Growing Specialty Crops For Chefs. 5 Things to consider.
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Nailed it on that video. Point 1 is so crucial to keep in mind. Would be great if you could do a video on post-harvesting of salads, greens and microgreens, wash or don't wash, dry or don't dry, especially interested in breath-ability in packaging, condensation in packs etc
Hello Custis great content, like always. It is possible you make a video about how you control pests? I know that you alredy explaind how you prevent pests, but wen they eventualy start to do some damage to the crops, what metod or bio inseticide do you use and for what pests? thank you.
You know Curtis is serious when he uses a whiteboard 🙂
How do you determine pricing for your various crops?
I really enjoyed this video and everything about the format! Future video content I would love to see ways to research/determine pricing for different crops, and how and frequency for billing out restaurants. Thanks Curtis!
I'm in North Carolina planning to start production in the spring market farming. I've read the book and watched the videos and just missed out on taking your recent course in Tennessee. An idea for a future video could be about the motivation and perseverance that you really need in spades to make this happen. It takes a long time to get the funding, infrastructure in place, and all the planning that is required. It's a million details. I've hit one road block after another and sometimes I feel worn out on how difficult it seems. It also doesn't help when those people closest to you are cheering for you but skeptical. Staying motivated and persevering is key. Being able to mark one thing after another off of your To-do list feels like progress and a victory. Keep moving forward and learn from your mistakes.
Great post !!!
Perhaps a wider marker pen ?
Thanks
Your a video producer , ditch the white board , use pop up graphics or text or vid clips to illustrate your points ..
Same with the blank wall background….
very usefull for me, I will start to grow for a chef
1) I would add if you find Chef's that had been there for 10 years or so… they will screw just the same. Not that they do it on purpose, they have to set their priorities. For example, a hood or AC fails or they experience a grease trap catastrophe. Those items are expensive and they get paid first. I would even ask for prepayment for specialties. If it fails, pay them back without any delivery. If you deliver and they don't like it… take it back don't leave it. Selling to restaurants are very risky. All great advice for selling to restaurants! When restaurants are hot… they pay their bills promptly. Find restaurants that serve high volume and forget the rest.
How about hillside growing? We have 1.5 acres usable growing space (0.4 acres fairly flat but spread out over property). At what grade slope should we consider making terraces and how should we do it? In our case it's a silt loam clean soil, it's free to use, almost top of hill, and only a mile outside of a town. Downfall is we have to wait until about 9am for morning sun to get over woods. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance!
Curtis, can you do a video on the relation ships with the buyers? Conversation with chefs or grocery store contacts or some video at a market would be cool. And cover how to approach grocery stores or restaurants to sell to. Who to talk to… what to say… how to prepare yourself.
Great channel! Great info!
Thanks Curtis this was powerful.
Great info. Have you done a video on removing hulls from buckwheat. I also seen to have trouble with germination. (True leaf seeds)
I would like a video where you show and describe how you keep greens crisp and fresh if you have to sit on them in your cooler. For example do you on a daily basis go in with a hose and spray the greens down and do you then have to drain them. Basically a step by step by step process in keeping greens crisp and fresh.
Curtis Thank you and very much enjoy what I have learned through your channel. Putting some of it to practice here in Southern Oregon. Cheers Mike
Hi Curtis. So, I was looking through your gear list and I saw that your packing bags that you put your spring mix in isn't there and I wanted to buy some bags. Could you please respond with the name of the bags that you use and please make a video on what you use to pack your food. I searched it and I couldn't find a video from you. Zack
Please comment on how and why of packaging for Different Customer streams like CSA, Restaurants, grochery stores, Farmers Market etc
Great format, adds variety to an already exceptional amount & quality of content on your channel.
You could have the restaurants pay you for the crops with bitcoin or a different altcoin. You could have a website that displays all of the specialty crops you offer and have them avaiable for purchase by lb or whichever unit is best for you. The shopify ecommerce platform has a bitpay plugin which allows you to accept bitcoin payments from your customers.
Curtis, these videos are fucking gold. I the love nuts and bolts straight forward talk. How do we donate to your channel? Thanks!
Can you make a video on what fertilizer and pesticides do you use. Thank you very much in advance.
How do you get the hulls off the sunflower microgreens? The hulls hang on all through the growing process, and many of them have to be painstakingly picked off. Nobody ever discusses that when they demonstrate growing sunflower microgreens.
How much did you sell those baby bell peppers if you don't mind me asking, Curtis? Is it in your book? By the way, I am about to go meet an executive chef at a restaurant where the previous chef who made a commitment to me is no longer there. So, very very helpful.
May have already been asked before, but is there any way you would go about finding out about the chefs other than asking them? I'm sure they're busy folks
Love this type of video do some videos on growing the specialty crops such as mustard greens collard greens and kale which varieties to grow and all that sort of stuff its not popular here in South Africa but im wanting to sell these to restraunts.
I like these "whiteboard" vids, but why not get rid of the whiteboard and have the text appear on the screen in the spot where the whiteboard is…so you don't have to bother writing & it's much more legible to the audience (this isn't a jab at your handwriting)?
A video on best crops, explained from the financial perspective, would be interesting.
Great video! Have you or could you do a video on greenhouse crops in the off season? Maybe specialty crops in an otherwise unsuitable climate inside a greenhouse? For a random example, growing mangoes or something in Oregon in the winter. Thanks!