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167: Genesis McKiernan-Allen and Eli Robb of Full Hand Farm on Four-Season Farming for Restaurants and Farmers Markets in Indiana

6/28/2018

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Genesis McKiernan-Allen and Eli Robb raise vegetables year-round at Full Hand Farm, 45 minutes northeast of Indianapolis. Going into year seven of their operation, Genesis and Eli have between four and five acres of produce production, with half of their sales going to farmers market and half going to restaurants in Indianapolis.

Eli and Genesis dig into how they’ve managed a black rot infestation in their brassica crops, as well as how they weathered an herbicide drift incident by marketing with honesty and integrity. We take a look at the details of winter production in their operation, including the highs and lows of mobile high tunnels, their design for caterpillar tunnels and how those fit into their rotation, and how four-season production fits into their business and marketing plans.

We also make an honest evaluation of starting a farm where the food scene was not fully developed, and how that worked for them; and take a similarly honest look at starting a family on the farm, and how they’ve made that work.

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[Genesis] I feel like all of a sudden we're just like talking about the bad stuff, but sometimes that's what maybe you learn the most from. Or the most quickly.

[Eli] You know, we've only been in the neighborhood for five years, and I always say, "We don't go to church or the bar so how do we meet anybody?" Because, we're just working all the time.

[Genesis] We live on the farm. [Eli] Which is great, because you know work's right out the back door. But it's also hard because work's right out the back door.

​[Genesis] I would say that the growth of our family has definitely dictated the growth of the business.

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Eli and Genisis bought their land with help of FSA beginning-farmer 50-50 loan

​Eli mentioned their registration with DriftWatch, a voluntary communication tool that enables crop producers, beekeepers, and pesticide applicators to work together to protect specialty crops and apiaries through use of mapping programs.

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4/26/2018

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Greetings Farmer to Farmer Podcast Listeners,
Just want to let you know that Chris is having some health issues and the podcast will need to be suspended for a few weeks.  We expect the podcast to resume in a few weeks with another great interview. Stay tuned and keep the tractor running.

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166: Mike Madison of Yolo Press on Organic Fresh Flowers, Olive Oil, and Value-Added Products in California’s Central Valley

4/12/2018

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Mike Madison raises 14 acres of organic olives, cut flowers, a variety of tree fruits, and the occasional vegetable crop at Yolo Press, near Davis, California. With his wife, Diane, Yolo Press creates olive oil and a variety of value-added products that are sold with the cut flowers through independent grocers and farmers markets in Davis. Yolo Press has provided a living for Mike and Diane since 1986.

We dig into the development of Yolo Press’ crop mix and markets, and how they developed to accommodate farmer labor and to provide a good living for Mike and Diane. Mike provides all of the production labor on the farm, so we discuss the hows and the whys of making that work, as well as the economics of the farm business and value-added products.

Mike is also the author of the recently published Fruitful Labor: The Ecology, Economy and Practice of a Family Farm.

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Quotes from the Show

If you just have a very brief season and you get a big lump of money, and then you watch it melt away month after month, that can be a little disconcerting. So, we always have income, we always have things to do.

You can do great things with class three soil over a period of decades, but that's a heartbreaking way to farm.
Just because I've got a pocket full of money, is not enough motivation for me to be stuck in traffic on Interstate 80.

Typically we're setting our prices on the low end of the spectrum, because we're concerned about who our customer base is, and because we're not particularly ambitious to be wealthy.


Over the years, I keep lowering my expectations and lower and lower and lower until almost anything that works out is a bonus.

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Mike’s book, Fruitful Labor, is a thoughtful and worthwhile read.

Mike mentioned the customized potato planter he bought from US Small Farm Equipment Co. to plant his tulip bulbs.


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165: Olivia Hubert of Brother Nature Produce on Raising Salad Greens in Detroit, World War II Gardening, and Farm Yoga

4/5/2018

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Olivia Hubert farms with her husband, Greg Willerer, at Brother Nature Produce in Detroit Michigan, as well as at a farm an hour north of the city. Specializing in salad mix and fresh herbs sold to farmers markets, grocers, and restaurants, Brother Nature provides a living for both Greg and Olivia.

