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Grassfed Life

Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming, grass based livestock, pastured poultry, grassfed beef, pastured pigs, farmsteading, farm sales and marketing, and work-life balance.

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01:13:25

How to Make Bulk Sales Simple so You Can Sell More...

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2017/10/09

Darby and I talk about the ins and outs of his bulk purchase program, and Darby fields questions from a prospective buyer. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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31:59

Overcome: Battling Cancer While Starting a Farm with...

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2017/10/02

Lou Roman talks about his experience being diagnosed with cancer and starting a farm after he found out. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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01:09:40

Overcoming Challenges and Creating Success Farming on...

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2017/09/25

Today I talk to first year farmer Charles Mayfield of Mayfield Pastures about how he's managing to balance life and business and a full time job with the part time job - farming. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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01:00:39

Which Poultry Feed Is Best - Inside the Numbers and...

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2017/09/18

Today Darby Simpson and I will take a deeper look at poultry feed, current prices, current customer perceptions, and how that might change what Darby is doing on his farm. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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01:22:16

How to Balance the Pace of Progress with Reality (GFL72)

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2017/09/11

Darby and I talk about the trade-offs between what you want and what reality dictates. We go over ways to balance between your ideology, dream, and vision of a farm and what you can actually do. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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01:41:43

Five Farmers Talk About Their Experiences Raising...

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2017/08/28

Five farmers talk about their experiences raising pastured poultry on small acreage. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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01:20:14

Which Farm is Right for US - Analyzing and Buying a...

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2017/08/21

When it comes to buying a farm, how do you select the right one? Specifically the right one for you? Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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48:48

Micro Beef - Raising Grassfed Beef on Less Land Than...

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2017/08/14

Don't have much land, not a problem, a lot is still possible. Recently Darby and I have gone through exactly what's possible on small land with pastured poultry and with pigs. Each of these episodes showed that individually each enterprise could generate some significant cash flow on just one acre, and stacking the enterprises turns up the returns even more. What if you had more than an acre? Or what if pigs or poultry weren't your thing? What's possible with cattle? In this episode Darby and I

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57:13

Profitable Pigs for the Farmstead, Homestead or Small...

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2017/08/11

Running a profitable pig enterprise on just 1 acre, is it possible, and if so, what is possible? What’s that operation going to look like, what are the trade-offs and the costs, and how much could you make? It's an operation which could bring some nice cash flow into a homestead or diversify a farms revenue streams, and the time inputs and profits will surprise you. Because a lot is possible on just one acre. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at

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56:36

How to Convert a Fallow Meadow to a Usuable Pasture...

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2017/08/11

Let's assume you have a fallow field or a meadow. How do you convert that to pasture? That's what this episode is all about. Assume that the fictional field is in the Midwest, it's 20 acres, and mostly herbaceous species. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

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55:51

40 Years of Grazing, A Lookback with John Phelan (GFL66)

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2017/08/11

Today I am talking to a grazer, John Phelan, who’s been farming for over 40 years and lived on his farm for the better part of 60 years. During that time period politics changed, farming methods changed, the land changed and evolved with the methods, a family was raised, and disaster has struck. Over the last 40 years John’s seen it all including watching his land burn to the ground. It’s been a long road, but one that’s been worth it. It's a look back at a life of grazing with John Phelan. Get

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01:02:59

$6000 and 600 Chickens - The 1 Acre Pastured Poultry...

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2017/08/11

Running a profitable pastured poultry enterprise on just 1 acre, is it possible, and if so, what is possible? What’s that operation going to look like, what are the trade-offs and the costs? It's an operation which could bring some nice cash flow into a homestead or diversify a farms revenue streams, and the time inputs and profits will surprise you. Because a lot is possible on just one acre. Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at

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01:04:16

Why an Off Farm Job Might Be Good For Your Farm (GFL64)

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2017/08/11

One advantage of farming in a place where there's winter is winter. For many farmers winter means forced downtime, or at least, yeah it's cold and I'm tired. Given that many farmers take the winter off. Depending on your farm maybe that's totally off or maybe, that's just off with a dramatically reduced workload. It's downtime you can use for a variety of purposes... to rest, to relax, to get ahead on other projects, to do repairs or build out infrastructure, to take a trip, or to work.... for

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01:14:43

Preparing for Winter Now - The How, Why and Cost of...

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2017/08/11

If you’re raising cattle then you’re likely holding them over at least one winter. For most of the country winter means no grass, so you're either stock piling forage over the summer or your feeding hay. Given these two choices, the choice for most people is feeding hay. Given that, where will your hay come from? Is it hay you are growing and producing on the farm, or are you buying it and bringing it on property? Depending on where you live, how much land you have access to, what equipment you own,

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01:09:41

Getting Customers to Come to You - Crushing on Farm...

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2017/08/11

What if you didn’t have to wake up early every Saturday and load up and lug down to the farmers market. What if instead you could sleep in, at least till 5 versus 3. What would that be like? And what would sales, specifically your market streams have to look like to make that happen? You would have to be delivering your product off the farm to the customers or you could have the product deliver itself by having the customer come to you. That’s how farmer Michael Kovach of Walnut Hill Farm sells 95%

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01:13:45

Getting More Farm Sales by Selling Into More Markets...

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2017/08/11

In this episode Darby talks about several new market streams he is adding to his farm business on top of the several market streams he already has. He isn't adding these market streams because he wants to, he's adding them because he has to. He is seeing his existing market streams start to top out, so if he wants to grow the farm he has to start selling his product to more customers versus selling more products to his existing customers. You'll learn about why he is doing this, and how he is

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01:01:58

Overcoming New Farm Challenges and Refining Fodder...

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2017/08/11

What if you want to raise pastured poultry, but you don't have any grass? You have pasture, but it's not green, or the pasture is just an area outside. In many cases if it was cattle, you are feeding hay. But what do you do for poultry, because poultry don't eat hay. You use fodder. Or at least, that's one option. An option that my guest today, Tim Bork of the Brush Arbor Farmstead is a big fan of. Tim lives in Northern California and there are times of year when the grass instead green and parts of

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55:16

Far From Utopia – The Never-ending Challenges and...

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2017/08/11

About a year ago we published an episode titled - When Farming Sucks. In that intro to that episode I said... Farming 200 years ago and 2000 years ago was hard, just like it is today. Sure technology and innovation has made parts of the job easier, but at the core farmers today still worry about the same things farmers did 2000 years ago. Some things, and days are just going to suck. There's no way to avoid it. There's going to be hard times. Often we don't think about those hard times that might

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53:44

Portable Electric Fence for Livestock 101 - Tips,...

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2017/05/15

Last week Darby and I talked about fencing basics, think - How should you think about fencing in your context? Given that, depending on you and your situation, the best option might be to use portable electric fencing. If that's the case, then this episode is for you because today it’s all about portable electric fence. Stephanie Sexton, Product Manager at Premier 1 Supplies, joins me to talk about the ins and outs of electric fence for three specific farming scenarios - poultry, pigs, and market

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53:54

A Beginners Look at Fencing for Livestock (GFL57)

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2017/05/08

During the workshops and via email, we've gotten a lot of questions on one subject which we have never really covered before, until today, fencing. If you have listened to the last 5 episodes on sheep, you will know that there are a lot of different opinions on fencing and a lot of different approaches to using those fencing systems. Today we will take a look at fencing from a 10,000 foot view discussing how to approach establishing permanent fence if you are a new farmer and/or are putting fence

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