Peanuts Don't Grow On Trees

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.