Olivia grew up in Detroit, where she fell in love with agriculture as a high school student. After studying at the Royal Horticulture Society of London, Olivia returned to Detroit, where she met Greg and joined him on his upstart urban farm.

Olivia shares her experience farming with both sides of Detroit’s environment, where gunshots and extreme poverty are never far from health nuts and concentrated wealth. She digs into what she learned about urban farming from the World-War-II gardening ethos in England, how they’ve learned to manage flea beetles, and how she and Greg grow fresh salad greens in the city without active refrigeration.

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​BCS America
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Quotes from the Show

We like to be lean,  and mean, and flexible, and to be able to do whatever we need to do and make changes.

We’re very solution-oriented people.


You can’t leave things to chance.


Pretty much the only benefit of farming in the city is being close to your markets.


The idea in life is to have as many options as possible.


Our rows are not all the same size because Greg made them before I came along and made him make things uniform.


Instead of thinking about the times when we have to harvest salad by hand as “oh, no, my back,” start thinking of it as an opportunity to stretch yourself.

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164: Tom Kumpf of Double-T Farm on Right-Sizing the Farm, Rolling with the Punches, and Making the Transition to Full-Time Farming

3/29/2018

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Tom Kumpf raises about four acres of vegetables at Double-T Farm in Garner, North Carolina, just south of Raleigh. Double-T Farm markets through a CSA, restaurants, and a small neighborhood farmers market.

Farming full time since 2008, and part time for many years before that, Tom and his wife, Theresa Ryan, have seen their share of transitions, from farmland transitions and suburban encroachment to changes in the local food and CSA marketplaces. Tom shares the story of how they’ve responded to these changes, and how rolling with the punches led him to think hard about how to right-size his farm and about his approach to his farm production systems.

Along the way, Tom digs in to how he got his first lessons in organic farming from PBS, the parallels between farming and teaching, and some thoughts about evaluating success on the farm.

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I took a number of years to really learn to do what I was doing. Even then I still made mistakes and all that.

So I had the time to kind of hone my skills without any real pressure other than just saying, "Well I don't have as many tomatoes to take to market today as I had last week.”

I'm just going to stick to what I can do, and leave it at that. And if it's not a million thousand dollars a month coming in the door, so be it. Whatever.


When you have the room to spread out, you can cultivate faster, you can plant faster, you can harvest quicker.

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163: Chandler Briggs of Hayshaker Farm on Farming with Horses in Walla Walla’s Wine Country

3/22/2018

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Chandler Briggs of Hayshaker Farm and his partner, Leila Schneider, make a living with about six acres of vegetables on the edge of Walla Walla, Washington. Now in their fourth season of production, Chandler and Leila do most of their farming with horses, and sell their produce through two farmers markets, restaurants, and a grocery store.

Chandler takes us deep into farming with horses, including how he uses them on the farm, and how he learned to work with his horses and how they learned to work with him. We also discuss the tools he uses, how they fit into Hayshaker Farm’s fertility plan, and how the farm is set up to work with the horses.

We also dig into marketing in Walla Walla, a relatively small market but one that is growing and changing as a wine industry develops in the valley, along with the accompanying tourist business and demographic changes. Chandler shares how they stand out at their farmers market, and how they’ve set up their market stand to maximize sales as they find their niche in this expanding marketplace.

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Vermont Compost Company: Founded by organic crop growing professionals committed to meeting the need for high-quality composts and compost-based, living soil mixes for certified organic plant production.

Local Food Marketplace
: Providing an integrated, scalable solution for farms and food hubs to process customer orders – including online ordering, harvesting, packing, delivery, invoicing and payment processing. Manage multiple product and price lists with ease.  Maximize your sales by selling multiple product pack sizes out of the same inventory. Local Food Marketplace will help you reach more customers and save time in fulfilling your customer’s orders.

Quotes from the Show

Using the horses is not necessarily harder [than using a tractor]; it's just a different experience.

[Working with horses] definitely teaching me how to be nuanced and to be patient, and how to communicate on different levels of complexity.


With money into the economy to spend on our produce also comes money that makes it more costly to live here.

Show Links

Chandler mentioned the Small Farm Journal, which provides a wealth of information about horse farming and small farming in general.

