3 Boys Farm, Award-winning Organic & Hydroponic Vegetable Growers
3 Boys Farm, owned and operated by Robert Tornello and located in Ruskin, on the west coast of sunny Florida, USA, is an amazing farm that combines the best of modern technology and time-tested methods to grow vegetables locally and sustainably. Using alternative energy sources such as solar panels and wind-turbines, and harvesting rainwater, 3 Boys Farm leads the way to a future of sustainable agriculture. Produced, directed, and narrated by Rick Lurding.
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An amazing, imaginative piece of creativity in farming which holds the solution for farmers, villages and nations which suffer from chronic water shortage! I think the UN and the World Bank should popularize these techniques around the world as poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere in this globalized world.
Johnson Thomas K
January 19, 2013 at 4:35 pm
funny how they don’t mention the hundreds of thousands of pounds of lead and acid in the batteries or electricity usage for when the wind isn’t blowing to run the turbines.
Jon Doe
January 19, 2013 at 4:58 pm
yeah i caught that too, lol. i bet everything else that they were saying fell into that category where farmers were thinking that it was really dumb, i just don’t have the knowledge in farming to catch it.
Jon Doe
January 19, 2013 at 5:54 pm
I admire this farm, however is it economically ?
vkenair
January 19, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Nice system.But did I miss the organic part. If factory produced fertilizers are used, it is not “organic”.
bone bones
January 19, 2013 at 7:12 pm
10:30 Robert is in the process of breaking the laws of physics. Good luck with that. Make a fan blow on a turbine, which then powers the fan itself, in addition to rainwater pumps. Sounds legit.
aeew
January 19, 2013 at 7:31 pm
awesome 🙂
Andreas Mathiassen
January 19, 2013 at 8:05 pm
better things already going on there, look into bill molison and what he did in africa. They are’t starving everywhere, some places are very well off and having food growing all over the place, black/grey water disposed of in a healthy useful way. bill molison – global gardener series.
Swansen03
January 19, 2013 at 8:13 pm
not to mention a drought proof farm, no chance of bacterias (no manure to amend soil) oh and what about something like a hail storm wiping out a crop??? CANT HAPPEN IN THIS DESIGN. It is the way of the future. Nature is too inconsistent to rely on for the size of our population. 7szekler sounds like a big ag farmer. Enjoy your GMO subsidized corn 7…..
junkosgarden
January 19, 2013 at 8:14 pm
Awesome!!
He could probably run some turbines off the rainwater coming out of those pipes
Mark M
January 19, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Stop DoC and the so called Animal Health Board (AHB) from spreading 1080 poison over our forests, streams and waterways.
See the results at:
youtube.com/watch?v=u7RFiz4lShA (Deer mass poisoned)
and
youtube.com/watch?v=nKL7KllorWw (New Zealand Rivers – The Fight to Keep Them Poison-Free)
spearfishies
January 19, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Amazingly super… sir can i know what is the soilless medium that you place the seed at the timing 4:20 in this video, pls reply to dxndxb@hotmail.com
dxdigitals
January 19, 2013 at 9:20 pm
What an amazing work ! If only the economics of this system is viable, more such farms will come up soon.
Dorairaj Kuppurangam
January 19, 2013 at 9:44 pm
Wow this is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!! With Hawaii’s skyrocketing cost of living, this is exactly what I was seeing to do but NOT to sure how to go about it… Thank you sooo much for giving me hope on my retirement as I plan to be self-sufficient in my needs so I don’t have to depend soo much on the high costs of food on Oahu. GREAT JOB & KEEP UP THE INGENUITY!
knz9701
January 19, 2013 at 10:37 pm
Amazing! The next step would be to expand it vertically, install high efficiency LED grow lights where needed and bam, you’ve got a farming system that could save the world
sampleandhold
January 19, 2013 at 11:30 pm
You my friend are a DUMBASS!
akbodey
January 19, 2013 at 11:56 pm
make the system in africa NOW…..
Andreas Mathiassen
January 20, 2013 at 12:44 am
Incredible thinking! Great Job!
akbodey
January 20, 2013 at 1:41 am
I wanna smoke some of his pot.
wacher8
January 20, 2013 at 2:36 am
Fantastic job! I love hydroponics.
ramsef
January 20, 2013 at 2:38 am
@7szekler study before you run your mouth! Not only does this use 1/15th the land as conventional farming but 1/10th the water than conventional irrigated farms! It has less disease meaning more efficiency, less spoilage meaning even more efficiency etc these vegetables don’t even need to be washed before eating because of how clean they are where as normal farms must wash due to necessity hydroponic systems due it as an extra rinse!
VtBudgies
January 20, 2013 at 3:38 am
looks great, can you tell where do you get the nutrients from?
gmajorrr
January 20, 2013 at 4:27 am
some good ideas, its a wonder the government would allow him to collect their rain water, I bet that wont go on for to long. Thank you for the video.
TheTime4solutions
January 20, 2013 at 4:39 am
great job…great innovation
binoopant
January 20, 2013 at 5:07 am
Sustainable? What about the carbon- and energy-footprint of the high-tech investment? As they say, these plants are “produced” instead of being planted. No thanks! I wouldn’t like to eat his so called natural plants, produced in a totally artificially world. His vegetables has the same shape, same size and maybe they taste all the same, even if we speak about salad or tomato. They invest a huge amount of money just to create an atmosphere which otherwise is assured by nature.
7szekler
January 20, 2013 at 6:06 am