Podcasts about jm fortier

#223: JM Fortier shares his vision for farming as a pathway to food sovereignty. From his home in Quebec, JM has helped lead a growing movement of small-scale, soil-based farmers working to reconnect communities with their food. Through his work with the Market Gardener Institute, he's offering tools, structure, and encouragement to a new generation hungry for change. This is a grounded and inspiring look at how living soil, real skills, and deep purpose can rebuild the food system from the roots up.https://realorganicproject.org/jm-fortier-farms-for-food-sovereignty-223JM Fortier is a farmer, educator, and author from Quebec, Canada, who also appears on a weekly television show. He is known for promoting a culture that replicates small-scale diversified farms that rely on market gardening strategies (direct sales of cash crops to community members) and human-powered growing practices. In the late spring of 2024, JM and his fried Chris Moran launched the Market Gardener Podcast:https://themarketgardener.com/podcast/You can learn more about JM and his many adventures here:https://www.en.jeanmartinfortier.com/The Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/directoryWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Friends:https://www.realorganicproject.org/real-organic-friends/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

In this solo episode, Jean-Martin Fortier takes a deep dive into the question: Is it still realistic to start a small organic farm today? Addressing both aspiring and seasoned farmers, he explores the financial viability of small-scale farming, the challenges of land access, and the shifting landscape of local food systems. JM emphasizes that, despite obstacles, small farms remain economically viable and play a crucial role in strengthening local economies and food sovereignty. With a call for unity in the face of growing corporate influence and climate change challenges, this episode is a rallying cry for farmers to stay resilient, engaged, and committed to the movement. PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Timestamps [03:22] The need for economic data on small farms [05:01] Challenges with policy & institutional support [08:51] Is it still realistic to start a small farm? [13:01] Social justice & small farming [16:06] The importance of local food systems [19:23] The corporate threat to local food [20:17] Ecology, community & lifestyle [26:17] The mindset of a successful farmer [30:40] The responsibility of experienced farmers [33:00] The global reach of the small farm movement [36:28] The need for farmer leadership & policy advocacy [37:51] The CANOPY program & strengthening farmer networks [38:46] The fragility & power of the small farming movement [40:14] Climate change & small farms as a solution Tessier  Use promocode MGI10 for 10% off and free shipping on your first purchase for the Eastern North American regions (Ontario, the Maritimes, and the states of Vermont, Maine, New York, and New Hampshire).  Bootstrap  https://bootstrapfarmer.com/marketgardenerpodcast Heirloom  Limited time offer of 20% off yearly subscription and use promocode PODCAST to get an extra month of free trial. Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links JM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier 

In this solo episode, Jean-Martin Fortier dives into the evolving landscape of sustainable farming, exploring the differences and connections between organic, regenerative, and small-scale agriculture. He highlights the importance of maintaining organic certification to ensure transparency and accountability while addressing concerns about greenwashing in the regenerative movement. JM emphasizes the need for localized, decentralized farming systems rooted in healthy soils and human-scale operations, advocating for unity within the movement to combat the challenges posed by industrialized agriculture.  If this episode inspires you to rethink the possibilities of small-scale farming, we invite you to take it a step further. From January 14 to 16, join our FREE and LIVE workshop Money Talks where we'll dive into the numbers behind real farms. This practical and inspiring event will show how small farms can be both a solution and a profitable path forward. Register here: https://themarketgardener.easywebinar.live/event-registration-jan-2025 PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Timestamps [6:40] Evolution of organic farming: From pioneers to present day [10:09] Regenerative agriculture: The new buzzword [13:13] Greenwashing concerns: Loosely defined standards [15:29] Organic certification: Why it still matters [16:49] Scale in agriculture: Localized versus industrialized [20:24] Soil and scale: Core to sustainable farming [22:01] Movement clarity: Avoiding manipulation and staying united [23:28] Economic impact: Local farms as community drivers [24:23] Workshop announcement: “Money Talks” free event in January Sponsors Tessier  Use promocode MGI10 for 10% off and free shipping on your first purchase for the Eastern North American regions (Ontario, the Maritimes, and the states of Vermont, Maine, New York, and New Hampshire).  Market Gardener Institute⁠  Join the Masterclass waiting list! Bootstrap  https://bootstrapfarmer.com/marketgardenerpodcast Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links JM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier 

Show Notes This week, JM and Chris reflect on season 1, discussing the themes and ideas that stood out for them, what they learned, what surprised them, and what is exciting them the most about the future of this movement. You'll hear clips from each episode along with reflections, giving you a feel for each guest in case you missed any, and a birds-eye view of the themes that came up throughout the season.  See you in Season 2, coming October 31st! PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Timestamps [12:11] Rob Rock - Ep 9 [20:55] Dave Chapman - Ep 2 [30:19] Jeff Tkach - Ep 12[42:15] David McMillan - Ep 7 [48:17] Maude-Hélène Desrochers - Ep 8 [59:10] Orlane Panet - Ep 6 [1:07:17] Thierry Lison - Ep 5 [1:12:00] Stephanie Wang - Ep 3  [1:19:34] Christa Barfield - Ep 11[1:28:43] Pete Russel - Ep 4 [1:37:48] Beth Hunter - Ep 10 Book List: Break Em Up by Zephyr Teachout Barons by Austin Frerick A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin The Joy Of BurnOut by Dina Glouberman Ru by Kim Thuy The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg Permaculture Design Handbook by Bill Mollison World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz A History Of Food by Maguelonne Touissant-Samat Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays On Art And Artists by Robert Hughes Soil by Matthew Evans The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Collaborating With The Enemy by Adam Kahane Bridge To Terabithea by Katherine Paterson The Monk Who Sold His Ferarri by Robin Sharma Sponsors Market Gardener Institute https://themarketgardener.com/courses   Use promo code podcast15 for 15% off these select courses: Mastering Greenhouse Production 8 Most Profitable Crops Season Extension Strategies Market Gardening & Organic Farming for Beginners Winter Farming Strategies Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.com/newsletter Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links JM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier 

