I couldn't agree more. Most or some people don't understand what it takes to run and operate a farm. The long hours, equipment, labor, breakdowns, weather, etc and this list keeps going. Great job everyone with the farmers market and WOW........... That is so awesome. Kick up your feet and enjoy. God Bless and have a great one.
@@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.
🤣🤣🤣, 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.
Great video. Your last comment there is so important. Ppl really don't realize how much capital is involved in farming before u see any type of return. If u had a failed crop, that is such a hit to the pocket book and, more importantly, the mental health of everyone involved. We have seen it up here in Canada the last few years. Looks like our drought is hopefully going to break this year, but the last 3 have been disastrous because of the drought. Millions of dollars have gone into growing crops with only hundreds coming out. I can't imagine what that would do to a person's mindset. Great to see u r starting off strong. Also, nice to see your channel is starting to gain some traction. 3700 subscribers. Great job and keep them coming.
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, 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 😁
Awesome video. It really shows the overhead involved, it was more then i expected. Thats pretty impressive you maintain a fleet of 5 trucks all with lift gates at that, all kitted out.
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.
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 RUclipsr 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.
I watch from East Coast Australia. Location is East Gippsland Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 i n our region we grow vegetables interesting watching your produce.
I wanted to thank you for disclosing some of the financial information related to running a successful farm. Down in Louisiana we had an LSUAg series on smaller market farms and they had some solid information, I had a lot of trouble finding out reliable information. I am working toward a small property farm < 50 acres in South Mississippi, and man is it hard to get reliable information. While the soil looks good and should grow well, the folks in my area are mostly growing johnson grass and corn to feed large head of cattle farms.
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.
Really interesting, informative and well done video and channel. It is great to watch the whole process. If I may make one suggesting that I used to tell all the truck drivers I supervised, check the truck lights to make sure they are working. There are a couple of your trucks that have lights out on them. You don't want to be stopped by some law enforcement officer for a broken light which means getting to the destination late, or getting back "home late." Please understand that is not a criticism, but rather just a small observation and suggestion.
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.
Great episode. Really interesting and informative about what goes into the selling process. Lots of hard work just to get to that point of sale. Noticed your channel is growing. That’s fantastic! You deserve it. Hope it really takes off for you this year. You’re doing a great job of sharing your knowledge and showing what goes into it all. Plus you get right to it and don’t add a bunch of useless fluff just to keep people watching for the meat at the end. Keep it up you’re definitely helping people out more than you know. I wonder if some RUclips shorts might help your channel as well? Love the Bible verse from Psalms on the door behind you at the end of the video.
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
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!
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.
Just found your channel and watched tens of videos already, great content and very educative. Heard in one of the videos that you have another channel , but I can't find it, please drop the link.
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
Howdy Jason, I was wondering about your market locations, do you do one for your local town of Bellefontaine or do they just come by the farm itself? I'm trying to figure the closest to my Beavercreek location? Oh and trying to avoid kColumbus, I think I'm allergic to that city structure.
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.
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.
in the 80's tomatoes were sweeter than you can imagine. you may never have experienced this. Try to get this back. the genetics now are awful. make this your mission.
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.
I love my local farmers markets. Farmers are the unsung heroes
They are a great outlet for selling produce that's for sure! Thanks James!
I couldn't agree more. Most or some people don't understand what it takes to run and operate a farm. The long hours, equipment, labor, breakdowns, weather, etc and this list keeps going. Great job everyone with the farmers market and WOW........... That is so awesome. Kick up your feet and enjoy. God Bless and have a great one.
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.
Incredible farm operation. God Bless Farmers.
Thank you! The Lord has certainly blessed us!
Just discovered your channel. I will definitely be a regular viewer. Awesome operation. Marty from Oakville Ontario Canada 🍁
Thanks Marty I really appreciate that!
End of the day Jason is like ok, time to paddle the mad river before dark and run an FKT somewhere. Dude never stops!
🤣🤣🤣, 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.
Glad you did well! People need to understand farming is expensive and the produce looks awesome!
Thank you for checking out the video and taking time to comment. I really appreciate it!
GREAT FORMATTING AND ORGANIZING.... VERY PROUD OF Y'ALL 🙏🙏👏😊😊
Thank you so much for the kind words
Thanks!
