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
Grow Wings and Fly (CD8)
In this episode, I want to talk about this idea of growing wings and flying. Not limiting ourselves from becoming who we are and maximizing our true potential. Because we live in a society where ever…
TUF037 - 17,500lbs of Vegetables Produced on One Third of An Acre - A Closer Look at What Was Produced on the Farm this Year - The Urban Farmer - Week 37
All in Curtis produced about 17,500lbs of product off of his farm this year. That's a lot of food coming from a small space. Remember Curtis is only farming off of 15,000 sq.ft. which is spread out o…
Starting A Small Scale Seed Business - An Additional Business Unit for A Small Scale Farm, The Founder's Story with Daniel Brisebois
Dan Brisebois will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Today’s episode takes us to Quebec, where farmer Dan Brisebois is doing some amazin…
Designing Projects, Systems and Businesses for The Long Term, The Founder's Story with Christian Shearer
Christian Shearer will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Hopefully this episode will help shed some light on the long term design proces…
TUF036 - Dealing with Real World Troubles and Issues with Restaurant Customers, and How to Prevent Problems from Arising - The Urban Farmer – Week 36
In this episode we will be talking about real world issues and troubles with restaurant customers. How Curtis has dealt with customers who haven't paid in the past and how he has changed his procedur…
The Adventure of Going into Farming – Blending the Romanticism of Farming with What It Takes to Be Successful (Hint… It’s A Lot of Hard Work), The Founder’s Story with Jean-Martin Fortier
Jean-Martin Fortier will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Basing his farm off of the French bio intensive market gardens JM has kept hi…
TUF035 - Your Business Model Sucks, or You're Not Very Good at It... (and what to do about it) – The Urban Farmer – Week 35
Where do you draw the line between this isn't working, but I can figure it out, and this will never work? Let's just accept the fact that farm start-up is going to involve it's fair share of struggle…
You Can’t Always Be a Visionary, Building the Next Generation of Permaculture Businesses, The Founder’s Story with Erin Axelrod
Erin Axelrod will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. A lot of people within the permaculture are visionaries. We imagine a better world. …
Learning, Putting in the Time, and Hustling to Become a Permaculture Designer, The Founder's Story with Zach Weiss
Zach Weiss will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016. Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3. Zach's going to give you a realistic view of what starting out as a designer is really…
TUF034 - Ask The Urban Farmer – Curtis Answers Questions – From Startup to Restaurant Sales to Record Keeping – The Urban Farmer – Week 34
It's currently November 2015 and the main farm season for Curtis is pretty much over. And along with, so is this season of the show. For the remainder of the episodes we'll be wrapping up everything …
Building a Thriving Microgreens Business from Scratch, The Founder’s Story with Chris Thoreau
Today's episode takes us north of the American border to the city of Vancouver. It's the story of how urban farmer Chris Thoreau started his microgreens farm. Like Darby Simpson's story this is anoth…
The Long Road to Overnight Success (CD7)
If you think about your life, and you never made a dollar doing what you were doing, would you keep doing it - forever?
Regardless of whether you are making money doing what you are doing or not, tak…
TUF033 - Improving Processes to Be More Time, Energy, and Labor Efficient AND more Profitable – The Urban Farmer – Week 33
What's your time worth as a farmer? How much should should you be charging yourself to do tasks on the farm?
That's an important metric to think about when you are a small operation. Because for a lo…
Transitioning from a Full Time Career as an Engineer to Making a Living as a Full Time Farmer – The Founder’s Story with Darby Simpson
Darby Simpson will be one of the speakers at PV3 in March 2016.
Learn more about PV3 at permaculturevoices.com/pv3.
As you will learn in this episode, Darby Simpson is someone who transitioned into f…
Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 4 - Soils, Marketing, Energy (b035)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components …
TUF032 - Post Harvest Crop Processing and Small Farm Equipment That You Wouldn't Think Of – The Urban Farmer – Week 32
In this episode we talk about post crop harvest processing, including how Curtis has changed some of his techniques over the years.
We also talk about some of his farm equipment and infrastructure li…
Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 3 - Buildings, Fences (b034)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components …
Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 2 - Water, Access, Forestry (b033)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components …
TUF031 - Being Realistic with Your First Year Expectations - Work to Learn, Not to Earn – The Urban Farmer – Week 31
Set yourself up for success by having realistic plans and expectations for the first year. Match your lifestyle and your budgeting to those realistic expectations.
If you are going to start out farmi…
Farm Planning and Land Design via the Regrarians Platform with Darren Doherty - Part 1 - Climate and Geography (b032)
Darren Doherty presents the Regrarian Platform.
This is Darren's introductory presentation that he gave at Grant Schultz's Versaland in October 2014.
The presentation lays out the ten key components …