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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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TUF038 - It's Not All About the Money - Keeping What Works and Getting Rid of What Doesn't - The Urban Farmer - Week 38
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…
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The Importance of Story Telling (i.e. Marketing) - Who are you, what are you about, what makes your product unique and special, The Founder's Story with Hilary Bromberg
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…
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Grow Wings and Fly (CD8)
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…
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TUF037 - 17,500lbs of Vegetables Produced on One Third of An Acre - A Closer Look at What Was Produced on the Farm this Year - The Urban Farmer - Week 37
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…
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Starting A Small Scale Seed Business - An Additional Business Unit for A Small Scale Farm, The Founder's Story with Daniel Brisebois
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…
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Designing Projects, Systems and Businesses for The Long Term, The Founder's Story with Christian Shearer
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…
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TUF036 - Dealing with Real World Troubles and Issues with Restaurant Customers, and How to Prevent Problems from Arising - The Urban Farmer – Week 36
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…
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The Adventure of Going into Farming – Blending the Romanticism of Farming with What It Takes to Be Successful (Hint… It's A Lot of Hard Work), The Founder's Story with Jean-Martin Fortier
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…
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TUF035 - Your Business Model Sucks, or You're Not Very Good at It... (and what to do about it) – The Urban Farmer – Week 35
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…
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You Can't Always Be a Visionary, Building the Next Generation of Permaculture Businesses, The Founder's Story with Erin Axelrod
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…
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Learning, Putting in the Time, and Hustling to Become a Permaculture Designer, The Founder's Story with Zach Weiss
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…
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TUF034 - Ask The Urban Farmer – Curtis Answers Questions – From Startup to Restaurant Sales to Record Keeping – The Urban Farmer – Week 34
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…
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Building a Thriving Microgreens Business from Scratch, The Founder's Story with Chris Thoreau
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…
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The Long Road to Overnight Success (CD7)
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…
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TUF033 - Improving Processes to Be More Time, Energy, and Labor Efficient AND more Profitable – The Urban Farmer – Week 33
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…
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Transitioning from a Full Time Career as an Engineer to Making a Living as a Full Time Farmer – The Founder's Story with Darby Simpson
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…
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Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 4 - Soils, Marketing, Energy (b035)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The…
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TUF032 - Post Harvest Crop Processing and Small Farm Equipment That You Wouldn't Think Of – The Urban Farmer – Week 32
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…
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Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 3 - Buildings, Fences (b034)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The…
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Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 2 - Water, Access, Forestry (b033)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The…
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TUF031 - Being Realistic with Your First Year Expectations - Work to Learn, Not to Earn – The Urban Farmer – Week 31
Set yourself up for success by having realistic plans and expectations for the first year. Match your lifestyle and your budgeting to those realistic…
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Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 1 - Climate and Geography (b032)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014. The…
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Building A Million Dollar Permaculture Business - That's Ecologically, Socially, and Financially Sustainable with Erik Ohlsen (CD7)
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…
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TUF030 - When to Expand the Farm By Adding More Land and When NOT TO Expand By Maximizing What You Have – The Urban Farmer – Week 30
Big isn't always better. More just for the sake of having more is pointless. Just because you have access to more land doesn't mean you need to take it. If you…
