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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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53:48

When You are Almost Ready to Burnout, The Offseason...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/12/05

Farming is one of those careers that are more than a career. It's a lifestyle. A lifestyle in every sense of the world. Because for a big part of the year your life will be the farm. Extreme work hours and murderous weeks are pretty much universally synonymous with farming. During parts of the season it's not uncommon to work 12, 15, or 18 hour days, putting in those types of days back to back. The work becomes everything during those periods and it is a long, long cycle of do this then this

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45:24

Thinking About Starting a Farm - Start Here First...

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2016/11/28

If you are thinking about transitioning from a career in one field to a career as a part-time or full-time farming, you need to be careful in this stage. The obvious reality is that you get infinitely many chances to make a business work, but the not-so-obvious reality is that everyone gets infinite changes, and most people will only use one. Their shot misses, it doesn't work, and it’s over. They never get back up for whatever reasons - emotional, family, financial, emotional. The goal of this

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48:02

Increasing Farm Profits by Raising Turkeys [GFL34]

Grassfed Life ·

2016/11/21

The person buying Darby's turkeys isn't focused on the sticker - they have other reasons to buy a turkey from him, reasons that are strong enough for them to look past the price. Reasons like being locally raised, being raised in better conditions, being raised by a farmer that they know, and them as a customer being able to support a farmer and a method of agriculture that they believe in, and one that's preciously opposite the methods being used by the Butterballs of the world. It's these

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59:06

Filtering Your Ideas into an Enterprise that Works...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/11/14

Set yourself up for success from Day 1 by putting in place a plan that has a chance of success in reality. There's some danger in putting in a plan that's too aggressive up front, because what happens on the back end when you don't meet your own level of expectations, unrealistic or not? Not a situation that you want to be in. READY TO START YOUR OWN LIVESTOCK FARM? The Farm Business Essentials Online Course is here, and it’s not just a piece of the puzzle. FBE is a complete step by step A to Z

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51:48

How to Raise Pigs Regeneratively in the Woods - Part...

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2016/11/07

When it comes to a small scale livestock operation, there are two main choices that stick out when it comes to selecting starter enterprises: pastured poultry and pigs. This season we have discussed each of them in depth, looking at the nuts and bolts and pros and cons of these enterprises. And if I had to guess, I would assume that most people getting into small scale livestock start with poultry. But that might not always be the best option. In many cases raising pigs may be a better option

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55:51

Transitioning from a Full Time Career as an Engineer...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/10/31

What you will hear today, is an episode that I published about a year ago with Darby. It's an interview talking about his transition into farming and his farm beginnings. If you think you may have heard this interview before, then you probably right. It was published as one of the founders’ stories last year before PV3. Given the timing I think that re-airing this interview makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of stuff in this interview that we haven't covered in GFL before. And it should help

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57:20

How to Increase Farm Sales by Taking Advantage of A...

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2016/10/24

Believe it or not, not all surprises on the farm are bad surprises. Not every surprise is a baby calf dying, turkeys arriving days early, and having a car crash through your fence on Christmas Day setting off a chain of events that has your cattle and thousands of dollars heading towards the highway. Some surprises are actually good surprises.... and recently Darby got one of those. It came out of the blue, and it's a good one. What is it, and how is he dealing with it. READY TO START YOUR OWN

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47:16

Competition versus Coopetition - Advice for Entering...

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2016/10/17

At any given time, in any place, in any area of business, there is usually an established set of businesses operating in that geographic area. If you are new to that area and/or if you want to start a business in that area, how do you compete? Think about farming. There are a lot of conventional and better than conventional producers of poultry, pork, and beef in many of the markets around the US and Canada. If you want to get into one of those markets, how do you deal with the competition? On

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42:16

Getting Free Land by Building Pasture - More Grass...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/10/10

Today's episode is Part Two of our series on pasture. In this episode Darby will go into detail with a plan that converts conventional row crop into perennial pasture,dealing with invasive weed pressure, and practical considerations for establishing new pasture. Things like should you mow long grass, why or why not, and when could you graze cattle on a new pasture, and even chickens. There's a lot of practical advice in this one. Hopefully some of this advice can help you get establish more

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52:47

Getting Free Land by Building Pasture - More Grass...

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2016/10/03

When you have an animal that eats grass, then you as a farmer have a big advantage. Grass is free. You don't have to buy it, and depending on where you live you might not have to water it. So your input costs on your end product, are low. But not all grass is created equal. If you don't have a lot of grass or grass year round, then you might find yourself in a situation where you need to purchase hay, which drives input costs up. It's in your interest to have the healthiest most productive

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49:35

Old School and New School Farmers - When Paradigms...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/09/26

What do you do if you have one view of agriculture, and your family has a different view of agriculture? And what do you do if your family owns land and farms on that land in a way that's different than the way that you would farm? How do you navigate that situation? On one hand you have a big asset at an arms length. The asset being potential land to farm. On the other hand, you realize that farming on that land in way that you believe is right might directly contradict the method of farming on

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45:12

The Summer Grind - Dealing With and Setting...