#180:  In our first-ever podcast swap, we are sharing the interview that kicked off JM Fortier's pilot season of The Market Gardener Podcast. JM invited our co-director Dave Chapman to visit him in-person in Quebec, for a lengthy deep dive into the origins of Real Organic Project and why this work is needed more now than ever. Is this work about food and the food system, or something deeper? And how much should farmers and eaters be involved in spreading the word and working to find solutions?  As always, you can expect to learn something new from both of these deep-thinking farmers. To watch a video version of this podcast please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/jm-fortier-interviews-dave-chapman-episode-one-hundred-eighty JM Fortier is a farmer, educator, and author from Quebec, Canada, who also appears on a weekly television show. He is known for promoting a culture that replicates small-scale diversified farms that rely on market gardening strategies (direct sales of cash crops to community members) and human-powered growing practices. In the late spring of 2024, JM and his fried Chris Moran launched the Market Gardener Podcast:https://themarketgardener.com/podcast/ You can learn more about JM and his many adventures here:https://www.en.jeanmartinfortier.com/Dave Chapman owns and operates Long Wind Farm in East Thetford, VT, which concentrates on soil-grown glasshouse tomatoes that are produced year round. Dave and fellow Vermont tomato farmer Davey Miskell noticed the suspicious appearance of  hydroponic tomatoes from other countries being sold with the USDA organic sticker over a decade ago. Their research led to a web of injustices affecting real organic farmers, including berry growers, dairy producers,  grain farmers and more. The Real Organic Project was founded in 2017 and has evolved into an add-on food label. It is a 100% farmer-led organization.The Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement that has certified over 1,000 farms across the United States. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).  To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://realorganicproject.org/directory/We believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.We certify farms for free! If you are able to support our work financially, please consider making a donation: https://realorganicproject.org/donate/To read our popular weekly newsletter and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming, and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

In this very first episode of The Market Gardener Podcast hosts JM Fortier and Chris Moran tell their stories and discuss the importance of the small farm movement and how so many people are finding a better and more meaningful life by going back to the land. JM goes into great detail telling his story of how he got into farming and how he developed multiple businesses over the years, always with the mission of helping to multiply small farms around the world. Chris explains his story of discovering farming in his early 20s and the ambitious and chaotic farm project he was a part of in New Jersey, and then how he ended up in Quebec where he now resides making videos with JM and The Market Gardener Institute.  PLEASE make sure to subscribe to the podcast, download our episodes, and rate them! Your support means the world to us. Thank you! Sponsors Bootstrap Farmer https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/  Ooooby https://www.ooooby.com/ (mention the podcast for 75% off onboarding fee) New Society Publishing https://newsociety.com/ (use code smallfarm25 for 25% off all books) Timestamps [2:44] Introduction [9:28] JMs travels after university [9:50] Starting farming in Quebec [13:36] Starting La Grelinette [16:57] Writing The Market Gardener [25:08] Starting FQT farm [28:23] Creating The Market Gardener Institute [32:23] Founding Growers & Co [33:50] Heirloom crop planning software [38:13] Chris's background story [38:56] Chris's story starting a farm in NJ [46:00] Chris's wife visiting his farm for the first time [49:23] How Chris and JM met and started working together [52:49] Quote from Living The Good Life [53:10] Finding meaning through going back to the land [55:00] The magic of growing things [56:05] The decline of farming in North America [58:03] How people farmed in the past [59:46] Discussing hopes for the podcast (with a name blooper before we decided the podcast name!) [1:01:52] The importance of these discussions  [1:04:18] Quote from Charles Eisenstein [1:06:05] Is our future headed in the wrong direction? [1:07:22] Are people living on screens too much these days? [1:08:05] How gardening can change the suburbs [1:11:04] Connecting people to the land through the Old Mill restaurant [1:11:40] France's food culture [1:13:23] Eating together is central to being human [1:13:47] Importance of chefs in the small farm revolution [1:14:51] Importance of entrepreneurship and business in the small farm revolution [1:17:28] What book have you read more than once? [1:18:44] Incredible french book Le hasard n'existe pas [1:19:52] Be open to serendipity [1:20:58] Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic [1:21:41] Rick Rubin and creativity [1:22:32] Finding spirituality through farming [1:23:01] What advice did you hear when you were young but only appreciated later? [1:23:46] Ready, shoot, aim [1:26:09] Thinking long term with business [1:27:00] You're a spiritual being living a human experience [1:29:31] Thoughts on AI [1:36:10] Wrapping up Links/Resources Market Gardener Institute:  https://themarketgardener.com/  Masterclass:  https://themarketgardener.com/courses/the-market-gardener-masterclass/  Newsletter:  https://themarketgardener.ac-page.com/newsletter-subscription  Blog:  https://themarketgardener.com/blog  Books: https://themarketgardener.com/books Growers & Co: https://growers.co/ Heirloom: https://heirloom.ag/ The Old Mill: https://www.espaceoldmill.com/en/ Follow Us Website: http://themarketgardener.com  Facebook: http://facebook.com/marketgardenerinstitute  Instagram: http://instagram.com/themarketgardeners  Guest Social Media Links JM: https://www.instagram.com/jeanmartinfortier https://www.facebook.com/jeanmartinfortier Chris: https://www.instagram.com/chris_m_moran 

Welcome to The Market Gardener Podcast, your gateway to the vibrant world of organic small-scale farming. JM Fortier and Chris Moran explore the big ideas, challenges, and solutions that shape our food system. Join us and the leading voices in sustainable agriculture as we dive into insightful conversations that empower, educate, and inspire action.

#163: JM Fortier joins Dave to discuss the potential of promoting a replicable, decentralized food and farming system that relies on people building relationships with both land and community, by engaging their powers of observation and connection.https://realorganicproject.org/symposium-2024/JM Fortier is a farmer, educator, and author from Quebec, Canada. He is known for promoting a culture that replicates small-scale diversified farms that rely on market gardening strategies (direct sales of cash crops to community members) and human-powered growing practices. You can learn more about him and his many adventures here:https://www.en.jeanmartinfortier.com/To watch a video version of this podcast with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://realorganicproject.org/jm-fortier-envisioning-hyper-local-small-farm-revolution-episode-one-hundred-sixty-threeThe Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Friends:https://www.realorganicproject.org/real-organic-friends/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic foodThe Real Organic Project Certification deadline for 2024 is 04/15/2024. Please visit RealOrganicProject.com/Apply to guarantee a 2024 visit and inspection!

Figs in Cold Climates. Lemons in Cold Climates. Easy to Grow Fruit. Container Vegetables. Vertical Vegetable Gardening.  New live events in Feb., March and April, 2024. Find out more about these new live virtual events.---- Do you shut down your garden for the winter? Wondering what vegetables to plant in the winter? If you're in a northern climate, to grow vegetables in winter you need to give them heat and light…and that usually means high-input greenhouse growing.But there's another way to approach winter vegetable gardening. And it's low-tech.The idea is to choose hardy crops and grow them big enough before light levels take a dive. Then keep those hardy crops alive in a protected space—and keep harvesting through the winter.The key to successes is the right combination of crops, varieties, and the spacing.In this episode, find out how to you can harvest winter vegetables in cold-climate home gardens.We're joined by JM Fortier, co-author of the book The Winter Market Gardener. The books shares years of research at Ferme des Quatre-Temps.Fortier is also founder of The Market Gardener Institute, which offers training for small farmers. He's founder of the small-farm tool and accessory retailer Growers & Co. ---If you're looking for more information on seed-starting, vegetable gardening, and growing food at home, drop by the Food Garden Life website and grab the free guide, 20 Small-Space Food-Garden Hacks.And say hi—we love to hear from what you think.  ***-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. We're making the world a better place one garden at a time!-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.-->And say hi—we love to hear what you think!-->Upcoming online food-gardening fun!

