Great comment thank you so much!

Where is all of your help for loading the trucks?

@@rudolphfoster1524 great question. packing the tomatoes correctly takes a lot of experience and there is no way I would trust my newly highered employees to divide these all up. I look back on numerous years of sales records to know how many boxes go on each truck and then also must know how mnay smalls, mediums and large ones go on each truck and which trucks need the really ripe one versus less ripe ones, not to mention which one gets the second hand tomatoes and how to determine which tomatoes are good or bad...there is an art to it and if it's not done just right it can cost me big time. On most days they will help carry them into the trucks once I have them divided up but they were busy doing other jobs around the farm on this day.

Wow, you guys have really had it rough! I feel very blessed and fortunate to have pretty normal growing seasons lately...of coures there is always something that goes wrong or fails but having our eggs in many baskets certainly helps. Yes, thanks for noticing, the channel is really taking off for me and has actually surpased my personal channel in watch time (Jason Wish) which all about backpacking, kayak camping and RV camping, and that channel has 46,000 subs and is 8 years old! Got lots of video ideas in the works and if I had more time I would put out a farm video every other day....what I show is only a few minutes of my farming life several days a week.

Thanks!

Thank you! The Lord has certainly blessed us!

Thanks Marty I really appreciate that!

Really glad you enjoyed it, that gives me a lot of satisfaction!

Well shucks, I could get begind that! Thanks a bunch!

Absolutely. Add musicians also. The only reason they get paid so much is because the people will watch.

Thanks Bill. I’m starting to have concerns about one of my kids taking it over. My 23-year-old is almost finished with nursing school but has some interest but I just don’t see him running the day-to-day operations. My 21-year-old is a full-time KZfaqr with no farming interest. My 19-year-old is heading to college to be a teacher, but she also has some interest. Maybe one of them will end up marrying a farmer lol. So it looks like it’s just gonna be me for the time being, but I am definitely looking for a successor to begin training and handing over the reigns to. I don’t really have an interest to keep working this hard for too many more years, but it definitely has given us a nice living.

They are a great outlet for selling produce that's for sure! Thanks James!

Yeah, I don’t mind sharing a little bit of our info just to help the general public understand how Farms work. I’ve been at this full-time since 2001 and put in many years of long hard days. In my personal opinion, it would be hard to make a go at it trying to Wholesale. The only way it works for us is getting that retail dollar from direct marketing to the public at farmers markets and eliminating any middleman. I don’t even have a land mortgage or have to buy large equipment because I rent land for my mom and dad and borrow the large equipment for year end tillage. Land rent is probably similar to a mortgage payment and I probably could have borrowed or rented a neighbors large equipment if I didn’t have my folks. We definitely had some lean years, but I was able to raise my three kids and send them to a private Christian school and pay off our house and max out our retirement funds each year, and travel all over the country and Caribbean, so I’m happy. My biggest problem now is finding a successor to take my place as I want to slowly start to back out of the day-to-day.

Thank you for checking out the video and taking time to comment. I really appreciate it!

🤣🤣🤣, man you don’t even know how bad I want to get on the river right now! The FLTs may be a thing of the past. I have not run for six weeks, but I’m dying for a good old-fashioned backpacking trip or through hike.

Thank you so much so glad you’re finding it educative! Here is the link to my backpacking, kayaking, running and RV camping channel; youtube.com/@jasonwish-?si=g5YXFxHYYUaouV6B

Hey, thank you so much. I really appreciate all the encouraging words more than you know! Yeah, the channel is finally getting some traction and starting to takeoff and has surpassed my personal backpacking and kayaking channel in monthly watch time and views The Lord has blessed me and my farm immensely, and I have several verses posted throughout the farm. I’m sure I’ve asked you your name before but I’m sorry I forget and I feel like I should know it

I would love to be putting two shorts out per week, but I just don’t have the time unfortunately but when the farming season starts slowing down, I definitely will be

@@wishwellfarms not sure if you ever asked or not but my name is Wayne, from SE Illinois

@@redshepherdoutdoors7201 Thanks for the reply Wayne!

