FULL TOUR of the STUNNING Bountiful Blessings Farm in Middle Tennessee
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Bountiful Blessings Farm spans two acres in Middle Tennessee and holds a special place in Jonathan’s heart-he grew up there, surrounded by strawberries, family, and plenty of trial and error. In this tour, Jonathan and his dad, John, walk through the farm’s latest systems and improvements, from greenhouse upgrades to field pads designed for minimal tillage and maximum efficiency.
Some of the highlights you’ll see are how they:
- Use a spring-fed gravity-flow irrigation system and overhead wobblers on permanent field blocks.
- Move caterpillar tunnels to protect strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries at just the right times.
- Lean on multiple transplant methods-soil blocks, paper pots, and plug trays-to keep year-round production rolling.
- Adopt a no-till approach on pads with strategic cover crops, tarps, and an undercutter bar.
- Run a streamlined wash/pack area, featuring quick-fill dunk tanks and a simple, low-pressure-friendly setup.
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Great video thanks for all the information.
Great. Thank you for the Full Tour!
Love this video! Thanks for showing us around and explaining many things in detail. So inspiring! Looking forward to the new growing season, few things better than our hands in the soil! :)
So impressed with the water dump tank.
That bit alone made it worth watching the whole video! :-)
It’s simple, efficient and effective!
Winter carrots that stay fresh in the ground all season? 🥕❄ That’s next-level farming! Definitely adding that to my list of things to try.
Very inspirational
beautiful! thank you for the lessons- we live nearby
The movable tunnels are insanely cool. You and your dad have a great dynamic.
The silage tarps are a no go on my farm. I don't trust the material, but I do not knock anyone that does. Instead we burn and then plant cover crops. We generally just pile leaves and sticks and other debris in the fields and set it on fire. A lot of farmers are not allowed to do this by law, but I am in the free state of South Carolina. So free you cannot even smoke a joint - but you can set your fields on fire!! Do not set fire every year, we do it every 3. Try it. It's a game changer. New school slash-and-burn.
Silage tarps and weed barrier fabric is the way to go man. It’s a proven fact. I agree with his dad 100% I’ve tried every mulch and cover crop and nothing is better or easier or more successful and time efficient.
@@devinsullivan7233 More than one way to crack an egg. Like I said - I'm not knocking it. I do use some woven landscape fabric, but only in my walkways. I have been no-till so long my beds have essentially zero weed pressure.
Look up Lazy Dog Farms - Travis is in my general area and also has zero weed pressure. It was VERY expensive for me to do this though, and my farm is only half an acre, the farm in this video is very large. It would be far too expensive to pile 3-6 inches of compost on all those beds he has.
I also grow conventionally too, though. We do around 3-5 acres of watermelons and 3-5 acres of field corn every year. This is on a completely different location than my organic farm. I use herbicides and all. For shame!
beautiful project
Thanks I am going to try growing flour corn in the 4x8 fabric this year.
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Have you thought about installing an inline booster pump on your water line? Seems like you have a perfect situation for that. Any time you open a valve that booster will kick on and give you all the pressure you need.
This is awesome tour and this is the first tour i have seen. That uses a tractor some, like me. i use a trator some aswell like you mostly because i had it before i started this style of farming. My question, what is that implement called that you showed. It was a U shape on the back and dragged under the beds. I believe you said you use it instead or like a broadfork. Thanks
32:20- have you thought of adding the hook and wicket system that Neversink Farm Tools sells? It's a pretty sweet setup
The hooks are the Qlipr system. We are getting the wickets this spring!
Would love to know where you're getting your netting to screen off our cucumber tunnel. Great video!
We got it from Hummert out of NC. IThe manufacturer is Svennson (sp?). I think there are more options available now.
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Great video of a well kept farm. Was the strawberries done on a annual bed system
Yes
Love this video! What do you use for your bed markers? Do you find them a trip hazard?
We use rebar covered with pvc conduit and capped off. It can be a tripping hazard, but haven’t come up with a better system- yet!
Would love more info on the irrigation system, the sprinkler and mainline and all. Designing an entire field at the moment and trying to find a good method
We use 1 1/2” header line and sprinkler line and 5 Wobbler sprinklers per pad (30’x100’). We use the lavender nozzles on the Wobblers. The whole setup (with 1” line instead of 1 1/2”) is available from Farmer’s Friend. Probably the best plan is to work with an irrigation company to help you design your setup. They are happy to help you in exchange for your business!
Thank you so much for the farm tour it was great! I did want to check out the training which I noticed is not available this year. But for future planning I would just like to know what the cost was for the week training in 2024 and maybe some of the details that were shared about it. I also had a question about the wash packed I didn't see any kind of salad mix dryer area. Do you use some kind of system with box fans to dry the lettuce before bagging? Thanks so much!