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2016/09/19

So far this season we have covered everything from pastured poultry to pigs to cattle to sales and marketing. We've covered a lot, from the basics to the specifics. And based on the feedback it's be helpful. Also, along the along the way we have received a lot of great questions from you all. Questions like - How do I go about selling chickens to customers and not worry about people trying to sue me should they get sick from one of my birds? Today we will answer that questions, and many others

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54:08

Starting a Farm and Staying Married - A Couple's Farm...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/09/12

Last we we heard from Brandy Simpson, Darby's wife, on what starting a farm was like on the other side, the non-entrepreneur side, the spouse side. Today we'll continue to round out that view, because this week Brandy is back, and joined by Darby, as they talk more about startup, their relationship, and holding it all together. How did they both handle money being tight, and set expectations. And what was the key to making it all work. There's a lot in here, enjoy this one, part two of the

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50:07

It's Your Dream, Not Mine - Farm Transition - The...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/09/05

Today's episode is a special one. It is part one of a mini-series focusing on farm start up, but from the other side- not the side of the farmer, instead from the side of the farmer's wife. It’s a conversation with Darby's wife Brandy and what it was like to be the farmer's wife and transition into farming in that role, as a mom of two young kids, and as someone who viewed their future not on a farm. Think of Brandy as an avatar - the generic universal representation of the farmer's wife. As you

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59:48

8 Reasons Why You Might NOT Want to Start a Pastured...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/08/29

Today we are still talking about pastured poultry, but we will look at it from a different viewpoint... the viewpoint of why pastured poultry might not be a good fit for your and your operation. We will explore that view by looking at eight negatives associated with pastured poultry and how you might be able to overcome those negatives. READY TO START YOUR OWN LIVESTOCK FARM? The Farm Business Essentials Online Course is here, and it’s not just a piece of the puzzle. FBE is a complete step by step

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02:06:33

Growing Sales in Order to Start Farming Full-time - A...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/08/22

This episode is a special episode that addresses a question submitted to us by listener Ben Grimes of Dawnbreaker Farms. Ben's question was a simple one, but the answer wasn't simple or straightforward. Like many things when it comes to farming there's a lot of nuance and variability involved. Given that this episode is effectively two parts. Part one is Ben's questions along with an interview with Ben help add some supporting details and context. Part Two is Darby's answer to that

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01:07:48

Grassfed Cattle Basics – Why You Should and How Can...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/08/15

Today's show is Part 2 of our series on cattle. This episode is all about the ins and outs of stockers, cattle that you purchase, raise on farm and sell. It's a great operation for a beginner and one way of raising cattle that is very different from a cow/calf operation where you breed and raise your own cattle on farm to sell. READY TO START YOUR OWN LIVESTOCK FARM? The Farm Business Essentials Online Course is here, and it’s not just a piece of the puzzle. FBE is a complete step by step A to Z

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01:06:01

Grassfed Cattle Basics - An Introduction to Raising...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/08/08

Let's say you start raising chickens on grass, pastured poultry. You're rotating the chickens around your land and as you do that the chickens leave behind nitrogen rich fertilizer packets at every stop. Something that the grass will respond to but growing, a lot... The more that you do this, the more grass that you grow. Now you are stuck with a lot of grass, and it's getting to the point where the grass is too tall for the chickens... You have a grass problem. How do you manage that grass?

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52:21

Farm Transition - Being a Great Employee, so You Can...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/08/01

Think about your life and your work situation. Is it one that consumes a huge majority of your time? And is that by choice or because that’s just the way that it’s always been. If you don’t like it, you can always change it. That’s what this episode is about, designing a life that works for you. READY TO START YOUR OWN LIVESTOCK FARM? The Farm Business Essentials Online Course is here, and it’s not just a piece of the puzzle. FBE is a complete step by step A to Z system to plan, market, and grow the

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55:46

Transitioning Chicks from the Brooder to Pasture -...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/07/25

If you listened to last week's episode it was all about brooder management. Managing the chicks from when they arrive on the farm until they reach about three weeks of age when it's time to go out onto pasture. Today's episode picks up right where that one left off. We talk all about transitioning birds to pasture, and then managing the new birds on pasture. There's a lot of practical and immediately applicable advice in this one. And this one also finishes up our series of shows on pastured

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