[AT] Heirlooms, Tomatoes and Farmalls???

[Charlie V]

Fantastic to hear from a person who lives and enjoys his work, Grant,
and hopefully ends up with a little profit at the end of the year.
Keep up the good work.  It all sounds truly  old fashioned American.

Charlie V. in WNY


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Grant Brians
<sales at heirloom-organic.com> wrote:
> Last week I was a speaker and exhibitor at the first National Heirloom
> Vegetable Exposition which was held in Santa Rosa, California. It was really
> interesting and I enjoyed educating lots of people. The focus was more on
> gardens than farms (unsurprisingly), but I felt that I helped both other
> farmers (advising on certain practices people from Virginia, New York and
> the midwest) and definitely volumes of gardeners. Talking to the Heirloom
> Rose Gardener ladies and Iris Society people was pretty cool....
>     In the process of dealing with this (and handling sales and other
> matters for my own farm remotely - the joy of cell phones LOL) I also
> checked out the area my family is from around Sonoma County and saw some
> farm machinery. In the process of preparing for my talks we pulled out
> pictures of when my father and his uncle worked on in the hop harvesting
> when he was a teenager in the 1940's. The McCormick-Deering T-20 and
> Caterpillar 22 that they used to pull the hop harvesters (that was what my
> dad was driving at the time - he was 17 and 18 in the 1946 and 1947 seasons)
> I immediately recognized because they are common today here. I was able to
> share some local history with people at the show even though I have never
> lived there....
>     Our Heirloom Tomato harvest finally started! Yes indeed and so did the
> Cherry Tomatoes and the Shady Lady Tomatoes. So, tomorrow or Friday we will
> be using the Farmall 100 cultivator tractor to cultivate the last planting
> of squash, we used the vintage 1930 Ventura Bean Planter to plant Sugar Snap
> peas today and the 1949 Oliver 77 cultivating tractor this week along with
> the 2008 John Deere 6430 (105HP) to plant vegetables with and the 1990's Hew
> Holland, Massey Ferguson and Ford tractors. We keep the heirlooms going!
> LOL.
>          Grant Brians
>          Hollister,California vegetable, nuts and Fruit farmer
>
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