Harvesting vegetables all winter long is what we discuss on today's podcast with Catherine Sylvestre of Ferme des Quatre-Temps, in Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada. Catherine is an agronomist and director of vegetable production and leader of the market garden team at the farm. She is also the co-author of a new book, called The Winter Market Gardener, along with JM Fortier. She develops, implements, and teaches best practices for cold season growing, specializing in crop protection and greenhouse production for northern climates. We talk about how to time plantings as growth slows in the winter, how to use a variety of structures to spread out the harvest, we answer some listener-submitted questions, and more! Whether this is your first winter growing or your twentieth, there are plenty of ideas here to help dial-in winter vegetable production. Connect With Guest:Email : catherine@fermequatretemps.comInstagram : @fermequatretempsThe Winter Market Gardener Book : Buy HereCatherine's article from the August magazine, "Year-round carbon neutral greenhouse production," https://growingformarket.com/articles/yearround-carbon-neutral-greenhouse-productionLink to contest to win one of three copies of The Winter Market Gardener: https://kingsumo.com/g/ackxye/book-giveaway-the-winter-market-gardener-3999-value-3-winnersLink to winter planting dates calculator:  https://app.orisha.io/#winter-harvest FREE 28 day trial of Growing for Market Magazine- cancel anytime:Go To Growing For Market Magazine: www.GrowingForMarket.com

Questo episodio è un po' diverso dal solito. Si tratta infatti della registrazione integrale dell'evento “Una massa di agricoltori contro l'agricoltura di massa” organizzato da Abitanti presso gli orti aziendali de La Rapa Bendata l'8 aprile 2023, durante il quale è intervenuto Jean-Martin Fortier. JM Fortier è un orticoltore canadese, un punto di riferimento a livello internazionale dell'agricoltura bio-intensiva, sostenibile ed ecologica, ed è l'autore del libro "Coltivare bio con successo". Per scoprire di più del suo lavoro potete visitare il sito del Market Garden Institute, o quello della Ferme des Quatre-Temps. Abitanti è un gruppo di contadini che ha deciso di costruire un percorso comune di confronto sul significato profondo e allargato dell'abitare un luogo, un paese, una comunità, con la convinzione che la piccola agricoltura sia centrale in questo ragionamento. Queste sono le tre realtà che lo compongono: La Rapa Bendata | Instagram - Episodio su Micorrize Duipuvrun | Instagram - Episodio su Micorrize Cascina Barbàn | Instagram - Sito Abitanti organizzerà altri due eventi nel 2023 ai quali consiglio vivamente di partecipare. Seguiteli sui social per rimanere aggiornati.  Se volete supportare Micorrize lo potete fare su Patreon oppure su PayPal. Si tratta di un progetto indipendente ed autoprodotto, e ogni donazione mi aiuta a migliorare e mantenere vivo il podcast.  Potete contattarmi su Instagram, scrivermi un'email a davide@micorrizepodcast.it, e iscrivervi alla newsletter direttamente da www.micorrizepodcast.it.

Gli ospiti di oggi sono Chiara e Bendo dell'azienda La Rapa Bendata di Serravalle Scrivia, in provincia di Alessandria. In questa intervista abbiamo parlato di relazione fra città e campagna, di agricoltura su piccola scala come strumento per rafforzare comunità e tessere relazioni, di lotta contro lo sfruttamento in agricoltura, e di moltissimo altro ancora!    Link per iscriversi all'evento di sabato 8 aprile “Una Massa di Piccoli Agricoltori Contro l'Agricoltura di Massa”, organizzato da Abitanti (Duipuvrun, Cascina Barbàn e La Rapa Bendata), con ospite JM Fortier. Un evento da non perdere! Instagram de La Rapa Bendata Facebook de La Rapa Bendata Se hai trovato del valore in questa intervista e hai piacere di supportare Micorrize, lo puoi fare in diversi modi: Fai una donazione su PayPal Supporta il podcast su Patreon Segui le pagine social del podcast, lascia un commento e condividi i post, fallo conoscere ad amici e colleghi, lascia 5 stelle su Spotify o una recensione su Apple Podcast. Coltiviamo insieme un'agricoltura migliore! Scrivimi a davide@micorrizepodcast.it o su Instagram. Visita il sito e iscriviti alla newsletter. Alla prossima!

In this episode, JM Fortier shares the simple tools that make the biggest difference on his farm.  Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

In this episode, JM Fortier shares the importance of focusing and prioritizing quality. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

#049: Welcome to an encore of our very first episode, where we introduce you to the Real Organic movement and its many supporters, including many of the guests we interviewed in 2021. Next week kicks off our second season and a whole new slate of conversations, while next Sunday, January 30, is the beginning  of our 3rd annual Real Organic Symposium, an interactive virtual event.Learn more about our Symposium here: https://www.realorganic2022.org/We have interviewed an amazing roster of folks - including former Vice President Al Gore; seed protector and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva; climate authors Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben; farmers, authors, and educators Leah Penniman, JM Fortier, and Eliot Coleman; local food chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber  - and all of them have something insightful to say about the mounting takeover of the USDA organic label by corporations . Corporations who want to borrow our ideals for marketing purposes yet refuse to produce real organic food that follows the organic standards.To watch a video version of this podcast (this episode in particular has great footage!) with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/welcome-to-the-real-organic-podcast-episode-one/The Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Fans!https://www.realorganicproject.org/1000-real-fans/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/The 3rd annual interactive Real Organic Symposium takes place LIVE - on Sunday Jan 30th and Sunday Feb 6th - from 3 to 5pm EST! Featuring 50+ farmers, authors, policy experts, and more from the organic movement, including: Michael Pollan, Leah Penniman, Senator Jon Tester, Eliot Coleman, US Rep Chellie Pingree, and Vandana Shiva.We hope that you'll join the conversation! Learn more at:https://www.realorganic2022.org/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on IG https://instagram.com/paperpotco Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: https://apple.co/2m1QXmW Vegetable Farming: https://apple.co/2lCuv3m Livestock Farming: https://apple.co/2m75EVG Large Scale Farming: https://apple.co/2kxj39i Small Farm Tools https://www.paperpot.co/

https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/370-the-living-soil-handbook/ https://amzn.to/39NKXUU () https://amzn.to/39NKXUU (The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening)https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook/d9z5gkf1bbnhu0w5xxb3trngiqhwgo () Order Jesse's book from his https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook/d9z5gkf1bbnhu0w5xxb3trngiqhwgo (website here.) No-Till Podcast website Support Jesse's show because like JM Fortier he is changing the world helping farmers and gardeners grow while saving our planet! Support this podcast

