welcome to city connections we are here at farmers market which is full of farmers and people on wednesdays and saturdays going through the morning into the early afternoon and we're glad to be here and we're gonna talk to some of the actual farmers and some of the people that have come to buy fresh fruit and vegetables so come on down and join us here at city connections at farmers market in holland we're really glad to have a couple friends here with us tara and rob and their children who have come out to the farmers market so we're just gonna talk to them a little bit about what that experience is like how did you guys happen to find out about holland's farmers market well we visit this area of michigan about once a summer and we always like to make a stop here at the holland farmers market awesome so you're here from where cincinnati cincinnati cool so you guys came down to farmers market too yep what are these dinosaurs with plants in them whoa they got to make those down there at the other end with all the kid activities oh cool you know i've never seen cacti growing out of a dinosaur that is very appropriate cause it's got spikes on it doesn't it absolutely yeah do you get the same dinosaurs no so you'll know exactly whose is whose right that's important the same dinosaurs you got oh okay different different plants too perfect that is a lot of fun so what you come down to get some fresh produce right so we're staying in for a bit of a week and we always like to make a stop down and buy some fresh local produce and enjoy that while we're here wow so you got the schedule down pat then wednesdays and saturdays is when you wanna show up we usually come on wednesday are you in a trailer or a tent or a house a house okay you're renting a house yes fun so you're doing the beach sometimes beach and cooking at home and enjoying that and so yeah we like to stop here yeah well we really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us a little bit we are here with scott from captain chubs fresh smoked fish at a farmers market so how does that work how long have you been here well this is our fourth season in holland at the market wow so where do these fish come from these fish the white fish came from lake huron and the sockeye salmon we had flown in fresh from alaska we process all the fish and do all the smoking and then just package it and sell it at the farmers markets okay so all the processing happens here but the fish could come from all over the place so they're flown in fresh then right right we'll go pick em up fresh in michigan yeah so some of it comes from michigan lake michigan no this year not from lake michigan lake superior and lake huron okay so you have your own crew of people fishing somewhere yes we have friends that commercial fishermen we buy direct from those guys and then do the smoking okay do you get repeat customers if you've been here for four years every week yeah every week every week yeah so everybody gets their weekly fish deal with you yeah they come back week after week and you help them with how to prepare or are they pretty much it's fully cooked ready to eat smoked fish is oh it is i didn't even know that yeah most people eat it cold so you don't have to smell up your house or anything yeah it's nice during the summer you can put it on a tossed salad and keep it cool in the kitchen wow that is easy and then you just put it in refrigerator right yep needs to stay refrigerated so you're all set up here with electricity and this is all all refrigerated kept exactly at the temperature it needs to be thirty eight or below wow so what got you into the smoked fish business well my family was commercial fishermen out of holland for thirty years so i grew up in that industry and started smoking fish as a boy started smoking fish as a boy that's an interesting phrase yeah that's great so you are a hollander i'm a hollander born and bred born and raised in holland on 147th avenue oh okay well great and so you still live around here south of hamilton now oh okay and then come in well that's great that we can have all kinds of things sugar shacks and fudge and smoked fish here yep we've got it all in holland awesome well great to meet you captain chubs all right thank you we're here with nusca who's come to the farmers market now you live in holland right and you're out here on this gorgeous wednesday and obviously you bought some wonderful sunflowers yeah they're just beautiful one bouquet is for me and the other one is for my mom so oh your mom is visiting yeah she's visiting from peru from south america wow how special is that so you wanted to bring her down to farmers market yeah we come on wednesdays and then i have three little nieces so they come in and do some activities and we have a fun time here so it's kind of a regular family activity to be down and something for the children and something yeah we get local produce like corn and fruits and the flowers are just wonderful yeah do you find things are a little fresher here than the stores yes and just the ambiance is really friendly and just really nice to have a local kind of difference in the community so we kind of have that hometown feeling down here right and the openair market that's kind of special yeah that's really cool it's probably what your mom is used to in peru right yeah we have our markets and we get fresh things every day and so it's just kind of a fun thing for us to come in and do that again yeah do you like talking to the farmers is that a helpful thing to discuss the kinds of produce they're selling and how you can cook it or whatever you kind of come with your own program you don't need that too much no it's just kind of cool to see some different for example there's different kinds of pastas or different kinds of things like granola and things that are just kind of uncommon when you go to the normal local store so it's just kind of nice bigger variety and unusual things maybe huh well wonderful i'm so glad you could be here today and so glad we could connect so nusca thank you for talking we're glad that we could talk with you