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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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091 - Farming. It's Damn Hard. The Real Life Journey of Starting a Permaculture Farm with No Money. An interview with Mark Shepard.
This show is a conversation that I had with Mark Shepard about the process of starting up his farm, New Forest Farm, in Viola, Wisconsin. How did he start?…
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090 - Social Permaculture. Creating a Diversity of Functional Connections Between People and Their Skills.
How can we start to broaden the reach of permaculture and start to involve areas outside of permaculture in the greater movement of permaculture? How can we…
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089 - Stacking Fiefdoms with Joel Salatin. Creating Multiple Complementary Businesses Under the Umbrella of an Exisiting Business.
Joel Salatin's talk on Stacking Fiefdoms from PV1. "The whole idea is to create customized fiefdoms so that people are autonomous and have the authority to run…
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088 - Designing Simple and Effective Passive Solar Greenhouses with Rob Avis
Engineer and permie Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture talks about building and designing passive solar greenhouses. Key Takeaways: Orientation. In Northern…
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087 - Making $2000 A Week Growing Microgreens with Luke Callahan
Luke Callahan author of The Complete Guide to Growing and Selling Microgreens and the co-founder of Seedwise joins me to talk about starting and running a…
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086 - Raising American Guinea Hogs, The Homestead Pig with Cathy Payne
While American Guinea Hogs are suited to a wide variety of environments and will do better than most breeds on low grade forage, they prefer lush pastures with…
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085 - Quitting A Job I Love for A Life That I Love. The Unromantic Journey Into Farm Life with Chad Stamps.
This is the very real story of Chad Stamps and his unromantic journey into farming. It's the reality of life that makes this story unromantic, versus the…
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084 - The Veglio Project. Restoring the Land. Awakening the Soul. With Joe Baird.
Today’s guest is Joe Baird. Joe and his family are taking on the task of restoring the village of Veglio. It is a place that has family ties and ties to when…
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083 - Profitable Urban Farming. A realistic view with farmer Curtis Stone. Working your ass off and making $50,000 on a quarter acre.
Key Takeaways: -Even if the worst happened and the business failed. How bad would it actually be? -Learn stuff as you need to. You don't have to learn…
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082 - Hugelkultur. What it is. When is it appropriate. And when isn't it. with Javan Bernakevitch
-Key Takeaways: Hugelkultur mounds are usually positioned perpendicular to the wind. Sometimes used as a staging process to dispose of wood and build soil…
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081 - Permaculture. The Future of Business and Beyond. An Interview Compilation.
This episode is a compilation of interviews that I recorded during PV1 - March 13-16, 2014. The general theme of this episode is how business can benefit from…
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080 - Radical Mycology with Peter McCoy
This show is an interview with Peter McCoy of Radical Mycology. Radical Mycology is a movement and social philosophy based on accessibly teaching the…
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079 - Hazelnuts. A Viable Broadacre Crop for the Midwest? Almost. with Phil Rutter
In Woody Agriculture, crops would be planted only once in a lifetime. The use of woody perennials for agricultural staple commodities production would result…
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078 - 100 Degrees and 3 Inches of Rain. Greening Saudi Arabia with Neal Spackman.
This is an interview with Neal Spackman. And while you probably haven’t heard of Neal the work that Neal is doing to regreen an area of the Saudi Arabian…
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077 - Changing the World by Changing Our Approach to Land Management - An Interview Compilation
The episode is a compilation of interviews that I recorded during PV1 - March 13-16, 2014. Each of the interviewees was a speaker at PV1. The general theme of…
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076 - What would you do if you only had a year left to live? Building a life and a business around permaculture with Fraser Bliss.
Today’s show is a pretty inspirational one. What would you do if you only had a year left to live? And if you aren’t doing that now, why not? Keep that phrase…
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075 - Geoff Lawton presents The Permaculture Designers' Manual
This book is about designing sustainable human settlements, an preserving and extending natural systems. It covers aspects of designing and maintaining a…
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074 - What's a PDC? Part 2 of 2.
Given the amount of confusion that I see on a day to day basis, and the fact that there seems to be a lot of unknowns out there about PDCs, I created this…
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073 - What's a PDC? Part 1 of 2.
Given the amount of confusion that I see on a day to day basis, and the fact that there seems to be a lot of unknowns out there about PDCs, I created this…
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072 - Farming Well. Cultivating a Community and Growing Businesses with Nigel Walker of Eatwell Farm.