The weekly podcast that talks all things food growing with those doing amazing things from across the UK and the world. Every week we deliver you a podcast that interviews a fantastic food grower that is doing things differently, inspirationally or that has an awesome story to tell. In this episode we talk to Laurence from Soul Farm in Cornwall. We discuss how he went from art director / graphic designer in the marketing world (for big fizzy drinks companies) to a full time market gardener. This is a brilliant episode where we cover: Solidarity Veg Boxes - A veg box scheme with sliding scale payments that helps less fortunate still have access to great food. The skills that the marketer can take to a market garden How covid made Soul Farm pivot from restaurants to veg boxes The power of farmers markets How Laurence co-started a new farmers market and it's success No-dig, Charles Dowding, JM Fortier and the power of training Plus the all important quick-fire questions of course.... Will Laurence prefer a beer or a coffee on the farm? This is a podcast that will hopefully inspire and inform you whatever experience you have… from aspiring grower, to casual allotmenteer, right through to fully fledged market gardener. We will be talking everything from no-dig to permaculture, mushrooms to marketing. We are your hosts Chris from Fanfield Farm and Jack from Jacks Patch and we will be bringing you an inspirational interview, some tips and tricks from our own farms as well as the fun feature of quick fire questions that we ask every guest…. Obviously including whether they prefer an evening farm beer or morning farm coffee!! Show Notes: Soul Farm - https://www.soulfarm.co.uk/ (https://www.soulfarm.co.uk/) Soul Farm Instagram - http://instagram.com/soul.farm (http://instagram.com/soul.farm ) Soul Farm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/soulfarmcornwall/ (https://www.facebook.com/soulfarmcornwall/) For all things Food Grower podcast; including upcoming blog posts, additional content, guest opportunities and food grower merch, head over to our website at https://www.foodgrower.co.uk (https://www.foodgrower.co.uk) And please do pass on to anyone in your life who grows food either for fun or funds… You can listen to this podcast completely free, anywhere you normally get your podcasts from. And for more Food Grower Content head to our instagram account https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy (https://www.instagram.com/foodgroweracademy) to interact with us and get updates each week on episodes, additional content, or just to have a chat. Don't forget to hit the follow button on instagram, and the subscribe button on your podcast app. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

Myrtha Zierock lavora presso l'Azienda Agricola Foradori a Mezzolombardo (TN). Dopo anni di studio ed esperienze formative in agricoltura all'estero (una fra tutte l'esperienza pluriennale alla Ferme des Quatre-Temps di JM Fortier), Myrtha è da tre anni ritornata nell'azienda viticola di famiglia per sviluppare il suo progetto di orticoltura. In questo episodio Myrtha ci racconta del suo sistema di coltivazione, dei metodi di vendita diretta che utilizza, della sua esperienze di integrazione dell'attività orticola in un'azienda viticola già molto ben impostata, di come delega il lavoro, del Giàz, di cosa vuol dire fare la mamma in agricoltura, e di molto altro ancora.  Agricola Foradori - https://www.agricolaforadori.com/ Instagram Foradori - https://www.instagram.com/agricolaforadori/ Instagram Myrtha - https://www.instagram.com/myrthazierock/ Culinary Breeding Network - https://www.culinarybreedingnetwork.com/ Ferme des Quatre-Temps - https://www.themarketgardener.com/ferme-des-quatretemps Se hai trovato del valore in questa intervista e hai piacere di supportare Micorrize, lo puoi fare in diversi modi: ⁠⁠Fai una donazione su PayPal⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Supporta il podcast su Patreon⁠⁠ Segui le pagine social del podcast, lascia un commento e condividi i post, fallo conoscere ad amici e colleghi, lascia 5 stelle su Spotify o una recensione su Apple Podcast. Coltiviamo insieme un'agricoltura migliore! Scrivimi a ⁠davide@micorrizepodcast.it⁠ o su ⁠Instagram⁠. Visita il ⁠sito⁠ e iscriviti alla newsletter. Alla prossima!

#009: JM Fortier brings his passion for small-scale, ecology-first farming to this discussion about what motivates growers big and small to scale up, and what's missing from those conversations (nutrients! community! meaning and purpose!). Jean-Martin (JM) Fortier has made a name for himself as a proponent of a small-scale, human-powered, and ecologically-sustainable style of "market gardening" that lends itself to cooperativism, community building, and visible resiliency within local food systems. Together with his wife Maude-Heléne Desrosches, he founded Les Jardins de Grelinette (Broadfork Gardens) in Quebec. He is the author of The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming, the educator behind the online course The Market Gardener's Masterclass, the star of the popular Quebecois reality television show Les Fermiers (The Farmers), and the operator of Quebec's La Ferme des Quatre Temps, a diversified ecological CSA farm that promotes biodiversity and soil growth. JM serves on the Real Organic Project's Advisory Board. To watch a video version of this podcast with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/jm-fortier-feeding-the-world-with-small-organic-farms-episode-nineThe Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Fans!https://www.realorganicproject.org/1000-real-fans/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

#001: Welcome to our first episode, where we'll introduce you to the Real Organic movement and its many supporters before letting you know more about our guests and what you can expect to hear about in 2021. We have interviewed an amazing roster of folks - including former Vice President Al Gore; seed protector and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva; climate authors Paul Hawken and Bill McKibben; farmers, authors, and educators Leah Penniman, JM Fortier, and Eliot Coleman; local food chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber  - and all of them have something insightful to say about the mounting takeover of the USDA organic label by corporations . Corporations who want to borrow our ideals for marketing purposes yet refuse to produce real organic food that follows the organic standards.To watch a video version of this podcast (this episode in particular has great footage!) with access to the full transcript and links relevant to our conversation, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/welcome-to-the-real-organic-podcast-episode-one/The Real Organic Podcast is hosted by Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon, engineered by Brandon StCyr, and edited and produced by Jenny Prince.The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement working towards certifying 1,000 farms across the United States this year. Our add-on food label distinguishes soil-grown fruits and vegetables from hydroponically-raised produce, and pasture-raised meat, milk, and eggs from products harvested from animals in horrific confinement (CAFOs - confined animal feeding operations).To find a Real Organic farm near you, please visit:https://www.realorganicproject.org/farmsWe believe that the organic standards, with their focus on soil health, biodiversity, and animal welfare were written as they should be, but that the current lack of enforcement of those standards is jeopardizing the ability for small farms who adhere to the law to stay in business. The lack of enforcement is also jeopardizing the overall health of the customers who support the organic movement; customers who are not getting what they pay for at market but still paying a premium price. And the lack of enforcement is jeopardizing the very cycles (water, air, nutrients) that Earth relies upon to provide us all with a place to live, by pushing extractive, chemical agriculture to the forefront.If you like what you hear and are feeling inspired, we would love for you to join our movement by becoming one of our 1,000  Real Fans!https://www.realorganicproject.org/1000-real-fans/To read our weekly newsletter (which might just be the most forwarded newsletter on the internet!) and get firsthand news about what's happening with organic food, farming and policy, please subscribe here:https://www.realorganicproject.org/email/

Andrew Mans joins us to talk about his one acre greenhouse, using sap analyses for nutrient management, intercropping on a large scale, and more.  Cat tunnels for Canada: Sponsors:  and  and My book: Support our work: Major supporters: JM Fortier and Scott Snodgrass 

Haley Roberts and Max VanderBroek join the show to chat about growing flowers, no-till vegetables, selling to chefs in covid and more.    Sponsors:  and Major supporters: JM Fortier and Scott Snodgrass Pick up The Living Soil Handbook at   Support our work at .     

