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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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01:00:20

The Ins and Outs of Brooder Management - New Chicks...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/07/18

Today's episode is all about the ins and outs of brooder management taking you from the time when the baby chicks arrive in the farm in the mail to the day when they are transitioned out to pasture. In this episode we cover feed, environment, and setup of Darby's brooder. 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 farm enterprise that’s

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52:38

Raising your first batch of chicks - What should you...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/07/11

To start the show we'll go to an email that I recently received from one of you listening to the show... "Hi Diego I hope everything is going good for you in sunny California! I ordered 110 Cornish Cross chicks today. I am so excited to finally get my feet wet and stop analysis paralysis. I have made two hoop house style tractors out of cattle panels. I have located a non-GMO organic feed supplier. And I have set a date with a state inspected processor! Thank you so much for all your

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01:16:48

Declaring Independence in Your Own Life, From What...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/07/04

Today is the 4th of July. A day when America celebrates and commemorates its independence. It’s a national holiday, which means that for many American workers today is a calendared day off from work. A day that you can always look ahead to and say, "I have a long weekend for the 4th, let’s go then." For most, not all, most workers today is a money in the bank holiday. Along with Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and a few others, it’s one of the bonus days off for Americans each year. It’s

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01:03:34

Farmers Markets, Farm Tours, On Farm Sales - Are they...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/06/27

Many farmers like Darby work at least 60 hours per week - that's 7 days a week, from May through September. That's a lot of hours. It's much higher average workload during that time specific time frame than your average American. But we can't just focus on those numbers, because there's more to the story. Think about the off season. For many farmers the workload is seasonal. They spend a lot of time working in the summer and a lot of time not working in the winter. That brings the year round

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52:15

A Close Up Look at Poultry Processing Day - The Steps...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/06/20

We will start by going back in time by 8 weeks to April 22. That will be our starting point, Day 0 for the new chicks arriving on the farm. Delivered via mail, the newborn chicks start out their life on the farm in the comfort of the brooder. There they enjoy the warmth of an electric light as the play in wood shavings all day while they eat, gain weight and feather out. As we move ahead to Day 20, the chicks aren't as fragile as they once were, and they are now started to get crowded in their

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01:01:23

How to Tell You Story Clearly and Effectively at...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/06/13

How do you communicate your message, the one that your customers want to hear, at a farmers market? Two ways: when you tell a customer face to face and with signage that you display. But not just any signs. As advertising legend David Ogilvy said, advertising isn't art, it's there to sell product. Given that, make sure that your signs that are clear, understandable, and easy to read from near, and afar. The whole goal of signage is to get people to come over to your booth and talk to you so you can

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48:11

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

Grassfed Life ·

2016/06/06

Over the last few episodes we have talked about raising pork. Today we will be shifting that conversation over to cover what do you do with that pig once it has been raised. The obvious answer is you take it to a butcher who processes it down into various cuts. But this is where the questions come into play. What cuts should have the butcher break down the pig into? Should keep those cuts as cuts or turn that meat into value added product like sausage? Should you always process pigs into the same

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55:23

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

Grassfed Life ·

2016/05/30

Today we are continuing on with Part 2 in the mini-series on raising pigs on a sustainability minded family farm. This episode is all about equipment and infrastructure. Some things to think about before we get into this episode... Where are you starting from and where do you want to go? Depending on where you are starting from, and what you are starting with, that can really dictate what types of equipment and infrastructure you start raising pigs with. Similarly you need to know where you

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01:08:08

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

Grassfed Life ·

2016/05/23

Today we will take a realistic look at how Darby raises his pigs on his farm and why. We will place a lot of emphasis on his context and how that directly ties to why he does what he does. As you will hear it's a balancing act. It's a constant balance between his moral compass and watching his wallet. Another way of saying that is there is always a more regenerative way of doing things, but they come at a cost. And things need to be financially sustainable in addition to being sustainable on the

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53:00

Sell What the Customer Wants and Will Pay For -...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/05/16

When you can get a $5 cooked and ready to eat chicken at Costco, how many consumers are going to pay $40 for the same amount of product, uncooked. Not many. In a world where we are still trying to get the public to accept the $20 chicken, the $40 chicken is insanity. Given that, let’s work with what we have. Let’s run with the $20 chicken and be OK with it. Let’s use what we have as a starting point to get to more regenerative future. And let’s taper our visions back to meet the customer who

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58:28

When Farming Sucks - A Realistic Look at The REALLY...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/05/09

If you romanticized farming before, well this episode is going to take that romantic vision and drag it through the mud a bit. The goal isn't to discourage you from wanting to do any of this. It’s just to make sure that you think about what you are getting into. Because while the life style can be great. And while there are many more good days than bad days. The bad days, can be really bad. And just to make things easy the bad days show up at the most inopportune times - Christmas,

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59:46

Time is Money - Advantages, Disadvantages, and Things...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/05/02

"I am looking into starting my farming business soon, in nearly such a manner as you did Darby, while working a full time job in the city. I plan to start with chickens and have a few questions.... Did you start out processing your own birds? I ask because I live in Georgia and there is a 1000 bird limit per year before you have to go through an inspected slaughter house. While I don't plan to start out with 1000 birds per year, i was curious if it is worth purchasing the processing equipment to

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59:10

When Farmers' Market Sales Falter [GFL4]

Grassfed Life ·

2016/04/25

Darby has been at one particular farmers market for the past six years, but this year he is changing things and not returning to that market due to low sales. In today's episode we will talk about what he looked for in a new market, and how evaluated a new market. Darby will also talk about some of the differences between getting into weekend markets versus weekday markets, what his thoughts are on being one of many meat vendors at a market, the time required to get established at a market, and a

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01:02:37

Advice on Choosing Hatcheries, Chicken Tractors, and...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/04/18

500 baby chicks have arrived at Darby's farm thus beginning the cycle of raising broilers for the season. With the chicks on farm we will talk about what the next steps are. We also discuss the importance of choosing the right hatcheries and breed. Not just to make sure that you receive quality birds, but also to make sure that you receive quality birds in the shortest shipping time possible. Darby will talk about introducing the birds to pasture and how started with the Salatin style chicken

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01:01:50

A New Farm Season Begins - Making Improvements and...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/04/11

Darby has 500 baby chicks arriving at the farm next week. We talk about what he has to do to prepare for that. He is upgrading his in field feeding system, find out how and why. And Darby gives advice on starting out with grazing cattle. 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 farm enterprise that’s right for you. Built by a farmer

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01:06:08

Raising Cows, Pigs and Chickens Profitably on Pasture...

Grassfed Life ·

2016/04/04

This podcast can be helpful to all farmers, it targets the wannabes, the folks who actually entertain notions of living, loving and learning on a piece of land. Anyone willing to dance with such a dream should be able to assets its assets and liabilities its fantasies and realities. "Is it really possible for me?" is the burning question this podcast addresses. And this isn't just one episode that I talking about here. It's a season. I am going to follow pastured livestock farmer Darby Simpson

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