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Plant Propagation for Profit - Presented by Jack Spirko (b031)
While the presentation will focus on plant propagation for a profit from a small/backyard nursery stand point if you want a successful permaculture business…
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Time – One Resource That's Continually Depleting... Don't Waste It (CD5)
Today's show is about time. Specifically how precious our tiem is, and how we ought not to waste it. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself…
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TUF029 - Increase Profits and Get More Done.. by Doing Less Work - The Urban Farmer - Week 29
Think about how much work you do on the farm now. How much of that work is actually being done efficiently and effectively? Are you making the best use of your…
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Using Social Media to Generate Farm Revenue - Presented by Paul Greive (b030)
Learn practical tips to leverage this powerful and often misunderstood marketing tool. This talk will teach you to focus on generating farm revenue while…
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Fear – The One Thing that You Can Control, but The One Thing that Most People Let Control Them (CD4)
Today's episode focuses on fear. Fear is a very powerful motivator for humans. It's part of what keeps us alive. But it's also what holds us back. It holds us…
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TUF028 - The Importance of Record Keeping: You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been. – The Urban Farmer – Week 28
How can you a lot mistakes and wasting valuable resources by overproducing a crop, and the inverse of that, not producing enough? Good record keeping. Records…
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Making a Good Living with Profitable Market Gardening on 1.5 Acres – Presented by Jean-Martin Fortier (b029)
Is there a place for permaculture principles in a bio-intensive approach to successful ( and profitable) small-scale vegetable production? For more than a…
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Joel Salatin On the Next Generation of Farmers (A5)
Joel Salatin speaks on successional farming - partnering the older generation with the next generation of farmers. This is an excerpt of an interview that I…
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TUF027 - What You Are Doing May Not Work... Do It Anyway - The Urban Farmer - Week 27
Can you accept in the beginning that what you are doing may not work? Because, guess what, it might not. But as long as you keep trying something will.. You…
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A Beginners Guide to Multi-Species Grazing on Leased Land – Presented by Greg Judy (b028)
In this talk Greg Judy talk covers the steps used to find leased land and build a multi-species grazing operation from scratch. Livestock can be a blessing or…
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The Man Who Brought Together 20 Million People – A Lifetime as an Environmental Activist with Earth Day Organizer Denis Hayes (CD3)
Denis Hayes talks about a lifetime of work in environmentalism - the challenges, successes, the changing environmental problems, and how he has endured…
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TUF026 - More Common Reasons Why Many Farmers Struggle, and Practical Advice On How You Can Avoid Those Struggles – The Urban Farmer – Week 26
Work to learn, not to earn... Understand where you want to go, understand why you want to get into it, figure out a smart systematic way to get there, and work…
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Starting a Permaculture Farm from Scratch - Lessons Learned from Real World Experiences – Presented by Grant Schultz and Peter Allen (b027)
Peter and Grant met at a Darren Doherty workshop in 2012 as landless farmers with the shared dream of regenerating landscapes. Since then, they’ve both landed…
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Joel Salatin on Economically and Environmentally Sustainable Farm Business (A5)
This is an excerpt of an interview that I conducted with Joel Salatin on May 22, 2013 in Big Bear Lake, CA. Listen to another podcast with Joel at…
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TUF025 - Tips for Dealing with Hot Weather and Planning Your Crop Production for the Cooler Days of Fall – The Urban Farmer – Week 25
It's August 25, 2015 which means we are at the tail end of summer and shorter, cooler days are coming as fall nears. We are in one of those unique periods in…
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Tools and Technology for the Permaculture Homestead – Presented by Grant Schultz (b026)
Appropriate technology plays a critical role in permaculture systems. Developing, documenting, and sharing these tools and systems can turn dreamers into true…
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You Can Change Your Own Life, If You Want To - Going from Alcoholism to Permaculture (PVP111)
Hello Diego, My name is Russ. I am married, and have two awesome children and I used to be an alcoholic... This episode is the story of Russ and how…
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TUF024 - Solving the Sales Problem – Optimizing Your Fresh Sheet to Increase Sales – The Urban Farmer – Week 24
As a farmer, how do you communicate what you have to sell each week, how much it costs, and when you need orders placed by, so you can deliver it on time? You…
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b025 - Fruits, Nuts & Livestock - Creating a Permaculture Silvopasture - Presented by Grant Schultz
