it's hard work, long hours, but it's very rewararding. [music] >> i never r thought i w would be a farmer. three years ago, i did an apprenticeship with a local organic farmer. and now i run radix farm. i use natural growing meththods, following organic standarards, o grow a diveerse array y of vegetableles, over 4545 differet kinds and varieties. i lease ththree acres s from a larger r farm that does industrial corn and soy production. i keep a buffer zone between my farm and the corn and soy. if the herbicide sprayed on that part of the farm gets onto my vegetables, they'll die just like that. most of the farming in the chesapeake bay is large monococulture crorops of cornrnd soy.y. they're sprayining a lot of synthetic herbicides and fertilizer, and it affects the soil quality, and it ruins the biodiversity of the land. instead of pesticides, i use a lot of different things. grow cover is one. just putut it over t the crops,d it keeps t the pests o out. i grow a diverse landscape of flowers, diverse crops, so that i'm encouraging benef