Massive Flower Harvest Heading To Market | And BLUE SUNFLOWERS?!?

on this episode of you can't eat the grass it's a flower harvest hoot nanny it's a bouquet making banquet but will this market be too smoky for the customers to show up find out now the smoke is bad this week it's visible between anything at any distance we are wearing masks because it makes it easier to work outside but my eyes are still stinging it makes filming difficult because without actually seeing our face how do you know that we are actually talking we could just be recording footage all day massed up then recording audio over top later inside so this video i'm gonna ask that you trust us that this is genuine we are getting serious about selling more food so the plan has always been to build a roadside stand although what that roadside stand looks like keeps changing you know at first it was going to be small then it was going to be big now once again it's going to be small it's going to be 8x8 then we don't need any permits and we can just get this done and we can actually use it this summer so we hired a friend to come out and help us out with it we originally ditched on the idea of having a small self-serve shed because it gets so so hot at the front of our house but then we realized we're idiots all we have to do is put an air conditioner in it we have the technology to make this into a nice cool space flowers are gonna keep great the veggies are gonna keep great it's gonna work out really well we have the efficiency of harvesting that comes with the walking cooler we don't have to harvest every single day we can do a big harvest have it cool have it staying fresh but with only selling once a week we're not getting these efficiencies of sales so having this shed where we just you know bring a load from the cooler up every day is gonna make it so we can move a lot more product without necessarily having to do the same amount of work that you know a whole nother market would be our local customers love the flowers every time we do the roadside stand we sell a ton of flowers out there so having those always available every day is going to build these local customers it's going to be people who like to have a weekly bouquet that will stop and get into the routine of picking up a weekly bouquet from us it's the people who want to do their veggie shopping on thursdays before the weekend comes that no they can just stop in every thursday the farm stand is there we're really hoping it's going to build these steady continuous customers so what's going on over here i saw a picture of sunflower steve's dyed sunflowers yesterday and was super inspired because i have like a whole bed of these white sunflowers that are ready and there's only so many sunflowers i really can sell at the market i got thinking maybe what i need is rainbow sunflowers you know like red yellow orange green blue purple like a whole rainbow of them and i've never tried dyeing sunflowers before so i don't know how this is gonna go but we might as well give it a try i got all of these extras anyway so i might as well have a little fun science experiment we bought a bunch of colors of food coloring and what we're gonna do is we're gonna make a really strong food color uh water and then we're gonna soak the sunflowers in it and hopefully they'll turn into a color [Music] well we have them all loaded up now so we wait and we see you've been busy i've been picking zinnias like crazy there's one million of them out there so they look beautiful i need you to help me i need these in the courtroom it's very smoky like i feel like there's smoke between me and the camera and my eyeballs are burning [Music] buddy you think of that buddy this stuff smells incredible these they've gotten like they just keep getting taller i thought it was supposed to flower so top it a little bit see if maybe this keeps for a greenery but i'm still i'm trying to hold off for the flowers but it's like insane how is it is it gonna get like 20 feet tall i don't i don't this is a even sad [Music] status update in love isn't this color cool too i think this is apricot but it's like this dusty rose color i really like it i like the vibrant ones but you know this this is kind of unique no shortage of color over here right now the snapdragons still look good this week but there's going to be thin pickings next week but the zinnias and you know all this stuff this is just going to keep going and amaranth last year i experimented with uh lettuce like when it kind of opened up before it flowered when it was still closed buds but when the shape opened up like it was gonna flower it made a really good greenery in the fall so this probably two weeks from now i'll start having pieces that i can use out of this and it'll be good because i'm gonna be running out of other stuff at that point because the yarrow is running yeah the euros running out the fever few i think this is probably last week for the fever few you'll see you'll see the vision when i show you [Music] bye serena [Music] this is your sleepy spot a basket of bow [Music] [Music] it's a pretty good pile of yarrow you got it behind you but i want more pink a lot more pink tomatillos yeah they're kind of everywhere i know i look cute in a bouquet quick basil harvest i don't know fast work in here [Music] we should strip out this that was quick yeah the basil goes really fast isn't it amazing how easy it is to be a flower farmer this is only the beginning of the work it's thursday night and there's still many more hours and a couple more days until this