This is the real world view of an organic farmer who is serving a community by producing food on scale, farming organic or better, for over 30 years. It hasn’t…
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071 - Natural Swimming Pools with David Pagan Butler
As my guest today David Pagan Butler of OrganicPools.co.uk says, "If you want really healthy water, you want it full of life; not devoid of life." That is what…
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070 - Do Your Impossible - Living A Life with No Regrets
I want to talk about something which I call the impossible task. It is something that each one of us struggles with. We all have something that that we really…
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069 - Unschooling Agriculture. Taking Steps Towards the Permaculture Farm with Grant Schultz.
I think we are in the perfect storm right now for regenerative agriculture and permaculture. The economy isn't great. We have a huge number of people…
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068 - Permaculture and the Forgotten. Teaching Permaculture in Places That Absolutely Need It. A Message of Hope with Rosemary Morrow.
While many of us will never use permaculture outside of our own backyard or community, there is a whole world out there than can benefit from permaculture…
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067 - Lawncare to Earthcare. Building Businesses, Embracing Failures, and Transitioning to a Career in Permaculture.
My guest Pete Kanaris is a serial entrepreneur. He has started a whole bunch of businesses, some have worked, some haven't. Despite the failures, he has always…
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066 - Urban Permaculture Design with Larry Santoyo. Creating Systems Where the Byproducts are More Sustainable Cities.
"Instead of trying to support 1000's of people, let's get really good at supporting 150 people and we'll duplicate it." Once we do that we will have models…
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065 - Re-Thinking Farm Products. Creating a Brand that Needs Ingredients from the Farm with Philippe Choiniere.
This is a real story, about a real farm based business, that is now profitable. In a world filled with reasons why things won't work and with stories about why…
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064 - Bringing More Permaculture to the Farm, Real World Constraints with David Sachs
Today I am talking with David Sachs. David is working outside of the farming world and is trying to transition to working within the farming world. His family…
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063 - 1000′s of Trees and Half an Acre. Small Scale Nursery Business with Akiva Silver
As my guest today Akiva Silver will explain, you can start a small scale nursery with very little space. Putting a lot of plants on really tight spacings;I…
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062 - 75 Chicks to 10000. No Experience to Full Time Farmer. The Ronan Byrne Story
This episode today isn't just applicable to farming. Ronan's story and what he is talking about is a metaphor. These ideas are applicable to everything under…
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060 - Building a Profitable Permaculture Business with Jack Spirko
This episode is actually the audio from Jack Spirko’s talk titled just that, Building a Profitable Permaculture Business from PV1. This is his actual talk…
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059 - Striking a Balance. Two People, and One, Two, or Many Dreams. Permaculture Beyond the Land, Building and Cultivating Resilient Relationships
How can both people in the relationship fit both of their dreams into one life together? We explore some of these ideas in this episode. We both draw from our…
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058 - Woody Agriculture. Breeding Trees, Restoring a Piece of America's Past and Establishing a Piece of Our Agricultural Future with Phil Rutter. (Part 2 of 2)
An interview with Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Corporation. We talk about why perennial based woody agriculture is important and how chestnuts and…
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057 - Woody Agriculture. Breeding Trees, Restoring a Piece of America's Past and Establishing a Piece of Our Agricultural Future with Phil Rutter. (Part 1 of 2)
An interview with Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Corporation. We talk about why perennial based woody agriculture is important and how chestnuts and…
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056 - An Idea Worth Sharing. Inside the Permaculture Orchard.
On April 11, 2009 there was the shock heard around the world, when a women from Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland walked on stage to sing. Just prior to…
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055 - Rhodesia to Long Beach. 50 Years of Struggle, Persistence and Success with Allan Savory
My guest today was persecuted and ridiculed for his ideas for over 50 years. In his words, "people have often asked me how I have been able to put up with so…
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054 - PermaEthos. Changing the Agriculture System, A New Permaculture Farm Model f. Jack Spirko
Today I am talking to two people who are changing the model of the modern farm. They are operating within the current system of rules and regulations, but…
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053 - Plants and the Evolution of Permaculture with Byron Joel
My guest today is a self proclaimed plant nerd that is really into trees. He has worked with Geoff Lawton and Darren Doherty, and now he runs his own design…
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052 - Fermenting Success. A Passion for Family, Friends and Mead. The Frank Golbeck Story
I welcome Frank Golbeck of Golden Coast Mead on the show today. Frank story is a great example of someone who went after their dreams in a smart and systematic…
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051 - Grow Better, Not Bigger. The Market Gardener - Selling $140,000 on 1.5 acres.