a little bit here joyce we've noticed your unusual plants and there are all kinds of plants and flowers that they're selling here at the market but yours look a little different than the ones that we usually see growing and we're kind of wondering how do you get them to look like this they're kind of like poodle plants or something yeah it's topiary it's the art of topiary and i start everything from cuttings and when the plant is the height you want it then you cut the top out and strip off all the bottom leaves and then slowly trim until you get a plant that looks like this looks like a little round one and it takes years sometimes like this myrtle is probably three years old oh wow so it takes a long time to get a topiary and a lot of hand labor but they make good indoor houseplants and it's kind of like plant art and then they just kind of stay that height they stay that height and if like to give it a little trim yourself you can or just so this guy's a little more casual than those guys yeah and this guy has a bottom poof and a top poof yes so it's different types of designs different designs whatever people might like yeah whenever i'm trimming it whatever i think the plant lends itself to that's what i make out of it and then you put them in appropriate pots it looks like they're kind of an artistic choices here for the pots i try to get interesting pots and that's the fun part putting the plant with the pot this is a lavender and i found a pot that's kind of the same color oh yeah i bet that smells good too it does and it blooms like a purple there's not a lot of plants that lend themselves to be made into topiaries but i try yeah how long have you been doing this working these i've been coming to this market for sixteen years oh really so i've been doing this a long time and i love this market because the people are so nice and they're willing to try new things which is what i'm always trying to provide is something new yeah well you're kind of an artist i think definitely an artist and a horticulturalist you have to understand how to keep things alive because all these plants look green or whatever color they're supposed to be just simple watering so are you a farmer do you have a farm i have a greenhouse in hartford which is an hour south of here and i'm a third generation greenhouse grower my father was a dutch immigrant oh really and so i'm third generation and i found my niche and how cool now these things don't look like they grow no that's jewelry do you make jewelry also i do i have a small car so i thought what can i bring that doesn't take up a lot of space that's why i make jewelry what an entrepreneur you are having all new things i notice this this is really a unique piece with that having a bad hair day there that's cool i think there should be one of those in every salon yeah that is really cool so it's just the vine that you got to draw it's a mess yeah and you have one here too yeah this is anthony and cleopatra oh i didn't see the pair okay perfect yeah look at that but these you know you can just get the plant in the pot take it home set it down you're done you don't have to think oh what am i going to plant this in yeah and so all you have to do then would be water that and it would kind of stay the same and maybe trim it up a little if it starts if you want to have it real tight yes you know like those balls over here probably require a little more maintenance huh they do but that's the fun part and it's kind of relaxing and yeah it's kind of like bonsai only this type of plant instead of instead of the trees trees yeah yeah well that is very fascinating even flowering things that is such a cute what is that that's a mexican heather which is an annual but i've trained it into a topiary and i braided the stem so it's got a little design in the stem too oh my goodness you braided the stem i've never seen that yeah to make a full little head yeah and that's an annual that's an annual so then you keep it inside the rest of the i would put that outside in a pretty spot where you eat or where you see it and then in the fall take it in and then it's gone well you know you get sick of stuff yeah right find a new topiary next year yeah or find winter topiaries talk to joyce perfect well this is so interesting and so unusual and we're just really glad that you've been here for sixteen years coming up with amazing ideas how fun is that it's so artistic and fresh in every way so thank you joyce appreciate you taking time well thank you we are here with dan and mary who have stopped into farmers market now you guys are visiting you said right that's correct so you're at the state park camping yes awesome and so how'd you find out about the market well we've known about it for you know we've been back in holland different times over the years and we knew the market was on wednesdays and saturdays and decided to take a bike ride from the state park on this beautiful day and buy a few things for camping is that the american dream or what you know yeah that's awesome you path the other way you can't go wrong yeah i know great bike paths so do you like talking to farmers and getting this kind of fresh stuff is that what kind of brings you and the ambiance oh everybody's so friendly we just bought some beans and tomatoes and yeah all the farmers are friendly and just seem like they love what they do fresh picked this morning many times yeah so that's really great you used to live in holland you said yep born and raised in holland we moved out of the area about fifteen years ago and we're trying to come back awesome we'd love to have you back we'd love to be back you can't beat the lake shore we make miss lake michigan and the beach oh i know it gets in your system doesn't it yes it does to have lakes and farmers and fresh produce and downtown it's such a winning combination yeah yeah it's beautiful beautiful area well we're so happy that we can take a second to talk and that you can enjoy being back here and we sure hope it works out for you to come back permanently all right so thanks dan and mary well here we are on this