Farming ProTips

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Farming ProTips | Transplanting Tomatoes From Greenhouse to Ground [Part 2]: There are many ways to trellis tomatoes. Here we demonstrate a method used by Farmer Lilly. You're going to want to have your lines nice and tight to support the weight of the tomato plants as they grow. As the tomato plants grow we will add more trellis lines to support the plants. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union Educational and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTips | Transplanting Tomatoes From Greenhouse to Ground [Part 1]: Out here in Colorado we have extreme weather patterns that can be quite harsh on our greenhouse baby plants. The method we briefly recap is a process called "Hardening Off" which means allowing our plants we receive from the greenhouse or starts to adjust to living conditions outside. We are taking off the blooms and buds from these tomato transplants. Their roots are root bound. The tomato plant thinks it is dying since there is no more room for the roots to grow in the tiny cell trays. By taking off the blooms and buds we are letting these tomato plants know that they don't have to hurry and go to fruit. We want the tomato plants to grow larger in the ground once transplanted then they can go to flower and fruit. By snipping off their buds and flowers now we delay the fruiting process and encourage the tomato plants to continue growing. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union Educational and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTip from Michael Phillips "The Holistic Orchard" [ Part 1 ] Spray your fruit trees from the tippy tops of the branches until dripping wet and work your way down the branches to the trunk. Make sure the entire tree is dripping wet with Michael Phillips organic fruit tree spray (ingredients listed below). This holistic method helps strengthens your fruit trees immune system to fight off pests like the Japanese beetle and other diseases. There are four primary times during the season to use Michael Phillips holistic fruit tree spray. First time is just before the tree starts to form leaves or the leaf buds first arrive in spring, second time is before the buds of the flowers have formed, the third main spray is when the blossoms have just fallen off and the fruit begins to form [ like we demonstrate here ], fourth time is after all the leaves have fallen off the tree in the fall. Holistic Fruit Tree Spray Ingredients include: * Neem Oil * Fish Hydrolysate * Karanja Oil * Microbial Inoculant (EM •1) - Kelp This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

A thought goes a long way. Our thoughts create our actions. Our actions create our reality. Thus, our thoughts create our reality. We are here to restore balance and rebuild our connection and relationship with our Earth. It all starts with planting a seed. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTips | Planting Provider Bush Bean One bean per cell. Become a member of National Young Farmers Coalition today and receive discounts on Johnny Seeds. Johnny Seeds: www.johnnyseeds.com National Young Farmers Coalition: www.youngfarmers.org This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Planting Seedling Starters in Cell Trays Farming ProTips Bush Bean variation: Dragon Tongue One bean per cell. This video was made for Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Quick Farming ProTip | Label your starters! It's easy to forget when we plant in our cell trays. Quick labeling goes a long way, helps us know when our seeds should start germinating and the variety. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTips | Planting Luxurious Winter Pie Pumpkin Seeds - Starting Seedlings in Cell Trays [ Part 2 ] Become a member of National Young Farmers Coalition today and receive discounts on Johnny Seeds. Johnny Seeds: www.johnnyseeds.com National Young Farmers Coalition: www.youngfarmers.org This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Starting Seedlings in Cell Trays Farming ProTips : [ Part 1 ] Key is to fill your cell trays with moist damp organic potting soil (with love). This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Spiritual Seed Planting Farming ProTips | Seeds are life. It all starts with a seed planted. We each have a song we came here to sing. When we plant with intention, our stories and the seeds' stories grow together. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTips | Insect Identification Different seasons, different bugs. Catching early signs of pests in your fields or gardens is essential to preventing an infestation and damaged crops. Best approach to a pest control management plan for your farm or backyard garden is to be proactive and very observant. Pay attention to what stage of insects you are seeing. Catching insects in their early stages of development is easier to handle before they have a chance to mature and reproduce, causing a much more bigger problem later. In an effort to rebuild our connection and relationship with Nature and our Earth, we always advise to use companion planting and organic methods for pest control. Plant "good" bug friendly herbs, flowers or bushes to attract the "good" bugs you want in your garden to eat the "bad" bugs that damage your crops. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Educational and Wellness Committee.

Transplanting Farming ProTip: Cotyledon [ kŏt″l-ēd′n ]: A leaf of the embryo of a seed plant, which upon germination either remains in the seed or emerges, enlarges, and becomes green. If the cotyledon is left on your transplants and buried underneath the soil it could cause disease in the newly transplanted plant. Some farmers may pinch the cotyledon where the leaf branches off the stem while others may pinch the cotyledon at the base of the leaf. There are many ways to farm. The reason we chose to pinch at the leaf's base is to prevent bacteria from the soil from entering the base of our cabbage transplant's stem and be proactive on disease prevention giving our transplants the best fighting chance to grow as healthy as they can! This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Not All Weeds are "Bad" Weeds! It is a common misunderstanding that dandelions are weeds. Dandelions are actually herbs and wonderful for your health! Dry out and crush up the flowers, leaves and roots for an antioxidant tea, salve or bath-tea. Dandelions are also one of the first flowers to spring up aiding our local honey bee populations and assisting our pollinators out of winter. Natural Weed Killer Recipe: * 1 gallon white vinegar * 1 cup salt * 1 tablespoon liquid dish soap Combine ingredients in a up-cycled spray bottle and treat weeds at the sunniest time of day for best results. Vinegar and salt make excellent weed killers on their own and form a deadly combination when combined. Vinegar draws moisture out of the weeds it is applied to, whereas salt prevents the weeds it is applied to from absorbing water. Place a few grains of salt at the base of the weeds you wish to kill. Salt is a great weed killer because it sucks water out of the plants and speeds up that whole dehydration routine, resulting in those lifeless, dead weeds you're after. While the salt's the killer, people commonly add vinegar and soap to lower the salted water's surface tension, enabling the salted water to penetrate deep into the unwanted plants. This video was made for Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Transplanting Farming ProTips: We break up the root bound transplants to help promote new growth in our plants which allows the roots to breath more easily. Ideal transplanting weather conditions are early mornings or late evenings with cloud cover. Make sure your soil is nicely moisten to avoid shock for your plants. This video was made for Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Plants have the same genes as Humans have in their eyes. Plants can sense and see Humans! Plants will communicate to one another when a Human is present letting the other plants know that a Human or animal is nearby. For more on this topic check out Stefano Mancuso, Founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological communities. This video is made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Everyone has their own methods that work best for them. In this #FarmingProTips video we show you how our bodies and hands are one of our best tools to use as a source of measurement out in the fields. Between your thumb and pinkie finger is about 6" inches a part. Of course this will vary slightly from person to person, but this is a good estimate when out in the fields. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

We are planting our Candy Red Onions same as our Corpa Onions - 6" inches a part. Use your thumb and pinkie finger as your source of measurement between onion plants. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTip on how to plant Corpa Onions. This video was made for the Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.

Farming ProTip on how to cut off the ends of your irrigation lines to prevent water leaks. This video is made for Mile High Farmers Union's Education and Wellness Committee.