272. Start Your Farm for the 21st Century Sustainable Farmer | Plant To Profit | Ellen Polishuk | Washington DC

I am delighted to introduce my amazing guest from Plant to Profit Farm Consulting Ellen Polishuk is here to share her amazing knowledge and story as well as her new book available on amazon or her website! Start Your Farm: The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farmer Listen to your first audio book for free by clicking on our audible affiliate link 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