is ready for sale these rebecca here there's way too many of them and they've started to flop over just because there's so much they're all just pushing to make space so i don't normally do this i normally go through and pick nicely but we are gonna pick this front of the rebecca exactly like we did the basil ruthless you know what though they'll probably grow back and have another flush in the fall because i'm cutting them so ruthlessly not bad [Music] hey daddy oh oh so i think we filled every single [Music] look at this sleepy boy [Music] so [Music] last night i was busy at work i ended up stripping uh stems inside this is in my cool room it's just so smoky outside that i was hacking stuff down picking stuff as quickly as possible and then saving the work for in here so i still have a lot more cleanup to do and i have a few more varieties that i need to harvest before i can get to the actual bouquet making so it's about noon on friday and i still have a lot of work to do i have bouquets on order so we should probably get to work how many books you got uh someone sent a message saying that they wanted two or three of the 20 ones you need lots of purple i need some orange ones around it so it stays two more three more so these are sorted these are all too short for the bouquets but they're perfect for jars good work leah yay that one looks really good so sunflower experiment we're hitting pretty close to 24 hours at this point and the blue looks amazing i love the tips and i've been really liking the greens um all the purples that i experimented with are looking blue so not as much success and then the red is showing no color and the orange is pretty subtle but i mean if all we've learned is that these blues look cool i'm happy with that oh the leaves are blue yeah whoa cool i'm making pretty much the same one just with different colors perfect good idea when you got a good a good uh recipe go for it that's what we do too yeah [Music] okay what do you think actually i think that's kind of perfect i like it it's another of the same just in different colors yeah [Music] [Music] will you help me so i got a phone call someone wants a 30 bouquet this is a little bit of where we're at on fridays now this has become a day that lots of people want to come and buy bouquets from us so as i'm working i'm constantly getting interrupted of people needing orders put together i was out picking and i was oh well i'll use this this funky dinner plate dahlia as the base for the 30 bouquet because they said go crazy whatever you want to do um and then i'm going to do something bright and cheery and colorful i need to pick the greenery that i'm going to use i might use green basil got some greenery now and we're gonna do everything to this height do something bright and cheery it's easier once everything's prepped then i just have to put it together but things are less prepped than usual because i just picked it and brought it inside but the time's up the person's coming soon yeah build a base with some fever few and then i'm gonna do a bunch of fun bright colors to match this bright and cheery dahlia okay and then we're gonna put some snapdragons in [Music] okay now color and look at all these colors how much value are you calculating is in the bouquet right now say there's probably like 12. so i'm trying to decide how many zinnias i can put in how many zinnias are you thinking you're gonna put in i don't know i need the orange [Music] i want something a little bit more open i got a couple more stems in this bezel [Music] where where are you at now for emilia we're getting there yeah just a little bit more to finish it off oh maybe we should put some of the [Music] status [Music] one more there we go how about that gorgeous huh it's super cool bright and cheery it's like that status [Music] looks good you should put a wrap on it now 30 dollar ones are tricky to wrap because they're a little bit too big for my paper my paper is like the perfect size for a 20 bouquet okay back into the air conditioning [Music] back in your sleepy spot feeling lazy i have five bouquets done because i have a few other people who might be popping in to get some bouquets so i have stuff for them um but i really need to finish up the picking the smoke is the smoke is like crazy bad like the smoke is so bad that it feels like my glasses are foggy like my hands in front of my face is smoky it's just it's thick um so it's it's hard to be out there even with the mask so i've been trying to kind of space my visits to outside um but it's been a few hours inside it's it's time for me to get back out there do another pick i still have a few you know categories that i need to get done so i better just get out there and get it done so that i can move on to making all the beautiful bouquets for the market i got the truck packed and so i'm gonna go harvest the cherry tomatoes and that's probably all i'll be able to do until night time because i'll be doing kids stuff and dinner stuff as well i'm feeling not bad right now i i may get tired but whatever it is i'll just push through it i'm excited for another market we had such a good market last week that uh as soon as we left i was like oh i can't wait till next week so now i'm getting excited about market tomorrow just a couple lilies just need a couple lilies what do you think this stuff looks so good with all the yellow rebecca and with all the lime queen ones but it's getting to be slim pickings some stuff ripening in there next week next week there will be tomatoes but now there's sunflowers what are