Archi's Acres

Archi's Acres

4 December, 2009
Grow Info Highlights
Archi’s Acres is a small-scale farm founded in 2007 by Karen and Colin Archipley. Back then, the property they bought contained 200 avocado trees. It was their first experience with growing ever.

Soon they became very excited with growing and built a 30 x 60 ft. greenhouse, using fully sustainable and bio-organic growing methods. Now they successfully grow herbs, vegetables and fruit. Archi’s Acres is located in Valley Center, California, very close to San Diego. We spoke Colin about testing the BIOCANNA line.

Archi's Acres

“We from Archi’s Acres decided to test the BIOCANNA line along with the Bio Terra Plus on 60 heirloom tomato plants in 25 gallon containers. We wanted to see what would be the difference between products using BIOCANNA versus other ‘organic’ commercial nutrients. We tested the products on ‘organic’ quality, sugar production, weight and overall quality. Next to that it was also an opportunity to see if we would actually make a profit using the ‘expensive’ BIOCANNA line.”

Archi's Acres

“The results were mouthwatering to say the least! We made more money on each tomato, selling them for $5/pound. Each tomato was wonderfully juicy and some tomatoes weighing in at a pound or more each! We couldn’t believe the sugar content, the size and sweetness of them. We cut the tomatoes into pieces and let some farmer’s market patrons try the tomatoes. The responds were unbelievable!

It led us to selling out of several hundred pounds of tomatoes in less than an hour! The very next week, we went to set up at the market at 6am. To our own astonishment a line was forming in front of our stand before the market opened at 7am! Again, maybe you’ll already thought of it, we were sold out of all the BIOCANNA tomatoes in less than an hour.”

“Now we can tell the BIOCANNA test was of a great success. As told the quality, size and flavor were amazing. So this test proves that even at the premium cost of nutrients the sold product was able to make a real profit. Because of the fact that a lot of people were standing in line for our great tomatoes we were able to demand a higher asking price along with selling out each weekend! After these fine test results we’re using the BIOCANNA line only to get maximum results.”