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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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01:14:15

Trading Time for Dollars, Supporting Your...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/18

On today's show I am talking to Rob Kippel. Rob's not your typical permie. He's a paramedic, a real estate investor, and he owns a profitable franchise business that has nothing to do with farming, but his values align with the values that permaculture supports. And Rob likes the idea of regenerative agriculture, but he doesn't want to be the farmer. And when you hear this interview, I think you will probably agree, that Rob's skills are best suited for the other fields which he is already

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54:51

TUF038 - It's Not All About the Money - Keeping What...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/16

How much work should you put into something before it gets to the point where it isn't worth it? At what point does the money, the effort, and the headache justify not doing it? With everything in business and farming, there is always a trade off, an opportunity cost. If you are doing one, thing, then it's at the expense of something else. Because you can't do it all, and regardless of the return, sometimes it's just not worth it. In this episode we spend a lot of time looking at how to decide if

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40:27

The Importance of Story Telling (i.e. Marketing) -...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/14

If you are going to succeed in any business then you need to be able to tell a good story. Your skill, services, and product are only going to get you so far. You need to be able to tell the stories that get people to get behind you and pay for your products and services. If you can't do that, then you won't succeed. This is where marketing comes in. And for right or for wrong, marketing has a sleezy image. Because at the core of everything, marketers are propagandists. They are using information to

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49:33

Grow Wings and Fly (CD8)

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/11

In this episode, I want to talk about this idea of growing wings and flying. Not limiting ourselves from becoming who we are and maximizing our true potential. Because we live in a society where everything is comfortable, too comfortable. Where you more or less just plug into the system and get pulled along with it from grade school to college to job to social security... A society where today, if you have a full time job, and you tell someone that you are leaving your job, their likely first

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44:42

TUF037 - 17,500lbs of Vegetables Produced on One...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/09

All in Curtis produced about 17,500lbs of product off of his farm this year. That's a lot of food coming from a small space. Remember Curtis is only farming off of 15,000 sq.ft. which is spread out over 5 plots. And this year he made the most of it producing over 17,000lbs of produce on those 5 plots. And we aren't talking corn and potatoes here. For the most part many of the crops which he produced really aren't that heavy, he simply produced a lot of product. 3000lbs of tomatoes, 2500 lbs of

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50:15

Starting A Small Scale Seed Business - An Additional...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/07

Dan Brisebois will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Today’s episode takes us to Quebec, where farmer Dan Brisebois is doing some amazing things at the Tourne-Sol farm…. Dan Brisebois started out like a lot of other small scale growers, growing market vegetables intensively to sell to CSA customers. But unlike most other growers, Dan also had another plan in mind as he started his farm. A plan that would really distinguish him from many

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45:35

Designing Projects, Systems and Businesses for The...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/04

Christian Shearer will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Hopefully this episode will help shed some light on the long term design process, so you can approach you own long term project with the right mindset, expectations, and goals. Christian as has a lot of experience working on projects that have taken years to complete and evolve. For the past 10 plus years he has been the managing director of the Panya Project in Thailand, and he

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47:16

TUF036 - Dealing with Real World Troubles and Issues...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/12/02

In this episode we will be talking about real world issues and troubles with restaurant customers. How Curtis has dealt with customers who haven't paid in the past and how he has changed his procedures to help make sure that it doesn't happen again. Because Curtis has learned the hard way, when you're in the real world and restaurants don't pay, you can lose a lot of money. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/tuf36

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47:06

The Adventure of Going into Farming – Blending the...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/30

Jean-Martin Fortier will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Basing his farm off of the French bio intensive market gardens JM has kept his farm small and intensive relying mostly on hand labor. He has focused on developing and following on farm systems that work and growing crops that pay. And the results have been a farm pays well. Jean-Martin's farm now generates $150,000 on 1.5 acres, with 40% of that being profit. Big numbers for a

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43:12

TUF035 - Your Business Model Sucks, or You're Not...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/25