Ann and Bob join the show from England to talk about their profit-driven market garden that they started after long, successful careers in other industries.   My book: Sponsors:     Support our work:   Big supporters: JM Fortier, Scott Snodgrass, and Veggie Cropper. 

It's been a minute since we've had a farmer on Tent Talk, so we were thrilled to be able to speak with JM Fortier, the author of the international best seller The Market Gardener, creator of The Market Gardener’s Masterclass, and now publisher! In this episode we geek out about our love for farmers markets and the community they build and JM shares how markets played an integral role in launching his career and growing his farms. He also gives us the inside scoop on his latest ventures into magazine publishing and designing tools and workwear for farmers. Visit growers.co to find out more about JM's exciting new project.

Eric and Nate join us from Ann Arbor, MI, to talk about their collaborative farm and field management on 3 acres, plus the many enterprises that sustains this five-owner farm.  Sponsors:   Major supporters: JM Fortier, Scott Snodgrass and Us: support us:  

https://www.growers.co/us/ (JM Fortier ~ Grower's & Co.)https://www.growers.co/us/ () Welcome to the Green Organic Garden. It is Wednesday, December 16, 2020, and I have the most amazing guest on the line, the world renowned gardener, he's going to rock us with his new venture https://www.growers.co/us/ (Growers & Co.)here today to talk to us ishttps://www.themarketgardener.com/ (JM Fortier), welcome to the show JM!   1m 21s JM Fortier Well, it's so exciting. I feel like there's fireworks coming out. Hi. I'm so happy to be there. Oh my goodness. Well, I am so happy to have you here and to talk about everything you have going on your new venture withhttps://www.growers.co/us/ (Growers & Co.) your, I love the t-shirt that says small-scale farmers are changing the world. And I hope we're going to talk about that a little bit today and just, but I do have a ton of new listeners since the last time you were here. So just in case they were like, who is this? I don't know how they could, but if they are, do you, what, tell them a little bit about yourself.   2m 1s JM Fortier Sure. So, so people call me JM, so I go by JM and I started a small organic farm we're in 2004. So that was a while back. And then that farm, the fame to claim of that farm was that we were farming an acre and a half, which we still do today. And we use no tractor. We use hand tools and then we go to farmer's market and then we have CSA and we deliver it to the local food co-op and we've been able to make a living farming, this small piece of land for, you know, almost two decades now. https://amzn.to/37ui7Z7 () The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic FarmingAnd eventually I wrote a book calledhttps://amzn.to/37ui7Z7 ( the market gardener), which described the strategies that we use to make the farm, you know, productive and also financially viable.   2m 48s JM Fortier And https://amzn.to/37ui7Z7 (the market gardener) is now translated in 10 languages and it's sold over 2000 and 200,000 copies. And a lot of people know me for this, you know, they've read the book and I think it has helped them just figure out proper ways to start a small farm or just like learn new gardening, gardening practices, or learn about tools, new tools that they perhaps didn't know existed and how to use them. And so that was, that was kind of when people started to know a little bit of who I am, because I was promoting the book and people are reading my work.   3m 26s JackieMarie Beyer And so many of my guests who are market gardeners are following your steps. Exactly. And they're talking about their success. I mean, I heard about you from https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/45-joyce-pinson-friends-drift-inn-appalachia-kentucky/ (Joyce Pinson) back, I think in episode 45. And she was just raving about you back then. And I immediately bought the bucket. My husband has poured through it and just we've put some of the things like he's desperately trying to build a pond and just, we just have a little mini farm. But 200,000 copies! I went to ghostwriter school this summer to learn how to write. I'm trying to write this book called Rockstar Millennial. And he said that like a self-published book usually sells 300 and a traditionally published book sells 2000. You are 100 times at 200,000 and that's because you are changing the world and teaching people, how small farmers should he want to touch on that? How are small farmers changing the world? Small scale farmers.   4m 20s JM Fortier Yeah. Well, you know, that's wow. I've met, you know, I've been very fortunate because, because of the book, you know, I didn't, first of all, at first I was kind of touring. I was invited to talk about my work and talk about the books. So every time that happens, I go and visit farms and visit farmers. And that was in Canada. Then it was in the US, then it was in Europe. Then it was in Australia and New... Support this podcast

Excited to be joined by Jeff Lowenfels authors of the "Teaming With" series to discuss nitrogen among other important plant nutrients and nerdery. Find his books here: or more info at www.jefflowenfels.com Sponsors:  use offer coder notillgrowers15  and Show Steward: Major supporters: JM Fortier and Scott Snodgrass Support us at            

What is The Looney Farm and what is their unique approach to the business? Carrie Chlebanowski of The Looney Farm (a Certified Naturally Grown farm), joins us today to tell us all about her and her husband Joe’s farming operation. Located in central Oklahoma near Oklahoma City, The Looney Farm started their little homestead in February of 2015 learning to raise and grow as much of their own food as possible. After closely studying market garden legends, they transitioned their homestead into a very small, but functional market garden farm. Spring of 2019 brought a 4x expansion in their farming operations, and they are now growing a wide variety of premium produce for the greater Oklahoma City metro area. As you all know, every farming operation is different, and The Looney Farm is certainly no exception. Join us today to hear all about Carrie’s unique approach to the farm biz!   You’ll hear: What’s currently going on at The Looney Farm 1:33 How much farmland The Looney Farm is working with and what kind of crops they are growing 2:24 Why Carrie decided to become a farmer 3:27 What the typical day looks like on The Looney Farm 5:41 Some strategies Carrie uses for handling the heat 7:57 How Carrie handles task management 9:21 The hardest thing Carrie has done as a farmer 12:15 How The Looney Farm communicates with their customers 14:01 About the various investments Carrie and Joe made before starting The Looney Farm 15:19 Who Carrie’s mentors in farming are 19:45 What systems Carrie would put in place sooner if she could go back in time 21:18 About Carrie’s team 23:48 What Carrie’s children’s roles are on the farm 27:10 About The Looney Farm’s key marketing tactics 29:28 The biggest mistake Carrie sees newer farmers making 35:11 How Carrie achieved the right mentality to start a farm 37:27 Carrie’s favorite farming tool 39:52 Where you can find out more about Carrie and The Looney Farm 45:03   About the Guest:Carrie is a 44 year-old reformed suburbanite who moved with her family to their 10 acre farm in February 2015. In previous lives she owned an on-location portrait business and worked in special education. Initially set up as a homestead, her family dabbled in pastured pork and poultry before diving in full gusto to market gardening in 2018. In an effort to gain the knowledge of growing vegetables and building a new ag business, she invested in intensive trainings and workshops with internationally recognized market farmers such as JM Fortier, Michael Kilpatrick, and Ray Tyler. Since then, she has made it her goal to grow the best quality, most nutrient dense vegetables possible, and in that effort The Looney Farm became the first Certified Naturally Grown farm in the OKC metro in early 2019. She hopes to learn more regenerative practices to incorporate into their model of growing in the coming seasons. Building healthy soil is one of the top priorities. Carrie and her husband Joe look forward to working together full-time soon, and find even more avenues to serve the OKC metropolitan communities through the farm. The Looney Farm currently sells at the two OKC farmers markets, a Buyers club style CSA, and through a locally sourced grocery store.   Resources:Website - www.thelooneyfarm.com Facebook - https://facebook.com/thelooneyfarm Instagram - https://instagram.com/the_looney_farm

