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Abe’s Acres – Hightstown, NJ Here’s the RAW Version of my interview with Gabe Siciliano from Abe’s Acres. For the most part. Sorry about the typing, I really notice it. I hadn’t figured out how to split the tracks yet recording with zoom this but I’m still having sound problems??? Episode 222? 240? STRANGE…. My property stretches across two counties. How big is your place? My great grandfather started acquiring land during the new deal. It’s 276 acres total. I am not growing on that much of it. I’m growing on about an acre. I ultimately want to grow on 9 acres in total cultivation, 6 of it would be in production on any given year I think that’s about the maximum a person can manage with about 5-6 employees and still maintain some sanity. If you’re doing mixed annual vegetables. In an ideal world I’d like to add some additional acreage of dry beans a product that very few people are doing in that’s a whole different beast interested in breaking into at some point in the future vegetables that’s what I know We’ve been working on a garden book for years, but it takes a lot of time. I always tell people I don’t understand the blank page, why sit and stare at a white piece of paper because I always have a million projects. If I don’t have a vision for it or see it right then and then why push myself? Because at the right time I’m gonna hear it and I will know the whole thing and we just banged it out over Christmas break, we only got through lessons 1-6 and the others will come out in June. I actually bought the domain names last summer and then just one day driving home from school I couldn’t stop I could just hear the lessons and the table of contents it just started pouring out of me! I’m a bit out of funk with my podcast, cause I teach full time, don’t hesitate to put me on hold. Do you have any questions? Do you listen to podcasts? I listen to tons of podcasts! When I’m working. Especially when it was just me! Even before that I was working at different apprenticeships. Listening to podcasts like after working on 6 acres of carrots. http://www.farmertofarmerpodcast.com/ () http://www.farmertofarmerpodcast.com/ (Farmer to Farmer )one of the growers I was apprenticed to was on there. http://www.radiolab.org/ (Radiolab) https://www.thisamericanlife.org/ (This American Life) Serialized Fiction Podcasts https://shows.howstuffworks.com/hsw-podcast.htm (how stuff works.com) https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts (Stuff you missed in History class) https://www.parttimegenius.show/podcasts (part time genius) https://www.omnibusproject.com/ (omnibus) I’m never gonna run out of podcasts… Im proud or maybe ashamed to admit I finished http://www.radiolab.org/ (Radiolab) this summer. But this is the first one I’ve been in which is interesting cause I spend about 10 years a day listening to podcasts. Well next year you’ll have your own and you sound like you’ve had a lot of things to share! You sound like you are.   http://www.farmertofarmerpodcast.com/ (Farmer to Farmer with Chris Blanchard.) Welcome to the Organic Gardener Podcast Welcome to the Organic Gardener Podcast today Gabe Sciliano from Abe’s Acres! It’s Monday February 12th. It’s a chilly day outside my window, it says it’s -19º outside my window. I have someone from NJ, Gabe Siciliano, he’s a fellow podcast listener and it sounds like he has an amazing story to tell us so Welcome Gabe! I’m Gabe Sicliano, 26 years old. My farm’s called Abes Acres Farm after my grandfather Abraham. He came to the US in the late 1900’s from Russia as a jew fleeing the His dream was always to be a land owner and to farm it arrived in NY spent some decades in Brooklyn saved money moved to NJ The government had a lot of... Support this podcast