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Grassfed Life
by Diego Footer
Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming, grass based livestock, pastured poultry, grassfed beef, pastured pigs, farmsteading, farm sales and marketing, and work-life balance.
Episodes
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Telling Your Farm Story to Create a Deep Relationship with Customers
Melissa Ballard joins me to talk about how selling online has helped their business. She also discusses how she tells her farm story to build and deepen the relationship with her customers. Follow Bluegrass Beef @bluegrassbeef Want to learn more? My new book Ready Farmer One - The Farmers' Guide…
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Carrot Cashflow - My New Farm Business Podcast - Preview Episode 1
The first two episodes of Carrot Cashflow will air here on Grassfed Life. You can listen to the rest of the episodes by subscribing to the podcast. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-carrot-cashflow-trailer/id1616506647?i=1000555599534 Spotify:...
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Carrot Cashflow - My New Farm Business Podcast - Preview Episode 2
The first two episodes of Carrot Cashflow will air here on Farm Small Farm Smart. You can listen to the rest of the episodes by subscribing to the podcast. iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-carrot-cashflow-trailer/id1616506647?i=1000555599534 Spotify:...
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Thoughts on Free Ranging Pastured Poultry (Ask Darby)
Darby shares his thoughts about free-ranging pastured poultry. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Micro-Beef: Raising Cattle on Without a lot of Land - What's Possible (Ask Darby)
Darby answers a question about raising cows or sheep when you don't have much land. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Keeping a Ram on the Farm (Ask Darby)
Darby shares his thoughts on keeping a ram on the farm. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Practical Thoughts on Farrowing Pigs (Ask Darby)
Darby gives advice on farrowing pigs. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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How to Begin Selling from a Farmstead (Ask Darby)
Darby gives advice on selling from your farmstead (not homestead). Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Farming with 40 to 100 Acres (Ask Darby)
Darby gives some suggestions on farming with 40 to 100 acres. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Thoughts on Farrowing Pigs on Farm (Ask Darby)
Darby discusses his thoughts on farrowing pigs on farm. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Should I Raise Kune Kune Pigs? (Ask Darby)
Darby answers about the viability of raising Kune Kune pigs. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Cattle Grazing - The Rule of Thirds (Ask Darby)
Darby answers about grazing cattle with the rule of thirds. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Thoughts on Differents Cattle Breed Crosses (Ask Darby)
Darby answers a question about which chicken tractor design is the best? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Which Chicken Tractor Should I Use? (Ask Darby)
Darby answers a question about which chicken tractor design is the best? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Dealing with Pink Eye and Controlling Flies around Cows (Ask Darby)
Darby discusses pink eye and fly control for cows. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Building and Branding a Value-Added Farm Product from Farm "Waste" (GFL148)
Farmer Charles Mayfield talks about how he is turning some "waste" product on his farm into a shelf-stable, value-added product. Charles will talk about why he decided to pursue this product line and how he is building the brand. You can support Charles' Kickstarter here:...
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Farm Marketing: Real World Proven Strategies with Darby Simpson
Regardless of what products you are farming, you must have a diversified marketing and business plan for your farm to be successful. Darby Simpson has developed from scratch a "real world", successful direct marketing approach for his farm thru nearly 10 years of trial and error. In his three…
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How to Sell More Meat for More Money - Simple Easy to Use Ideas (GFL147)
Darby discusses some of the different sales models that he has used on his farm throughout the years. He talks about how to market meat and communicate its value. We also discuss the nuances of customer communication. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses:...
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How to Produce More Product Faster for a Rapidly Growing Customer Base (GFL146)
Chris Kiesz of Yellow Hutch Farm in Minnesota joins us to talk about picking up jobs and moving 2000 miles across the country to start his farm. How he picked a new market, cash flowing beef, and creative ways to bundle beef. Follow Chris at https://yellowhutchfarm.com/ Not sure where to start?...
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Selling Online: Using REKO Rings - Connecting Producers with Consumers on Facebook (GFL145)
"How does a REKO-ring work? The ring is based on a closed Facebook group. The producer and consumer who want to take part apply for membership in the group he or she likes. Administrators, often a small group of consumers, approve the application from serious people and thereafter trade can…
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Pastured Poultry Alternatives to the Cornish Cross Chicken with Luke Groce (GFL144)
Farmer Luke Groce discusses some of the different breeds he has tried on his farm in his open cell pastured poultry system. Listen to more episodes with Luke Groce at https://grocefamilyfarm.com/pages/the-pasture-raised-podcast Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level?...
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Pastured Raised Podcast - Luke Groce and Dave Shield of Pastured Life Farms (GFL143)
Today's episode is a replay of Luke Groce's new podcast The Pasture-Raised Podcast. Listen to more episodes at https://grocefamilyfarm.com/pages/the-pasture-raised-podcast Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses:...