Today Vera Fabian of Ten Mothers Farm dives into the details of how they manage their CSA from customizing boxes to delivery. It's a really great episode and you can follow their work at: Instagram: Facebook: Site:   Our Ten Mothers CSA Video: Follow Jackson:   Support our work at Or Venmo @notillgrowers Find us at Check out from Major supporter JM Fortier   

After my interview with (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/170-jm-fortier-the-market-gardener/) Plus if you are going to join Organic Oasis Master Class 2.0 you will want to listen to this episode as it's included in one of the assignments. Are you ready for your best garden ever? Want Mike, Patti and I to help you build an organic oasis you will love for years to come? Are your weeds growing like crazy in all this rain? Want some solutions to help with the overwhelm? Wondering the best ways to deal with pests and disease organically? We've got the answers! (https://mailchi.mp/a4afa2fdaa65/masterclasspodcast) Let's help our communities thrive while we keep Mother Earth safe and happy! Support this podcast

Today's episode is a BEST OF episode, which is a replay of a previously aired episode.  Enjoy! FSFS #104   When it comes to this world of farming small, what is this world? Is it a bunch of small farms each operating independently? For the most part, I think the answer is yes. Given that, what's the next step. Is it more small farms operating independently or are those small farms growing to be larger small farmers? Now I am not talking 1.5-acre farms scaling to 100 acres, I am talking about 1.5-acre farms scaling to 10 acres. If small farms do that, what does that look like, both for this world of farming small and for each independently operated farm? Is that scale manageable on a people-powered bio-intensive level? Or does this style of farming not scale? It's a question being asked by one of the leaders in this movement, JM Fortier. A few years ago JM Fortier left his 1.5-acre farm behind to start working on an experimental 10-acre farm to test the idea and validity of scaling these types of farming methods. It's a project which has produced some answers, but one which has also produced a lot of questions, some of which are the focus of our show today. It's all about the future of market gardening in this episode with farmer JM Fortier.   Follow Diego on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diegofooter Listen to past episodes at https://www.paperpot.co/podcast Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/  Follow PaperpotCo on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2B45VK

I am delighted to introduce my amazing guest from amazon (http://Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer) or her website! Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer (https://amzn.to/2ILzkzm) Listen to your first audio book for free by clicking on our  audible (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast) affiliate link (http://audibletrial.com/organicgardenerpodcast) Tell us a little about yourself you were telling me today in Washington DC you had snow today. Yup! as you said, just the end of January having a little bit of snow raised in the DC Suburbs 55 been here a long time whole career has been in agriculture vegetable gardener part of a farm called Potomac Vegetable Farms  25 year career there growing and selling organically grown vegetables herbs cut flowers Tell me about your first gardening experience? It’s good story everybody has to start somewhere easiest way to describe it I think I was just born loving plants, they were sort of my sort of pets as a little child I would collect indoor plants in my room. I got a community garden plot when I was like 8 goes back quite a long time even though I grew up in a cul de sac, the most ideal suburban childhood but somehow agriculture grabbed me ended up getting a degree in horticulture in college not growing up on a a farm. Do you want to tell listeners what sustainable agriculture maybe means to you did you learn that in horticulture school? As a young person when I first 15-16-17 years old, luckily I worked on farms, that were quote unquote, “organically” started getting Organic Gardening magazine like everyone else,  keep up and see what other people were doing sustainable ag organic more specific and legally defined now bigger umbrella terminology organic biodynamic some conservation practices irregular no-till farmer might take part in fairly broad term specific legally Do you want to tell listeners about your book? so, the book is written Forrest Pritchard grass-based livestock grower sells in the larger DC market area our idea how to grow things how to grow animals vegetables technical aspects of farming what bugs are What we felt was missing was a book that helped described the foundational thinking, that goes with the thinking involved with a farm business Especially for people who are thinking about moving into a farming business income generating what things they might want to think about personal temperaments resources help think about the business and financial aspects manage your energy and not burn out how not to kill relationships when your pressing hard That area of the business mind is probably the most striking thing Like I said, I’ve been pouring through JM Fortier’s book. Trying to figure it all out and then he talks about 2 acres which is a lot more then our 1/3 acre. IDK why at this time in my life I’m obsessed with business podcasts which is so opposite when I was in college and you probably couldn’t even get me to go into the business building. But that’s part of my personality too when you talk about temperament. So what else do you see missing? The biggest thing is the business mind missing in folks that have an impulse to be a grower not the same thing at all need to have both of those combined in order to run a business to pay the bills to getting friendly with numbers can you get friendly sustainable ag bring together this ecological balance and all the beauties most of us growers are attracted to being outside touching the sun watching the plants grow nurturing impulse combine that ecological care Support this podcast

