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141: Brendan Davison of Good Water Farms on the Science, Art, and Spirituality of Growing Microgreens and Growing a Business

10/19/2017

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Brendan Davison grows microgreens in over 4,000 square feet of greenhouse space at Good Water Farms in Bridgehampton, New York. Started in 2011 in the driveway of Brendan’s house, Good Water Farms sells its greens to Whole Foods Markets and a long list of Hamptons and New York City restaurants.
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Brendan shares his spiritual and practical path to building Good Water Farms. We dig into many of the details of what makes Good Water Farms a successful microgreens operation, including Brendan’s marketing approach and how he manages production throughout the year. And we take a deep dive into how Good Water Farms’ implementation of a HACCP plan for food safety increased the operation’s efficiency and improved employee competence and confidence.

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Quotes from the Show

The way to enlightenment is to feed people and serve people.

We have three different people coming at random times to check on how we are growing, and growing the way that we say we are growing.

Transparency… is the key marketing element.


This isn’t Coca Cola, where you flip a switch and it all comes out exactly the same.

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Brendan worked with Nexus Greenhouse Systems to design a greenhouse for his microgreens production.

Brendan referenced a University of Maryland study that showed that microgreens contain four to 40 times the nutrients of their mature counterparts.


​Good Water Farms also has a microgreens cookbook.

Transcript

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3 Comments
Mike B
10/27/2017 06:12:22 pm

Chris, in I'm sorry but the audio was just too rough to listen to:(. I'll be sure to read the transcript though.

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Curious Listener
7/10/2019 06:09:05 pm

Still looking for the transcript, audio is rough.

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Lois Thompson
11/25/2019 05:24:52 pm

what is the name of the microgreen in the picture

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