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Farmer Jenny Quiner of Dog Patch Urban Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa  talks about farm startup, growth, and unique ways to sell your product. View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter .

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk about the importance of taking time off.  Why it is important and how you can get the most out of the time you do take off.   View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes . If you enjoy the show, support content I have created . Support while you shop at Amazon .

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk about the importance of taking time off.  Why it is important and how you can get the most out of the time you do take off.   View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes . If you enjoy the show, support content I have created . Support while you shop at Amazon .

Shawn Kuhn joins me to talk about selling to restaurants, growing a lot of greens, season extension, and trying to be more regenerative. View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Learn how to start a microgreens business in Chris Thoreau's Build Your Microgreen Business Workshop . Keep learning with these two great audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM...

In this episode Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organics joins me to talk about greens production, employees, and learning from big farms. View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Learn how to start a microgreens business in Chris Thoreau's Build Your Microgreen Business Workshop . Keep learning with these two great audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM For...

Utilizing his experience as a chef Evan Chender has set out to produce niche crops for chefs such as edible flowers and more exotic cultivars and types of vegetables. It's this niche approach which has given him an edge in his market place. While a lot of other farmers just grow salad mix, Evan stands out because he produces crops that others don't.  Today's episode was brought to you by Audible ....

In this episode Erik Ohlsen he is going into some of the strategies he has used to grow and market his design business, tips for running the day to day operations of the design business, and ways to leverage the experience of others to help your personal journey.   Learn about Erik's Eco-Landscape Mastery School View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes . If you enjoy the show, su...

Today my guest Gloria Flora will helps shed some light on the reality of biochar.  Gloria's the founder and past director of the US Biochar initiative, so she has an extensive knowledge base when it comes to biochar, but she's also worked for the US Forest Service and she's a permaculturalist, so she gets how biochar fits into the larger whole.   View the show notes for this episode and all past e...

In this episode Ray Tyler of Rose Creek Farms will talk about how his farm has dealt changes on the farm as it evolved.  He'll also talk about how they tackle farm problems and deal with season extension.  It's a practical look at what happens behind the scenes - because things always don't go as planned and that tool that you bought, doesn't always work as well as expected. View the show notes fo...

Today's show is another remarkable story of another entrepreneur, a permaculture entrepreneur. It's the story of someone who went from being an anti-money activist to running a $1M permaculture design and build business. A business that catches millions of gallons of water, builds soil on hundreds of acres, plants hundreds of useful trees every year, restores native habit, redesigns our cites our...

Farmer and consultant Michael Kilpatrick joins me to talk about improving farm productivity and profitability through better processes. View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Learn how to start a microgreens business in Chris Thoreau's Build Your Microgreen Business Workshop . Keep learning with these two great audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM...

Farm and soil specialist Dan Kittredge joins me to talk about building soil and increasing plant nutrition. Learn more about Dan and see his free courses at  bionutrient.org . View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes . If you enjoy the show, support content I have created . Support while you shop at Amazon .

Author and farmer Ben Hartman talks about his farm and his book, The Lean Farm . View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Learn how to start a microgreens business in Chris Thoreau's Build Your Microgreen Business Workshop . Keep learning with these two great audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone   Increase far...

Today we'll talk about the practical realities of homesteading, with homesteaders Chris and Lindsay Hodge. View the show notes for this episode and all past episodes . If you enjoy the show, support content I have created . Support while you shop at Amazon .

The benefits of building a microgreens business, and how to keep improving it. View the show notes for this episode and all previous Farm Small, Farm Smart episodes . Learn how to start a microgreens business in Chris Thoreau's Build Your Microgreen Business Workshop . Keep learning with these two great audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone   Increase farm...

Today we'll look at the urban,rural divide from the point of view of the city dweller, focusing on what and how the city dweller views and values the food they consume. The goal of this conversation is to shed some light on this view, so teh farmer can take that information and run with it helping them to better market their product. It's marketing 101. Who's your audience and what do they value w...

Today we are going to Ojai California to talk to a farmer who's more than just a farmer. Max Beecher was inspired into farming by Joel Salatin and Joel's entrepreneurial spirit inspired Max to get created when ti came to his farm based businesses.   Max started out his farm journey in 2013 with wife.  At the time they weren't farmers though, they started out as aggregators...   He describes the ex...

When you set out to start a business is there a road map you can follow or a recipe for success? A set of steps you can take to go from where you are to where you want to be. Simply do them, and success follows. It's a nice though. And that's about all it, a nice thought. Because when it comes to business there isn't a roadmap to success, but despite that, we all want the roadmap to success. Maybe...

Today's episode is a different type of episode.  It's a consult style episode with new grower Eddy Gilmore and long-time microgreen grower Chris Thoreau. The first part of this episode will be Eddy and I talking about what's going on with his farm, and then later in the episode Chris will join us to answer some of Eddy's questions about growing his microgreen business. Eddy's at a point in that bu...

When you set out to start a business is there a road map you can follow or a recipe for success? A set of steps you can take to go from where you are to where you want to be.  Simply do them, and success follows. It's a nice though.  And that's about all it, a nice thought.  Because when it comes to business there isn't a roadmap to success, but despite that, we all want the roadmap to success. Ma...

Given summer heat growing certain crops can be really tough, especially greens.  Given the tendency of the normally cool weather lettuces to bolt quickly, turn bitter, and have their foliage burn, many growers simply pass on trying to grow summer greens.  The challenges are too great and the returns are too low. But not for all growers.  Over the past few weeks I talked to a lot of growers and I t...

When you set out to start a business is there a road map you can follow or a recipe for success? A set of steps you can take to go from where you are to where you want to be.  Simply do them, and success follows. It's a nice though.  And that's about all it, a nice thought.  Because when it comes to business there isn't a roadmap to success, but despite that, we all want the roadmap to success. Ma...

Sam's taken a perspective that he gained on hiking the Appalachian trail and he has used it to help navigate the equally hard journey into being a full time vegetable farmer. Like the trail, Sam's career as a farmer has spanned a lot of land going from 1/8 of an acre in town to two fenced acres a few years later. Today Sam and I will talk about some of the challenges of growing crops on two acres,...

When you set out to start a business is there a road map you can follow or a recipe for success? A set of steps you can take to go from where you are to where you want to be.  Simply do them, and success follows. It's a nice though.  And that's about all it, a nice thought.  Because when it comes to business there isn't a roadmap to success, but despite that, we all want the roadmap to success. Ma...

For today's show we are going down to the State of Arkansas to talk to Brandon Lyons of 5 Acre Farms. Brandon is someone who transitioned into farming from the nursery trade way back in 2010. Since then he's grown his farm to 1.25 acre, and during that same time he's also grown his family getting married and having kids. It's a farming journey that started out with a single farmer who could put in...