 My name is Luis and I'm honored at the Antonius Farm and I've been farming here for ever since 2012. I have good years and bad years but these years look like it's going to be a better year than last year so I'm happy. Well, I have here raspberries, corn and strawberries, then some blueberries but the blueberry plants were small so they're probably taking another three years to be able to harvest some. And some sweet corn is coming and peppers, tomatoes are becoming some and it's about it. But what I really interested in berries, I'm a berry guy. Well, because this is what I've been growing for the last six years, you know raspberries and strawberries. And now I'm trying blueberries but it's kind of difficult to grow because I've never grown before so I don't know what the inputs to put it on. But I'm learning little by little. Well, my great-grandfather was agriculture, my grandpa, then my dad and now myself. So we've been in a generation of agriculture for a while. We're from Mexico, you know, we were farming over there a long time and then year 2000, no, 1972 I came over here when I was 18 years old and then I started working in the orchards, grown pears. Then I worked for 28 years. Around here? Around here in the valley. And then year 2000 I quit working in the orchards and then I started growing my own veggies. Then little by little I just became to produce more and more and now I produce around four acres. And that's how, yeah, four acres. And that's how I started. So I'm in this business ever since 2006. I started over there in Sands Valley then I farm over there for about five years. Then I move over here 2012. Then I've been here ever since. Yeah, I've been putting some fruit lices, you know, horse fruit lices in there and mesterego the soil and the soil is looking great now. So then unorganic, so I don't use any chemical fruit lices or pesticides once or ever. So I just do fruit lices. I mean, what do you call those? Menors, yeah. I scare those in the fall. So that way if you be in the problems, the soil you are cleaning them out. So and then that's how I do it. I have some problems with the bugs, you know, sometimes they eat 25%. But then I give the 75% myself. And that's how I've been working. But I learned that if you keep healthy plants, then the bugs live in my lawn. The strawberries, you know, I just, I worked for somebody before I started growing it. This is back in the year 2000. I was working for this guy. I don't remember his name, but he was in the Applegate area. So he was a strawberry grown. So I worked for him for three different seasons. Then I learned some. Then year 2006, I started growing my own. And I've been learning, making mistakes. And I've been growing strawberries ever since. Well, no, I buy the plants first. Then as to that, then the start size is transplanted every year. Then when they give four or five years old, then I give new ones. I also more new plants and planting and do another four years and then rotate it. That's it. So this is my second year on different varieties for the last five years because this has no variety. It seems to me it's working really well because you can see the size of the berries are pretty good size. And this variety has every berry. So once it's adult, they just keep it producing all the way to October. And you have you pick? Well, I sell my products at the Farmers' Gross. Yeah, Farmers' Market, three days a week. I then call up and shopping cart. But I haven't done that for the last two years because we had bad years, not enough water. So I hope and I give back again in a year or two. But I usually do you pick, but this year I don't think I'm going to be able because I don't have enough. So some guy calling me that he won 20,000 pounds. Strawberry, no, I don't even answer him because, sure, no, I don't have that name. I don't know where he was from, but he left me a message. He was interested in buying strawberries. He won 20,000 pounds. Way too much. My kids, they helped me during harvest, but the rest I do on myself. You know, planting and weeding and all that irrigate. I do myself because I have a tractor and I have good implements. I can take care and I can do that myself. Suns Valley, I was farming over there. Back in, I started over there 2006 and work all the way to 2010. But I was not enough water in there. I was put it right. So I was irrigating after three pounds. So we get it our good heavy rainy year. Then we store it as enough water, but when I was a light year raining, so then it was the same problem as two years. So then I move over here and there was plenty of water for the next four years, I think, yeah. Then last year and a year before, we started having the same problem, not enough water. But this year, it looked like it's going to be enough water. I just lost all my strawberries that I had before, because they die and some of them got diseased because of being so dry. Not enough water on an early spring and late fall. These old new plants that I planted last June. So I just plant this little area here to give new plants. And then the rest, I grab the plants for here and transplant them over there and the other fields. Right over there. So you can see there's about 12 rows in there and I have another area. I can put some more later whenever I get enough plants. And up above are the raspberries. And then, yeah, then I have raspberries over there. The raspberries got a little hurt too. You can see the area in the meadow and how they're turning yellow. They're dying too because of that. But they're going to come back. Once I keep them warm enough for now on, they're getting those new starts coming. I grow some mackerel. My wife makes tortillas, tamales. So this year I did it there because I was having extra land because it takes a whole year to fuel it up with the strawberries. But usually what I grow most is strawberries and raspberries. But this year, you know, I didn't have enough plants for the whole field. So I grow a little corn here and there just to keep everything from fail. And peppers too. Peppers, I have some peppers that I grow for people, you know. And sometimes I make salsa for myself for the winter. So, you know, we've been living off the farm, my family and I. So I don't hire people because this is a family farm. My children don't want to be a farmer. They think there's too much work. So they don't want to be getting stuck like me working all the time. A lot of work sometimes is not enough money, you know. But I do because I like it and I enjoy what I grow. And if something becoming later, having time to give you food, then I can grow my own. So I'm not afraid of that because I can grow food. So probably never happen, but I'm prepared. You know, that's right. I'm not making a lot of money, but enough just to survive. Sometimes I got to borrow some money from my friends, not a lot, because I never want to get involved with the banks because then in a bad year, I know I can lose my business. So it's really hard for me, but I'm happy that I still can survive. That's for me. Yeah. That's the way. Yeah, so I'm not making a lot of money, but sometimes I just make enough to survive. Then sometimes in the wintertime, then I work for somebody else doing pruning so I can make money to eat at that time. So I'm not dependent by the farm. So I do a lot of pruning, fruit trees, because I didn't ask to harvest the corn till it ended and prepare it for the garlic, because the garlic I plant them in October and November. I put some in October, a couple of terries because it's four terries. So I do two and then November I do the other two. Then that way I can have a little early garlic for them. There's three year old plants, but for the last two years they didn't grow any because I didn't put enough water. I was just keeping them alive. And I'm happy I did, because I was using drip just to make them survive. But now I'm planting water, so I've been giving them enough so you can see I have no grown. Sometimes it's 10 inches long already, so I'm happy. They're coming. Then these blueberries, for the last one variety, early variety is called chennelers. And for here up is another seven rows. This is called agoras, and they're coming in later, like in September, October. So I have different varieties, they grow in different times. So that way I can have a little long season. Because if I get a whole bunch all at once, it's no work for me, because I sell so much in each market. So I like to have a little bit, but long process. Then over here I plant, last year, seven churros are very toneless, and they like this ground. Boy, they're doing really good. They already have a little fruit, so toneless, because those grew great, and I like that. This is my raspberry patch, and you can see all those rows in there, last year they were really solid rows, but I lost all those plants because for the run, being so dry, no water last year. So then you can see the rest of the plants and some have died, and maybe new starts coming up. I always do, so all these rows that come missing, I'm going to replant them and fall. That way they can get it gone. Yeah, I want to get some more plants after this too, and then fuel it up. That way, see how next year it will be. So it turned out like a campus, so I put it all the way around and look at the difference in the plants. They look beautiful. They like that. And the fruit got very large. And these are organic, 100%. I never use no chemical, fertilizer, so pesticides. Good stuff, good and tasty. That's why I like to be a farmer, because nothing tastes better than on the vine to your mouth.