Thank you so much for the kind words

Thanks!

Oh yes, back in 2015 or 16 we almost started one but that’s when we were trying to do 14 farmers markets as well and wholesaling to several grocery stores and we were just stretched too thin to add another marketing model to our operation so we are just solely focusing on farmers markets and two retail roadside stands.

Thanks, and it's only begun...once we add zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, sweet corn, melons and green beans with three more locations, thats when things really start happening 😁

Hey Jacob haven’t heard from you in a while…thanks! I’m really looking forward to showcasing our Markets and set ups when we have all seven locations running with corn, beans, melons, and all the other goodies.

@@wishwellfarms busy time of year, i have been watching the videos they're looking good!

Very cool, thanks for checking out my channel!

Very nice place for sure...very affluent neighborhood

Yeah, my younger brother Joel‘s Candy business has skyrocketed. He ships all over the country daily and has two commercial freeze dryers.

Yes, I will very soon! I just made a video last night about sidedressing it with 28% nitrogen....the earliest corn is a over knee high and should start tasseling next week!

and revenue

Good suggestion, I will try my best to remember to mention those things in future market videos

Appreciate the feedback! Yeah, I noticed that light out when I was editing...we have 12 trucks and cars on our farm and sometimes it's hard to keep up on all of them. Thanks!

@@wishwellfarms You're welcome and thanks for taking the comment not as a "karen-ish" thing, but just something I noticed. You may want to consider the drivers making a walk- around of the vehicles which takes the impetus off of you while you do other things. Believe me, I know it is tough with all of the vehicles. But with the tight margins your work on, I would hate to see your money going to the police for something that is relatively easy to prevent. (Hope that makes sense.) Take care.

Hi Frank, the Logan county farmers market in Bellfountain has been in operation for over 30 years and was the very first market I ever attended and and have been going ever since it started. We also have an on Farm stand that is open during sweetcorn season from mid July until labor day. We have a mobile trailer in Marysville and the rest of our markets are all in Columbus.

sorry to say that an operation our size is impossible to run without outside help. We have to hire about 12-15 kids and adults to help us and only 2 of them are my kids. My middle child is a full time youtuber and is doing very well and no longer helps but my 19 year old daughter and 23 year old son still help in the summer. I have to pay all this help between $12 and $20 per hour usd, our biggest expense by far is labor.

The cycle of feast and famine of the farm life has its benefits at times but this time of the year it can be stressful hoping to get all the operating money paid back and still make a comfortable living.

Yes, we have two different style of tent weights and they are manditory to have at markets, I will try to remember to show them while filming today!

There are a number of local stores in the area (Hurley's, Wenger's) and instead of competing with the same customers, he goes to the largest market in the area. It's also a PIA to have a bunch of people coming to your home to shop and I don't think they want to deal with it. I could be totally off base here though...

We do have a market on the farm and have been running it for 26 years, I just havent shown it yet. We used to open from May to Oct but now just open for 6 weeks when sweet corn starts until Labor Day weekend. This will be our first year not growing pumpkins to sell at our market in 24 years! My wife and I have decided to take a year off from it to travel through New England RV camping this October. Furthermore, we make sooooo much more money at farmers' markets around Columbus vs our little roadside stand at our home, and like @Malathus mentioned it has not set well with the wife having hundreds of cars pull through our property each day for 24 years and we are just about ready to shut it down perminately....made it tough raising kids who always wanted to be outside. That's the short answer. I will make a video about this soon.

I appreciate your interest, however we have filled all of our positions. We normally only hire a handful of high school and college kids for about five months each year.

@@wishwellfarms Thank you very much for your response.. In future if you have vacancies please feel free to inform me sir. Thank u very much

Oh yes, I remember picking many tomatoes in my mother‘s garden while growing up during the 70s and 80s and making our own tomato sauce and paste, they were glorious! But there are also some excellent genetics out there these days and if you get the right varieties and feed them correctly They are amazing as well.