Where do you draw the line between this isn't working, but I can figure it out, and this will never work? Let's just accept the fact that farm start-up is going to involve it's fair share of struggles. How long should those struggles continue? Because there is no sense wasting your time, your life's energy, sacrificing the relationships in your life, as you pile on monumental amounts of stress if you don't have the skill, the will, or the resources to make it work. At some point should you draw the

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45:03

You Can’t Always Be a Visionary, Building the Next...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/23

Erin Axelrod will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. A lot of people within the permaculture are visionaries. We imagine a better world. One that's more regenerative, versus depletive and consumption oriented. But sometimes it's hard to align those grand visions with how the world operates today, specifically when it comes to business. So how do you match the vision with what it takes to survive today? We’ll find out, in today's

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41:35

Learning, Putting in the Time, and Hustling to Become...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/20

Zach Weiss will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Zach's going to give you a realistic view of what starting out as a designer is really like. And he is going to answer the big questions of can you actually make a living as a designer and how much opportunity is out there? If you are looking to go into the permaculutre design field, pay attention in this one, because Zach is someone who is carving out their own niche as a designer, and

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49:41

TUF034 - Ask The Urban Farmer – Curtis Answers...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/18

It's currently November 2015 and the main farm season for Curtis is pretty much over. And along with, so is this season of the show. For the remainder of the episodes we'll be wrapping up everything that happened on the farm this year with Curtis and tying up a few loose ends. With things very slow on the land, Curtis is taking a few weeks off from the farm. Given that today's episode is Q and A episode. These questions were actually answered last winter on via Curtis on his YouTube channel. If you

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56:12

Building a Thriving Microgreens Business from...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/16

Today's episode takes us north of the American border to the city of Vancouver. It's the story of how urban farmer Chris Thoreau started his microgreens farm. Like Darby Simpson's story this is another one that very relatable. Chris started his farm at what on paper looks like an in-opportune time. He started this part time while in school full time and 2.5 months into his first semester his son was born. Despite life presenting challenges that some people would say aren't worth the risk, Chris made

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50:12

The Long Road to Overnight Success (CD7)

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/13

If you think about your life, and you never made a dollar doing what you were doing, would you keep doing it - forever? Regardless of whether you are making money doing what you are doing or not, take a second to think about that. If you never made a dollar doing what you were doing, would you keep doing it - forever? Do you like it enough to keep it up? My goal for this episode is to try to get you to have a realistic view of what it's going to take to get to where you want to go. And it may scare

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48:47

TUF033 - Improving Processes to Be More Time, Energy,...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/11

What's your time worth as a farmer? How much should should you be charging yourself to do tasks on the farm? That's an important metric to think about when you are a small operation. Because for a lot of farmers in this space, the labor force is a force of one, you. And you only have so many hours in a day to get everything done. Your time is very valuable. Knowing that, are you spending your valuable time on tasks that actually return a greater value than the time that you put in? Today we talk

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56:38

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

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/09

Darby Simpson will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. As you will learn in this episode, Darby Simpson is someone who transitioned into farming on a part time basis while working full time in an unrelated field. Putting in well over 50 hours each week as an engineer and spending a couple hours each day in the car commuting back and forth. But despite those long hours, he started his farm, on the side. He did it while raising a young

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01:04:00

Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/06

Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The presentation lays out the ten key components of the regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy. This episode focuses on soils, marketing, energy. This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035. The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for

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43:19

TUF032 - Post Harvest Crop Processing and Small Farm...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/04

In this episode we talk about post crop harvest processing, including how Curtis has changed some of his techniques over the years. We also talk about some of his farm equipment and infrastructure like his flame weeder and walk in cooler. For notes and links related to this episode visit the show notes at permaculturevoices.com/tuf32.

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35:44

Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians...

Farm Small Farm Smart Daily ·

2015/11/02

Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The presentation lays out the ten key components of the Regarian platform - climate, geography, water, access, forestry, buildings, fences, soils, marketing, and energy. This episode focuses on buildings and fences. This episode is the part of a four part series - episodes b032, 033, 034, 035. The workshop was open source, so thanks to Darren for

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