They do a great job for me, thanks!

That’s a bunch, Sounds like a pretty good method! Thanks, Bill

Thank you so much! I’ve been blessed to have many great workers over the years, have hired over 300 kids in the past 28 years and some of them have their kids working here now…. makes me feel old ha ha

I’m sure that helps a lot, good tip

Wow, all the way from Spain, thank you for checking out my channel! I haven’t grown lettuce for nearly a decade and thought I would try a little bit again this year, but it’s a little late for it. It’s starting to get pretty hot out and probably will bolt and become bitter very quickly here in a few weeks growing on black plastic. We used to grow on white plastic and it would last a little longer.

Can’t wait for this one! Next week we’ll be near mackinaw city Michigan for a half week RV camping for our actual 26th anniversary and then back to some long days of farming for the next 3-4 months.

Thanks! They work hard for me and I try to make sure they have a good time while they're here...

Will do!

I think I’m done with onions, it’s nice to have them but I think that is one crop our customers won’t miss too much at the farmers markets, plenty of others growing them. Our one row holds 3,600 onions.

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Absolutely!! Maine, Vermont, NH and Massachusetts...maybe even some RI and Conneticut, not sure yet. And of course, several days each in NY and PA on the way there and back! I'm open to any suggestions, especially since it seems that you've been just about everywhere, lol

@wishwellfarms wow man that sounds like a good trip. I was just in southern maine in April for some work related stuff, but I have been as far north as Acadia n.p./Bangor area prior to that. I bet all the new service Plazas on the upstate ny and mass turnpike will be finished by then. Not really my style to "plan" a trip anymore I mostly just plan a time frame and just "wing it" for traveling trips like yours sounds like. But I will say costal maine was cool bar harbor, Portland, I regret not bringing back a cooler full of live lobsters fresh off the boat they where only $18 each. The speed limits are too high off the highways up there in new england, and that means alot comming from me.

Definitely a better April and May Crop and I should’ve planted this on white plastic instead of black because it’s gonna get so hot It’ll make it bolt quickly and get bitter. We will only harvest it for a few weeks and then it’ll be an afterthought because we will move on to sweet corn and green beans and melons.

@@wishwellfarms OK, I’m glad to find out I’m not completely off-base. That makes complete sense. Thanks

Yes! I'm a big Atra Olympus fan....I've put thousands of miles on them backpacking in over 12 different states as well as multiple speed record attempts called FKT's (fastest know times) and numerous ultra races.

My husband and I are 63. Retired last year and completed northbound Appalachian Trail thru hike. ALTRA all the way. 4 pairs each. We are.going for the PCT next year.

@@beckyumphrey2626 that is so awesome! You might as well go for the CDT after that and be triple crowners! Longest trail I've completed is the 343 mile Sheltowee Trace in Kenuckys Daniel Boone National Forest and Big South Fork TN, I've done it three times now, all record setting speed attempts. I hope to do the AT in the next couple years (sauntering though, lol) but I'll probably go SOBO and start in late August, due to farming, and finish at Springer in early to mid December before it gets too aweful cold. I know most wear the Lone Peaks, and I've owned about 7 pairs of them and the Timps, but like the Olympus much better for my long days on trail...I'm typically a 25-30 mile per day guy and up to 55-60 per day during speed attempts, so that extra cushion is nice. For the past few years I've also been wearing Topo Athletic Ultraventures and Pursuits, they hold up much longer than Altras.

That is awesome. The AT was great aside from all the young rude hikers. If we.conquer the PCT we will set our sights on being triple crowners. :). We are going to do a Florida to Texas recumbent trike ride this fall. :)

@@beckyumphrey2626 Yeah, I would never want to hike the AT NOBO with one of the bubbles...that sounds horrible. The recumbant trike ride sounds great! I have been section hiking the 500 mile Palmetto Trail in SC each February and will finally finish it this fall and then set my sites on finishing the Florida Trail...I've only gotten 100 miles of it done and really looking forward to getting back on it during the cold Ohio winters.

Yeah, I would love to have my onions in during April but they’re kind of an afterthought for us and since I plant on plastic, I have to have my plastic down before I plant them and we got it put down late this year. Probably my final year growing them.

.. next year I want to try direct sew pelleted onion seeds on a small scale WW farm could start you own transplants indoors as an options @@wishwellfarms

@@_Boregard_Rippy_ I've tried it before and didn't have much luck but that was a long time ago...might be worth trying again, but they take a long time to grow so would have to start them very early porbably in Jan I'm guessing and I'm not interested in farming that time of the year...that's when my wife and I travel 😁

.. its pretty tough to hit it just right I failed at treated seed B4 but wanting to try pelletized seed to keep cost down from buying transplant bunhces @@wishwellfarms will be fun to see how your candys do I prefer a smaller onion anyways .. I drove longhaul and loaded plywood one C-mas eve in Houlton Maine but never did Nova Scotia B4 will be a fantastic fall trip for YA' ..!

Hiring illegals aliens drives down wages. Not that Americans won't do the work, it's that wages have been suppressed due to illegals, which leads to "not willing to do it"

I think that goes to show that the "conventional wisdom" of young people not willing to work hard goes out the window in Ohio.

@@Malathus ya I farm in California let’s just put it that way. I’ve never seen a white field worker in my town. All Hispanic.

I considered it in the past, but I don’t feel like jumping through all the hoops to sign up for the H2A program and provide housing. It’s definitely getting harder and harder every year to find good high school and college kids, but they’re still out there. I can get by with about a dozen good ones now since I’m not growing strawberries any longer

They’re still good hard-working kids out there but they’re definitely becoming few and far between, 20 years ago I would get 50 to 60 applications and now I’m lucky to get 10-15 each season.