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. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm in New York on land access, soil health, seed keeping and more!

    4 DAYS AGO

    Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm in New York on land access, soil health, seed keeping and more!

    In this interview Leah Penniman tells us why and how she started Soul Fire Farm, along with what she would do differently for those starting out or starting over. She discusses her most recent book, Black Earth Wisdom, and the recent adaptation of her first book, Farming While Black, into a documentary movie of the same title. She discusses how, in 1910, about 14% of farms in the United States were Black-owned, compared with about 2% today, and how her books are an effort to help Black farmers reconnect with their agricultural heritage and reclaim it from racism, discrimination and dispossession.

    43 min
  2. Learning the business of flower farming with Jenny Marks of Trademarks Flower Farm

    DEC 10

    Learning the business of flower farming with Jenny Marks of Trademarks Flower Farm

    Despite growing up farming, Jenny Marks didn’t think she could make a living at it. So she worked in agriculture supporting other farmers, where she learned more about the business of farming; that led her to start her own Trademarks Flower Farm in New York State. Now, in addition to her own farm, she teaches the business of flower farming to other growers with her business Trademark Farmer. She’s doing a free masterclass the first week of January, for more info go to her website trademarkfarmer.com.

    1h 12m
  3. Strategies for dealing with the loss of farms due to climate change with Maud Powell

    DEC 3

    Strategies for dealing with the loss of farms due to climate change with Maud Powell

    Maud Powell, former co-owner of Wolf Gulch Farm in Oregon, shares her farming journey and the impact of climate change on her land. After experiencing drought and a devastating heat dome, Maud and her husband realized they had to leave their farm and find a new property with more water, despite having made decades of investment in the farm. In response, Maud started the Oregon State University Extension Ag Climate Grief and Support Initiative to help farmers cope with the emotional toll of climate change.

    1h 3m
  4. Maximizing the storage life of vegetables with Sam Knapp of Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska

    NOV 26

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

    NOV 19

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

    NOV 12

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

    NOV 5

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

    OCT 29

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

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  • Creator
    Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    99
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Growing For Market Podcast

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