you doing i'm stripping the leaves off the ones i'm gonna pick [Music] before you pick them before i pick okay you take this and throw it in the bucket for me you take that little mini whites all my orange ones they all blew open this week but they look pretty once we have that roadside stand it'll be a lot easier today oh yeah we'll sell tons of this stuff with the roadside stand this is sun fill and you're not supposed to pick it like this you're supposed to pick it closed looking like this but i just i never spotted it open though these are just so so unique so funky so i think these are gonna make a really fun filler which is what they're for because they don't look like anything i mean we like weird stuff so it makes sense that we like this because it's definitely weird i have a couple doubles i did double quick and i also did green burst starburst i think this is maybe just really sad double quicks right and then they don't have like their outside petals yeah they look good like that but they look funky just like small like this the cases are going to look really good this week yeah there's a lot of fun stuff there's there's definitely some some good stuff in here it's so cool i love the sound of them yeah your toothpaste yeah what's up i just have to go slow because i don't want to tip over [Music] well there's not a whole lot for me to do but one thing that i do have to do is harvest some cherry tomatoes so i'm just starting that now it is exciting to be bringing down tomatoes though because i am a tomato based life form so uh it replenishes my life energy is the sciency way to describe it i like these tiny little red ones they're full of flavor [Music] [Music] i thought you orange-handed oh they look so good you need more containers no there's lots i got the cherry tomatoes all harvested it's time to get those kids to bed [Music] it's 10 30 now today's been total chaos because of the smoke the smoke is like insane how thick it is it's words cannot express the camera cannot express how bad the smoke is but it's just it's slowing us down majorly just being out in it is exhausting but we gotta get this done and we have everything done except for the bouquet making so you know it's fine i can stay up late ian can go to bed we'll get this done it it's still all gonna work out the results are in on our dying sunflower experiment um and you know like i think the blue looks pretty cool these like little tips but it didn't really go how i expected i was really hoping for the full petal to get dyed um we're using food coloring i'm comfortable with food coloring i suspect we might need to use something more dye heavy to get them to die darker um you know we we can play with it again but i these are cool i like the green i like the blue um you know the red the red did nothing the orange you know here's the orange maybe you know what maybe that's the red i don't know i would definitely classify these as failures i think this is black and then this is the mix of the blue and reds and stuff um and clearly blue blue is the one that's the easiest optic what should we do should we do it all white all white with blue sunflowers i guess i have snapdragons cosmos feverfew uh and euro pretty good mix of white okay let's see it so we're going to put together a white bouquet and then we're gonna slam some blue sunflowers on the outside got some feverfew some basil some of these white cosmos snapdragons people will like the blue tip like sunflowers yeah i think they look i think they look good and then blue sunflowers how about that for an all-white bouquet do you think that all white bouquet will sell yeah it's not all white it's blue phil send off to test our dyed sunflowers see if that's worth ever doing again it's pretty the other thing that i'm so excited about this week is our weirdo sun fills these weird looking discs and check out this other thing i picked these are a perennial sunflower called happy days and uh you know they look like a sunflower but they don't like these i got this whole mix of stuff that looks like sunflowers but isn't sunflowers so maybe we'll do up a bunch like this a van gogh sunflowers inspired sunflower bunch start with a little bit of greenery and some rubeckia there good base to start with let's throw one of these maybe do two of these two of these weirdo sun fills i want those fun sunflowers in one of these yeah mango sunflowers beauty look at that i like it can we use the copper snapdragons there's a bouquet and it's the main one i've been doing all week for the customers stopping by so i can do that because it's using the red zinnias which are your favorite yes and uh and the copper snapdragons and i can also throw in some status because this is the first week we've had some status this just has a totally totally different look to it right okay the way i start this bouquet is that i use cinnamon basil so i start with the dark dark foliage and then i add in a few of the gyros and then the snapdragons i like it already red zinnias and i do purple zinnia look at that one looks cool i was doing it today with the status just something to give a little bit a different texture to it there what do you think that will sound well i know it also because i've been selling these like crazy from the house three done one million more to go i think this is like a good summing up of the appeal of the flowers at the farm stand like they're all so different looking you know it's kind of like something for everyone i think that flowers might sound really well because people are spending time inside