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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In this episode Curtis talks about:
- How his no till beds are working out and performing.
- His strategy for what types of tomatoes to grow.
- How he grows his tomatoes. What cultural practices is he doing.
- How he interplants other crops between his tomatoes.
It is week 11 of the urban farm season - May 26, 2015.
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Today I am talking to Troy Martz of Off Grid Pro about his reality. How he is going from a hobby, something that he loves and is passionate about, and what it's like to transition it into a functioning, profitable business.
In this episode we talk about things like..
How do you deal with starting up a business when funds are tight and you have kids?
How do you split time between your day job that pays the bills and the new business that is time hungry, but currently not paying your bills?
How do you know if the business is making forward progress or if you are just wasting your damn time?
And we start out by talking about Troy's passion - gasification.
A real look, at a real person, trying to do what many of you are trying to do. Taking on the tough but necessary changes that need to be made when it comes to transitioning a passion from hobby to business.
Learn more about this episode at: permaculturevoices.com/110
In this episode Curtis answers questions on..
-How much land you should start with your first year?
-How much you could expect to make your first year of farming?
-How he does his harvesting?
-How he deals with crop residue in his no till beds.
-Raised beds. A fit or not?
-Does he thin his seeds?
-Are pelleted seeds worth the cost?
-How you should start a relationship with chefs when production is inconsistent?
-Is he subject to food handling regulations?
It is week 10 of the urban farm season - May 19, 2015.
Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/tuf10
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Start with water, your most valuable form of capital, and retain as much of it as possible on the property in order to rehydrate the landscape.
We can use efficient landscape design to control the flow of water to slow it, spread it, and sink it allowing the water to infiltrate into the soil, giving the plants water to do their work.
Then nature will start building soil and creating microclimates and shade. But none of that will happen without water.
Zach Weiss an ecological landscape designer from Montana and a student of Sepp Holzer joins me to talk about creating a water retention landscape.
In this episode we will talk more about what he has learned from Sepp and get more into his own ideas on how water retention can have a dramatic effect on the landscape.
We touch on everything from building ponds and sealing ponds to catchment used to feed dams to the three zones of any body of water. An episode for designers and homesteaders alike.
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In this episode we talk about acquiring new farm land. What it takes to get new land, how land deals are structured, and what information you want to know from a land owner before entering a land deal.
We also discuss how you convert a conventional lawn over to a production urban farm plot. What are the steps involved?
It is week 9 of the urban farm season - May 12, 2015.
Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/tuf9
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Greywater is the most plentiful and abundant source of irrigation water we have. For those of us in dry climates, its the most sustainable option- thought often forgotten. Learn how you can install simple and affordable greywater systems that will efficiently irrigate your bountiful, productive, landscape.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Laura Allen of GreyWaterAction.org.
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Scott Gallant, one of the instructors at Rancho Mastatal joins me to talk about what it takes to run a successful and profitable education center.
Talking about topics like volunteer labor and getting what you pay for. We will talk about their apprenticeship program. And how the ranch is really in the hospitality business, not just the education business.
Rancho Mastatal is a business, a for profit business, that needs to be financially successful to be sustainable.
In a world where so many educational businesses are run on non-profit frameworks, here is one that isn't. Let's find out why and get into it with Scott Gallant..
Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/108
It is week 8 of the urban farm season - May 5, 2015.
In this episode we take a deep dive into direct seeding. When is it appropriate, how Curtis does it, and how he optimizes his direct seeding to maximize production for yield and quality.
Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/tuf8
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Thinking about food, ruling with it and destroying it. The next 25-50 “us” years will be critically important to the future of food. You can be on the wave of an amazing era of domestication by turning to the wilds for inspiration. A whirlwind tour of the history of food then, now and “tomorrow”.
This talk was presented at PV2 in March 2015 by Joseph Simcox.
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It is week 7 of the urban farm season - April 28, 2015. The setting for this show is Kelowona, BC, Canada.
This episode focuses on the role of the urban farmer in the community.
Problems Curtis has had with people in the city and how he has dealt with them.
And what skills it takes to be an urban farmer.
Show Notes: permaculturevoices.com/tuf7
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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