Learn the tools, techniques, and costs of establishing a productive silvopasture – a production system that produces yields from every layer. Beginning with…
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TUF023 - Successful Farmers Think - The Importance of Information, Mentors, and Adaptation – The Urban Farmer – Week 23
This episode is all about the art of farming. Creating a framework, and understanding the overlying philosophy about why you do what you do, and leaving…
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Keys to Creating Success Metrics, Focusing Your Efforts, Quick Iterative Learning, and Marcin Jakubowski React (CD2)
Part 2 of the series with Marcin Jakubowski of Open Source Ecology. This episode is the react show to the Marcin interview that I did in Part 1. This episode…
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TUF022 - Tips on Selling Into New Markets and Sourcing Products from Other Farmers – The Urban Farmer – Week 22
This episode is all about being a better provider to your customers... In this episode we dig deep into sourcing products from other farmers, breaking into new…
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Marcin Jakubowski on Crowdfunding, Managing Multiple Projects, and Persevering Against Extreme Odds (CD1)
Are we moving to an open source world? Marcin Jakubowski thinks so. Through his global village construction set Marcin hopes to do what Wikipedia has done for…
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TUF021 - Transitioning Into Farming from the Corporate World - A Conversation with New Farmer Rob Kaiser - The Urban Farmer - Week 21
In this episode Curtis and I are joined by new farmer Rob Kaiser. Rob is a few months into his farming journey. And like Curtis he didn't come from a farming…
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TUF020 - Taking a Smart Approach to Farming. Having the Right Mindset to Save Yourself Time, Money, and Mental Trauma - The Urban Farmer - Week 20
You need to ask yourself - Are you approaching farming as a hobby or as a livelihood? There's no right or wrong answer. But you need to be clear with your…
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b024 - Permaculture for Humanity – Beyond Buildings and Food – Presented by Larry Santoyo
Most of the world’s human population in now urban. Permaculture designer and teacher Larry Santoyo will examine the permaculturist’s role in city planning and…
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TUF019 - Hacking the Farmers Market. Tips and Tactics for Selling Your Farm Products Through Farmer's Markets and CSAs – The Urban Farmer – Week 19
This romantic notion of farming - working outside, hands in the soil, sowing seeds, and then nurturing those crops to harvest. While all great, and all true…
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b023 - Ecological Adaptation Strategy - Harnessing the Power of Plants for Changing Times - Presented by Joseph Simcox
Something so evident yet so ignored by industrial agriculture, why agriculture in the future must use plants that are naturally adapted to their environments…
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TUF018 - Creating On Farm Systems to Increase Your Efficiency and Chances for Success – The Urban Farmer – Week 18
As a farmer and as an employer it is important to have systems in place. To know why and how you do something. This helps you understand what you do and it…
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Matthew Abrams: A Learning Journey (A5)
Mycelium co-founder Matthew Abrams talks about his journey of leaving the status quo to finding meaning in his own life and the starting an alternative…
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TUF017 - Streamlining Tasks and Being More Efficient. Tips for Maximizing Effort and Time on the Farm – The Urban Farmer – Week 17
There are all sorts of things that Curtis does to make his efforts more efficient and more effective. Some are complex and involve a lot of time studying…
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b022 - Eating Before the 'Invaders', the American Native Peoples and Their Food Systems Before the Arrival of the Europeans - Presented by Joseph Simcox
Nowadays, people associate American native culture with three crops; Corn, Beans and Squash (the three sisters). According to Joe this is only the tip of the…
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TUF016 - Different Farms, Different Markets, Different Models – Differences Between Farming Two Acres and a Quarter Acre – The Urban Farmer – Week 16
Farming in the city is something that Curtis has done ever since he started farming 5 years ago. But he hasn't always farmed, just inside the city. At one…
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Neal Spackman: Facing Fear and Stepping into the Unknown - The Al Baydha Project (A5)
Permaculture designer Neal Spackman talks about leaving his desk job, family, and culture to go to another country and country and to a very dry Saudi Arabia…
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TUF015 - Tips for Finding Land to Farm in the City – What Works and What Doesn't – The Urban Farmer – Week 15
This week we will get into how Curtis went about getting his very first piece of urban farm land over 5 years ago. We will talk about what worked and what…
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b021 - Homestead and Farm Resiliency and Regeneration - 10 Years In A Cold Climate, Principles in Practice - Presented by Ben Falk
Ben Falk discusses some of the lessons and leanings from his 10 years of living on a homestead in Vermont. He touches on topics like water management, growing…