Come Tour an Almond Farm with Me!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2021
- Almonds use HOW MUCH WATER!? Not as much as you think!
While this video was not sponsored, I have done sponsored work with the almond board of California! I toured the farm for a shoot with them I uploaded to my IG, but also wanted to make a vlog of the day. :)
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Come tour an almond farm with me!
This is one of my favorite facts:
California grows 99% of the almonds sold in the U.S. and uses less than 8% of California’s agricultural water, while only 21% of the dairy in the U.S. comes from California but accounts for more than 15% of agricultural water usage in the state.
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I hope the "bee friendly" almond farming becomes a much bigger focus soon! As much as 50-odd thousand acres is, that's still only ~3.5% of almond acreage. I don't think almonds will ever be truly bee friendly until the industry stops requiring thousands of bee keepers to truck loads and loads of hives across the country for the bloom period. Ideally the farms become pollinator friendly enough to support their own bee populations without needing any intervention. That would probably mean stopping the almond monocropping altogether.
Just wanna add that honeybees are GARBAGE pollinators compared to wild bees (who, by the way, they kill off by taking their food and spreading diseases to them! Yay!).
I would say that hopefully these farms would attract resident bees instead of ruining the ecosystem with their introduced bees, but alas. Animals aren't worth anything unless they give us the _maximum_ output (pollination < pollination AND honey) /s
😫 Ugh, I need more quality and wholesome videos like this!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this inside look. Go almonds!!
Oh, I'm so glad you liked it! It was a wonderful day :)
I'm not convinced about the biodiversity part, especially since honeybees are an introduced species outside of Eurasia that competes with native pollinators (yep, manuka honey is BAD). Please do a follow up where you dive deep into pollinators and biodiversity.
I really enjoyed this video and would love to see more! Maybe an oat milk farm next???
More tours. Learned a lot. Am alertic but excited for beef/fairy replacement better for environment. Best.
how funny. I randomly clicked on another one of your videos that wasn't related to this at all and saw this and this happens to be my adult to hometown that I live in. met my husband in turkock and moved there and never looked back 9 years. later.
Loved this video, seeing the trees being shaken was so cool! I’m wondering though, how much of the water usage in almonds versus dairy is related to demand? I assume right now there is still a higher demand for dairy so more dairy needs to be produced versus almond which likely is why almonds use less water currently
A lot of water 💦.
This was such a cute video 😊
So cool. Maybe I missed it, but with the water reduction practices, to which crop water footprint does the almond (from this farm) now resembles?
Thank you for this informative video. It was a pleasure to watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
those are A LOT of almonds haha! Definitely the dream to own an almond farm
We ❤ almonds!
They're amazing!
I would to learn more about oat milk
Good to know!
Very interesting video
Glad you liked it
I just had one of those sandwiches from Peet's this morning, and OMG, delicious!
Mee too!! Justin surprised me with one + an almond milk matcha. hehe :)
I am not vegan, so I don't know the answer here, but isn't their an environmental impact on trucking bees to and from almond farms to pollinate them? Can almonds be considered vegan if the production includes bee labor? (To me, the argument sounds silly, but, again, I am not vegan.) And bees die during the process, too.
Great question! I don't consider myself vegan because I have absolutely nothing wrong with buying second-hand wool, leather, etc. but I do try to be as plant-based and eco-friendly as I can, with an emphasis on reduction (namely food waste; for example, my roommate wastes a lot of pizza because her boyfriend is vegan and doesn't help her eat it, so I help her eat it despite not buying any animal products myself). All this to say that, while I think it's absolutely possible to have an almond orchard pollinated by local bees instead of using farm animals to pollinate them (not nearly as efficiently as wild bees, mind you), the fact of the matter is that factory farms don't give a shit about the environment. Their one and only goal is to turn a profit, and if they just so happen to provide a product that people want (almonds in this case), that's just a bonus to them. That's the essence of capitalism, after all.
I personally avoid almonds, cashews, bananas, avocados because of the unethical farming practices associated with them, and think of them instead as a "treat" that should _not_ be indulged in regularly, but I do want to say that despite all the issues with them, _they are still heaps better than consuming animal products in your diet!!_ So I wouldn't feel bad if you decide to swap cow/goat milk for almond milk, but also personally, I would prefer to go for oat or soy milk as a substitution.
If you're thinking of trying to head more plant-based, I think even reducing meat or dairy from _one_ meal a day makes a _huge_ difference in the grand scheme of things! Do what you can, and don't blame yourself for the actions of companies we have little say in changing (though, do use the voice you have to speak up when possible). Try to switch over gradually if you want the best results in terms of sustainability!
I hope you got something out of reading this! Have a wonderful life!
Wanted to ask if you would be interested taking pollination into your own hands, saving on overhead and make extra money by offering pollination to your local farmers???? If interested feel free to contact me.