I know you are going to love her because she was our Crossfit gardener of the year in 2015! And you have taught me so much! I love all that you do and your delicious food and what you do! And she’s gonna share their new LVFarm Academy (http://www.lowervalleyfarm.com/p/welcome.html) Tell us a little about yourself. I am Mandy Gerth! Farmer and co-owner of Lower Valley Farm (http://www.lowervalleyfarm.com/p/welcome.html)  in Kalispell, MT my husband Jay and I are are going in our 7th year of full time farming. We run, I think we’re at about  4 acres of production all organic primarily sell through a CSA 2 acres of that is using the intensive model that was kind of  pioneered by JM Fortier! (http://www.themarketgardener.com/) I know you had him on your show!  (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/170-jm-fortier-the-market-gardener/) community supported ag winter squash sweet corn potatoes separate rotation then intensive I think that is new since I last talked to you. We go really hard may through oct we run a 20 week vegetable CSA Kalispell Farmer’s Market do a tiny sizable amount of wholesale food aggregate directly to small grocery store chains overview of the farm! We also have 3 school-age children 7,9,11 they have grown up on the farm very literally co-owners awesome crew really helped make this farm go under all of that is our community, we also couldn’t do this without our awesome customer base! I could talk about the farm forever! OK, I think, what we want to hear about what’s been going on and how does your journey go from gardeners to farmers. Back to the beginning? We started out thinking we would be running livestock vegetable operation would be what would help us make money while we get a livestock operation going. Before the beginning ~ what made us want to do this our family had a life changing experience eating nutrient dense   We volunteered on farms a lot! We loved being a part of our farm community in that way in Indiana We were doing a raw milk share you can do in Indiana but not in Montana super local food grass fed beef lamb backyard chickens But we were buying farm pastured eggs slowly with each investment we made in lifestyle changes in our food Our young children’s health changing dramatically one of our children had some serious sensory issues We got in really deep and we were spending almost all of our money on food why don’t we have a farm? it was like we don’t have a farm because we aren’t farmers because we don’t know how to farm if I could go back to myself First of all I would give her a big hug you have no idea what you are getting into! We have a garden we can do this! what I would go back and tell myself having land is not having a farm access to land that had been in Jay’s family for 3 generations Parents had put it in a conservation easement But we built the farm and all the infrastructure! It was just a conventional hayfield That’s what we want to hear is how did you create this farm, that’s nutrient dense and it melts in your mouth and the table is laden with just an incredible amount of food! it’s been a steep learning curve made that huge dive (https://amzn.to/2TLfzwk) (https://amzn.to/2TLfzwk) (https://amzn.to/2TLfzwk) you should farm I was like yeah! we can do this, if people like us don’t do this who does? IDK maybe people with experience in combination (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) Market Gardener: A successful Grower’s Handbook for Small Scale Organic Farming (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) IDK if JM’s book (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) was out yet? I’ll go back and look and see The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Support this podcast

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk about the need to decide what is truly important and why that, and only that, should be the focus in 2019.   Connect with Javan: All Points Land Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/ All Points Life Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r Do The Work: https://apple.co/2ERsLHZ My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk about the need to decide what is truly important and why that, and only that, should be the focus in 2019.   Connect with Javan: All Points Land Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/ All Points Life Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r Do The Work: https://apple.co/2ERsLHZ My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created:http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon:http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk about why it is critically important to prioritize the things in life that matter to you.   Connect with Javan: All Points Land Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/ All Points Life Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r Do The Work: https://apple.co/2ERsLHZ My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk why controlling what you can is increasing important in a world that wants to control things for you.   Connect with Javan: All Points Land Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/ All Points Life Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r Do The Work: https://apple.co/2ERsLHZ My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

Javan Bernakevitch and I talk why it is important for you to set the metrics which define your success.   Connect with Javan: All Points Land Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/ All Points Life Design: http://allpointsdesign.ca/life-design/intro/   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r Do The Work: https://apple.co/2ERsLHZ My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj  

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.     Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.  All episodes are uncut, unedited, and recorded in one shot.   Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.  All episodes are uncut, unedited, and recorded in one shot.   Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer.   My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r   My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU   My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co   Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support   Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.  Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer. My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.  Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer. My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

DO THE WORK PODCAST: A dailyish documentary of my life blending together fatherhood, business, organization, and life hacking to make it all work.  Produced by podcaster, entrepreneur and dad of three daughters - Diego Footer. My Podcasts: Farm Small, Farm Smart: http://bit.ly/2vMUDvX Grass Fed Life: http://bit.ly/2uOsLTH Voices of Change: http://bit.ly/2vrn81r My Audiobooks: The Market Gardener by JM Fortier: http://bit.ly/2uynxvU The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone:  http://bit.ly/2uynxvU My Business: Paperpot Transplanter: http://www.paperpot.co Support content I have created: http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support Support while you shop at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yu1zPj

Paul Kita coming soon! So this episode originally published last year on my anniversary January 29, 2017. But tomorrow I am almost just as nervous as I am interviewing Paul Kita is the James Beard Award-winning Food & Nutrition Editor at Men’s Health. He’s the founder of MensHealth.com’s popular food and cooking blog,   (http://amzn.to/2COYnNH)  and I am trying not to be too nervous. 2018 Garden Goals Challenge (https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/2018-challenge-day-1/) When I spoke with JM Fortier I actually spilled my coffee on my Macbook! after almost 15 years of owning a laptop I’ve never even come close to doing anything so silly! Fortunately nothing broke. Anyway I thought this was a great time to repost this episode. Especially with the 2018 Garden Goals Challenge going on because many listeners I know are thinking of becoming market farmers and maybe this will inspire some of them to keep pursuing their dream or help them be more successful! Market Gardener Extraordinaire Bon Jour!! and Welcome to episode 170 of the Organic Gardener Podcast Today!!! I AM JUST THRILLED to introduce my guest because not only are we about to break 250,000 downloads of the Organic Gardener Podcast yes, thanks to all of you amazing green future growers listening out there that’s one quarter of a million downloads, very likely as we speak this morning January 12, 2017! But way back in  Market Gardener: A successful Grower’s Handbook for Small Scale Organic Farming (http://amzn.to/1Jcji8h)  by JM Fortier who is revolutionizing the way we think about agriculture, small scale farming and most of all how we care for our planet and today he his here with us to share his knowledge and his incredible passion! So I know you are as excited as I am to hear him speak so welcome Jean Martin Fortier!!!! You have to check out the pics on his website  (http://lagrelinette.com/visite-des-jardins/)  and the videos on youtube. THE BROADFORK TRICK is to make sure your soil is really loose and deep broad fork (http://amzn.to/2l9Mfyx) … Upcoming Talks, Events & Workshops December 9th, Pocantico Hills, NY: Workshop at the  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=c0c3fbcc66&e=002c119fa1) , Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture January 10th, Lincoln, NE: Meet and Greet at  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=482f0c2221&e=002c119fa1) January 11th, Lincoln, NE: Morning Training at the  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=4805d7de8d&e=002c119fa1) January 13-14, St Joseph, Missouri : Keynote Address and Workshop at the  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=b39af612f0&e=002c119fa1) , January 27th, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Keynote Address at the  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=e082ac1a80&e=002c119fa1) March 24th, Umbria, Italy: Keynote Address,  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=5428290334&e=002c119fa1) April 8th, Pikeville, Kentucky, Details to follow, for more info contact Joyce Pinson at  (http://themarketgardener.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a9b3d6215b0e7d91bdbe5655&id=ec09caa5f3&e=002c119fa1) (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) Market Gardener: A successful Grower’s Handbook for Small Scale Organic Farming (http://amzn.to/2kJalPJ) Tell us a little about yourself. (http://www.themarketgardener.com/) First of all I’m French-Canadian, I live in Quebec Canada! I have a micro-farm with my wife, we’ve been farming there for almost 15 years … it’s a real special farm, because it’s kind of big and small! It’s a small commercial farm,... Support this podcast

