This is the Modern Crafts and Podcast with

Eiller Grace from TRG Home Concepts.

Nick Schiffer with N.S. Builders.

Johnny Horahan from his is Johnny H and our special guest, the legend.

Mark Martinez, Martinez Tools.

So Mark, you're on the East Coast, you're on the West Coast right now, right?

I'm on the West Coast. now, right? I'm on the west coast.

We're at.

I'm in Merced, California.

I'm just below Yosemite National Park.

Do you live out there staying out there vacationing?

No, I live on my ranch. I ranch nuts. I sit on the porch and watch my nuts grow every day.

But where do your nuts grow? They grow out on trees. But this is

not the nose podcast we've ever had.

Yeah, no I grow I grow almonds.

Nice. I know nothing about growing almonds so we can save that we'll save that for a later one. I want to tell it. growing almond

so we can save that we'll save that for a later one. I want to talk. Wait how long have you done this?

I owned them during my rise with stiletto not understanding I bought an almond ranch from a friend playing

golf and I didn't even know what the hell it was and then I got into it and when I retired I dove headlong into it and just this year I just

redeveloped one of my ranches the one I live on and I was followed by UC Davis in an extension program for one of the most advanced technological

ranches in California.

You know, I built a solar farm. I have one of the most sophisticated watering systems that is run by a cloud that I'm able to I'm able to monitor the solar radiation of the uptake of water into my trees and

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