gorgeous day at farmers market and i understand it was quite a commute for you to get here where are you from we come at holland in the province of zeeland i'm from holland from the province of zeeland so like the real holland yes yes like over the ocean holland yes over the ocean six thousand kilometers you must think the vegetables are really fresh here it is all the fruit oh good everything is good that's great the best part of america you have farmers markets in the netherlands too perfect and you are the farmer the market master yes from the netherlands from the netherlands how awesome is that there are in the netherlands there are a thousand various farmers markets throughout the netherlands wow well organized so that is a really big business in the netherlands as well and they love it like we love it here huh all of this perfect yeah you had an interesting job you did this past year we've been all talking about the royals in the netherlands but there were royals the new coming and the new coming in the the 30th of april he was installed the queen beatrix said farewell and on that day april thirty king willemalexander and his wife queen maxima became the new rulers of the netherlands and the royal family after that they visited every province we have thirteen provinces and every day they visited two provinces wow i represent the province of zeeland and from the mayor of middelburg i was asked to participate to welcome the king and the queen in the city of middelburg of the province of zeeland so you were the town crier for their welcome of the new king and queen of the netherlands how did that feel and i made a poem in honor of the king and the queen with some important points about the city of middelburg and i put that all in this cry you don't just take a prefab cry do you you have to write a whole thing that fits the occasion each time you wrote and it's all on its little card well that is amazing now he is going to do that cry as a town crier yes yes okay here we go yay yay yay yay welcome in holland michigan the cry of the king of the queen of holland farmers cities and all the other people and spread the word all you citizens of zeeland speaking in foreign language listen to me don't keep walking stand still a minute because what i'm gonna tell you and i'm gonna exclaim this proclaim this in holland michigan as well i welcome you all to middelburg because the king and queen are here they are visiting us in middelburg and it is the capital of the province of zeeland and that is middelburg middelburg with more than one thousand two hundred official monuments as buildings speaking in foreign language and when you walk around through the city of middelburg you'll automatically fall in love with middelburg middelburg with more stores and outlets than you can ever see you can get everything for whatever price you want but we have cheap buns for you too middelburg a city where you want to live a city where you want to enjoy life and a city that must be yours mine but you can also teach the children a lot right here in middelburg from the elementary grade all the way up to the university level university of middelburg is also well known around the area in other words middelburg is tops and now with pride i will say hurray hurray hurray for the king and the queen and a hearty welcome let's try that again thank you very much no problem okay this has just been a great day out at the holland farmers market this wednesday and now we get a look a little behind the scenes to see how all this wonderful produce gets here and what kind of work is involved in producing all this fresh stuff to eat so we're gonna go visit visser farms and get the behindthescenes look from the farmer themselves so come on down with us well here we are at cindy visser's visser farms and we're right on the scenes of the real thing here so this is pretty exciting and i've been to the farmers market over and over again but i have never been out here to your farm well i'm so glad you're here and i'm glad you're all able to see where i live and what we do this is awesome i've noticed one thousand nine hundred and two was on this wagon visser farms is that when people came here yes phil's greatgrandparents moved in one thousand nine hundred and two and they bought our farm in jenison michigan and we still farm that farm yet today oh wow that is cool and so you have gone through quite a few transformations since then i bet yes a lot in one thousand nine hundred and seventy phil's folks moved here to borculo because the boys wanted animals and to farm some animals and where they lived in jenison turned out where our farm is was just you know a vacant muck field turned into across the road from jenison public high school oh wow so that very much changed the environment from being wide open fields to a huge high school complex yeah right and so his parents really wanted to go back into a more rural area and so they moved to borculo and came to our church and became part of our family and both their sons married girls from here and their son married or their daughter married a guy from here oh cool so then you settled here with your husband that you met at church too yes we did good ole church yep and it's been great and we've actually lived on the farm here since one thousand nine hundred and ninety at that point we were married with three children and now we're almost grandparents whoa yeah so a lot has changed the farm has been good for productivity how many children do you have we have seven kids six of them are boys and one is a girl and they all help on the farm the daughter is married and lives in kalamazoo and she's a nurse so she just comes on saturdays to help at the market and one son is a machine technologist and so he works all week and then runs our market in rockford michigan we're there on saturdays alone and he does that one and he's done that since he was sixteen wow so for the last ten years he's done that and we've been at holland farmers market since one thousand nine hundred and eighty one our original markets were when phil's dad came home from the