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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
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily036 - Putting the Dehesa back into SoCal, A $1M Restoration Agriculture Start-Up
Kevin Muno is on the show talking about his new start-up restoration agriculture style farm, Montado Farms. Kevin talks about why he is doing what he is doing…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily035 - Permaculture Business: Ditching the Status Quo, Using Your Life Energy to Make a Better World.
Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture joins me to talk about the business of permaculture - a right livelihood. We live in a world where we are surrounded by…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily034 - Permaculture 2.0, Designing a Profitable Broadacre Perennial Farm with Grant Schultz
Grant Schultz joins me to talk about developing a perennial polyculture in the middle of row-crop corn and soy country Iowa. He discusses a lot of the…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily033 - Building Soil and Closing the Loop on Waste using Chickens....plus eggs!
Patricia Foreman the author of City Chicks joins me to talk about backyard chickens, chicken tractors, and general chickenery. We will talk about all of the…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb006 - The Holistic Goal. The Regrarian Open Consultancy with Darren Doherty, Part 2
Darren Doherty walks Doniga and Eric Markegard through the Holistic Design process. This is the second podcast that takes you to one of Darren's open…
Farm Small Farm Smart Daily032 - How to fail better. The quest for origination, not emulation.
Javan Bernakevitch of Permaculture BC joins me today to talk about finding your niche in permaculture. Javan will take you through some of the insight he has…
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031 - Geoff Lawton Talks Permaculture - The Past, The Future, and The Land
Geoff Lawton joins me today to talk about permaculture. Geoff talks about his early days in permaculture, where we are in permaculture today, and where we need…
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030 - Paul Wheaton Discusses Intentional Community: Central Leader vs. Concensus
Paul Wheaton of permies.com joins me to talk about intentional community. Paul discusses his views and experiences with variety of different intentional…
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029 - Darren Doherty Introduces the Regrarian Platform [A workshop recording, Part 1]
Darren Doherty presents the regrarian platform. This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave an open consultancy in October 2013. The presentation…
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028 - Industrial Farmer to Beyond Organic Icon, Will Harris III of White Oak Pastures
Will Harris III from White Oak Pastures joins me to talk about his inspirational journey of converting his one time factory farm to a beyond organic farming…
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027 - Permaculture Design and Advanced Homesteading in Cold Climates with Ben Falk
Ben Falk from Whole Systems Design, LLC joins me talk about permaculture design and what he has learned on his research site over the years. He talks about how…
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026 - Small Plot Intensive Urban Farming with Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone of Green City Acres joins me to talk about his experience as a SPIN Farmer. SPIN Farming is a methodology to grown a lot of produce on very little…
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025 - The Myth of the Perfect Job with John Kitsteiner
John Kitsteiner of Temperate Climate Permaculture joins me to discuss his series of blog posts, The Myth of the Perfect Job. So many of us are stuck in the rat…
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024 - Understanding Permaculture Patterns and Setting Holistic Goals with Owen Hablutzel.
Owen Hablutzel joins me to talk about patterns in permaculture and the power of setting a goal. Key Takeaways from this Episode: Patterns are the shorthand of…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb003 - Pastured Hogs Webinar with Rebecca Krassnoski
This is replay of the webinar that was recorded on December 5, 2013 with Rebecca Krassnoski. Attendees submitted their questions about raising hogs and Rebecca…
Farm Small Farm Smart Dailyb002 - Overstory Trees with Joey Delia
Joey Delia of Tipuana Farm joins me to talk about overstory trees in permaculture systems. We touch on species of overstory trees that grow in our area and the…
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023 - Michael Pollan talks GMOs, Industrial Agriculture, and the Impact of Cooking your Own Food
Michael Pollan joins me to talk about GMOs, organic food, the industrial agriculture, and his new book Cooked. Points we hit on: What will it take to…
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022 - Thistles, The Dehesa System, and Darren Doherty on Farm Design.
Joey Delia of EvokeHope.org joins me to recap the recent Darren Doherty Regrarian Open Consultancy, talk about the Dehesa system of Spain, and an upcoming PDC…
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021 - The Permaculture Orchard - Converting An Organic Orchard into A Permaculture, Polyculture.
Stefan Sebkowiak of Miracle Farms joins me to talk about the what's lacking in organic systems - biodiversity. And why organic is good, but creating a…
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020 - Urban Lumber: A Valuable Product That You Walk By Everyday and Probably Don't Notice.
