Growing For Market Podcast
By Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
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Growing for Market is the farmer-to-farmer magazine for local food and flower growers, for 33 years and growing. GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables, cut flowers, plants, herbs, and other food products. If you are market farming or gardening, you'll find valuable information that will help make your business more profitable and enjoyable, all written by farmers, for farmers. Please join us today!
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Pushing back on the weakening of organic standards with Linley Dixon of the Real Organic Project
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Greenhouse planning, siting and building with Tomm Becker of Nifty Hoops
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Growing mushrooms for market with Erin Hamilton of The Mushroom Conservatory
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Why preserving organic standards matters for all growers with Dave Chapman of the Real Organic Project
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Setting standards for floral crops and writing the book Floral Standards with Diane Szukovathy of Jello Mold Farm
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Taking sales online after decades of farmers markets with Robert Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm
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May 27, 2025 |
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Food system accountability by farmers with Sarah Carden of Farm Action
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May 20, 2025 |
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Connecting 6,000 customers with 30+ farmers at Mali Plac food hub in Slovenia
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May 13, 2025 |
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Getting ambitious local ag projects done using for-profit/nonprofit partnerships with Amber Lambke of Maine Grains
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May 06, 2025 |
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Farming in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, with Tyrean Lewis of Heru Urban Farming
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Getting the most out of your greenhouse tomatoes with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha greenhouse automation
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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What it's like to farm in suburban California vs rural Minnesota with Kelley Rajala of Clear Lake Gardens
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Stewarding the farm into the fifth generation and beyond with Kristin Graves of Fifth Gen Gardens in Alberta
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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The power of regionally adapted seeds and herbs with Bevin Cohen of Small House Farm in Michigan
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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20+ years of full-diet CSA with Kristin and Mark Kimball of Essex Farm in New York State
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Strategies for dealing with the federal funding freeze with Gale Livingstone of Deep Roots Farm and Ari Memar of Farmhand
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Year-round marketing vegetables and flowers with Corinne Hansch and Matthew Leon of Lovin’ Mama Farm in New York State
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Full-diet CSA and longtable dinners in the high desert of Oregon with Sarahlee Lawrence of Rainshadow Organics
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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How a fifth-generation farmer is growing sustainability and profitability for the next generation with Graham Christensen of Christensen Farms in Nebraska
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Going from a career in banking to full-time market farming with Jacqueline Jackson of Mattie's Garden in Birmingham, Alabama
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Putting the farm back in solar farms with Elise Couillard with the Couillard Solar Foundation
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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How to build a regenerative food brand with Samuel Taylor of Long Table
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Learn from 50+ years of organic vegetable farming with Jim Crawford of New Morning Farm in Pennsylvania
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Scaling urban agriculture with Romondo Woods of Urban Youth Agriculture in Detroit, Michigan
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The art of growing uncommon flowers organically with Matt Dell of Treadlight Farm in New York State
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Plan your marketing calendar for the year with Corinna Bench of MyDigitalFarmer and Shared Legacy Farms
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Rogue Farm Corps: Building on the farm apprenticeship system with Kait Crowley and Geoffrey Van
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Decentralizing the food system with a steward-owned sales platform for farmers with Pete Russell of Ooooby
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm in New York on land access, soil health, seed keeping and more!
