Pasture-Raised Podcast

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**Pasture-Raised Podcast**

A show about farming regeneratively, wisely, and profitably, on pasture: The ins and outs of the craft of grassland management, farm business, marketing, animal husbandry, and the changing nature of agriculture and rural life.

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004 Re-cAPPPA with Ben Grimes Feb 17, 2020

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In this episode Ben Grimes and I break down the APPPA 2020 conference in Jacksonville held in January.

Learn more about APPPA here:

apppa.org

Learn more about Ben here:

Instagram.com/dawnbreakerfarms

dawnbreakerfarms.com

More from Ben, and about Ben and his farm in the future.

If you want to see what my "day range" poultry system looked like a couple seasons back, here's a video Diego Footer produced at my farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lGTQx5yExM

find me at grocefamilyfarm.com, Instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm.

Don't forget to subscribe! We are now live in Google Podcasts.

003 Jordan Green Feb 11, 2020

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Notes for intro: Pasture-Raised Podcast, Episode 3! Thanks for tuning in again. I hope you enjoyed our first interview last week with Dave Shields. I appreciate all of the kind feedback I've received on it, and want to welcome you to subscribe and leave a review and let other folks know about it if you've found it to be valuable. Before we get into today's episode, let me just talk a little about what you might be able to expect with this podcast going forward: My plan is to release an episode towards the beginning of the week, each week, through the remainder of the winter. As we push into spring, that frequency will likely go to every other week or so. As you've gathered I'll be doing mostly interview style shows with farmers about the farm businesses folks are running. But I do have a few discussions coming up that will be a little more topically focused as well. This week we've got a great interview for you with Jordan Green of J and L Green Farm, and the Farm Builder YouTube channel. With his wife, Laura, Jordan raises and sells weaned pigs, pork, beef, chicken, and turkey in Edinburgh, Virginia. Jordan is a very smart fellow. as you'll see in a minute. He's applying radically independent critical thinking and finding opportunities and exploiting them at every turn while understanding and managing his risk very well. There is probably no evidence of this better than the fact that the farm business he's built is unique and robust. One big thing that struck me is how Jordan is so capable of taking his high-level thinking, experience, and well-earned perspective, and presenting it at a conceptual level, in order to, in a sense, further value-add his own knowledge and help the rest of us see more clearly how we can apply these business and farming principles in our own context. I suppose experience and knowledge with the ability to communicate it effectively and applicably, in a motivating way, is the essence of what a good teacher is. And that's exactly what you have here. For those of us who got into farming with more idealism than business principles swirling around in our brains, teachers like this offer a necessary counter-balance, and are examples in the ways we will need to think and farm if we are going to be in this for the long haul. Jordan's Links: https://www.instagram.com/farmbuilder_1/ https://www.jlgreenfarm.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC11kHJNUV88Qp-Sz06N1o1A My Links: Grocefamilyfarm.com Instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm facebook.com/grocefamilyfarm

002 Dave Shields of Pastured Life Farm Feb 08, 2020

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Dave Shields of Pastured Life Farm joined me for a wonderful discussion of why and how he farms on pasture with his family in rural North Florida. We talked about the passions that drive him and the nitty gritty details of each of his enterprises.

Much thanks to Dave, and to his whole family for sharing on this episode, and all the ways they do throughout the pasture-based small farming community!

Learn more about Pastured Life Farm here:

https://www.pasturedlife.com/

https://www.instagram.com/pasturedlifefarms/

https://www.facebook.com/pasturedlife/

Many of Dave's inventions have been shared through the APPPA community. Check them out here:

APPPA.org

In particular, see one of them through this link:

https://apppa.org/resources/Documents/building%20a%20multi%20purpose%20pasture%20shelter.pdf

