A Good Food Farmer

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This is not your typical story, for Anthony Boutard, of Ayers Creek Farm, is not your typical farmer. Trained as a forester, he and his wife, Carol, backed into farming - as he likes to tell it. He shares many stories, including how he goes about deciding what to grow for a particular season, and shares his wealth of farming knowledge, some of it borrowed from indigenous cultures.

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[thegasworks]

Very informative, thanks for sharing. I want to eat this man's food but I live in Ireland : ( 5*****

[cookingupastory]

I'm sure you grow good tasting food in Ireland, thegasworks!! If ever you make it to the Northwest, you have to get some of Anthony's food, for sure. =)

[ibwhite]

Outstanding! Keep up the great work. This series is one of the best on Youtube and I keep enjoying it more and more.

B

[cookingupastory]

Hello ibwhite! How is your garden coming along? Waiting, I suppose - or maybe you've been getting new seeds. Do you save any seeds from last years crop?

[CaptKelp]

Great story --- It educate people on why and what makes good food. Not all food is created equal. People often confuse fresh with good quality and good taste. The true is a lot of food need time to go through changes to be better for us and taste better. It is not only important how you grow it, but also what you do with it after you grow it - How you store it - age it. That is where you can bring out the quality and taste in many foods

Thxs Cookin for another great video.

Captn'

[cookingupastory]

Thanks, Captn'. I learned a lot about root vegetables from Anthony on this story. I had no idea sweet potatoes didn't really get their nutty 'sweetness' until after they had been cured in a way like he does. I thot he just dug 'em up, rinsed 'em off, and they were ready to eat. I probably wouldn't care for them if I did that!

[4tomhenry]

I love gardening and the fruits of the labor!

Thank you for allowing me to stop by!

Hey this is really GREAT STUFF HERE!

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Enjoy and keep passing all of us at YouTube around!

[hapticz]

optimal farming! now we talking some good stuff! Future Farmers of America!

this video is like having a farmer teach you the real fact about food, not like the mathematically boring nitrogen calculations/biology/husbandry you learn in college!

[thegasworks]

We do indeed. I grow some organic vegetables in my garden but it's a small garden.

[cookingupastory]

The goat manure sounds like a great addition to your garden, HighPlainsWoman! I'm with you, I stopped buying hot house tomatoes - just have to wait til they come into Season. I grew a bunch this past summer myself - but not nearly enough to can. Hope to add more this coming year.

[HighPlainsWoman]

He's right about work taking longer in the winter. It takes a long time just to get enough layers of clothes on to go outside when it's 10 degrees. It's a real challenge keeping the livestock water from freezing.

I've spent the winter hauling in aged goat manure for my 2 garden plots and hope to have a good harvest this year. I won't even buy tomatoes from the grocery store anymore. I don't know what they do to them, but they'll turn black inside before they will ripen and they're tasteless.