Great video. Your last comment there is so important. Ppl really don't realize how much capital is involved in farming before u see any type of return. If u had a failed crop, that is such a hit to the pocket book and, more importantly, the mental health of everyone involved. We have seen it up here in Canada the last few years. Looks like our drought is hopefully going to break this year, but the last 3 have been disastrous because of the drought. Millions of dollars have gone into growing crops with only hundreds coming out. I can't imagine what that would do to a person's mindset. Great to see u r starting off strong.
Also, nice to see your channel is starting to gain some traction. 3700 subscribers. Great job and keep them coming.
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.
This is the best video yet I loved it
Really glad you enjoyed it, that gives me a lot of satisfaction!
Great channel. What a huge operation on farmers market day.😊
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 😁
Awesome video. It really shows the overhead involved, it was more then i expected. Thats pretty impressive you maintain a fleet of 5 trucks all with lift gates at that, all kitted out.
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!
Worthington looks very cosy and neat,at least that specific neighbourhood )
Very nice place for sure...very affluent neighborhood
Great video Jason, i remember all those days did it for about 20 years ,kids didnt want to take it over . thanks again for sharing ,be safe
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 RUclipsr 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.
I watch from East Coast Australia. Location is East Gippsland Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 i n our region we grow vegetables interesting watching your produce.
Very cool, thanks for checking out my channel!
Boy for me that candy stole the show haha 🤣 now I have a sweet tooth.
Yeah, my younger brother Joel‘s Candy business has skyrocketed. He ships all over the country daily and has two commercial freeze dryers.
Respect 🙏 🫡 🤲 🙌 🙏..One Love ❤️
Thanks!
I wanted to thank you for disclosing some of the financial information related to running a successful farm. Down in Louisiana we had an LSUAg series on smaller market farms and they had some solid information, I had a lot of trouble finding out reliable information. I am working toward a small property farm < 50 acres in South Mississippi, and man is it hard to get reliable information. While the soil looks good and should grow well, the folks in my area are mostly growing johnson grass and corn to feed large head of cattle farms.
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.
Really interesting, informative and well done video and channel. It is great to watch the whole process.
If I may make one suggesting that I used to tell all the truck drivers I supervised, check the truck lights to make sure they are working. There are a couple of your trucks that have lights out on them.
You don't want to be stopped by some law enforcement officer for a broken light which means getting to the destination late, or getting back "home late."
Please understand that is not a criticism, but rather just a small observation and suggestion.
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.
Great episode. Really interesting and informative about what goes into the selling process. Lots of hard work just to get to that point of sale. Noticed your channel is growing. That’s fantastic! You deserve it. Hope it really takes off for you this year. You’re doing a great job of sharing your knowledge and showing what goes into it all. Plus you get right to it and don’t add a bunch of useless fluff just to keep people watching for the meat at the end. Keep it up you’re definitely helping people out more than you know. I wonder if some RUclips shorts might help your channel as well? Love the Bible verse from Psalms on the door behind you at the end of the video.
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!
Could you show an update on the corn? Especially interested in the early planted corn and how it is doing.
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!
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Wow beautiful set up. Wish I can scale up like you. Question, have you considered doing a CSA?
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.
Just found your channel and watched tens of videos already, great content and very educative. Heard in one of the videos that you have another channel , but I can't find it, please drop the link.
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
Jason,do you have something to burden your tents in case of hefty wind gusts ?
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!
Howdy Jason,
I was wondering about your market locations, do you do one for your local town of Bellefontaine or do they just come by the farm itself? I'm trying to figure the closest to my Beavercreek location? Oh and trying to avoid kColumbus, I think I'm allergic to that city structure.
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.
I'm a new to the channel,so have to ask -are all the kids from your family ? Because if you have to pay them all ,that's not good )
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.
you need to add temperature and weather condition sunny cloudy rain etc;
and revenue
Good suggestion, I will try my best to remember to mention those things in future market videos
In my honest opinion, athletes and actors do not deserve to be millionaires, farmers do.
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.
Because im broke. Aint that the truth.
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.
Why don't you have your own store or a cooperative store with you？
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.
hello sir. I am from India. please give opportunity to work with u in ur farm. I am job seeker.
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
in the 80's tomatoes were sweeter than you can imagine. you may never have experienced this. Try to get this back. the genetics now are awful. make this your mission.
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.