Yes, we are not doing training this year due to taking a Sabbatical from the farm. We will try to get the general info back up there soon, so you can know costs, etc. It’s basically lodging plus food and a donation for the tuition. We do not dry the lettuce (other than spinning) and it seems to hold pretty well. It might be better to dry it, but it’s an added step that we haven’t felt we need to take.
Thanks for your reply. Blessings to you during your year of sabbatical!
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Hello I have a question. I’m guessing you are using drip tape for watering your strawberries. I see you are growing 2 rows of strawberry plants per “ridge”. Are you using 1,2 or 3 drip lines per double row of strawberry plants?
1 row of drip tape down the middle. This is standard practice for strawberries.
Ok thank you
John, so many things to appreciate here but I'm especially interested in your innovative tomato layout, with the non-claustrophobic alleys in your tomato house. Seems like a great setup for lots of reasons: easier to harvest and prune, better airflow. Could you help us understand that layout a little better? Sounds like you started with eight 30" beds. The outer 30" beds are planted to a single row of tomatoes, interplanted with basil. It looks like you've got three inner 30" tomato beds, each planted double row. And you skip a bed between every tomato bed, to give yourself 4 wide paths in the house (which are covered white fabric). Counting those skipped beds, my math takes me to 9 total beds rather than 8. Could you clear up my confusion?
Very good math! Those houses are actually 34’ wide, so we have 9 beds in there!
@@johndysinger5724 Well that solves it! ;) Thanks, John
I use this same spacing for all my outdoor garden beds. But Instead of burning holes in my weed barrier I meet two pieces of weed barrier together and leave a 1-2” gap in between the two pieces. I grow my crops along those “seems” and that covers my walkways at the same time. My rows are either 4’ or 6’ apart of raised ridges and then I use either 4’ or 6’ weed barrier accordingly. I have yet to see anyone do this method so I would have to say I invented it. The biggest advantage is being able to pull the weed barrier back to top dress with compost or trap gophers or fix irrigation or remove weed barrier all together during the growing season if you would like. Also this way I don’t have any weed barrier with holes burned in it so it can be used again for any crop at any spacing.
We have done that when we have one row of something on a bed, and even with our tomatoes we do that, but it leaves a pretty large gap if you have a double row of something on a bed! Leaves a lot to be hand weeded!
Agreed. That’s why when I’m growing a double row of something like sweet corn or watermelons I make sure it is something that will grow fast and shade the area in between. I come through about 10 -14 days after planting and top dress in between the two rows with thick layer of mushroom compost. Its feeds the crop plants and smothers any baby weeds at the same time because it’s high in nitrogen and a little bit hot. I notice that crops do better without being completely smothered by weed barrier here in Northern California, especially tomatoes. Just having that opening in the middle allows for a more natural evaporating and transpiration of the soil and it really cures down on disease during 100 degree hot spells. Thanks for writing back, and thanks for all your knowledge.
Jonathan, are those Good Life shirts for sale?
This is not Jonathan, but they are for sale at Farmers Friends!
How do you keep your greenhouse plastic clean?
We’ve never done anything other than change it every 5 years or so - when it really starts getting cloudy instead of clear. North sides can start growing a little mold or algae or something, but it has never been a big problem.
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So your q. System is connected to a wire, how would you connect to 1.25 in centre pole?
How are the rasberry t post supports attached to the t post?
Not sure I understand your questions totally, but you can bend the hooks on the Qlipr wires to go over something bigger than a cable. With the raspberries, we just use 8’ T-posts kind of driven in as a V. Then we put the yellow electric fence insulators on the t-posts and run electric fence wire through those insulators to hold the brambles upright.
@johndysinger5724 Mandy tried to explain what to to with the qlipr wires over the 1,25 header I have. So I have to bend it over? OK
2. No how do you support the original t post which you use the electric fence wire to support?
So I think maybe you are asking about the diagonal posts that support the end posts? That is the wedge-loc system available at Tractor Supply Company or other places online. It just uses aluminum fittings over standard t-posts. Not cheap, but works well.
On the Qlipr, you are just bending out the actual hook on the top.
@johndysinger5724 thank you, I will try this in April when my carport/greenhouse is being arranged after last year plan.
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15:33 What’s the name of the white stuff In between the beds?
I don’t know any official name for it, but it is white on black woven fabric (you can’t just use white woven fabric, because it will not stop weeds). I got ours through Martin’s Produce Supply out of KY.
How many feet of drop do you have to get the 20 psi?
To be honest, I have never figured it out exactly. I just know it’s enough!
Why 30x100ft beds?
It’s a nice standard size for silage tarps and row covers and works well with the range of the Wobbler sprinklers. It’s the size Eliot Coleman recommended in his New Organic Grower book, and has worked well for us.
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