Farm Small Farm Smart

Do you know how much labor goes into growing that bed of lettuce? Not just the planting and harvesting, the weeding, the washing, the selling, too?
If you don't know your numbers, you might be in danger of farming below minimum wage. 
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 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast
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 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon
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Everybody fantasizes about being their own boss, but nobody fantasizes about standing in front of a field at 6 AM wondering if you made the right call, or about the part where you clean the toilets. After a decade interviewing farmers who made the jump from employee to owner, the same seven walls come up again and again.
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Interested in watching the series? Hop on over to our YouTube Channel! 
 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 
 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.
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Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast
Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon
**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

In this episode, one of the pioneers of probiotic technology, Dr. Matthew Wood of Probiotic Holdings, sheds light on what efficient microbes are and what they do. 
 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 
 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.
Follow Modern Grower:
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Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast
Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon
**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

While $20/tray of microgreens seems like a wildly profitable venture, do you know the kind of logistics, inputs, and labor that go into that $20 tray?
 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 
 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.
Follow Modern Grower:
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Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast
Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon
**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

How many hours did you work on your farm last week? And the harder question: how many of those hours were spent running the business versus improving it?
"Work on your business, not in your business" is in every business book ever written. Everybody nods, but almost nobody does it.
Watch the episode here!
Interested in watching the series? Hop on over to our YouTube Channel! 
 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 
 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.
Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram
Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast
Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon
**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.