Stay ConnectedDaily 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.
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Peter and Grant met at a Darren Doherty workshop in 2012 as landless farmers with the shared dream of regenerating landscapes.
Since then, they’ve both landed properties, planted thousands of trees, and developed large-scale permaculture farms. They will share their stories of how they acquired land and rapidly deployed permaculture in different ways in different places, amid different contexts.
Peter farms at Mastodon Valley Farm in the ridges and valleys of southwestern Wisconsin, and Grant at Versaland in the rolling hills of Iowa. This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015.
View the slides from this presentation at permaculturevoices.com/b27.
This is an excerpt of an interview that I conducted with Joel Salatin on May 22, 2013 in Big Bear Lake, CA.
Listen to another podcast with Joel at permaculturevoices.com/89
It's August 25, 2015 which means we are at the tail end of summer and shorter, cooler days are coming as fall nears.
We are in one of those unique periods in the year known as the shoulder season, the transition periods at the end of one season and the beginning of another.
They can be tricky time periods for farmers to navigate.
Day lengths start getting shorter, temperatures start getting cooler, and the weather starts to change.
As a farmer this is one of those time periods where it critical to be able to adapt.
You need to be able to understand the changes that are taking place in your biome and plan your crop rotations accordingly.
With an ever changing climate each situation is different and each climate is different, making these shoulder seasons tough to explain.
This episode should shine some light on the topic and give you a general approach that works.
It's this approach, and methodology, that lies at the core of every farmers ability to adapt.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/tuf25
Appropriate technology plays a critical role in permaculture systems. Developing, documenting, and sharing these tools and systems can turn dreamers into true permaculture practitioners.
Grant will discuss home and hot water heating using regenerative energy sources, year-round food preservation in a permacultural context, and functional transport including cargo bikes among other topics.
This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015 by Grant Schultz of Versaland.com.
Learn more about Grant at permaculturevoices.com/b26
Hello Diego,
My name is Russ. I am married, and have two awesome children and I used to be an alcoholic...
This episode is the story of Russ and how permaculture helped him get past alcoholism and change his life.
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/111
As a farmer, how do you communicate what you have to sell each week, how much it costs, and when you need orders placed by, so you can deliver it on time?
You use what is called a fresh sheet.
At it's simplest a fresh sheet is a list of what you are selling currently on the farm, and for what price.
A fresh sheet is more than a current inventory list. It also reminds ever-busy chefs that you have product that they probably want.
If you've never made a fresh sheet before, this episode may prompt you to make one.
It's a whole bunch of little tips and tricks to help you design, create, and maintain an effective fresh sheet.
Listen to past episodes at: https://www.paperpot.co/podcast
Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/
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Learn the tools, techniques, and costs of establishing a productive silvopasture – a production system that produces yields from every layer. Beginning with bare land, you’ll understand harvest planning and sourcing trees, seed, livestock, and equipment. Also learn what can potentially be built, bartered or bartered.
This talk was presented live at PV2 in March 2015.
See the slides for this talk at permaculturevoices.com/b025.
This episode is all about the art of farming.
Creating a framework, and understanding the overlying philosophy about why you do what you do, and leaving yourself some room to maneuver within that philosophy.
Learn more about Curtis at permaculturevoices.com/tuf23
Listen to past episodes at: https://www.paperpot.co/podcast
Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/
Follow PaperpotCo on Instagram:http://bit.ly/2B45VKQ
Part 2 of the series with Marcin Jakubowski of Open Source Ecology.
This episode is the react show to the Marcin interview that I did in Part 1.
This episode is made up of my commentary inspired by the interview with Marcin, and your comments.
I dig deeper into some of the ideas that Marcin brought up such as the 1000 True Fans article by Kevin Kelly, how do you measure success, how do you focus your efforts, celebrating the small, and the advantages of quick iterative learning.
Details, notes, and link mentioned in this episode can be found at permaculturevoices.com/cd2.
This episode is all about being a better provider to your customers...
In this episode we dig deep into sourcing products from other farmers, breaking into new markets, working with chefs and soliciting feedback.
It's currently August 4, 2015 and the inevitable has happened. Curtis is short product, and he is having to source those products from other farmers to keep his restaurant customers happy...
Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/tuf22
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