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Selling at an Open Market 16.06.2026

In this episode, rookie farmer and part-time trucker Jared Sapac of Reuben's Roots shares what it's like to sell his produce at an open market.    Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Po...

Growing What Your Market Wants 15.06.2026

In this episode, rookie farmer Colton Simpson of Simpson's Market Garden talks about the importance of knowing what your market wants and catering to their demand.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on t...

Growing What Your Market Wants 15.06.2026

In this episode, rookie farmer Colton Simpson of Simpson's Market Garden talks about the importance of knowing what your market wants and catering to their demand.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on t...

Partnerships and Lowered Costs at Scale 14.06.2026

In this episode, Patrick Samuels of Sunnyside Egg Co. challenges the notion of doing everything, especially business, solo, when creating partnerships is clearly more beneficial to both the business and relationships.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Growe...

Dung Beetles as Mechanical Decomposers 13.06.2026

In this episode, entomologist and agroecologist Dr. Jacob Pecenka talks about the role of dung beetles as mechanical decomposers.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:...

Saving Farms from Becoming Developments 12.06.2026

In this episode, chef and farmer Marc Bernard of Rustic Road and Krisztian Varsa of the Conservation Fund share how the Conservation Fund protect farms from becoming developed land.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to o...

Saving Farms from Becoming Developments 12.06.2026

In this episode, chef and farmer Marc Bernard of Rustic Road and Krisztian Varsa of the Conservation Fund share how the Conservation Fund protect farms from becoming developed land.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to o...

Saving Farms from Becoming Developments 12.06.2026

In this episode, chef and farmer Marc Bernard of Rustic Road and Krisztian Varsa of the Conservation Fund share how the Conservation Fund protect farms from becoming developed land.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to o...

Choosing Humic & Fulvic Acid Products 11.06.2026

In this episode, Live Earth Products President Russell Taylor tells us how to choose which humic and fulvic acid products to use for your farm's needs.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Gr...

What to Look in Fungal Inoculants 10.06.2026

In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Koziol of Mycobloom sheds light on critical things to look for when choosing which fungal inoculants to use.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast...

You-Pick Insurance 09.06.2026

In this episode, author and farmer Megan Neubauer of Pure Land Organic Farm finally answers what many farmers and non-farmers constantly gripe about: insurance on a you-pick farm.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to oth...

Vetting Farm Volunteers 08.06.2026

In this episode, farmer Jill Duncan of Loving Roots Urban Farm shares how he chooses volunteers on her farm.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:  Carrot Cashflow  Far...

The Best Way to Get Soil Samples 07.06.2026

In this episode, agronomist and principal consultant at Soilsmith Ag Bruce Davison tells us the best way to get a good representative soil sample from your farm.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the...

Consumers Paying for Regenerative Ag 06.06.2026

In this episode, regenerative agriculture expert Dr. Jessica Chiartas discusses how many consumers are willing to pay the additional costs of having their food grown through regenerative practices.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Insta...

Hiring is Key to Business Growth 05.06.2026

In this episode, Chef Mikey Russo of Chef's Harvest discusses how similar running a restaurant business is to running a farm business in terms of scaling up and growth.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts...

The Secret to Speed 04.06.2026

In this episode, rookie farmer Neil Robinson of Garden to Market in New Zealand shares some knowledge from his past work: the secret to unlocking speed.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern G...

Buying from a Local Cannery 03.06.2026

In this episode, Muirhead Canning Company owner Russell Loughmiller walks us through the process of purchasing goods from and availing the services of a local cannery.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts...

No Safety Net for Small Farms 02.06.2026

In this episode, part-time farmer, part-time trucker Jared Sapach of Reuben's Roots discusses the relative lack of support for small, local farms compared to large conventional farms.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to...

Expanding to Other Retailers 01.06.2026

In this episode, rookie farmer Colton Simpson of Simpson's Market Garden shares how he brought on a new retailer through an existing client.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcas...

Veteran Growers Supporting New Growers 31.05.2026

In this episode, farmer Peter Lee of Bird and Blossom Farm shares how accommodating and generous the older growers and farmers are in their area when it comes to sharing their farming knowledge.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagra...

Getting Creative with Optionality 30.05.2026

In this episode, farmer and educator Jodi Roebuck shares how they get creative with their product lineup by offering options to their customers.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Po...

Grasslands and Successions 29.05.2026

In this episode, Dr. David Eldridge of the University of New South Wales talks about the role of grasslands in landscape successions.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Netwo...

Starting a Plant Start Business 28.05.2026

In this episode, worker-owner Monica Ponce of Love is Love cooperative farm shares the work and logistics behind launching a plant start business.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower...

The Oldest Lichens 27.05.2026

In this episode, plant ecologist Dr. Roger Rosentreter talks about how old the oldest lichens are and how they have come to live that long.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast...

Thought Process on Scaling 26.05.2026

In this episode, chef-turned-farmer Cory Babb of Firelight Farm shares the mindset behind scaling their farm business.   Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights!   Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower. Follow Modern Grower:  Instagram  Instagram Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:  Carrot Cas...

About the podcast

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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