001 Welcome to the Pasture Raised Podcast Feb 05, 2020

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Hey Everybody! And welcome to the Pasture-Raised Podcast. My name is Luke Groce. Together with my wife, Katherine, and our four children I run Groce Family Farm in Southern Indiana. I really want to thank you for listening to this, our first episode. If you're at all into pasture-based farming, I hope you'll get some value out of what we're trying to accomplish here. A little about me: I met my wife in 2007. Once I convinced her to Marry me, we started dreaming about having a farm one day. After a year of working on someone else's farm, we started raising vegetables on our own in 2010. After a few years of veg farming, we were finding that, for us and with the way we were doing it, it was difficult to make an income and have time to spend with our young family. We also started to learn about the possibilities with pasture and perennial systems in regenerative agriculture. So in 2014 we began raising pigs in the woods, and in 2015 we purchased and moved to a new farm. Once we arrived here, we began adding in more and more animals and eliminating pretty much all of the crops. Now we are in our sixth year of raising animals on pasture. The enterprises on our farm, in order of economic importance, are chickens, pigs, ducks, cattle, turkeys and sheep. If you don't know me, or know much about me, I'm sure you'll have chance to hear more from me in future episodes. I've been a big consumer of many podcasts over the years, related to whatever interests I have: But most especially farming. I've been thinking about producing a podcast like this for a long time, mostly because it really is the podcast I've always wanted to listen to. Many of my friends and colleagues in this space have produced podcasts that had elements of what I was looking for. But what you'll see here is my attempt at providing just what I always was looking for more of: conversations with good, innovative, and interesting pasture-based farmers out there; to see what is working, what is not working, and how we can all build our farms and farm businesses. My hope is to talk to people who are working on solving the real problems many of us might come across daily on our farms and in the marketplace. Throughout each episode, I hope you'll hear novel and interesting answers to this question: How are different folks with different skills and perspectives in different contexts building farms that can sustain our families, our land, our communities and ecosystems? If you're into that sort of stuff, have a listen! If that's the mission statement, so to speak, of this podcast, then this sort of my shopping list: Here are a few of the markers I hope are present in each of my conversations:

Regenerative farming Solutions: How are we producing food while positively impacting our ecosystems: What are the ways that, through our impacts on the land, we are improving markers of biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and cleaner water, air, and improved soils.

Pasture-Based agriculture: The farms I hope to highlight are pasture-based farms. We are pastoralists, and our craft is a big part of what I want to dive into. I want to talk to folks who are doing good work in this field about this craft. Sometimes it may look like nerding out or talking shop. But I want to go deep into the particulars with those who are innovating and applying their creativity to the craft of regenerative grassland management, rotational grazing, and ecosystem solutions.

Profitable Farms: The solutions we pursue on the land can only be long-term solutions if we can obtain and manage a yield adequate to provide for a family, or multiple families. We will be talking about how we can make our interactions with the land economically sustainable. My hope is that these conversations will touch on all manner of aspects of how we can do that: running efficient operations with sound business principles, understanding necessary metrics and how we can manage essential resources of time, labor, capital, energy, etc better. Sustainable farms are profitable farms and profitable farms are real businesses and running real businesses is a skill and requires some thought. I used to think that spreadsheets and a system for organizing invoices was boring, until I realized it was the thing I could work on to make my farm succeed. Then it became fascinating to me!
Featuring farms that communicate and market well: A piece of economic sustainability is finding those who are looking for what we have to offer, and then communicating with them well. I'll hope to talk to farmers about how we can share our stories, but also how we can make sure we're communicating in a way that helps people see how we can bring solutions to bear in our customers lives. I hope to chat with folks who are thinking about their customers' experiences from first contact through to the eating experience and beyond.
Farmers who are figuring out how to balance life on the land with raising a family. I won't exclusively talk to people who have young families, such as mine. But I do want to hear how people are keeping themselves, their relationships and the people around them as healthy as possible while they do the hard work of running a farm business. If it hasn't become apparent yet, this podcast -while not about my life per se- is about all the things I spend my life thinking about, doing, and being invested in. That happens to be the kind of things that I want to have discussions about. All of the things discussed above are, in my case, done so that I can enjoy life on the land with my family, living a well-balanced and considered life. So I plan to talk to people who I think are doing an exemplary job of raising a family in an agrarian context about just that. Some conversations may not touch on this topic. And others may be entirely focused on it. But in the end, this is the topic that underlies every other one for me: because it is the end goal, for me, of all we do here.
Solving the issues that come alongside rural life, and navigating the new rural economy: I suspect that I'll have chances to talk to first generation farmers and seventh generation farmers. But either way, I'll be talking to people who work in pastures. And pastures are usually in rural areas. In some places, rural areas have seen issues related to urban sprawl and dwindling opportunities for land access. But also in other places, declining populations, brain drain, vanquished economies, and real social and community decline are a set of local issues to contend with. I suspect we will get into these topics some: including the nature of those issues. But also solutions, and how regenerative agriculture fits into rural economies now, and into the future.

So that's it. That's the vision for this thing. It's my dream podcast. So each episode will feature those kinds of conversations with those kinds of farmers. If you're into that, feel free to subscribe and listen along. If you want to see what I have going on on my farm, feel free to check us out on facebook or instagram: at Groce (G R O C E) Family Farm. Our website is grocefamilyfarm.com

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