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Learning the business of flower farming with Jenny Marks of Trademarks Flower Farm
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Strategies for dealing with the loss of farms due to climate change with Maud Powell
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Maximizing the storage life of vegetables with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Growing seeds for sale or for your own farm with Dan Brisebois of Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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GrownBy: Building a cooperatively-owned farm marketplace app with Lindsey Lusher Shute
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Making compost out of food waste destined for the landfill with Nathan Rutz of Tilth Soil
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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How farmers can get help preserving farmland with Addie Candib of American Farmland Trust
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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How to help new farms get started with Rowan Steele of the Headwaters Farm Business Incubator Program
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Bazile Panek of Good Sky Guidance on respectful agricultural learning and collaboration with Indigenous communities
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Pest control by birds of prey with Alina Blankenship of Sky Guardian Falconry in Oregon
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Optimizing your online sales and marketing with Nina Galle, co-author of Ready Farmer One: The Farmer’s Guide to Selling and Marketing
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Nina Planck on replacing the industrial food chain with local foods values
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Advocating for the rights of farmers to sell directly to the public with Alexia Kulwiec, Executive Director of the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Learn from decades of natural farming experience with Jeff Poppen of Long Hungry Creek Farm in Tennessee
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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From farm worker to farm owner with Virginia Herrera of Eloisa Organic Farm in Oregon
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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How growers are using Farmhand, the first virtual assistant built for farmers, with Carolyn Givens of Something Good Organics, Melanie Cunningham of Shakefork Community Farm and Ari Memar of Farmhand
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Suburban farming on a small footprint with a full-time job with Michael Bell of Dallas Half Acre Farm in Dallas, Texas
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Designing with dried flowers with Hannah Muller of Full Belly Farm
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Training farmers for the future with an endowment from the past with Megan Larmer and Nicole Scott of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming in New York State
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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How to make pick-your-own more profitable than other markets with Megan Neubauer of Pure Land Farm in McKinney, Texas
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Using data to identify profitable flower crops, biofumigation, and so much more with Bruno Maciel of Florista Lina Farm in Barcelos, Portugal
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Getting the most out of farmers markets with Catt Fields White of Farmers Market Pros
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Building a virtual assistant for market farms with Ari Memar of Farmhand
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Meet your new host, a special episode with April Parms Jones!
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Flexible CSA logistics: Alex Ball of Old City Acres in Michigan on out-of-home delivery, website customization, last mile logistics and so much more
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The rise of selling local food and flowers online with Cole Jones, founder and CEO of Local Line
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May 28, 2024 |
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Going from dairy farming to vegetable farming with humor, wisdom, grit and lots of good farm advice with Jaymie Michelle Thurler of Rutabaga Ranch in Ontario
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May 21, 2024 |
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Aquaponic flowers and leaving two successful careers to start a flower farm with Sarah Daken and Tom Precht of Grateful Gardeners
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May 14, 2024 |
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Improving access to fresh food and farming in Chicago with Joshua Hughes of the Urban Growers Collective
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May 07, 2024 |
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A fresh update on micronutrient fertility from the sea that was decades in the making with Michael Sileck of Sea-90 Ocean Minerals
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Streamlining the REKO ring model of pre-selling to the public with Tyler Taggart of REKO Hub
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Managing a diverse collective farm with Hannah Rose Weber and Nate Lada of Green Things Farm Collective in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Overcoming barriers for local food and farmers with Jean-Martin Fortier
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Creating community around food and farming with Brian Campbell and Crystine Goldberg of Uprising Seeds
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Becoming the face of your farm and breeding the Floret Originals varieties with Erin Benzakein of Floret
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Making natural liquid fish fertilizer from a fishing byproduct with Ann Molloy of Neptune’s Harvest
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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How rootstocks increase yield and disease resistance in grafted tomatoes with breeder Martijn van Stee of Enza Zaden
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Growing a bioregionally adapted seed system with Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds in Oregon
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Making flowers accessible with a CSA, home delivery and more with Tracy Yang of JARN Co. Flowers in Washington State
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Breeding local food systems that are more resilient to climate change with Chris Smith of The Utopian Seed Project
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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A lifetime of organic farming and activism with Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farm in Maine
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Growing a profitable flower business with Lisa Mason Ziegler of the Gardener’s Workshop
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Advanced greenhouse control and automation with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Vegetable and flower farming on cooperatively owned land in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, with Angela and Paul Neufeld of Kingfisher Farm Market
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Why and how to automate your greenhouse for peace of mind and better production with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Establishing a farm growing 40 different vegetable crops on 30 acres with Cole Mazariegos-Anastassiou of Brisa Ranch in California