army and he started going to fulton street and they just renovated that market last summer it was brand new last summer and so case went with his grandpa from when he was like six years old grew up with it and he's there four days a week so it's really exciting how things change but we're thrilled to death to be part of holland's landscape we sponsor the chef series as well as when we do the salsa showdown we sponsor that and the carve which is a vegetable carving contest this huge thing that's amazing that's a national or nationwide thing and people come from all over these are culinary students and artists that are just phenomenal and they can turn a squash into something quite amazing i know you think oh this is a cute little art and craft kind of competition but oh no oh no they are real professional level almost right yes they are very very serious about it and they're but it's been fun to watch how it changed through the years and it's been really good and like the salsa showdown what a riot you know very popular seriously hot hot hot i saw a whole line of tomatoes there yesterday and then i'm sure there's plenty for that salsa yes exactly every year you guys figure out what you're gonna grow and how much of it that you're gonna grow exactly and then you have to figure out what you're gonna sell and how things there must be a lot of business behind very much so we start with all maps of our farm and we have forty three plots of different types of things grow in different areas and so that let's just say plot number one what happens is that plot gets a soil sample taken out of it we inform our chemist what we're gonna be growing in that plot and he takes the soil combines it with what we're growing and determines the exact perfect fertilizer to make that plant grow the best and grow the best fruit and vegetable no kidding yeah there's a lot of science in it and like what's in plot one maybe is tomatoes this year but it couldn't have been tomatoes for three years you can't have tomatoes on the same spot or they get funny they get things wrong with it doesn't grow right so that's a highly rotatable crop so the tomatoes that are in plot one will probably be in plot six next year okay but then you also have to look at it like how's the ground is it low is it high if we get a lot of rain how would it take that how would it take it if we had no rain and drought so there's a lot of thinking going into each situation and we're into sustainable farming our goal our greatgrandparents goal was making it so their land would be great for us and for our kids wow okay and so our goal also is making it great for our greatgrandkids it's not just about us it's about the future of this world and making so that people in holland and grand rapids area can have great food to eat that's healthy and safe very safe yeah no we're just on the news about this cyclospora virus that's coming in on fruits and vegetables but one of the things they said was if you go to a local farmers market you wouldn't have to worry about that exactly because you know exactly where it was grown and that that is not an issue in this place we're very blessed in holland there's a lot of fruits and a lot of vegetables especially this year with the great winter season cycle we had it was fantastic not a lot of freezeouts on the blossoms so we got great fruits and vegetables coming and it's great and you can freeze them and can them so that you can eat local foods three hundred and sixty five it's a great way i like zucchini in twocup packages so i can make zucchini bread or cake super easy doesn't take up much room in your freezer people also take peppers and strip em or chop em you can use that pepper inside a barbecue chili not so great for like raw eating you know it wouldn't hold up real nice part of a recipe but inside of something lasagna you know all the things anybody price a pepper in the winter peppers are fifty cents five for two i mean it's virtually a free food and if you could freeze a whole ziploc bag full up and in the winter just take out the cup or half cup you need what a great way to eat local and virtually free yeah reasonable prices yeah i was just in detroit on tuesday and they had big seeded watermelons and they were ten each and then i was at holland's farmers market yesterday and the same thing was six exactly and our market is set up to be ninety growers and ten not and there's one vendor that only one vendor that qualifies for that status at this point and it's the guy that stands next to us at hoffer farms and he buys in the watermelons and the musk melons and his mom is a bolthouse so some of the things he has on his stall are homegrown but you know the watermelons and musk melon are hard to grow here you can't get that in may or in june and like last year when we had no apples and very little peaches and stuff like that he filled that void for us we used to have another man that brought bananas and so forth and he was in that section of the two you know ten of the market that could be buyers but we're thrilled to death to be part of a ninety where you know of the people for the people that only want to eat local michigan foods we also do a csa and that's community supported agriculture it's a way you can prebuy and then through that we do a lot of events here on the farm coming up on august eight we're going to have a youpick green bean day that you can come and pick green beans we'll do this horse and wagon ride to the field with the kids we'll have drinks and stuff like that for em and so it's really fun for kids to feel the part of a farm they can see what's going on and on the wagon ride you see where the squash is being built you know being grown and the potatoes and all the things that we have that's being grown that they've never seen otherwise yeah they don't know how it grows they think it comes from meijers comes from meijers you know and so we love having we love having school groups come and we've had special needs groups come and seniors groups come too as well and even the seniors who have grown gardens their whole life just love to see