Hey everybody, Pilgrim Farmer here.
Well, I haven't been doing any farming at all
this year.
I've actually been doing a lot of building this year.
You can call me Pilgrim Builder this year.
No farming whatsoever that I'm doing myself, however
not to say that farming ain't being done on the property.
We are here in a peanut field.
And some of you were probably offended at the title of this
saying, "Well of course peanuts don't grow on trees".
Well, that's actually a question we get quite a bit.
You'll show someone a field like this, and they'll say–
who's from other parts of the country– and they'll say, "Hey, what's that?"
I say, "Well, that's a peanut field,"
And they'll say, "Peanuts? I thought they grew on trees".
"No, no, no, they grow in the ground".
And here's a– we have this huge washout right here
which gives us a unique opportunity.
You see exactly how they do grow.
I just dug these out here.
I'mma get the shovel in there a little more.
Just happened to find a shovel out here. In't that convenient?
Alrighty.
We'll there we go.
You see how
they're not that far down.
Now these are still very young, and they're not ready to be picked yet.
And the greens on top are usually a lot taller than this,
however
every night the deer come through here and munch them–
chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp–
munch them right back down.
They just go up and down the rows feasting.
As you can see, the tap root comes down about that far on these,
but the peanuts are
fairly close to the top.
That's a pretty good return
considering they just planted about one of those,
and look how many you get in return.
Here's another, another open row here.
Courtesy of the washout.
Those look fairly healthy,
look fairly healthy.
Now speaking of the deer,
see the corn spilt on the ground here.
Yes, baiting of deer is legal in Georgia.
Someone has put corn down there,
but as you can see the
big deer tracks
walking right through the corn, and they're completely ignoring it,
not paying it any mind.
Why should they bother
with the corn spilled on the ground
when there's acres
of fresh food for 'em to eat?
Now we've got a harvester working on another field
where the peanuts are ready to be harvested.
Let's take a look at it.
'Kay, that machine we just saw's called an inverter,
and it's job is to invert the peanuts
like we see here.
Pull 'em out of the ground,
flip 'em over upside down, and set them back down
And then the sun,
which we see up there shining bright
tonight in Georgia,
the sun and the wind will dry the nuts out.
Then another machine will come by later,
separate the peanut itself from the plant.
Then the peanuts go into a big wagon,
and the greens themself
they'll stay, they'll fall back on the ground.
Another machine will come by, bale these up into huge round bales,
and you can use them for animal feed,
primarily is what they use them for.
But he's got one row done
in this field here.
And he's got,
oh, he's got
a lot of work to do.
One of the best things about the peanut plant
is that it will grow just about anywhere.
Look at this ground here.
I mean this dirt is
better suited for growing pottery than peanuts,
but yet it still grows.
Various parts of Africa and China
people are hungry and starving.
The peanut is a fantastic source of protein for 'em.
That's all I got to say about the peanut.
But anyways, thanks for watching, everybody.
Hope you learned something. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't.
Hey, it was worth it to listen to me babble
for a little bit anyways.
I'm up here giving you the panoramic view
from my luxury deer stand.
And I haven't been in this deer stand in
a couple of– well, actually been a whole lotta year.
A little nervous about what's in here. Oh, baby like
black widow spider perhaps!
But, typically there's scorpions in here.
Oh well, either way
thanks for watching, everybody. Bye-bye.