​The Waverly Midwest Horse Sale in Waverly, Iowa, features an amazing assortment of horse-drawn equipment and draft horses, plus a bunch of other cool stuff.

Transcript

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162: Lorien Carsey and Shea Belahi of Blue Moon Farm on Farm Ownership Transitions, Farm-Life Balance, Complex Crop Rotations, and Custom-Packed CSA Shares

3/15/2018

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Lorien Carsey and Shea Belahi of Blue Moon Farm in Urbana, Illinois, raise vegetables for farmers market, restaurants, stores, and a CSA. With twenty acres dedicated to vegetable production, and ten high tunnels totaling just under half an acre of year-round production, Blue Moon Farm was founded in 1977 by John Cherniss and Michelle Wander, and now Lorien and Shea are in the process of taking over the ownership and management of the farm.

We dig into how Lorien, Shea, John, and Michelle are managing the nuts and bolts of this ownership transition, including ownership structures, roles in the transition (and how they’ve figured those out), tackling farm-life balance, and the challenges of managing employees through this transition.

We also discuss their homemade customized CSA program, which includes meat and eggs from other farms; a complex crop rotation that keeps ten acres of the farm in a combination of long- and short-term cover crops, and the ins and outs of managing a diversity of high tunnel sizes, shapes, and technologies.

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Quotes from the Show

[Lorien] John has created a stable, successful farm… and if we can just keep it going… then the risk of the farm failing is very low.

[Lorien] John and I have a groove in how we communicate and how we talk. And one thing that’s been really great… is to bring in somebody who doesn’t fit with our style.

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161: Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser of Singing Frogs Farm on No-Till Ecological Farming in Northern California

3/8/2018

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Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser raise a little under three acres of vegetables at Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, California, where they have been farming since 2007. Their ecological farming model rests on a foundation of no-till production, but incorporates many more elements to build soil organic matter and soil biology to support an economically viable operation.

Elizabeth and Paul dig deep into the ecological and production principles that undergird their success, from soil management to transplant production and crop planning strategies. We take a look at their use of hedgerows for soil building, climate management, and insect management, including their tips for installing and maintaining these important ecological tools. And we discuss employee management within their complex, non-linear production system, as well as the economics of their production system.

Perhaps most importantly, Paul and Elizabeth emphasize the ways that observation and their responses to their observations provided the foundation for building what they consider to be an example, and not a model, of their ecological production system.

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​BCS America
: BCS two-wheel tractors are versatile, maneuverable in tight spaces, light-weight for less compaction, and easy to maintain and repair on farm. Gear-driven and built to last for decades of dependable service on your farm or market garden.

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[Elizabeth] you think of farming and what most people think of, they think of a tractor and plow. And here we are, these, you know, little northern California farmers on less than three acres are saying, well we're doing it. We're not doing tillage.

[Paul] It’s critical as farmers and land managers to remember that photosynthesis is what makes planet earth unique and special, and we need to constantly be feeding soil biology through the act of photosynthesis.

[Paul] The only reason we brought out the numbers was because we wanted to give validity to our ecological, no-till approach to farming. We wanted to ensure that yes, we are doing all these wonderful things for the environment and the soil and our crew and all that. And, yes, it happens to also be economically viable.

[Paul] The act of physically doing all this and making mistakes constantly is great because every mistake as a learning opportunity


[Elizabeth] I do not think what we do on our farm is, in any sense, a model, or what you should do or he should do or she should do on their farm. This is what we do and what works for us.

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Paul and Elizabeth talked about the Johnson Su bioreactor composting system for producing fungally rich composts.

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160: Stacey Carlberg and Casey Gustawarow of The Farm and Sunnyside on Managing a Farm instead of Owning, Conservation Efforts on the Farm, and Getting and Giving the Most with Employees

3/1/2018

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Stacey Carlberg and Casey Gustawarow manage The Farm at Sunnyside, with twelve acres of vegetables and eight of tree fruits in Rappahanock County, Virginia, about seventy miles from Washington, D.C.

We dig into the ups and downs of managing other people’s farms, including why they’ve chosen to do it and how the farm owners set expectations and provide oversight. Stacey provides insights into how they manage the financial implications, and we look at some of the other goals of the property owners and how those fit – and don’t fit – with a vegetable-farming operation.

