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Despite the risk of pivoting their business, Lindsay Steele of Garden Fort in Dexter, Michigan (outside of Ann arbor), chose to switch from farmers markets to direct-to-retail sales and ended up reaping unexpected rewards - from more time with his family to increased profitability. In this episode, Alex Ball of Old City Acres and Lindsay dig deep into successfully shifting from farmers markets to direct-to-retail sales, selecting profitable crops for year-round production, how clever packaging and branding set their products apart, scaling-up and effectively managing farm labor, and how all of those things contributed to a better work/family balance while farming. Also mentioned in this episode... Follow Garden Fort on Instagram. They use Rimol Greenhouses Nor'Easter series for year-round greens production. Consider focusing more on high-profit-margin crops like salad greens for year-round production and potential wholesale opportunities. Evaluate your farm's workflow (i.e. wash/pack) and systems (i.e. tarping, reduced tillage) to increase efficiency for a better work/life balance. Consider the benefits of incentivising well-trained and returning farm workers and how that can contribute to the overall success of your farm. The Rough Draft Farmstead No-Till Farm Tour! Folks who make the show possible...   RIMOL Greenhouses quality greenhouses and high-tunnels. Tilth Soil amazing compost-based living potting soils and soil blends. Orisha for wireless greenhouse+ automation, get 15% off with code "No Till Grower" Real Organic Project for a whole farm certification program to distinguish crops grown in health soils. ... and, as always, our work is powered by the folks who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers, you can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our brand new forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

In this episode, we talk all about cover crops and preparing our growing beds for winter with Gary Pilarchik of The Rusted Garden. The plant profile is on Fuchsia and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support. SHOW NOTES will be posted here on 10-11-22. If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 3: Cool-Season Edible Gardening https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-3.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 97: Permaculture https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/03/gardendc-podcast-episode-97-permaculture.html We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite platform so other gardeners can find us too! Recorded on 10-8-2022. Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz Editing: Brandie Bland Show Notes: Jaime Breeden --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

Today I have more "keeper clips" from Clubhouse for you! Lisa hosts a chat on Clubhouse each Wednesday to cover various flower farming and flower business topics as well as answer listener questions. This episode has some great clips covering the topics of Early-Season Sunflower Growing and Prepping your Beds for Weed Prevention. Lisa offers some great tips here that can make a BIG difference for your farm or garden. So here you go! Links & Mentions: Sunflower Seeds in our Online Shop Bio360 Install Video Video: Weeding with a garden hoe Blog: Weed-Free Direct Seeded Beds Are you on the Clubhouse phone app? Join Lisa's club, called Flower Farming, to be notified when she schedules new chats! The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-wining author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social!

Welcome back to another episode of the Homegrown Liberty Podcast, this is episode 44. Today we’ve got some thoughts on preparing for winter and what I’m doing to get ready for the cold season. But first some news on what I’ve been up to and an update on the plant cuttings!  Just got back from another week of teaching and consulting, and man, I’m so tired of traveling. I was gone for I think around 17 days out of 31 days in October. I most recently got back from a trip teaching about soil building methods at a workshop in the DFW area, and also made my way to 4 sites along the way to and from my teaching engagement. Helped several people get direction and overcome obstacles to the development of their properties. As well as helping one family feel comfortable in the plans they already had set in place. Overall, I had a great time, but I’m glad to be home and getting back to work on everything that needs to be done here. I need to get garlic in the ground asap, the weather has started to change, and we should start getting some rain in the next week or two now that the weather has shifted. I have a lot of plans going into winter! So let’s get right into it! Garden Preparation One of the big questions I’ve been getting recently is how can I gear up for winter gardening? Well, If you’re much farther north of me, then it’s probably too late to get much done other than quick growing greens and alliums that will be harvested next year. But I’ll get into some of the things I’m doing specifically. Alliums - It’s time for me to plant all my alliums here in Louisiana. I have a bunch of cool types of garlic I got from one of my contemporaries who has tons of market garden locations in and around St. Louis, and I have some perennial leeks and perennial onions to get in the ground. I’m really excited about all the cool new alliums this year. Next year will be chock full of onions and garlic if we have a good winter! I’ll be filming the planting of my alliums so you guys can get in on the action as well! Mulching & Bed Prep - I have some beds that need some renewing and mulching, so I’ll be cleaning them up and mulching heavily before planting this winter. I’ll be using some old moldy feed acquired locally to help build some soil, feed worms and increase biological diversity. It’s amazing what a little mulch and some worm food will do to build great soil! Winter Greens - I’ll be planting a lot of greens like spinach, lettuce, collards, arugula, and anything else that will grow through the colder weather and produce a leafy green crop for our salads. I’ll be covering with greenhouse plastic row covers to heat things up a bit and get some stellar growth out of them during the colder weather. Root Crops - It’s past time for me to get things like potatoes and carrots in the ground, but here in the south, the only time to really grow root crops like these is when it’s cooler. I’ll be getting them put in the ground soon so we can have some spring harvest. We have nice deep sandy soil so we should be able to get some long cultivars of carrots to grow nicely this year. In the past, my soils have been too compacted, it should be easy this year in the old garden spot. New Garden Beds - This is something we’re going to be working on all winter long, no huge rush since things are generally so warm here anyways. I might even be able to use some clear plastic to heat the soil and keep earthworms nice and active all winter long in the new beds and have a rocking start in the spring. I’ll keep you guys up to date on how that all goes. I am hopeful it works out like I think it might. All I have to do is keep the soil moist, warm, and keep food in there and they should go bonkers. Looking forward to trying that experiment out! Cleanup - It’s about time to make the last pile of compost for the year. I’ll have plenty of material between the chicken coop deep litter ...

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