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Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
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.
Episodes
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How do you structure your pasture poultry CSA? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "How do you structure your pasture poultry CSA?" To learn more…
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Growing 10000 Trees On Acre - Expanding A Small Scale Nursery Business, an Update with Akiva Silver (PVP127)
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/127 Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Today, nearly two years after our first episode…
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What are some good chicken breeds for eggs and what are some good breeds for meat? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about what types of chicken breeds are good for eggs and what type of breeds are good for meat on…
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Tomato Mania - How to Get More Total Crop Production by Inter-planting Tomatoes with Other Crops - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 7
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Most of the tomatoes that Curtis grows fall into the…
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How long do broiler chickens live? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "How long do broiler chickens live?" To learn more about John and…
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Helping the Competition Or Striving Together? - Presented by Frank Golbeck (A5)
Resilience comes from connection and interdependence. Frank Golbeck of Golden Coast Mead will talk about how helping Mark Oberle and other mead makers get…
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Perennial Plants for Profit - Presented by Taylor Walker at PV3 (b036)
To learn more about the PV3 audio visit: permaculturevoices.com/pv3audio. In this presentation Taylor Walker covers perennial vegetable gardening in the…
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The Bumpy Road Towards a Modern Agricultural Future: When What Could Be and What Is Collide in Reality with Chris Kerston (PVP126)
Learn more in the show notes at permaculturevoices.com/126. What do you do as a farmer, when you are trapped in an agricultural system that values quantity not…
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What's a good dual purpose chicken breed for the homestead? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about what you should feed your new baby chicks. To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK…
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Early Seasons Greens Production - Tracking and Managing One of Curtis's Biggest Crops - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 6
Greens are big business for Curtis' farm. Both in terms of volume of product, and dollars generated for that product. His customer base, which is mainly made…
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How do you manage your chicken brooder? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "How do you manage your chicken brooder?" To learn more about…
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Liberation Permaculture by Toby Hemenway (PVP125)
Liberation Permaculture by Toby Hemenway. This episode is the rebroadcast of Toby talk from PV2 in March 2015. Permaculture offers more than a path to a…
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What should I feed my new baby chicks? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about what you should feed your new baby chicks. To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK…
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Creating The Minimum Viable Farm - $20,000 on a 2000 Square Foot Micro-Farm - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 5
What would the 2000 sq.ft. farm, let's call it a micro-farm, look like? How could you best utilize that space and take many of the techniques that Curtis uses…
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How quickly should you scale up a pastured poultry operation? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm andFarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "How quicklyshould you scale up a pastured poultry operation?" To…
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How to Position Your Pastured Poultry as a Premium Product, and the Economics and Challenges of Doing It with Paul Greive of Primal Pastures (PVP124)
As you will hear from my guest today Paul Greive of Primal Pastures "One of the most important things about marketing is not convincing people your product is…
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Why type of electric fence and charger do you use? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about what type of electric fence and charger he uses on his homestead. To learn more about Justin…
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If you don't succeed it's your own fault. Stop blaming people and get to work. - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 4
It's currently April 12, 2016. We start off today talking about whether you should start farming with a greenhouse or not. The conversation quickly turns into…
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Where do you process your chickens - on farm or off? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "Where do you process your chickens - on farm or off?" To learn…
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EARTH DAY SPECIAL with the Original Earth Day Organizer Denis Hayes (CD3)
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…
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How do I protect my chickens from predators? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com goes over ways to protect your chickens from predators. To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK…
