!! Thank you for sharing your place and helping me push to a larger scale level!!! Definite goals!!!

I really want to start a little farm stand. Unfortunately I am really struggling with my garden this year 😅 everything seems to be going wrong. I might at least do a farm stand with soaps, candles, and firewood in the meantime.

Momotaro looks like pink oxheart tomato. Wow what an informative show, i plan on mass (small) scale farming commercially as i retire from my city career and this show inspired me even more

Amazing set up. Really impressive farm.

Glad to hear some love for neversink. His videos are great, and accurately titled.

I like how everything is organized and efficient. Farmers market-my dream!

Thank you! My backyard garden is terraced, and this helps me think about how to use that to my advantage. Also, Kevin, my 8yo son says your last name sounds like the name of a Pokemon.

Shout out to your videographer / editor for that interior / establishing shot around 23:00 minutes. I was thinking it and the shot just appeared.

Unbelievably impressive, you really are amazing...I love the willingness to share your knowledge, but the fact is, if you only do something for the money, you won't do it really well. Thanks for showing us what Doing it right really looks like

Can you make a video about “ top 5 or 10 vegetables you can grow and freeze away?

Spencer is my current story and it's so inspiring to see someone doing something that is my goal. Thank you for this video Kevin 🌱🤗

Dinosaur bones arent oil and gas. We can just say oil and gas we dont need to say dinosour bone fuel in 2023.

This is truly "epic" gardening. I'd love to see more videos and examples of just regular home gardening. I'm having a difficult time understanding principles that commercial farmers do that home growers can do. I don't think my HOA will like mini greenhouses, insect netting over my garden and massive rain water catchers... :)

This is a great video! Learned also. Also wanted to know what that 1 tool was called a broad fork 👍 You Tube cut the video 1/2 thru the play cycle. Like I said thank you, I learned a lot! 😉

14:06 reminds me of in games like harvest moon you always get the crops that produce multiple times to up that profit per unit

I'm 2:45 in and already amazed with new ideas! Thank you!!

What a fantastic video! Thank you so much for taking us through such an amazing place.

SO WHAT IS ALL THE PLASTIC / MESH made from = OIL. WHAT CULTIVATES YOUR SOIL to a fine tilth ?? petrol rotovator?? what do you cut wood with?? chainsaw?? did someone mention QUAD BIKE?????

This farm is really beautiful in an amazing setting. Love your videos.

Loving how many permaculture ideas are incorporated into this.

This kind of thing always seems so amazing, but I'd like to know more about the costs! Specifically how much money this farmer started out with/had at the beginning to sink into making this work. Having the land was presumably already a huge help, especially in such a great growing zone!

Thank you! This is another amazing video! The passion for farming this way is so incredible!

Loved this video! Thank you so much for doing this!❤

This is a great model to help promote small scale farming. Excellent!

'Love Sage Hill! Such great people growing beautiful food.

Super Insightful for someone looking to enter tha business, thanks for the great content

Two great guys that I’m proud to know. I hope to one day work with you guys.

Favorite videos have always been the farm tours.

I'm here for the shorts, true confidence my friend Salute.

Loving these market farm spotlights

Really interesting, tks and congrats! 🙌

Awesome Sage Hill Farm tour 😊

❤organic farming, love it..❤from Australia

So cool farm, lots of inspiration thank you 🦋

ok I just wanted to say: This segue with the owner was hilarious. I know it's just for the production but when you said: "I think I see the owner" and the guy was literally 5 feet away from you, all I could think of is: This mofo is mr magoo haha

This was so fun and I learned a lot. Thank you Kevin for this

At 10:08 he tells he used a propane heater in winter. So he does use fossil fuels.

Sorry to be negative but plastic sheeting is made from petroleum which is crude oil. He isn't burning fossil fuel but he is using it and it will end up in the oceans after he is finished with it.

Impressive operation!

This guy is awesome and has so much knowledge. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Would really enjoy some video of the terrace's being built if there was any

Wow! what a yard.

No Fossil fuel except for tons of plastic