(gentle music) - Hi guys, welcome to Rio Family Farm in Little Flock, Arkansas.

Today, it's a pretty busy day here at the farm.

We're gonna be picking some beets, some carrots, some tomatoes that we take out to the Bentonville Rogers Farmer's Market.

Fridays are a really special day for Rios Family, this is kind of our bonding time.

The kids enjoy coming out here, picking stuff, knowing where food comes from, knowing that it doesn't always come from a can or from the freezer aisle.

So, here at Rios Family Farm we have a lots of animals.

A lot of them are just like family.

We have some chickens, we do have some cows, we have some ducks and they are all very unique.

They all have their different personalities.

You could just see a chicken and you think it's just a chicken, but they have personalities.

(gentle music continues) The process for getting our crops out, so like I mentioned, we will be picking the crops today.

We put them in crates, take them to our washing station where we clean everything up real nicely, bunch everything up so that then we can get it out to the farmer's market.

(gentle music continues) So, we're gonna be harvesting some tomatoes.

Tomatoes usually take about two to three months before we can actually be picking some of these.

So, as you can tell this is what tomato plants look like as they're growing they are wrapped so that they stay standing and the fruit doesn't end up on the ground.

Usually when we come and pick stuff, we usually do it twice a day, and we try to find some that are not so red, that are usually a little bit more on the green side.

It takes about a day or two before this tomato will be fully ripe.

So, this one has one more day.

As you can tell it's a lot more red, this is a perfectly good slicing tomato at this point.

So, like I said, every day we're out here twice a day, picking some of these tomatoes.

Some people like the green tomatoes to make fried green tomatoes.

Other people love their bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

My personal favorite are super ripe ones.

(gentle music continues) All right, so we are picking some carrots.

Now, carrots, the germination period, germination means the time period in which the seed grows into an actual little plant, is about 22 days.

But, it takes about three months before we can actually see the actual carrots.

We do stagger some of the planting so that we can have produce throughout the season.

Usually about every three to four weeks, he's planting new seeds on the ground, and same thing with our beets, we're picking all this stuff and then replanting just in a different section of the farm.

(gentle music continues) So, we're picking some beets, beets are a root vegetable and you can see they have long roots and there's different types of beets.

They all taste slightly different, we have our traditional really deep red beet and then we also have the golden beets that are my favorite, they are sweeter and they just look really pretty on salads.

So, after we pick the beets and bunch them up then we take them over to our washing station where we wash them really well, rinse all the dirt off and we'll get to see all the pretty colors.

We have a station here where we remove all the dead leaves.

All the dried brown leaves so that all is left are the really pretty green tops and usually when we bunch them up, we use the sort of colors, 'cause it looks a lot prettier, so we'll put some of these pink beads, the golden beets, and then the deep red beets.

And then we use these little chords that I'm sure you have seen at the grocery store and then we wrap these around and just kind of twist it a little bit and then we have a perfect little bunch.

So, here is our final product, you can see all the different pretty colors from the beets and the carrots.

These are ready to go to the Rogers and Bentonville Farmer's Market tomorrow morning.

I hope you enjoyed this video here at the Rios Family Farm in Little Flock, Arkansas.