it cause they miss it you know they don't get to do it anymore yeah well it's such a bright clean farm we love living here we've enjoyed it very much my inlaws live right next door and it's just a very family family thing for us yeah now you probably when you're working at the market people kind of come up and make a conversation besides looking over what's available and they probably ask you a lot of questions cause they actually have a real farmer who really does cook and does really use this exactly these fruits and vegetables and so what kind of questions do people ask you well they want to know how fresh it is how long it's gonna last what's the best way to keep it okay again how to freeze it how to can it how long to blanch it if there's better ways to do it many parts of the country are becoming foodies which means they eat home ninety nine of the time and they really are getting into how to cook things the absolute most tasty most best way western michigan's a little slow in that we have a lot of people that love to eat out but i'm sure that we will catch up with other places where eating home is the way to go like a lot of grilling and a lot of you know like even asparagus through the last few years grilling asparagus is phenomenal five years ago no one ever heard of asparagus on the grill and it tastes to the top the best do you put something on that you drizzle with olive oil and just roll it on the grill you can also do it on a pan in your oven real high heat and then sprinkle parmesan cheese on top of it ooh at the end the last few minutes also excellent but asparagus is done so but there's all kinds of other things that are excellent to eat this time of year beans sweet corn was the first for us yesterday so everybody loves fresh sweet corn people gobblin that up yeah that's yeah yeah so how do you do your produce how do you pick it we have a crew we also help but i mean we have a crew that picks certain days we pick certain things and we have a spreadsheet that tells us how much we need for saturday's market we go to six markets and each item we grow we write how many each person wants and then the point is to go pick that need sometimes we have more than enough ready and available and sometimes we're short and we have to scramble but that's kind of how we come up with a way to do this because you have to have a plan also when we were talking about how much to plant you also have to think about how much do you need yeah how many are people gonna buy yep exactly or the kinds of things they buy might kind of change too exactly used to be straight yellow sweet corn now it's the bicolored that had to change with how life changes and some people just love trying new things some people just want the standard oldfashioned way you know something they've always liked right yes exactly most people like trying something they never tried before in this day and age what would you say is your most popular item the thing we grow the most is potatoes and we grow a variety we grow six or seven varieties we grow a russet which is like a baking potato a blue potato which is blue all the way through really so that's quite fun different i've never heard or seen that yeah it's totally blue we raise a couple reds and superior white we raise yukon gold and then one of our absolute favorites is called german butterball and it's a small potato and oh do people just love them and they just eat them up they're just delicious they're a kind of a buttery tasting potato and they're just plain delicious but we you know we grow lettuce and the beans and the carrots and the radishes a lot of people really resonate to our radish pile it's tall it's red you know it's very becoming that's what i noticed yesterday too is the color there's nothing like the natural color in real fruits and vegetables and greens god created em really awesome you know or vibrant and pickles that's something people are doing more of for a while that was kind of a done thing bread and butter pickles are very very easy some people make sun pickles they stick them in a jar right by a window or outdoors you know so there's easy and that's a benefit of going to the market you say how do you make this and quite often farmers will have recipes out in front and like if you join our facebook page then there's recipes on there all the time people share recipes and we put recipes on we have bloggers that are on that are foodies that always just exchange ideas yes exactly and they have their own cooking show and we're part of we have a lady that lives like arizona and she comes and she does a food show in arizona but she has a home here on lake mac and so she talks in her food show all the time about holland farmers market which is awesome yeah you know you don't realize how small i mean if you go to market and you would just sit and listen to the people where they're from and the different dialects they speak rarely is there a day that there's not someone from very very far away they're there for the joy of the market yeah right i mean we were there yesterday and all the interviews we had were amazing from other countries and other cities and exactly i had one woman whose granddaughter played on the playground at windmill island gardens had kids from four different countries playing with her one saturday isn't that amazing it's so good and holland touches a lot of lives in downtown holland when the market started in about one thousand nine hundred and seventy nine was a little leery of us they were afraid we were gonna take away business and if you talk to any of them people that own businesses down the 8th street it's fantastic absolutely it puts holland on the map now they were afraid in the beginning the money wouldn't spread thick enough forever you know it'd be too hard for them to make a go and us and what they learnt is on wednesdays and saturdays they were busier and it's been a exactly and it worked right on into the whole nation sure to be a environmentally conscious and organic and all that good stuff yeah to be a hot city you have to have a farmers market and so holland's done