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You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the video. I think it's important that we share what is going on out there to help more people with growing food. It's also very interesting to see farms at different scales.

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Well, Josh Steel, I think you already know that Gabe Brown's methods are the No-Till Regenerative Agriculture methods to aspire to, and I encourage everyone to watch this presentation he gave in North Carolina. Gabe Brown is in North Dakota but his methods relate because we all have one thing in common-- soil: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7udfMeilaqaXXU.html

Yes, seems like a LOT of tractor work and tilling for a "NoTill System!"

Yeah man! Good times.

I am about a 3 hour drive from their farm so I can't really get any photos for you. Feel free to reach out Wild Hope Farm through social media or their website. They are good people.

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For Josh or Wild Hope?

Wild Hope Farm - Organic Farming in the South East for Josh mostly because I don’t think I could get your size.

It is different for everyone and not everyone can be comfortable being an entrepreneur. If farming is something that you would like to move in to I would recommend starting to grow on any scale that you can and sell the product. If you can grow and sell then you can scale up over time.

It may not be worth the effort since the water would have to be filtered. There are always lots of soil, bugs, etc. in the water after washing veggies.

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I failed to mention that this workshop was actually focused on no-till cover crop methods and techniques. Most of the tour and the presentation was focused on that.

Stephen excellent points Stephen. These are very close to the same figures I’ve found to be accurate as well. As you also pointed out, someone may do much better, or much worse than that depending upon many factors. I am starting my 5th year on this farm and going into my 2nd growing season so the first 3 years were complete losses because the land was in such bad shape and overgrown from being uncultivated for 25 years. The farm I bought was a retired tobacco farm and I would have been in production much sooner if I bought a different farm but this one had the sandy soils I needed rather than the severe red, hard clay that dominates our area so it was worth a couple dead years to me to gain the better soil conditions. Thank you for passing along your points, that’s what a lot of folks need so they can make an educated decision on how or whether to start

You are definitely telling the truth. The capital investment to start this sort of thing on any scale would be ridiculous!

There is no definition of "no-till" and everyone seems to have a slightly different take on it and that is okay. I will be posting the presentation that Shawn did as well. He mainly uses the rototiller and/or discs to begin the process of getting the field ready. He also takes about a full year of cover cropping before even planting a cash crop. I think sometimes it makes the most sense to till before you get started and then you can practice more of a no-till thing. Everyone's context, soil, climate, etc. is different.

Tilling at the start is a acceptable in notill,90 -100 per cent of no till gardens till to start off.

Kathrine Kerns you are correct about that kathrine but in this application I agree with him and agree it’s the best approach. I think you may want to listen to that part again cause he was stating that there are non-chemical alternatives that he would prefer and may work as good as chemical but in this application he was saying that since the land had been previous cow pasture and the previous farmer applied chemical fertilizers every year to maintain good soil nutrients so he would have a decent stand of hay growing to graze cattle and his point was that if your land has previously been chemically maintained then go ahead and do your soil samples and bring the nutrients back to target levels with chemical fertilizers first then make your three year conversion to organic because you already have chemicals in the soil now, one last application is not going to matter and you can bring the nutrients back to target numbers quickly and at a fraction of the cost that you can with other non chemical options. But he clearly stated that he believes non chemical options are the ideal way to go from that point on. Unless you have an unlimited budget and several years to wait for other options to accomplish the same goal then his suggestions were spot on. It would be a much different situation if your trying to straighten up soil for a garden or maybe a tiny one acre market garden but this is large scale market farming. If you saw the buildings of equipment and infrastructure that these folks have invested in then you would feel the pressure that we feel to get these fields turned from non agriculture to productive agriculture as fast as possible because the bills on all that infrastructure are not going to stop and it didn’t sound like they had day jobs that were bankrolling a hobby farm like many out here do. I’m in the same boat as them. My farm is about the same size as theirs is so I can relate to what he’s saying and it makes perfect sense. I’m in my third production year now and I’m finally making the change from full till to no till full organic but it has been a five year endeavor of getting land cleared of overgrown blackberries/brambles and 30’ sweet gum trees that took over from the land not being cultivated for 25 years but now in another 3 years I will be able to pass as an organic farm and by then I will have the 10 acres I’m currently growing on converted to actual no till with compost beds and covered pathways but it’s a huge investment to get there and can not be done overnight on a farm of this scale like I could if I was just a one acre market garden