David Barmon of Fiddlehead Landscape Design joins me to talk about urban lumber. We discuss how we can start thinking about urban trees as not just a source of…
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019 - Joel Salatin on Ecologically Profitable Farming - How New Farmers Can Get In and How Existing Farmers Can Convert.
Joel talks a lot about how young people can get into farming by establishing synergistic relationships with older farmers as he tries to dispel the big belief…
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018 - Using Permaculture Earthworks to Capture Rainwater Runoff and Prevent Erosion
What do you do with 350,000 gallons of rainwater runoff that enters your property with a high velocity causing erosion? One option is to harvest that water…
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017 - A Journey into Raising Hogs. What Worked and What Didn't.
Rebecca Krossnoski of Nature Delivered Farm joins me to talk about her passion for pigs. Rebecca left her job as a construction estimator 6 years ago to start…
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016 - Darren Doherty Talks The Keyline Design Process and the Importance of Building Soil in the Landscape.
Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to fill in some of the gaps surrounding Keyline design. While the whole Keyline design…
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015 - Joel Salatin On The Next Generation of Farmers. Starting Out, Interning, Mentoring, and Partnering with Existing Farmers.
Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm joins me to talk about his new book Fields of Farmers which focuses on the next generation of farmers.How young people can work…
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014 - Mechanical Contracting to Hog Farmer. The Business of Raising Pastured Hogs on 90 Acres.
John Backes of Circle B Ranch joins me to talk about raising pastured hogs on 90 acres in Missouri. John didn't come from a farming background. He transitioned…
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013 - Darren Doherty on Agriculture, Regrarianism, and Why Regenerative is Better than Sustainable.
Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to talk about the regrarian philosophy that he has put together and how it can be used…
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Building Soil, Healing the Land and Raising High Quality Food with Rotational Grazing f. Doniga Markegard (PVP012)
Doniga Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed comes on the show to talk about ranching, permaculture, and the regenerative power of rotational livestock…
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011 - Permaculture Based Business. Growing Mushrooms, Building Soil, and Shooting to Gross $100,000 Per Acre.
What if you could gross $100,000 per acre in a small sustainable agriculture operation? You could make a good living and/or you could afford to pay someone a…
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010 - Raising Heritage Breed Livestock and Venturing into Farming with Cathy Payne
Cathy Payne of Broad River Pastures joins me to talk about heritage breed livestock and her journey into farming that began in her mid-50's. Cathy and her…
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009 - Build a Backyard Food Forest Today, Part 2
Joey D'Elia joins me in this episode to talk about why people are afraid of embracing the order that comes in the "disorder of nature." We also ask why should…
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008 - Starting a Pastured Poultry Business. The Story of a First Time Farmer with Paul Greive.
Paul Greive of Primal Pastures joins me to talk about being a grass farming entrepreneur. He talks about how the thought of Primal Pastures went from an idea…
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007 - The Real Mistakes and Challenges of Starting a Business. Can Anyone Be an Entrepreneur?
Sarah Aubrey of Prosperity Consulting joins me to talk about being an entrepreneur, starting a business, and her journey. Like many entrepreneurs she started…
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006 - Starting A Small Family Farm. Practical Advice from An 8 Year Farming Vet.
Want to be a farmer? Always dreamed about having your own farm? Lessons from a family farmer who has gone from grassroots to prosperity in 8 years. If you are…
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005 - Paul Wheaton: Building a Better World One Permaculture Brick At A Time
'Building a better world, one permaculture brick at a time.' The full and complete audio from Paul Wheaton's standing ovation keynote presentation at the…
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004 - Build a Backyard Food Forest Today, Part 1
How do we get more food forests into suburban yards? We can start by planting a legume anytime that plant a fruit tree. Then what? Joey D'Elia joins me in this…
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003 - Maximize Yard Productivity. Growing Fruit Trees in Small Spaces for Year Round Harvest.
In this episode of the Permaculture Voices Podcast I have my friend Ben Kotnik of Suburban Food Farm on the show to talk about the recent presentation that he…
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002 - The Lifetime Battery: Nickel Iron Batteries for Homesteads and Farms
In this episode of the podcast I am happy to welcome Brandon Williams from Iron Edison battery company to talk about long lived nickel-iron batteries and why…
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001 - Homescale Electricity Generation with Gasification and Wood Gas
Gasification and Wood Gas: How to Grow Your Own Energy and Get Off the Grid Our very first episode! In this podcast we focused on the topics of gasification…