wonderful innovative things they've had great people that worked with the city with our market master and with us vendors to really do a good job i bet the produce at the market is a little younger than the produce in the store would you say that exactly that's a very true statement it's only gotta be shipped from borculo to town or wherever our vendors are from whereas if you're getting lettuce from california it is taken a long time to get to our grocery store yeah so how hard is it for you to pace your crops with the season i mean you're not only working here like six seven days a week keeping everything growing and watered and fertilized and harvested but then you also have to be selling it at different farmers markets all the time and that's a lot that's where it helped we have seven kids yeah there you go everybody has their own responsibility and that's made a huge difference and it helped our farm that we can go six places on a saturday but it is a well like and phil plants beans every week so that you get every time you come to market you get a brand new patch of beans that you're eating oh wow most people think that we plant one patch of beans and we keep picking em til they're dead cause we had a lot of people yesterday like my bean plants aren't looking very good no more and it's like well you gotta keep planting em but that's not how it works in your head and most people plant their garden as soon as it's safe to plant and that's it that's it you get what you get but for us we can't do that we have to keep it going so we have fresh stuff all the time wow i am sure i don't know i would've had no idea that there was that much chemical analysis to every single field every single year exactly and rotation of crops i'd heard of that before but i didn't know you know it was so it all started with the cotton right in the south and they wore out their fields and so george washington carver had to come up with other products to use peanuts for to rotate crops so that they could keep using the fields for cotton and rotating you know and so principle's important it is and when we talk about sustainable farming we mean it we want this for our kids and feeding our land like you feed your body healthfully makes you last right you know it makes you grow better makes your children grow better eating better fruits and vegetables is the key to growing healthy children now i heard about bees that it's important for yield of crops is that true totally and like a pickle okay we'll use a pickle as an example incredibly important to have bees a pickle gets a flower and the bees pollinate that flower if you do not have bees the pickle will be fat on this end and go into a nub on this end oh really see and so when you see pickles that are symmetrical all the right shape that was a wellpollinated plant same thing with like squashes and we need the bees for strawberries because they have a blossom well this has been a great conversation and we've learned a lot about the backstory of all of this but we would like to see it too so let's all get on board and see the farm okay cindy sounds great let's do it these are beans and green and yellow this patch on our left they just got done picking and we're picking in the right side right now and you can tell these are large beans that would not be soft and tender but these are just nice and soft and these obviously have been picked our pickers are ahead of us here we are right at the action we're actually getting the beans and they're gonna go to market right exactly and these are just gorgeous beautiful thin beans they're beautiful oh delicious i'm sure and these guys are all picking and we're picking green beans right now and we'll move into yellow a little bit later this afternoon we just done with a patch right behind the guys that are taking the picture and those beans are too large to pick anymore these are nice and long and thin and very very tender these beans are fed by drip irrigation there's a black tube that goes underneath these plants and it's laid down it has an emitter at the end and it has little holes every inch and a half and that waters the plants the ground is wet underneath and that's what's protecting and making these plants grow well even though we're in a drought one inch in one month that's not a lot of rain for growing beans and product so how many beans can he get out of a plant you get probably about a pound or so out of a plant they yield really quite good he can look at that when he pans down as well they are on pretty thick and they are very nice beans oh you can almost pick a handful at a time huh exactly wow very nice oh wow that looks so good fresh beans are amazing just cracks in your mouth delicious i know dutch people just love beans don't we i know we do it's so good let's go take some more pictures of some more things that we grow great and here's the peppers there's all different colors in there oh cool and then here's cabbage now they've got plastic under them is that to keep em moist that's to keep the weeds out and there's a drip line irrigation under every one oh okay to save water yep and here's hot peppers and different jalapeno and different kinds like that and then here we got our late tomatoes and then some flowers and then these here are sweet potatoes coming out so that wraps up this wonderful tour of visser farms that came from farmers market and we're so glad that you could be with us on the wagon and looking at all the crops this is a wonderful day to be out on the farm and we know all the days are not this nice but we are really enjoying the best of farming here we hope that this is engaging and that you feel more informed about at your next trip to farmers market and we're so grateful to visser farms for their time and helping us learn all of this if you would like to watch this program or other ones of city connections you can do that by going to vimeocomcityofholland you can see all the different city connection shows and there's also a number on the screen that you can call if you don't have online access thanks for joining us this wonderful day