This is Season 2, Episode 24 of the Small Scale Life Podcast, and I have a great interview lined up for you today.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you will have a break from my monologues with this podcast.  I am SURE there is much rejoicing with that news.  In this episode, I am interviewing a husband, dad, teacher, small business owner, body builder, trainer, and urban farmer!  This gentleman’s name is Michael Bell.  He is a fellow kindred spirit from down in Texas, and in Part 1 of our two part interview, we are talking urban farming! He is not only a mountain of muscle, but he also owns and operates Half Acre Farm.  Inspired by some of my heroes including Gary Vee, Curtis Stone and JM Fortier, Michael is carving out his organic footprint in a quiet spot six miles from down Downtown Dallas.  It is pretty cool talking with Michael, and I learned a lot from him.  Whether it is starting your own small business (not necessarily urban farming) or getting fit, I think there is something for everyone in these next two podcasts! Topics In this podcast, Michael Bell and I discussed the following: Introductions Who is Michael Bell? What was your first gardening experience? Urban Farming Why urban farming? Influences and inspiration Property Crops Business model and clients Challenges and solutions Future projects In Part 2 of this interview, we discuss body building and the journey to develop a healthy lifestyle. Links for Michael Bell https://www.instagram.com/p/BZpYPKuBQLq/?taken-by=dallashalfacrefarms You can find Michael Bell with the following links: Michael Bell on Instagram Dallas Half Acre Farm on Instagram Michael Bell on Facebook Small Scale Life Facebook Group - Yes, folks, I added him....shhhhhh!   *Friends of Small Scale Life * Introducing Aussie Flame Weeders, a new friend of Small Scale Life! Aussie Flame Weeders makes stainless steel flame weeder manifolds.  They are making manifold set available this month, and they expect to start shipping them all by the start of November.  The manifold set up will contain: Custom manifold to suit 30-inch bed Five stainless steel German made burners that can removed to be cleaned, changed or replaced LPG equipment to suit a standard propane bottle Flint lighter To help promote this deal, Aussie Flame Weeders are offering all customers who purchase a custom manifold the chance to win Coolbot!  These are perfect tools for your urban farm! To be in the competition all you have to do is: Order a manifold before the October 31, 2017 Like the Aussie Flame Weeders Facebook page or share the page with fellow urban farming friends. Help by providing feedback in a short survey they will email to you if you agree to participating To find out more: Check Aussie Flame Weeder out using the following links: Aussie Flame Weeder website is www.aussieflameweeders.com Aussie Flame Weeder on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/aussieflameweeders/?ref=bookmarks

When it comes to this world of farming small, what is this world? Is it a bunch of small farms each operating independently? For the most part, I think the answer is yes. Given that, what's the next step. Is it more small farms operating independently or is those small farms growing to be larger small farmers. Now I am not talking 1.5 acre farms scaling to 100 acres, I am talking about 1.5 acre farms scaling to 10 acres. If small farms do that, what does that look like, both for this world of farming small and for each independently operated farm? Is that scale manageable on a people powered biointensive level? Or does this style of farming not scale? It's a question being asked by one of the leader in this movement, JM Fortier. A few years ago JM Fortier left his 1.5 acre farm behind to start working on an experimental 10 acre farm to test the idea and validity of scaling these types of farming methods. It's project which has produced some answers, but one which has also produced a lot of questions, some of which are the focus of our show today. It's all about the future of market gardening in this episode with farmer JM Fortier. Get JM's audiobook version of The Market Gardener at www.permaculturevoices.com/audiobook

When it comes to this world of farming small, what is this world? Is it a bunch of small farms each operating independently? For the most part, I think the answer is yes. Given that, what's the next step. Is it more small farms operating independently or is those small farms growing to be larger small farmers. Now I am not talking 1.5 acre farms scaling to 100 acres, I am talking about 1.5 acre farms scaling to 10 acres. If small farms do that, what does that look like, both for this world of farming small and for each independently operated farm? Is that scale manageable on a people powered biointensive level? Or does this style of farming not scale? It's a question being asked by one of the leader in this movement, JM Fortier. A few years ago JM Fortier left his 1.5 acre farm behind to start working on an experimental 10 acre farm to test the idea and validity of scaling these types of farming methods. It's project which has produced some answers, but one which has also produced a lot of questions, some of which are the focus of our show today. It's all about the future of market gardening in this episode with farmer JM Fortier. Get JM's audiobook version of The Market Gardener at www.permaculturevoices.com/audiobook

Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/jodi Support the show at permaculturevoices.com/support Curtis is on vacation, so I am joined by bio-intensive farmer Jodi Roebuck. Jodi's been farming and studying under the originator of the Grow Bio-Intensive form of farming, John Jeavons, for 18 years. Jodi's well known for using Jeavon's bio-intensive method to build soil. Soil that's deep and loose enough to literally put your arm into up to your elbow.  It's a soil that well known grower JM Fortier has called some of the best soil that he's ever seen.  It's from this rich soil that Jodi farms, growing his own fertility, his own food, saving seeds, and educating the next generation of farmers. He's traveled the world studying under the masters and visiting a lot farms along the way.  This summer Jodi made a stop in North America where he visited the home farms of both JM Fortier and Curtis.  As a result, he's very familiar with their market gardening style.  The question then becomes how can he apply his knowledge of bio-intensive practices to the context of market farming, and that's where we pick up the conversation today. Where do the worlds of bio-intensive growing and market gardening collide, and what's possible... Learn more at permaculturevoices.com/jodi

Curtis is on vacation, so I am joined by bio-intensive farmer Jodi Roebuck. Jodi's been farming and studying under the originator of the Grow Bio-Intensive form of farming, John Jeavons, for 18 years. Jodi's well known for using Jeavon's bio-intensive method to build soil. Soil that's deep and loose enough to literally put your arm into up to your elbow.  It's a soil that well known grower JM Fortier has called some of the best soil that he's ever seen.  It's from this rich soil that Jodi farms, growing his own fertility, his own food, saving seeds, and educating the next generation of farmers. He's traveled the world studying under the masters and visiting a lot farms along the way.  This summer Jodi made a stop in North America where he visited the home farms of both JM Fortier and Curtis.  As a result, he's very familiar with their market gardening style.  The question then becomes how can he apply his knowledge of bio-intensive practices to the context of market farming, and that's where we pick up the conversation today. Where do the worlds of bio-intensive growing and market gardening collide, and what's possible... Listen to past episodes at: https://www.paperpot.co/podcast Increase farm efficiency with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at https://www.paperpot.co/ Follow PaperpotCo on Instagram:http://bit.ly/2B45VKQ

On this episode of The Sample Hour, I am joined by The Market Gardener Jean-Martin Fortier JM and I discuss how and why he is going to take a year long sabbatical. Support the JM's new dvd The Market Gardeners Tool Kit, buy his Book, and subscribe to his blog. Listen to our first recording.Download.