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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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Farming in the city is something that Curtis has done ever since he started farming 5 years ago. But he hasn't always farmed, just inside the city. At one point in time he actually farmed a two acre plot outside of the city with another farmer. He did this in addition to farming his urban lots. So he had a multi location farm with small plots inside the city and one large plot outside of the city. As a result he saw first hand the differences between farming more land and less land - because there are a lot of differences.
In this episode we will dig into those differences and hear what it was like farming two acres and how it was different than farming a third of an acre.
We will touch on the various different models for selling products off of a farm - think CSAs versus selling directing to restaurants. We'll talk about the differences between each of the models.
As you will find out each market, each farmer, and each farmer will have to experiment to find the best fit for them. What works for one farmer and in one market, might not work for the next.
It is week 16 of the urban farm season - June 30, 2015.
Learn more about The Urban Farmer at permaculturevoices.com/tuf16
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Permaculture designer Neal Spackman talks about leaving his desk job, family, and culture to go to another country and country and to a very dry Saudi Arabia and take on greening land on the Al Baydha Project.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Neal Spackman. Neal blogs at twovisionspermaculture.com
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This week we will get into how Curtis went about getting his very first piece of urban farm land over 5 years ago. We will talk about what worked and what didn't work when he was just starting out and trying to gain access to land.
The unique part here is that this was all happening in the beginning. Before Curtis had built any social capital from being an active urban farmer. There were no demonstration sites or track record to refer to, it was only one person saying this is what I am gonna do, are you interested in helping.
As you will hear Curtis eventually found his first piece of land to farm. That got the ball rolling and from there he never looked back.
It is week 15 of the urban farm season - June 23, 2015.
Learn more about The Urban Farmer at permaculturevoices.com/tuf15
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Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/
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Ben Falk discusses some of the lessons and leanings from his 10 years of living on a homestead in Vermont.
He touches on topics like water management, growing trees, and growing rice.
The webinar was recorded on August 10, 2013.
You can watch a view of this presentation in the show notes at permaculturevoices.com/b21
To be successful as an urban farmer you need to be able to quickly adapt and solve problems on the fly.
In this episode we talk about how Curtis has had to adapt in the past and how his system allows him to change his production quickly.
I also talk to Curtis about five mistakes that I see a lot of farmers make when they get into the farm business. Together we discuss these common mistakes and how you can avoid them. We will give you straightforward, honest, actinable advice that you can put into use today and hopefully keep you out of trouble and increase your chances of farming success.
It is week 14 of the urban farm season - June 16, 2015.
Learn more about The Urban Farmer at permaculturevoices.com/tuf14
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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Permaculture Kitchens I’ve Known is about the application of permaculture design principles and strategies to ecologically minded kitchen design, local seasonal menu planning, nose to tail cookery and butchery, cooking in community and regenerative food shed design.
It is a realization that food is at then nexus of our society and culture. Both agriculture and food preparation come together to create, reshape and define our physical world and thus our reality, it has been this way since the beginning. Thus, the ways we grow, cook and eat food are the vehicle to making better more regenerative systems as we reclaim traditional knowledge and combine that with appropriate technologies to create our own future.
All of the world’s problems can be solved at the dinner table as we reintegrate our kitchens and our gardens.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Seth Peterson.
Chef Seth blogs at https://apermaculturechef.wordpress.com
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It's June 9th and the farm is in full production. As you heard last week a big part of that production comes from greens. Greens that are being cut and cut and cut.
That's resulting in a lot of product that is being sold to restaurants, distributors, and farmers market customers.
This we we talk about deliverying that product to restaurant customers and how that day looks from harvest to delivery.
We also talk a lot about crop planning. How do you know what to plant now so you have it harvest later, and how do you know that you will have a market to sell that product to later.
It is week 13 of the urban farm season - June 9, 2015.
Learn more about The Urban Farmer at permaculturevoices.com/tuf13
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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The future of business lies in sustainability. And to be sustainable businesses must be profitable. In this talk Philippe will explore the idea of why branding and marketing are so important for the future of sustainable business.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Philippe Choiniere. Philippe runs Oneka Elements - https://onekaelements.com/en
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It's June 2nd and the farm is in full production. As you heard last week a big part of that production comes from greens. Greens that are being cut and cut and cut.
That's resulting in a lot of product that is being sold to restaurants, distributors, and farmers market customers.
This week we get into sales, crop planning, planting density, and the ability to cut greens multiple times.
It is week 12 of the urban farm season - June 2, 2015.
Learn more about The Urban Farmer at permaculturevoices.com/tuf12
Did you ever imagine what it would be like if you’d started your PDC in middle school?
How would you have lived your life differently?
What if everyone had that same experience?
What would the world look like?
That’s exactly the question Matt Powers wants to answer. He is an English and soon-to-be Permaculture teacher at a school with laptops for each student in Central Valley California. He is developing a permaculture curriculum for middle school – high school to connect students to the fledgling collegiate permaculture programs and the online permaculture community.
Matt shares excerpts from his books, experiences in teaching permaculture to children and teens, & insights into the growing permaculture youth movement.
Join Matt for a look at the future of Permaculture in public and home school settings.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Matt Powers of thepermaculturestudent.com
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