Casey and Stacey share how they make the most of their spot at the high-quality, high-volume Dupont Circle Farmers Market in D.C., including strategies for standing out from the crowd, and how they manage their employees at the stand.


We also talk about how Casey has worked to fit cover crops into the vegetable rotation, and how they have integrated laying hens into the cover crop rotation – including the steps they’ve taken to ensure the safety of their fresh produce in the face of nearby chicken poop.


And Stacey and Casey share the steps they’ve taken to manage employees for year-over-year retention, from their overall staffing strategy to their day-to-day communications. Finally, we discuss their experience with Lyme disease among their crew, and the steps they take to try to reduce its incidence among their employees.

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​Hoss Tools
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Quotes from the Show

[Stacey] We like the idea of coming back here and trying to integrate some of the conservation work with the ag work and see how we can push those boundaries a little bit.

[Stacey] The more we can just lay out the system so that folks know where things are going to go, then the better they feel it too, like they haven't made mistakes.

[Stacey] I think hiring enough people is a key component too so that your crew doesn't think, "Oh gosh. We're never going to get this job done. There's so much work."

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Casey’s favorite tool is the offset bale unroller that they use for mulching.

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159: Anne and Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm on a Multi-Pronged Approach to Weed Control, Farming with Horses, and Designing a Farm

2/22/2018

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At Beech Grove Farm, Anne and Eric Nordell manage six-and-a-half acres for vegetable crop production, with half of that in cover crop, and half of that in vegetables. And they do it with horsepower, next-to-no hand-weeding, and no irrigation.

Anne and Eric share their experience farming with horses, something that they’ve done since Beech Grove Farm’s start 35 years ago, and how they set the farm up from the start to be manageable for the two of them. We talk about their strategy for reducing weed pressure, including their reduced tillage system, and the year-on, year-off rotation of vegetables and cover crops that allows them to build soil while minimizing weed issues.

We also dig into their low-input system for making compost, their low-input wood-fired greenhouse, and the changes they’ve seen in their rural community.

Sponsors

Vermont Compost Company: Founded by organic crop growing professionals committed to meeting the need for high-quality composts and compost-based, living soil mixes for certified organic plant production.

BCS America: BCS two-wheel tractors are versatile, maneuverable in tight spaces, light-weight for less compaction, and easy to maintain and repair on farm. Gear-driven and built to last for decades of dependable service on your farm or market garden.
​

High Mowing Organic Seeds: The first independently owned, farm-based seed company proudly serving organic growers with a full line of 100% certified organic and Non-GMO Project verified vegetable, herb, flower and cover crop seeds. Professional quality seeds grown by organic farmers, for organic farmers. Purchase your seeds early and receive a 10% discount through our Community Supported Seeds program – visit highmowingseeds.com/save.

Quotes from the Show

[Eric] I think most tractors pretty much know everything they will know when you purchase them.

[Anne] We were very cognizant of designing our farm that we could work together, on a scale that could be manageable and that we would enjoy our work, and we've kept that.


[Eric] I think it would be fair to say that we are tilling frequently, but not deeply, and it's not intensive tillage.


[Anne] If we were fighting weeds all season long, it would get very stressful.


[Eric] Unless we're going to import a lot of compost to radically improve the stable organic matter in the soil, we need to keep reconditioning it, with the root system of cover crops.


[Anne] We could have easily designed some amazingly efficient system, and we would be able to expand, and we'd have all kinds of things going on, and we'd probably not be having fun anymore and enjoying ourselves.

Show Links

Eric mentioned the NEON Project that took an in-depth look at how Northeastern US farmers were meeting the challenges of organic production.

Anne put in a plug for Turtle Tree Seeds, her source for Ermosa and Colora lettuces.

And while it’s not an internet link, you can can get Anne and Eric’s book, Weed the Soil, Not the Crop for $10 plus shipping and handling if you send a check to Anne and Eric Nordell, 3410 State Rte. 184, Trout Run, Pennsylvania 17771. They also have a DVD of their presentation at the MOSES Organic Farming Conference for $15, plus $3 shipping and handling.

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