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Farm Small Farm Smart Daily

The Modern Grower Podcast Network

Daily farm and garden talk. All about growing vegetables profitably and efficiently on small farms and in gardens. Each episode focuses on one specific topic - growing practices, how-to, farming challenges and struggles, sales and marketing, soil preparation, weed management, farm startup, market selection, and work-life balance. Hosted and produced by Diego Footer"s Modern Grower Podcast Network.

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01:29:16

FSFS97: Growing a $100,000 Farm - Elliot Seldner of...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/05/03

Today I'm talking to a grower who's admittedly "I'm a little bit obsessive about growing high quality produce." It's an obsession that's fueled his farms growth, and an obsession which is a bit necessary to fuel the farm's growth to bring his fiancé onto the farm full-time. And while Elliot Seldner of Fair Share Farms' obsession may be on growing high quality produce, it's not only on growing high quality produce, because Elliot realized the importance of work life balance and the need to have a

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01:37:29

REPLAY: From MMA to Farm Startup with the Stoic...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/04/30

Whether it’s MMA or becoming a freelancer or business owner, the punches will be thrown, and they will hit you. But as Mike Tyson said, "Everybody has a plan until they punched in the face. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze." When life hits you in the face what are you going to do? Are you going to freeze like a rat, or are you going to come back like Mike Tyson and be that baddest man on the planet? The hard reality of that question, is that it truly is up to you to decide. What would

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56:39

FSFS96: Do New Crops Pay? - The When, How, and Why of...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/04/27

If customers keep asking if you have certain crop, and you don't, should you grow it? It depends. And that's the focus of today's show: When, How, and Why to Start Producing A New Microgreen Crop Today microgreen grower Chris Thoreau and I are talking about new crops - specifically how do you start growing them? On the surface that may seem like a simple and straightforward question, but there's a lot of specifics involved in answering that questions, and the specifics are where profits are made

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01:15:39

REPLAY: Earth Day Special with the original Earth Day...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/04/22

In honor of Earth Day, today's show is a replay of the interview with the original Earth Day lead organizer Denis Hayes. Denis Hayes talks about a lifetime of work in environmentalism - the challenges, successes, the changing environmental problems since the 60's, and how he has endured numerous political changes in Washington. Denis was the organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, headed the Solar Energy Research Institute under President Carter, and is now president of the Bullitt Foundation

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01:03:55

FSFS95: Growing Better by Growing Smaller - Going...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/04/19

Today I'm going to be talking to another small scale farmer who's greatly benefited by growing smaller, not larger. A few years ago farmer Alex Bertsch started farming on half an acre. Not a ton of land, but enough to make it hard for one person to manage. Add in the fact that the half an acre was being farmed part-time, and that half an acre seems a little more daunting. Then place that half an acre 40 minutes from where Alex lived, and you now have a hard farm to manage for anyone. It was a

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58:03

FSFS94: Conquering Analysis Paralysis By Starting a...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/04/12

Welcome to world of Farming Small and Farming Smart, it's The Urban Farmer. When you are starting any new business it can be very overwhelming. You have a lot to do all at once - building infrastructure, creating your brand, marketing, cultivating a customer base, customer service, and of course producing a product. All essentially full time jobs, but full time jobs that need to be done all at once, by one person, you. It can be very overwhelming. Where do you start? After all you can't just focus

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01:19:10

V223: The Importance of Being a Father (V223)

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/31

This episode is a special episode, it's a replay of another podcast, specifically someone else's podcast. The episode that you will hear today is an interview that Marianne West did with me on a subject I am very passionate about - being a dad. Marianne is going to talk to be about being a dad and how that first experience of being a dad dramatically shook up my life, and not just in a good way. Marianne did a great job with the interview, and it's an episode that I am very proud to have been a

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01:01:26

FSFS91: Growing More Crops and Making More Money in...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/22

Today it's back to Kelowna and Green City Acres as Curtis and I take a look back at his experiences with inter-planting, planting multiple crops in the same space . It's something that he's done for a few years now, and something that he's doing again this year with his tomatoes. We first stated talking about this subject back in 2015 when we did an episode touching on the subject in Season One, then we hit on it again almost a year ago in Season Two. Today we are going to take a look at what

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01:09:44

V222: Owning Land As Insurance Against Disaster - The...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/19

There's a lot to worry about out there in the world right now - climate change, GMOs, the financial system, debt, terrorism, disease, water insecurity, a fragile food system. What if you could insure yourself against some of these worries? And get that insurance through land, land as insurance.. It would be a way to take insurance back into our control and put the fragile dollars into an anti-fragile system - an ecosystem. Today Rob Avis of Adaptive Habitat and I will be discussing the idea of

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01:05:39

FSFS90: Farming For A Change with Advocate Farmer...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/15

Today I'm going to be talking to another small scale farming making a go of it as we go to Sebastopol, CA to talk to Caiti Hachmyer of Red H Farm. Caiti's a farmer who started out her farming career on the advocacy side of things. She was living the Bay Area advocating for farmers and looking to play her part in changing hte food system. But after a while she felt something was missing. And she felt like she needed to get on the ground and see what life was really like for some of the farmers

