Getting farm-friendly legislation passed with Sara and Symbria Patterson of Red Acre Farm in Utah

In today’s episode, hear Sara and Symbria Patterson talk about farming in Utah on Red Acre Farm and founding the Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture. In addition to the challenges of farming at elevation, Sara and Symbria discuss how they have gotten over 15 bills passed through the Utah legislature. They highlight the relationship-building process they have used successfully with legislators to pass pro-local-farm legislation despite sometimes facing skepticism from both sides of the aisle. Sara talks about what it was like to found the farm at age 14, and how Sara and Symbria went on to found the Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture in order to promote and protect local farmers.

In Shop Talk with Neversink Farm, we chat about new tools, old tools, how they can benefit your farm and tips to use them successfully with Conor Crickmore of Neversink Tools, which manufactures tools for farmers. Shop talk is a segment in every episode of the Growing for Market Podcast.

In Shop Talk with Neversink Farm @neversinkfarm we chat about new tools, old tools, how they can benefit your farm and tips to use them successfully with Conor Crickmore of Neversink Tools, which manufactures tools for farmers. In this episode of Shop Talk, we discuss propagation house efficiency, specifically, efficiency of space with rolling greenhouse tables.

Greenhouses are the most precious real estate on most farms, and rolling tables help to minimize the amount of space wasted on pathways; because rolling greenhouse table tops can be moved, it cuts the need for pathways in a greenhouse down to one, and tables are rolled out of the way when a path is needed. We discuss how these work as well as the benefits of building them yourself vs buying a kit.

Thanks to our collaborator on this podcast Neversink Farm. They make this podcast free to everyone with their generous support. For tools designed and made by farmers, check out www.NeversinkTools.com

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Email: [email protected]

Website: redacrefarmcsa.org

Website: redacrecenter.org

Website: utahfarmconference.org

Instagram: @rerdacrefarm

Instagram: @redacrecenterut

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