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How To and Why To Start Lettuce in Micro Soil Blocks - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 3
It's currently April 5, 2016. Today's episode focuses on starting and transplanting Salanova via micro soil blocks. Curtis will talk about how he starts…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyWhat do you feed your chickens, and can they get their full diet off the pasture? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "What do you feed your chickens, and can they get their full diet…
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Permaculture: Change the Name or Change the Reputation? Answering critical questions around permaculture with Andrew Millison (PVP123)
Learn more in the show notes at permaculturevoices.com/123 Permaculture is very difficult to define for most people. How do you define permaculture? I go with…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyWhy aren't my chickens laying eggs? Here's 20 reasons why - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com goes over 20 reasons why your chickens might not be laying eggs. To learn more about Justin and see all…
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Scaling Up The Market Garden - A Visit to the Farm of the Future - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 2
It's currently March 30, 2016. And over the past few months Curtis has literally been all around the world. I today's episode we'll look back at some of the…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyWhat breeds of broiler chickens do you raise and why? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "What breeds of broilers do you raise?" To learn more about John…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyThe Unlikely Path To Success: From Hockey Player to Personal Care Product Entrepreneur with Philippe Choiniere (PVP122)
Not every business will work, but over the course of a career odds are, one idea will work. If you want to be an entrepreneur, then it’s up to you to smartly…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyHow do you feed 30 chickens on just $1.25 per day? - ASK Voices with Justin Rhodes
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about how he feeds his 30 chickens for just $1.25 per day. To learn more about Justin and see all…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyTaking Advantage of Time with the Passive Techniques of Over-Wintered Crops and Stale Seed-bedding - The Urban Farmer - Season 2 - Week 1
If we go back to where we left of Season One of the show, it was December and there really wasn't any crop production happening on the land itself for Green…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyAre pastured broilers profitable? - Ask Voices with John Suscovich
Farmer John Suscovtich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "Are pastured broilers profitable?" To learn more about John and…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyOregon State University's FREE ONLINE Intro To Permaculture Course by Andrew Millison (A5)
A new phenomenon being developed by the US university systems is the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Through his work teaching Permaculture within the…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyThe Urban Farmer - Season Two Preview Show (S2E00)
We're back for another Season of The Urban Farmer with Curtis Stone. Season Two will kick off on Wednesday, April 6. Just like last year, I am going to follow…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyTUF045 - "I am now on the path to starting my own farm!" - TUF Listeners Share Their Stories - The Urban Farmer - Encore Episode 5
All of the guests for this episode are listeners of the show. Listeners just like you. A few months ago I asked for feedback on the first season of the show…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyPaul Stamets Presents: BioDiversity is BioSecurity – Strengthening Foodwebs using Mycological Solutions (PVP121)
Paul’s central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and mushroom forming fungi are the foundation of the foodwebs of land based…
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TUF044 - Farming in the City – The Presentation – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 4
Today's episode is actually a rebroadcast of a presentation that Curtis gave in January in San Francisco. The presentation is called Farming in the City. In…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyGoing from 30 Customers to Over 6000 - Sheri Salatin on Starting, Running and Growing Polyface Farm's Buying Club (PVP120)
If you're a farmer, what are your options for selling product? CSA's, farmers markets, on farm sales, grocery stores, and buying clubs. Buying clubs? It's one…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailySoil Life Exploding at Judy Farms - Using High Density Mob Grazing and Earth Worms to Build Soil by Greg Judy (PVP119)
This episode is the reading of the blog post, Soil Life Exploding At Judy Farms, written by Greg Judy. "2010 was our fourth complete year of Holistic High…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyPermaculture Plants: A Business and A Hobby with Taylor Walker (REPLAY)
Taylor Walker from Green Dreams Florida joins me. In this episode we talk being a designer, propagating and selling plants, and we get into specific plant…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyFrom No Experience to Full Time Farmer - A Look Back, and Forward, at a Farming Career with John Suscovich - Part 2 of 2 (PVP118)
Today is Part 2 of an interview with farmer John Suscovich of Farm Marketing Solutions. You can listen to Part 1 of the interview here. Part Two was recorded a…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyFrom No Experience to Full Time Farmer - A Look Back, and Forward, at a Farming Career with John Suscovich - Part 1 of 2 (PVP117)
