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
- 2057
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Soil Testing with Private Labs
In this episode, agronomist and Logan Labs soil consultant Bill McKibben sheds light on the services private soil labs can offer farmers.
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Compost Made with Biosolids and Manure
In this episode, Malibu Compost CEO Randy Ritchie shares his two cents on composts made with manure and biosolids.
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Getting Started with Your Own Biochar
In this episode, biochar expert Kelpie Wilson of Wilson Biochar walks us through how we can start diving into making our own biochar.
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Building Up Fungi in Compost
In this episode, author and educator Peter McCoy of Mycologos teaches us how we can build a good mycological population in our composts.
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Management of Different Bed Densities
In this episode, farmer and educator Jodi Roebuck of Roebuck Farm in New Zealand shares how they take care of their production beds when they're seeded in varying densities.
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Maintaining Blackberries on a You-Pick Farm
In this episode, farmer Dustin LaBat of Specklebelly Farms in Texas keys us in on how they maintain their best-selling blackberries on their seasonal You-Pick farm.
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Product Photos and Instagram Photos
In this episode, farmer Sam Bellavance of Sunset Lake CBD walks us through how they DIY taking good product photos and Instagram posts.
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What Makes a Good Quality Microgreen
In this episode, microgreen farmer Vincent Cuneo of Agrarian Feast talks about what his criteria are for a good quality microgreen product.
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What We Know About Carbon Sequestration
In this episode, agricultural systems scientist Dr. Bruno Basso of CIBO Technologies sheds light on what we currently know about carbon sequestration.
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Multi-Species Cover Cropping
In this episode, soil specialist and consultant Jim Hoorman of Hoorman Soil Health sheds light on multi-species cover cropping and its potential effects on the soil.
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Making a Living Growing Microgreens
In this episode, mother-son duo Robin & Kellen Kanzius of Fred's Urban Farm talk about the viability of growing mcirogreens as a means to make a living.
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Initial Wholesaling Fears
In this episode, farmer and educator Jodi roebuck of Roebuck Farm shares his initial worries prior to going down the wholesale route.
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Product Variety and Online SKU Listings
In this episode, farming couple Jesse Way & Megan Brandenburg of Milk Way Farm talk about how they list their different product SKUs in their online store.
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A One-Minute Microgreen Pitch to Chefs
In this episode, microgreen farmers Blake Cowling and Austin Collins of Scintilla Farms share how they approach new chefs about their microgreens.
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The Pressure to Deliver from Seed to Produce
In this episode, educator and market gardener Rob Moores of Passion4Plants UK talks with rookie farmer Alec Smith about the sometimes unnecessary pressure to grow produce from seed.
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Becoming Part of the Community
In this episode, farmer Jill Duncan of Loving Roots Farm shares how she and her farm have become a big part of their local community.
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Picked Clean at a You-Pick Farm
In this episode, farmer and author Megan Neubauer of Pure Land Organic Farm shares her strategies on how they get as close to picked clean as they can at their you-pick farm.
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What Hiring Out Allows
In this episode, farmer Liz Calvelage of Little Bean Farm talks about what hiring out labor on the farm has allowed her to do by freeing up more of her time.
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Arriving at a Unique Crop Selection
In this episode, farmer Jennifer Brand of Sonaterra Farms shares her thought process of choosing unique crop varieties to grow.
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Halting Composting and Soil Testing Frequency
In this episode, farmer and consultant Ellen Polishuk of Plant to Profit talks about holding off on compost application until finding out how your soils are doing through testing.
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