A Shot of AG
The Hard Work Behind Fresh Fruit
Clip: Season 6 Episode 39 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Austin Flamm explains why picking fruit is much harder than it looks from the outside.
Austin Flamm talks about growing up on the family orchard and doing nearly every job on the farm. He explains why picking apples, peaches, strawberries and vegetables may sound enjoyable but quickly becomes demanding physical work. The conversation also captures one of the hazards of harvesting strawberries: eating almost as many as you pick.
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A Shot of AG
The Hard Work Behind Fresh Fruit
Clip: Season 6 Episode 39 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Austin Flamm talks about growing up on the family orchard and doing nearly every job on the farm. He explains why picking apples, peaches, strawberries and vegetables may sound enjoyable but quickly becomes demanding physical work. The conversation also captures one of the hazards of harvesting strawberries: eating almost as many as you pick.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo you grew up on a... do you say you're a farmer or do you say the farm, or?
- I call myself a farmer when people ask what I do, but I feel like a lot of days I do less farming and more just business.
But yeah, I'm a farmer, but I grew up on the farm.
- You tell your wife, "Hey, I'm going to the farm."
Or do you always say orchard?
- Farm.
- Okay, gotcha.
- I call it the farm.
- Yeah.
You grew up on the farm then?
- Yep, yep, born and raised there.
- You raised picking apples and all that stuff.
- I've done everything at least once on our farm.
And let me tell you, people think going out and picking apples or peaches, or especially vegetables or strawberries, is something you have to bend over.
They think that's fun.
It is extremely hard work.
- It is, it's a lot of fun for about five minutes.
- Yeah.
- And you're like, "I haven't even got a tenth of this tree done."
- And when you're picking something like strawberries, the problem is you eat 'em as fast as you're saving them.
So you work for 10 minutes, you only have five minutes to show for it.
- Yeah, but you can only eat so many.
That's the first 10 minutes.
So after that... - Sure, sure.
- You're probably full, aren't you?
Yeah.
(both laughing)
The Real Danger of Working Near an Ice Cream Machine
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Clip: S6 Ep39 | 27s | Austin Flamm admits the hardest part of orchard life may be resisting unlimited ice cream. (27s)
Why the Orchard Is Investing Beyond Fresh Fruit
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