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01:11:23

FSFS89: 10 Base Principles For Successfully Growing...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/08

Today I'm going up to Vancouver to talk to Microgreen Farmer Chris Thoreau with the goal of focusing in on 10 base principles for growing high quality microgreens. Think 10 things that are critical to growing a good crop regardless of where you are growing them, when you are growing them or how you are growing them. These base principles help ensure that you get a successful crop that is free of disease and of high quality. It’s not enough just to go through a successful process without knowing

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55:12

FSFS88: Growing Vegetables and Growing Yourself with...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/03/01

"Farming is as much about growing yourself as it is about growing vegetables." One of the big lessons shared in this episode with farmer Chris Gilbert from Bettendorf, Iowa. Welcome to world of Farming Small and Farming Smart. Today I'm going to be talking to another small scale farming making a go of it as we go to Bettendorf, Iowa to talk to farmer Chris Gilbert of Gilbert's Grapes Farm. Chris's is one that many of share - going from hobby gardener to production farmer. It's a journey that's had

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01:05:58

FSFS87: Growing What Chefs Want with farmer Taylor...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/02/22

Welcome to world of Farming Small and Farming Smart. Today I'm talking to another small scale farming making a go of it, as we go to Omaha, Nebraska to take a look at how farmer Taylor Rogers started his farm. It's an interesting story that takes Taylor from working behind the scenes in a restaurant kitchen to starting up a farm with no experience in a 3rd story apartment. Being on the third floor dealing with all of the steps made for tough go of it initially, but Taylor persisted. In hindsight

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01:01:11

FSFS86: Considerations and Constraints with Hiring...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/02/15

Today is another episode where Curtis and I will be widening the scope, stepping back and zooming out from the tools and techniques and his 1/3 of an acre farm, to take a look at some of the macro issues surrounding agriculture. The focus today is on employees. Curtis will take about his thoughts on hiring employees, and what he looks for in employees. We'll also get into some of the complications that having employees bring to a business owner and what other options other than hiring someone are

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FSFS85: Why Microgreen Grower Chris Thoreau Set Up A...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/02/08

When you start your farm business, one think that you need to think about is your business structure. Sole proprietorships and LLCs are common ways to go, but there are also other options, like co-operatives... That's how farmer Chris Thoreau of Food Pedalers structure his business, and that's the subject of today's show... Today I'm going up to Vancouver to talk to microgreen farmer Chris Thoreau about a topic that you don't hear discussed a lot in small scale farming circles - how he organized

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54:58

Dr. Ross Mars on Practical and Realistic Processing...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/02/03

Today I am talking with Dr. Ross Mars, author of The Permaculture Transition Manual. A book that covers a wide variety of practical topics including: permaculture design principles, soil building, nutrient-dense food growing, and greywater systems. In the book Ross also dispels a number of well accepted permaculture myths, such as comfrey being a dynamic accumulator. I think we have all hear that one before, plant comfrey because its roots mine and accumulate nutrients deep within the soil. A

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01:12:24

FSFS84: How Farmer Ray Tyler Tripled His Sales by...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/02/01

This week I'll pick up where last week left off with market gardener Ray Tyler of Rosecreek Farms. While last week's episode was more inspiration, this week’s more of the perspiration side of things as Ray talks about some of his production methods and big changes that he made turn go from grossing $35,000 in 2015 to $120,000 in 2016 on less land. Ray's going to go talk about some of the big changes that made that huge increase in gross sales possible. He'll also get into how he controls weeds on

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01:17:12

FSFS83: Farming Against All Odds with Ray Tyler of...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/01/25

Farming Against All Odds with Ray Tyler of Rosecreek Farms From laid off and in debt to grossing $120,000 on one acre. Today's show goes beyond Curtis and the urban farm, as we take a look at another small scale vegetable producer and their farm. We all know that running a business is hard. We all know that running a farm business is hard. But think everyone knows how hard it actually is. How much it can push you to the limits and test your to your core? It's during those tests, when the

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01:18:32

V151: Permaculture - Another Tool in The Toolbox -...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/01/20

Learn more at www.permaculturevoices.com/151 There had always been that group of design-centric permaculturalists focused on the process, not the techniques. The Toby Hemenways and Larry Santoyos of the world, the Darren Dohertys and the Ben Falks, The Richard Perkins, and my guest today, Rob Avis. They are all just a small sample of a larger subset that's focused on permaculture a design process, and only a design process. To them it's just another tool in the toolbox. A tool that you have at

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01:00:19

FSFS82: Interns - The Good and The Bad - The Urban...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2017/01/18

Support the show at www.permaculturevoices.com/support Valuable and necessary to the success of hte changing landscape of agriculture... or an abused form of cheap labor that helps some farms appear more profitable than they really are... That's what we are talking about today on The Urban Farmer with Curtis Stone With the 2017 season underway, we'll be widening the scope. Not only going beyond Curtis and the urban farmer, but also beyond the urban farm. This year Curtis and I will take a step

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