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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.
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Farmer John Suscovich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "What breeds of broilers do you raise?"To learn more about John and see all of the ASK John episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/john.
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Not every business will work, but over the course of a career odds are, one idea will work. If you want to be an entrepreneur, then it’s up to you to smartly continue on until you find it. Because you can’t win the race, unless you finish the race. But can you find that right idea? Many of people don’t think that they can. And it’s that defeating self talk that keeps many people from succeeding, and many more of even starting in the first place, thereby having no chance at future success. This episode is geared at the entrepreneurs and the wantrepreneurs who are listening; the ones who think they can and the ones who think they can’t. Because either way, you’re right. In today’s show, I am talking with entrepreneur, and business owner Philippe Choiniere of Oneka. Philippe didn’t have the ideal road to become a business owner (none of us do). He started as as a professional hockey player and now finds himself owning a leading sustainable personal care products line. Likely not the career path that he would have mapped out ahead of time. But that’s the greatness of his path. It wasn’t that ideal path, it was the real path, the actual path, that took place in reality. His journey wasn’t always easy, it was hard, but he pushed through and he now has a growing and profitable business. Along the way he gained the equivalent of three real world MBA’s in the school of hard knocks. And he will share a lot of that with you in this episode. He is going to talk extensively about his entrepreneurial journey. He is going to talk about what it feels like to deal with rejection and failure. And he is going to talk a lot about marketing and branding and some of the expensive lessons that he has learned along the way. Philippe’s clearly learned a lot, and one tell to of that is the calmness and acceptance with which he states that everyone isn’t the right customer, and he is going to charge what his product is worth. Sage advice. Enjoy this one. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/122 Support Permaculture Voices on Patreon.
Homesteader Justin Rhodes of AbundantPermaculture.com talks about how he feeds his 30 chickens for just $1.25 per day.
To learn more about Justin and see all of the ASK Justin episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/justin.
If we go back to where we left of Season One of the show, it was December and there really wasn't any crop production happening on the land itself for Green City Acres. At that time some of the land was sitting fallow waiting for future planting in the spring, and some of the land was occupied by dormant crops that had been planted a few months earlier in the fall. Let's find out how much Curtis' total farm has been quietly in production throughout the winter, with beds holding overwintered crops, and why.
This episode also covers overwintering crops, prepping beds with tarps and stale seed bedding, and dealing with the shoulder season day length changes.
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Farmer John Suscovtich of Camps Road Farm and FarmMarketingSolutions.com answers the question, "Are pastured broilers profitable?"To learn more about John and see all of the ASK John episodes visit permaculturevoices.com/john.
A new phenomenon being developed by the US university systems is the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Through his work teaching Permaculture within the Oregon State University Horticulture program, Andrew Millison was given the opportunity to develop an Introduction to Permaculture course in the MOOC format. Freely available to anyone interested, this course is slated to run three times this year with enrollment goals of thousands of students per course. Andrew will explain what a MOOC is and how it can expose and engage thousands of people in the Permaculture concept.
Register for the MOOC at open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/
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We're back for another Season of The Urban Farmer with Curtis Stone.Season Two will kick off on Wednesday, April 6.Just like last year, I am going to follow farmer Curtis Stone on a journey through a full farm season, taking you behind the scenes to see what being a small scale farmer is really like. This episode is a preview of what's to come.Stay tuned every Wednesday for a new The Urban Farmer with Curtis Stone at permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer.
All of the guests for this episode are listeners of the show. Listeners just like you.
A few months ago I asked for feedback on the first season of the show, and I received a ton of it.
Today, I will share some of it with you.
If you submitted feedback for the show and gave me the OK to read it, thank you, this episode is yours.
As humans I think we live in a guru culture. A culture that puts people on a pedestal.
And that can be dangerous because it creates limiting beliefs.
Beliefs that we could never be like them.
Beliefs that we aren't good enough.
Beliefs that we have some sort of unfair disadvantage.
Beliefs that we can't do what they do.
Because they are an expert, and we aren't.
A lot of people view Curtis as that expert and put him on that pedestal of knowledge.
They create limiting beliefs in their mind and tell themselves, I could never do what Curtis does.
I have sat in workshops with Curtis and heard it first hand, time and time again.
And if you believe that, that you could never do what Curtis does, then Henry Ford said it best...
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - your right.
This episode today is for the people who think they can.
If you ever feel stuck or stalled or find yourself struggling and wondering if you can actually do it, then here’s an episode for you.
An episode full of stories of “ordinary” people doing the hard work to go after what they want in life, and showing that it might not always be easy, but it is possible.
Learn more about this episode at permaculturevoices.com/tuf45
If you want to learn more about Curtis Stone and urban farming, then check out Curtis’ book, The Urban Farmer and his course, Profitable Urban Farming.
Paul’s central premise is that habitats have immune systems, just like people, and mushroom forming fungi are the foundation of the foodwebs of land based organisms.
Our close evolutionary relationship to fungi can be the basis for novel pairings that lead to greater sustainability and immune enhancement. As w e are now fully engaged in the 6th Major Extinction (“6 X”) on planet Earth, our biospheres are quickly changing, eroding the life support systems that have allowed humans to ascend. Unless we put into action policies and technologies that can cause a course correction in the very near future, species diversity will continue to plummet, with humans not only being the primary cause, but one of the victims.
What can we do?
Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer some powerful, practical solutions, which can be put into practice now. Paul will discuss his groundbreaking research utilizing their cellular networks to create molecular bridges governing the evolution of sustainable habitats. The implications of his research are far-reaching and could spark a paradigm shift to a better future.
This presentation was recorded live at PV2 in March 2015.
For all of the audio presentations from PV2 visit: permaculturevoices.com/audio/
Today's episode is actually a rebroadcast of a presentation that Curtis gave in January in San Francisco.
The presentation is called Farming in the City.
In this presentation, Curtis will take you on a tour of his one third of an acre urban farm, where you will get an inside look at the day to day operations of the farm from vegetable production to sales.
Curtis will show how he farms commercially, and profitably, in backyards and on small plots of land in the city, land that he doesn’t own. You’ll learn about the methods and techniques that Curtis has used over the last six years to grow his sales and profits.
See video related to this presentation at permaculturevoices.com/tuf44
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