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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 2056
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
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 system is complex and way beyond the scop…
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 with existing farmers to transition into …
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 into farming in 2009 with his wife Mari…
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 to regenerate landscapes and farming ent…
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 grazing.She is a real life rancher, who is ou…
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 decent wage. If you can gross roughly $2.…
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 husband started changing their diet in their…
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 anyone even care about food forests. Alo…
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 to a reality one weekend while sitting ar…
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 her "career" in the corporate world and q…
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 young and thinking about starting your o…
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 Southern California Permaculture Convergence …
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 episode to discuss just that. How can p…
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 gave to a local permaculture group, 12 M…
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 they are so much better than the more com…
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 and wood gas. Local experts Troy Martz and…