Today is part one of an interview with farmer John Suscovich. And today's episode was recorded one year ago in February 2015. And Part Two was recorded in…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyTUF043 - What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Can't Make a Living - DISSECTED - A Case Study – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 3
In this episode Curtis and I dissect an article that was published on Alternet on January 1, 2016 by farmer Jaclyn Moyer. An article titled.... What Nobody…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyGreening Saudi Arabia - Seeing Progress, Plant Species, Lessons Learned, and No Regrets, an Update with Neal Spackman (PVP116)
Neal Spackman is regreening a portion of the desert that gets 3 inches of rain a year on average, but lately they aren’t even meeting the average. Greening the…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyStory Marketing - The Importance of Telling Your Brand's Story, but Not Just Any Story Told by Anyone, The Founder's Story with Marty McDonald
Marty McDonald will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. The latest trend in marketing is story…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyPractical Thoughts on Broadacre Design - 25 Years of Design Mistakes, Evolution, and Innovation with Darren Doherty (PVP115)
Be very cautious about how much you are imposing on the landscape. That's something that Darren talked about on this podcast before. Because it's a big problem…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily10 Essentials For Profitable Urban Farming Presented by Curtis Stone (PVP114)
Curtis Stone is the owner of Green City Acres, a multi-locational urban farm based out of Kelowna, BC, Canada. In 2014 his farm generated $75,000 in gross…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyA Beginner's Guide to Going from Getting "STUFF" Done to Getting "THE RIGHT STUFF" Done with Javan Kerby Bernakevitch (PVP113)
At the end of the day, month, year, decade or your life, the amount of #shityougotdone isn’t going to matter. It’s the Quality of Life you’ve reached and…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily$200,000 Dollars in Sales from 320 Square Feet. Learn the tips and tricks that grower Chris Throreau is using to crush the microgreens business. (PVP112)
"They weren't just buying the product; they were buying the whole package." That's how Chris Thoreau was able to go to a farmer's market selling one crop. Just…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyTUF042 - Six Months of Transition Into Farming – A Conversation with New Farmer Scott Hebert – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 2
Scott Hebert started farming in June 2015 when his family business shut down. At that time he didn’t have anything to fall back on. But he had always had an…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyThe Power of Perseverance and Taking Risks, The Founder's Story with Erik Ohlsen
Erik Ohlsen will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. My guest today Erik Ohlsen took a risk when…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyRegenerative Businesses and Landscape - It's a Process, One That's Always Trying to Improve, The Founder's Story with Ethan Soloviev
Ethan Soloviev will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. In today's show I'm joined by Ethan Roland…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyTUF041 - Profitable Small Scale Farming in Sebastopol – A Visit to Singing Frogs Farm with Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 1
While Curtis and I were on tour we made a stop at Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol to visit with farmers Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser. It's a pretty remarkable…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyGoing from Near Bankrupt to Debt Free, Grazing Cattle on Leased Land, The Founder's Story with Greg Judy
Greg Judy will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. In the late 90's Greg was down to $9 in the…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyDesigning the Pathway to Regeneration, and Why We can't Do That, The Founder's Story with Gregory Landau
Gregory Landau will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. If the current current method of business…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyBuilding Businesses, Marketing, and Dealing with Failure, The Founder's Story with Jack Spirko
"You have to be willing to fail. You have to be OK with failure." That's what entrepreneur Jack Spirko told me. He's built a variety of businesses in his…
Farm Small Farm Smart DailyBusiness with a Holistic Approach - What Do You Want, and How Do You Design a Path to Get There, The Founder's Story with Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. What does success mean to you? Hopefully you…
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Personal Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs (and Everyone Else), The Founder's Story with Mary Beth Storjohann
Mary Beth Storjohann will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. My guest today, Mary Beth…
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TUF040 - End of Season Reflection - Thinking about How Things Went This Year, to Alter Course and Plan for Next Year - The Urban Farmer - Week 40
If you want to be better off in December 2016, then the planning for that starts now in December 2015. The biggest leverage point which for the farm season…
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TUF039 - The Urban Farmer Season Wrap Up and Looking Ahead - Thanks for Listening - The Urban Farmer - Week 39
In today's episode Curtis and I will take a look back at the season of this show and talk about what's in store for the future for Curtis and this show. In…
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Trading Time for Dollars, Supporting Your Permaculture Goals with a Career Outside of Permaculture with Rob Kippel (CD9)
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…