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. Scaling urban agriculture with Romondo Woods of Urban Youth Agriculture in Detroit, Michigan

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    Scaling urban agriculture with Romondo Woods of Urban Youth Agriculture in Detroit, Michigan

    Romondo Woods of the Urban Youth Agriculture Farm in Detroit, Michigan, tells us about how he is producing food for the city, while at the same time giving children hands-on experiences at the farm. Romondo started the farm a decade ago and has been scaling up ever since in order to make it a growing source of produce for the city. In addition to letting kids know where their food comes from, they are helping make Detroit a leading example of how cities can implement natural farming practices that make the city a healthier place for people to live.

    47 min

  2. 14 JANV.

    The art of growing uncommon flowers organically with Matt Dell of Treadlight Farm in New York State

    In this conversation, host Rebecca Kutzer-Rice speaks with Matt Dell, co-owner of Treadlight Farm, about their journey into organic flower farming, the transition from retail to wholesale, and the unique challenges and strategies involved in scaling their business. Treadlight Farm focuses on uncommon flower varieties, and Matt discusses how they built relationships with wholesalers, and the techniques they use to manage production effectively. This covers quite a transition since Treadlight Farm started with hand tools and a small greenhouse, and they now manage about 20 acres with a number of greenhouses.

    1 h 12 min
  3. Plan your marketing calendar for the year with Corinna Bench of MyDigitalFarmer and Shared Legacy Farms

    7 JANV.

    Plan your marketing calendar for the year with Corinna Bench of MyDigitalFarmer and Shared Legacy Farms

    Corinna Bench learned digital marketing by doing the marketing for her family’s farm, Shared Legacy Farms. They grow certified organic vegetables for a 400-member CSA in Ohio, and Corinna offers classes and coaching for farm marketing through MyDigitalFarmer. Whether your goal is to get more people to your market stand or sell out your CSA by the New Year, don’t underestimate the importance of marketing to grow your business! In this interview, we talk about what she has learned from running her own farm’s marketing campaigns.

    1 h 24 min
  4. Rogue Farm Corps: Building on the farm apprenticeship system with Kait Crowley and Geoffrey Van

    31/12/2024

    Rogue Farm Corps: Building on the farm apprenticeship system with Kait Crowley and Geoffrey Van

    Rogue Farm Corps grew out of the age-old network of farmer-led apprenticeships, to help make the apprenticeship system compliant with modern labor laws and fulfil its educational component, while continuing to give people real-world farming experience on the way to starting their own farms. In the process they’ve added many opportunities in addition to traditional apprenticeships, forming a robust training program to the benefit of beginners and current farmers alike.

    1 h 10 min
  5. Decentralizing the food system with a steward-owned sales platform for farmers with Pete Russell of Ooooby

    24/12/2024

    Decentralizing the food system with a steward-owned sales platform for farmers with Pete Russell of Ooooby

    Pete Russell used his experience in the food industry to design Ooooby, a sales platform for farmers to sell directly to the public. Their goal is to put local, ecologically sound growers back at the heart of the food system. Ooooby integrates all the apps one would use to build an online farm store into their software to simplify the process for farmers and offer a seamless experience for the customer.

    1 h 21 min
  6. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm in New York on land access, soil health, seed keeping and more!

    17/12/2024

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

    10/12/2024

    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.

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

    03/12/2024

    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.

    1 h 3 min
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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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  • Création
    Andrew Mefferd, Katie Kulla, April Parms Jones
  • Années d’activité
    2022 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    104
  • Classification
    Tous publics
  • Site web de l’émission
    Growing For Market Podcast

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