Today I am talking to someone who killing it farming 1.5 acres. He is doing over $140k in sales on that 1.5 acres, supporting himself and his family in the…
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050 - What Really Matters? Staying on track through your permaculture journey with your goal in mind.
What really matters most to you? Have you ever thought about it? As in thought about it serious enough to say if you stripped away a lot of the facade from…
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049 - Just Start. A Year of Podcasts. My Top 10 Most Impactful Episodes.
This is the one year anniversary of the first episode of this podcast which was published on June 5, 2013 - Gasification and Wood Gas. Since then 60 other…
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048 - Planning for Success. Creating a Business Plan with Bill Bean.
Every story has a beginning. Including our own. So many of us want to live out our own story and go from A to B. But where do you start and how do you prepare…
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b012 - Holistic Grazing Plans, Energy and Marketing - The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 6
Darren Doherty discusses Holistic Management planned grazing, energy, and farm marketing. This is the sixth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open…
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046 - Water - Simple, Yet Complex with Watershed Artisan Craig Sponholtz
Today's story is one about a unique focus. Someone who has dedicated a whole lot of time on mastering one subject. One subject that is dually quite simple yet…
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047 - Permaculture Homesteading - Enjoying Life being a Realist, not an Idealist
How many people want to be a homesteader? Living off the land, off the grid, working for themselves, and around their family - The Good Life, just like Helen…
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b011 - Darren's Farm & Broadacre, The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 5
Darren Doherty discusses his farm setup and various broadacre topics - perennial grasses, silvopasture. This is the fifth podcast that takes you to one of…
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045 - Profitable Methods for Healing the Land with Mob Grazing with Greg Judy
This is the full presentation from one of Greg Judy's talks from PV1. Greg and his wife Jan are farmers from Rucker, Missouri. On their farm, Green Pastures…
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044 - How Can I Make it Happen. Stop Apsiring, Start Doing.
Chad Sentman of Action House Productions joins me to about video, permaculture, and business. Chad is the videographer that filmed PV1. He is also an permie…
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043 - Starting a farm and living the happy farm life. A conversation with farmer Shannon Jones.
Shannon Jones, a young farmer from River Hebert, Nova Scotia joins me to talk about what it is like to be a young farmer on her farm, Broadfork Farm. She…
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042 - Bees and Beekeeping with The Bee Whisperer, Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan, The Bee Whisperer, joins me to talk about bees and bee keeping. Michael is a holistic bee keeper who is doing beekeeping the right way. He has…
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041 - Navigating the Fear of Leaving One Job and Starting Fresh. Hint: It probably won't be as bad as you initially think.
John Pugliano of Investable Wealth joins me to talk about navigating the fear of leaving one job and starting a fresh career. One key theme that I hear from a…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily040 - Designing Systems That Will Work Before AND After SHTF - Passive Systems vs. Brittle Complicated Systems f. Ben Falk & Grant Schultz
Ben Falk and Grant Schultz join me to talk about permaculture as a survival preparedness strategy. How can we use whole systems design to create systems that…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily039 - The Future of Agriculture - Changing the Concept with Mark Shepard
Mark Shepard of Forest Agriculture Enterprises joins me to talk about the future of agriculture. Mark has a pretty clear view on how he thinks the future of…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily038 - Biogas and Anaerobic Digestion: Closing the Loop on Waste and Creating Energy in the Process
Bob Hamberg of Omega-Alpha Recycling Systems and Dragon Husbandry joins me to talk about anaerobic digestion and biogas. How we can use "waste" to close the…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb010 - PV1 Behind the Scenes, A Recap of PV1 with Diego and Tall Paul
I am talking to my friend Tall Paul who helped out at registration with PV1. In this episode we talk about why I did what I did when I planned out the…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily037 - Arrive a Solution, Don't Impose a Solution. Permaculture and Life with Toby Hemenway
Toby Hemenway joins me to talk permaculture - how permaculture has changed and how we can work more permaculture into our lives. Toby also talks about being…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb009 - Getting the Mineral and Water Cycle Back In Order, The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 4
Darren Doherty discusses soil mineralization, value adding on farms, and farm water systems. This is the fourth podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb008 - Designing the Farm and Tree Systems, The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 3
Darren Doherty walks Doniga and Eric Markegard through some basic farm design. Working with contour maps. Where to hold water in the landscape. Various uses…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb007 - Permaculture Plants - A chat with Dave Whitinger of All Things Plants
Dave Whitinger of All Things Plants joins me for a to chat about different [permaculture] plants that he grows. Most of these plants are class permaculture…