Podcast · Tech & Science
by Diego Footer · English · Tech & Science
Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming
18 May 2022 · 46 min
Melissa Ballard joins me to talk about how selling online has helped their business. She also discusses how she tells her farm story to build and deepen the relationship with her customers. Follow Bluegrass Beef @bluegrassbeef Want to learn more? My new book Ready Farmer One - The Farmers' Guide to Create, Design, and Market an Online Farm Store is finally out!!! Get it on Amazon .
30 Mar 2022 · 38 min
The first two episodes of Carrot Cashflow will air here on Grassfed Life. You can listen to the rest of the episodes by subscribing to the podcast. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-carrot-cashflow-trailer/id1616506647?i=1000555599534 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7yWbI4WFF0ZixQT8kEwukL?si=aa0dfe257c654e04 ---- Farmer Jeremy Tolley discusses why they go above and beyond to service their farm customers. He shares the extra steps he takes to really make customers feel like they are getting something special. He shares how he built his customer base using the…
29 Mar 2022 · 31 min
The first two episodes of Carrot Cashflow will air here on Farm Small Farm Smart. You can listen to the rest of the episodes by subscribing to the podcast. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-carrot-cashflow-trailer/id1616506647?i=1000555599534 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7yWbI4WFF0ZixQT8kEwukL?si=aa0dfe257c654e04 ---- Farmer Vannah Roddy discusses the benefits of her weekly veggie box. It's a program that has been successful for her as a farmer while also being something that works for customers. Follow Encompass Farm @encompassfarm Our new book Ready Farmer…
28 Feb 2022 · 8 min
Darby shares his thoughts about free-ranging pastured poultry. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
E177 · 14 Feb 2022 · 9 min
Darby answers a question about raising cows or sheep when you don't have much land. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
31 Jan 2022 · 6 min
Darby shares his thoughts on keeping a ram on the farm. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
17 Jan 2022 · 7 min
Darby gives advice on farrowing pigs. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
3 Jan 2022 · 11 min
Darby gives advice on selling from your farmstead (not homestead). Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
20 Dec 2021 · 11 min
Darby gives some suggestions on farming with 40 to 100 acres. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
6 Dec 2021 · 7 min
Darby discusses his thoughts on farrowing pigs on farm. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
22 Nov 2021 · 11 min
Darby answers about the viability of raising Kune Kune pigs. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
8 Nov 2021 · 9 min
Darby answers about grazing cattle with the rule of thirds. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
25 Oct 2021 · 11 min
Darby answers a question about which chicken tractor design is the best? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
11 Oct 2021 · 11 min
Darby answers a question about which chicken tractor design is the best? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
27 Sep 2021 · 5 min
Darby discusses pink eye and fly control for cows. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
9 Aug 2021 · 43 min
Farmer Charles Mayfield talks about how he is turning some "waste" product on his farm into a shelf-stable, value-added product. Charles will talk about why he decided to pursue this product line and how he is building the brand. You can support Charles' Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/farrow/the-farrow-project Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or https://www.grassfedlife.co
18 Jan 2021 · 3 hr 21 min
Regardless of what products you are farming, you must have a diversified marketing and business plan for your farm to be successful. Darby Simpson has developed from scratch a "real world", successful direct marketing approach for his farm thru nearly 10 years of trial and error. In his three hour workshop, he'll cover all of the basics you will need to successfully sell your products for a profit. The marketing portion will focus on how to build a marketing list, marketing displays, free marketing tools, how to select a farmers market, customer interaction and education, income…
4 Jan 2021 · 1 hr 8 min
Darby discusses some of the different sales models that he has used on his farm throughout the years. He talks about how to market meat and communicate its value. We also discuss the nuances of customer communication. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or https://www.grassfedlife.co
15 Apr 2020 · 1 hr 40 min
Chris Kiesz of Yellow Hutch Farm in Minnesota joins us to talk about picking up jobs and moving 2000 miles across the country to start his farm. How he picked a new market, cash flowing beef, and creative ways to bundle beef. Follow Chris at https://yellowhutchfarm.com/ Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
8 Apr 2020 · 45 min
"How does a REKO-ring work? The ring is based on a closed Facebook group. The producer and consumer who want to take part apply for membership in the group he or she likes. Administrators, often a small group of consumers, approve the application from serious people and thereafter trade can begin. Normally delivery occurs every or every other week, depending on the size of the group. Delivery times are more often shorter than an hour, or producers congregate and the consumers can collect their orders from a number of producers at the same time. A producer writes a post about their product…
1 Apr 2020 · 54 min
Farmer Luke Groce discusses some of the different breeds he has tried on his farm in his open cell pastured poultry system. Listen to more episodes with Luke Groce at https://grocefamilyfarm.com/pages/the-pasture-raised-podcast Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
25 Mar 2020 · 1 hr 27 min
Today's episode is a replay of Luke Groce's new podcast The Pasture-Raised Podcast. Listen to more episodes at https://grocefamilyfarm.com/pages/the-pasture-raised-podcast Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
20 Mar 2020 · 1 hr 5 min
How Fragile Is Your Business? Could it survive a recession? How long could you survive at 50% of your current sales? How much debt do you have? Today we look at questions you should be asking about the fragility of your business and some ideas on how to make those areas more anti-fragile. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
18 Mar 2020 · 1 hr 36 min
Farmer Debra Bruner joins us to talk about selling to restaurants, partnering with other farms, buying another farm's products, and designing a better website. Connect with Debra on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littlecowmountain/ Website: https://www.littlecowmountain.com/ Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
26 Feb 2020 · 44 min
Darby discusses why good brooder management is so important for pastured poultry. Starting the chicks off to a good start in the brooder helps them excel in the field. Darby shares a lot of his tips and advice that he has learned over the years in this one. Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
5 Feb 2020 · 30 min
Darby discusses how to take advantage of the winter break to plan out your farm season so you can hit the ground running in the spring. Interested in starting your own farm? Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co
15 Jan 2020 · 1 hr 15 min
Darby and I talk about his actual experience trying to set up several fiefdoms on his farm and managing one. Are they a great or terrible idea? Darby will share his thoughts on what worked, what didn't and what he wished he did better. Interested in starting your own farm? Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
30 Dec 2019 · 2 hr
Today I will be sharing some of what I learned as Javan and I each go through our top 5 lessons from 2019. In total 10 simple ways of looking at life, approaching life, and thinking about life that can change your life tomorrow. I look at a lot of these lessons as base principles in an approach to life that very much contradicts the status quo. None of these lessons require any money or technology to implement. There are no tools or techniques here. It's simply changing your approach. Follow Javan: https://allpointsdesign.ca/ https://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/ Learn more with…
23 Dec 2019 · 40 min
Jason Contreras joins me to talk about his journey from working in an office in Southern California to battling cancer to moving across the country to homestead with his family in North Carolina. Jason's story is inspiring and goes to show that you never should give up. Follow Jason: https://www.instagram.com/sowtheland Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
E176 · 9 Nov 2019 · 49 min
This BEST OF episode is a replay of a previous episode of the Grassfed Life Podcast - https://apple.co/2m75EVG Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses While American Guinea Hogs are suited to a wide variety of environments and will do better than most breeds on low-grade forage, they prefer lush pastures with clover along with access to minerals, kitchen scraps, quality hay in winter, clean water to drink, access to a muddy wallow, minimal shelter from precipitation and wind, dry bedding, and perhaps a small amount of grain. They thrive where ranging and…
Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming
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