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Quitting your job to grow flowers 52 weeks of the year with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Quitting the corporate life to build Mount Liamuiga Farm in Colorado with Keshaun Joseph
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Balancing four different enterprises on a single family farm with Zoe Bradbury DeSurra of Valley Flora Farm in Oregon
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Ways to keep pests and diseases in check without spraying with Dr. Surendra Dara of Oregon State University
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Growing a profitable flower farm with Lennie Larkin of B-Side farm and author of Flower Farming for Profit
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The best idea in local farming you’ve never heard of: the “farm stop” with Kathy Sample & Bill Brinkerhoff of Argus Farm Stop
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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The farmer’s office: business skills you need to run a profitable farm with Julia Shanks
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The Nourishing Asian Kitchen (and Farm!) with Farmer/Author Sophia Nguyen Eng
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Lean Micro Farm with Ben Hartman of Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Two decades of farm collaboration with Lyn Jacobs of La Finquita Del Buho and Polly Gottesman of Pumpkin Ridge Gardens
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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PFAS contamination of farm soil with Caleb Goossen, Organic Crop Specialist at MOFGA
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Spreading risk through crop diversity on a new farm with Noah Poulos of Wild East Farm
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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70 sustainable plants that will change the way we eat, with Kevin Hobbs and Artur Cisar-Erlach
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Urban flower farming with Mimo Davis and Miranda Duschack of Urban Buds City Grown Flowers
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Balancing farming on Whidbey Island and teaching farming in Seattle with Eli Wheat of SkyRoot Farm and The U of WA
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The Winter Market Gardener with Catherine Sylvestre of Ferme des Quatre-Temps
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Staying healthy through a lifetime of farming with Cynthia Flores of Labor-Movement
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Strategies for farming in clay with Nella Mae Parks of Nella Mae’s Farm in Cove, Oregon
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Part 2 of Managing your wash/pack system for safe, clean produce with Billy Mitchell, Chris Callahan and Andrew Chamberlin
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Managing your wash/pack system for safe, clean produce with Billy Mitchell, Chris Callahan and Andrew Chamberlin
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Overcoming adversity with Anthonie Conner of 4A Market Gardens in Torrington, Wyoming
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Breeding more flavorful vegetables with Culinary Breeding Network founder Lane Selman
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Building a honey farm business with innovative marketing, agritourism and education with Tara Chapman of Two Hives Honey
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Farm stress: strategies and resources for dealing with the mental health repercussions of farm-related stress with Anne Schwartz and Rachel Van Boven
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Planning and planting for the flower holidays with Dave Dowling
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Ground lease farm transfers and much more with Jeremy Barker Plotkin of Simple Gifts Farm
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Going from starting farms to editing Growing for Market Magazine with editor Andrew Mefferd: from farmer to editor (Part 2 of 2)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Going from working on farms to running Growing for Market Magazine with editor Andrew Mefferd: From apprentice to farmer (Part 1 of 2)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Reflecting on 50 years of Johnny's Selected Seeds with founder Rob Johnston
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Creating positive labor experiences for farm owners and workers with Sarah Janes Ugoretz of the FairShare CSA Coalition
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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New podcast co-host special episode, with Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics!
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The Ecological Farm with farmer/author Helen Atthowe: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System
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May 30, 2023 |
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Growing cut flowers six stories above the San Francisco Bay Area with Joanna Letz of Bluma Flower Farm
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May 23, 2023 |
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Unraveling why root maggots may have been worse than usual this spring with Caleb Goossen of MOFGA
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May 16, 2023 |
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Growing 15 acres of organic flowers with mother/daughter team Dru Rivers and Hannah Muller of Full Belly Farm
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May 09, 2023 |
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Compost science with Robert Pavlis
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May 02, 2023 |
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Making the move from the military to agriculture with Charley Jordan of Jordan Farms in Tennessee
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Growing good broccoli in a bad climate with Jan van der Heide of Bejo Seeds
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Getting farm-friendly legislation passed with Sara and Symbria Patterson of Red Acre Farm in Utah
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The origins of Growing for Market Magazine with founding editor Lynn Byczynski
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Farming and pregnancy: Birth and postpartum healing for the farmer (Part 2 of 2)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Farming and pregnancy: Balancing the physical and emotional demands (Part 1 of 2)
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Demystifying the Guestworker H-2A visa program with Gretel and Steve Adams of Sunny Meadows Flower Farm
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Fred Hempel of Artisan Seeds on breeding veg varieties for market farmers
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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The origins of Neversink Farm with Conor Crickmore, part 2 of 2: The Neversink Farm Course and Neversink Tools
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The origins of Neversink Farm with Conor Crickmore, part 1 of 2
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Josh Volk on DIY farm tools and compact farm layouts
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Meet your host: Megan Robertson!
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Scrum project (and personal!) management with Andrea Heim
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Feb 06, 2023 |