because of the smoke that you know like why not have a bouquet to look at right totally i don't think the market's gonna do super good because the smoke is like bad enough traffic will definitely be down yeah but i'm still going to send you with 40 bouquets you know you only have 40 customers and all they buy is bouquets that's still not a bad day i want to maintain the thousand dollar markets we're on a three market thousand dollar plus sales streak if we're over the thousand dollars considering the smoke then i'll be happy with with any number after that my goal is to not stay up till four in the morning but we'll see i think you're staying up till at least three in the morning [Music] really hope you sell a lot at the market it's very late yeah my alarm has gone off to go i probably made more than 40. but i filled all the buckets as as requested i'm tired i almost finished my book though your like 26 hour book yeah [Music] my brain's still booting up but uh bouquets look look nice it looks like uh stuff that should sell really hoping there's customers [Music] this is my my least favorite part of the pack up is trying to get all the flowers to fit in the back seat of the truck it's just you have to be very careful well your team flowers in i know it don't want to hurt my flowers i'm very tired and sore my back sore there is like an insane amount of flowers in that room still it just it felt like i was making them and i'm making them and making them and nothing was disappearing nothing was emptying out wait bedtime it's 5 30 the truck is all packed once again i fit so many flowers inside the truck it's really exciting because we sold them all last week i brought a little less food this week so the back of the truck isn't stacked quite as high because just didn't sell as much last week no sense in bringing it down and making all that extra work but look back here a sea of flowers front and back so many flowers the smoke is still bad but it seems like maybe it's a little bit better today it's hard to tell you know better is all relative means i can see a little bit of blue when i look up but if you look across the valley you know that's still heavy smoke [Music] hello hi how are you pretty good [Music] just like [Music] [Applause] we're about a half hour into the start of the market i was a bit worried the traffic might be down today because of the smoke but so far uh things are going well we've already sold 184 dollars so we're off to a good start and i think we're gonna hit that thousand dollar mark again [Music] it is just after 10 o'clock now for sales we're just under 500. uh it hasn't been super busy so far uh the sales are still going okay but i haven't had uh like a big rush yet i just had kind of like a steady trickle those 20 bouquets that are selling and adding up to something and then you know like the carrots are still selling well but kind of other than that there's not a whole lot selling this is a this is kind of when the second rush usually comes i had to move all these sunflowers to the back they had prime real estate up front and zero have sold so far so uh this may be a one-time experiment [Music] it's just after 11 00 and we're right around 750 in sales i uh i don't think we're gonna be setting any records today basically all the veggies are underperforming today except for the shishito peppers they're definitely proving themselves to be like a permanent fixture on the farm it's noon so we're entering the last hour of the market we are just under a thousand dollars in sales we've done about 980 dollars i'd say it's pretty good that we're you know gonna surpass a thousand dollars even on a slow market now that is showing that you know our idea that that we can consistently do this is valid once again it's it's flowers that are really driving the sails um i would be more worried about that if we weren't on the verge of completing our roadside stand which will greatly increase our ability to sell veggies you know our average sale when somebody comes to our house for veggies is well over twenty dollars whereas here if you look um the majority of the sales are when we're selling veggies are in that three dollar five dollar seven dollar eight dollar type range uh it's all these smaller transactions so um when we have the ability to bring the customers to the farm we're not competing with you know the ten other farms that we're competing with at this market today's final number was twelve hundred and six dollars so considering it was a little bit slow we still had i think our third best sales day ever so that's really exciting and you know we still sold a bunch of carrots but look we still have carrots left over so you can see some of these dyed sunflowers the petals on them don't look very nice they kind of curled up so i think maybe that kept those ones from selling but we have four of those bouquets left so they weren't that popular want to support our farm but don't live nearby head down to your local farmers market or seek out local farmers growing sustainably and help them out by buying your produce from them farming can be a financially difficult endeavor and every additional customer helps 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Channel: You Can't Eat The Grass

Views: 74,504

Rating: 4.9514623 out of 5

Keywords: you cant eat the grass, family farm, farm life, gardening, flower farm, farmers market, growing food, team flowers, team veggies

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Length: 39min 48sec (2388 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021