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
Greening Saudi Arabia - Seeing Progress, Plant Species, Lessons Learned, and No Regrets, an Update with Neal Spackman (PVP116)
Neal Spackman is regreening a portion of the desert that gets 3 inches of rain a year on average, but lately they aren’t even meeting the average. Greening the site by using true cost water accountin…
Story Marketing - The Importance of Telling Your Brand's Story, but Not Just Any Story Told by Anyone, The Founder's Story with Marty McDonald
Marty McDonald will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.The latest trend in marketing is story marking. Telling your story in a way that un…
Practical Thoughts on Broadacre Design - 25 Years of Design Mistakes, Evolution, and Innovation with Darren Doherty (PVP115)
Be very cautious about how much you are imposing on the landscape. That's something that Darren talked about on this podcast before. Because it's a big problem out there within the permaculture spa…
10 Essentials For Profitable Urban Farming Presented by Curtis Stone (PVP114)
Curtis Stone is the owner of Green City Acres, a multi-locational urban farm based out of Kelowna, BC, Canada.In 2014 his farm generated $75,000 in gross sales on 1/3 of an acre, spread over 5 small …
A Beginner’s Guide to Going from Getting “STUFF” Done to Getting “THE RIGHT STUFF” Done with Javan Kerby Bernakevitch (PVP113)
It’s the Quality of Life you’ve reached and maintained. It’s the relationships with you…
$200,000 Dollars in Sales from 320 Square Feet. Learn the tips and tricks that grower Chris Throreau is using to crush the microgreens business. (PVP112)
"They weren't just buying the product; they were buying the whole package."
That's how Chris Thoreau was able to go to a farmer's market selling one crop. Just one. Sunflower shoots. He was able t…
TUF042 - Six Months of Transition Into Farming – A Conversation with New Farmer Scott Hebert – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 2
Scott Hebert started farming in June 2015 when his family business shut down. At that time he didn’t have anything to fall back on. But he had always had an interest in farming, and within a few days…
The Power of Perseverance and Taking Risks, The Founder's Story with Erik Ohlsen
Erik Ohlsen will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.
My guest today Erik Ohlsen took a risk when he started his business. And it's a risk t…
Regenerative Businesses and Landscape - It's a Process, One That's Always Trying to Improve, The Founder's Story with Ethan Soloviev
Ethan Soloviev will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.
In today's show I'm joined by Ethan Roland Soloviev. Ethan is an international exp…
TUF041 - Profitable Small Scale Farming in Sebastopol – A Visit to Singing Frogs Farm with Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser – The Urban Farmer – Encore Episode 1
While Curtis and I were on tour we made a stop at Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol to visit with farmers Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser.
It's a pretty remarkable farm. The Kaisers are farming just over 2 ac…
Going from Near Bankrupt to Debt Free, Grazing Cattle on Leased Land, The Founder's Story with Greg Judy
Greg Judy will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.
In the late 90's Greg was down to $9 in the bank. The way that he was farming, wasn't wo…
Designing the Pathway to Regeneration, and Why We can't Do That, The Founder's Story with Gregory Landau
Gregory Landau will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.If the current current method of business isn't working, then something more regener…
Building Businesses, Marketing, and Dealing with Failure, The Founder's Story with Jack Spirko
"You have to be willing to fail. You have to be OK with failure."
That's what entrepreneur Jack Spirko told me. He's built a variety of businesses in his career. Some of which have been very successf…
Business with a Holistic Approach - What Do You Want, and How Do You Design a Path to Get There, The Founder's Story with Mary Johnson
Mary Johnson will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. What does success mean to you? Hopefully you know, because if you don't you might be…
Personal Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs (and Everyone Else), The Founder's Story with Mary Beth Storjohann
Mary Beth Storjohann will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. My guest today, Mary Beth Storjohann, is a certified financial planner and i…
TUF040 - End of Season Reflection - Thinking about How Things Went This Year, to Alter Course and Plan for Next Year - The Urban Farmer - Week 40
If you want to be better off in December 2016, then the planning for that starts now in December 2015. The biggest leverage point which for the farm season next year is right there in front of you. Y…
TUF039 - The Urban Farmer Season Wrap Up and Looking Ahead - Thanks for Listening - The Urban Farmer - Week 39
In today's episode Curtis and I will take a look back at the season of this show and talk about what's in store for the future for Curtis and this show. In regards to the future, you listening to thi…
Trading Time for Dollars, Supporting Your Permaculture Goals with a Career Outside of Permaculture with Rob Kippel (CD9)
On today's show I am talking to Rob Kippel. Rob's not your typical permie. He's a paramedic, a real estate investor, and he owns a profitable franchise business that has nothing to do with farming, b…
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 justify not doing it? With everything in bu…
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. You need to be able to tell the stories …