Thanks for posting this! I planted Baltic Rose for the first time this summer, and it's freaking magical. One of the best I've eaten. Next year I'll get them in the ground earlier. It's good to see how you guys work and how much care you take with everything. Thanks for doing what you do, I really appreciate it.
Thanks so much! We agree, Baltic Rose is a GREAT variety, both in the field and in the kitchen. It is super dormant and will really benefits from a substantial warm-up ahead of planting. Our 'Organic Potato Growing Guide' - sent with each order - explains the Greensprouting procedure. BR is THE prime candidate for Greenspouting. It's the first variety we warm up ahead of planting in the Spring. Jim
Thank you for sharing. I am so impressed how your team is able to take care of repairs themselves. Their training and experience is worth their weight in gold! 😊
Wild Rose, Caleb and Justin are both especially mechanically-inclined, which is a big plus for modern-day farming. Both took got degrees in Diesel Hydraulics at the local Community College. Peter's area of study at the Community College level was Business Administration, equally valuable for farming today. Maine's Community Colleges (formerly called "Vocational Technical Institutes") are the best deal going in the State of Maine.
When I was young, I realized four very important things about farm machinery; 1. It will always break when you need it most, because that's when you push it the hardest. 2. Borrowed machinery is about 3x more likely to break than your own, because *you* don't know all the little ways to baby it the owner does. 3. Any piece of used equipment put into service will take at least one season to 'work the bugs out' of it before it's truly reliable. 4. No matter what claims the brochure and/or salesman makes as to productivity, cut them in half. Experience may improve matters, but not by as much as you'd hope for. Keep up the good work! 😊
Floyd, you were a wise young man and those four are accurate Golden Rules. Forty years ago a friend in town bought a 'Mighty Mite' circular sawmill and he believed the literature which claimed one could mill 5000 board feet a day. That amount was beyond belief to me. I had worked the competing 'Mobile Dimension' portable circular saw, sawing both boards and two-bys. 1700 board feet was a full day for us. My friend's 'Mighty Mite' saw arrived, he set it up and over time he came to learn he could saw a max of 1500-2000 board feet in a day. Whoever wrote the 'Mighty Mite' brochure was fully aware that there are 24 hours in one day and used that fact to advantage. Jim
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New subscriber, but I order my seed potato’s from you guys. This was REALLY cool to see! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your comment! Appreciate it. Jim
Thanks for posting this! I planted Baltic Rose for the first time this summer, and it's freaking magical. One of the best I've eaten. Next year I'll get them in the ground earlier. It's good to see how you guys work and how much care you take with everything. Thanks for doing what you do, I really appreciate it.
Thanks so much! We agree, Baltic Rose is a GREAT variety, both in the field and in the kitchen. It is super dormant and will really benefits from a substantial warm-up ahead of planting. Our 'Organic Potato Growing Guide' - sent with each order - explains the Greensprouting procedure. BR is THE prime candidate for Greenspouting. It's the first variety we warm up ahead of planting in the Spring. Jim
Thank you for sharing. I am so impressed how your team is able to take care of repairs themselves. Their training and experience is worth their weight in gold! 😊
Wild Rose, Caleb and Justin are both especially mechanically-inclined, which is a big plus for modern-day farming. Both took got degrees in Diesel Hydraulics at the local Community College. Peter's area of study at the Community College level was Business Administration, equally valuable for farming today. Maine's Community Colleges (formerly called "Vocational Technical Institutes") are the best deal going in the State of Maine.
@@Jim_at_WoodPrairie That is awesome!!
When I was young, I realized four very important things about farm machinery;
1. It will always break when you need it most, because that's when you push it the hardest.
2. Borrowed machinery is about 3x more likely to break than your own, because *you* don't know all the little ways to baby it the owner does.
3. Any piece of used equipment put into service will take at least one season to 'work the bugs out' of it before it's truly reliable.
4. No matter what claims the brochure and/or salesman makes as to productivity, cut them in half. Experience may improve matters, but not by as much as you'd hope for.
Keep up the good work! 😊
Floyd, you were a wise young man and those four are accurate Golden Rules. Forty years ago a friend in town bought a 'Mighty Mite' circular sawmill and he believed the literature which claimed one could mill 5000 board feet a day. That amount was beyond belief to me. I had worked the competing 'Mobile Dimension' portable circular saw, sawing both boards and two-bys. 1700 board feet was a full day for us. My friend's 'Mighty Mite' saw arrived, he set it up and over time he came to learn he could saw a max of 1500-2000 board feet in a day. Whoever wrote the 'Mighty Mite' brochure was fully aware that there are 24 hours in one day and used that fact to advantage. Jim