Growing For Market Podcast

Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
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Growing For Market Podcast

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! Link: https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast

  1. Maximizing the storage life of vegetables with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Maximizing the storage life of vegetables with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska

    If you store vegetables for any length of time, you’re going to want to hear this interview with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm. Sam has practiced “storage farming” for years, growing during the summer for off-season sales from stored crops deep into the winter. In this interview, he tells us about how he figured out his own best practices along the way, as there was little available information on modern veg storage techniques that would keep produce in top shape over an extended period of time.

    1h 31m
  2. Growing seeds for sale or for your own farm with Dan Brisebois of Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm

    19 NOV

    Growing seeds for sale or for your own farm with Dan Brisebois of Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm

    Dan Brisebois has over 20 years of market farming and seed growing experience as a founding member of Tourne-Sol Cooperative farm in Quebec, Canada. In this interview and discussion of his new book, The Seed Farmer, we hear how his interest in seed growing goes all the way back to the beginning of his farming career. Now, he can tell us from experience what it’s like to grow many seed crops, since roughly half of the farm income derives from seed sales, with the other half coming from a 500-member CSA.

    1h 14m
  3. GrownBy: Building a cooperatively-owned farm marketplace app with Lindsey Lusher Shute

    12 NOV

    GrownBy: Building a cooperatively-owned farm marketplace app with Lindsey Lusher Shute

    You may know Lindsey Lusher Shute from co-founding the National Young Farmers Coalition, but what we talk about on the pod this week is her work with GrownBy: the only cooperatively farmer-owned farm marketplace app. During her decade as the Executive Director of the NYFC, one of the needs that was identified was a flexible way for farmers to sell a wide variety of products online. That need is what led to her founding the Farm Generations Cooperative that runs GrownBy.

    1h 7m
  4. Making compost out of food waste destined for the landfill with Nathan Rutz of Tilth Soil

    5 NOV

    Making compost out of food waste destined for the landfill with Nathan Rutz of Tilth Soil

    Tilth Soil was born out of a desire to keep some of the millions of pounds of food waste that is discarded every year out of landfills, with their mission to “feed people, not landfills.” Hear about how their sister company, Rust Belt Riders, started out hauling food waste in bicycle trailers, and has subsequently scaled up to trucks in order to handle just some of the scraps generated in Cleveland, Ohio- in 2023 they composted over 10 million pounds and that’s not even all the food waste generated by Cleveland!

    1h 23m
  5. Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company

    29 OCT

    Producing regionally adapted seeds for the Upper Midwest with Driftless Seed Company

    Driftless Seed Company is part of an encouraging trend we are seeing with regional seed companies producing seed in and with adaptations to their specific region. On this week’s podcast, we have Cody Egan and Dylan Bruce of Driftless Seed Company, telling host April Parms Jones how they went from farming and working for a seed company to founding one. Dylan had to leave part way through the interview due to technical difficulties, so we get the rest of the story from Cody.

    1h 8m
  6. Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!

    22 OCT

    Balancing farming and parenting with Katie Kulla, author of the new book Farm-Raised Kids!

    Farming and parenting can each be demanding jobs by all by themselves, so it can be a real challenge to do both at the same time! Katie Kulla talked to over 25 farmers about their experiences and how they strike a balance between the two, and it’s all in her new book, Farm Raised Kids: Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead! The book will be available at the end of October, and you can pre-order it from Growing for Market Magazine’s online store now (subscribers always get 20% off all books).

    1h 6m
  7. New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!

    15 OCT

    New host special episode with Rebecca Kutzer-Rice of Moonshot Farm in New Jersey!

    We’re so excited to be welcoming Rebecca Kutzer-Rice to the podcast team as one of our co-hosts, we wanted to make sure and record an episode to properly introduce everyone to her! Growing for Market Magazine readers will recognize Rebecca from her articles in the mag, including many about flower growing written from her experience running Moonshot Farm, a specialty cut flower farm in East Windsor, NJ. She grows flowers year-round including in a geothermal greenhouse, for retail markets in and around NYC.

    53 min
  8. How farmers can get help preserving farmland with Addie Candib of American Farmland Trust

    8 OCT

    How farmers can get help preserving farmland with Addie Candib of American Farmland Trust

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    1h 7m
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About

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! Link: https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast

Information

  • Creator
    Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Growing For Market Podcast

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