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How Fragile Is Your Business - Thoughts on Strengthening a Business in Uncertain Times (GFL142)
How Fragile Is Your Business? Could it survive a recession? How long could you survive at 50% of your current sales? How much debt do you have? Today we look at questions you should be asking about the fragility of your business and some ideas on how to make those areas more anti-fragile. Learn...
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Tips and Advice for Optimizing your Farm Website for Customers (GFL141)
Farmer Debra Bruner joins us to talk about selling to restaurants, partnering with other farms, buying another farm's products, and designing a better website. Connect with Debra on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littlecowmountain/ Website: https://www.littlecowmountain.com/ Learn more with...
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Great Pastured Poultry Starts in the Brooder - Tips and Advice (GFL140)
Darby discusses why good brooder management is so important for pastured poultry. Starting the chicks off to a good start in the brooder helps them excel in the field. Darby shares a lot of his tips and advice that he has learned over the years in this one. Not sure where to start? Want to take...
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Using The Winter for Planning Your Farm Season (GFL139)
Darby discusses how to take advantage of the winter break to plan out your farm season so you can hit the ground running in the spring. Interested in starting your own farm? Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses:...
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Fiefdoms - A Great or Terrible Idea for Getting More Farm Businesses (GFL138)
Darby and I talk about his actual experience trying to set up several fiefdoms on his farm and managing one. Are they a great or terrible idea? Darby will share his thoughts on what worked, what didn't and what he wished he did better. Interested in starting your own farm? Not sure where to…
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10 Life Changing Lessons to Live Your Best 2020 (GFL137)
Today I will be sharing some of what I learned as Javan and I each go through our top 5 lessons from 2019. In total 10 simple ways of looking at life, approaching life, and thinking about life that can change your life tomorrow. I look at a lot of these lessons as base principles in an approach…
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Beating Cancer & Living the Dream (GFL136)
Jason Contreras joins me to talk about his journey from working in an office in Southern California to battling cancer to moving across the country to homestead with his family in North Carolina. Jason's story is inspiring and goes to show that you never should give up. Follow Jason:...
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Raising American Guinea Hogs, The Homestead Pig with Cathy Payne
This BEST OF episode is a replay of a previous episode of the Grassfed Life Podcast - https://apple.co/2m75EVG Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses While American Guinea Hogs are suited to a wide variety of environments and will do better than most breeds…
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75 Chicks to 10000 - No Experience to Full Time Farmer
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Ronan' story is so simple, so common, yet uniquely inspiring; IT IS GREAT.This is a real story from a real person. Starting with 75 chicks eight years ago and...
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Evolving for Success - 2019 Farm Changes with Darby Simpson and Luke Groce (GFL135)
Luke Groce and Darby discuss some of the changes that Luke has made on his farm in 2019 - why he made them, how they will affect the farm into the future, and how things continue to evolve. Join Darby and Luke for the Advanced Livestock Marketing Workshop...
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Making a Small Farm Work with Luke Groce
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Luke Groce and I discuss what makes his small family farm work from grazing to economics. Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram:...
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How Pigs Saved My Farm with Luke Groce of Groce Family Farm
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Today we'll be going to Louisville, Kentucky to talk to farmer Luke Groce of Groce Family Farm. Luke and his wife Katherine started their farming career in…
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The Future of Agriculture - Changing the Concept with Mark Shepard
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Mark Shepard of Forest Agriculture Enterprises joins me to talk about the future of agriculture. Mark has a pretty clear view on how he thinks the future of...
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Profitable Pigs for the Farmstead, Homestead or Small Farm
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Running a profitable pig enterprise on just 1 acre, is it possible, and if so, what is possible? What's that operation going to look like, what are the...
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Advice on Choosing Hatcheries, Chicken Tractors, and How Darby Starts His 500 Broilers on Pasture
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses 500 baby chicks have arrived at Darby's farm thus beginning the cycle of raising broilers for the season. With the chicks on farm, we will talk about what the...
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Regenerative Agriculture with Darren Doherty
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to talk about the Regrarian philosophy that he has put together and how it can be used to regenerate landscapes and farming enterprises.The system deals with...
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Practical Tips for Increasing Sales at the Farmers Market (GFL134)
John Paul Smajda joins me to talk about how he increased sales at their farmers' market by over 300%. From display to customer interactions, to pricing, all of the tips in this one are practical ones anyone could implement. Connect with John: [email protected] Learn more about the Grassfed Life...
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Selling More Product with Buying Clubs featuring Charles Mayfield (GFL133)
Charles Mayfield talks about how he built and set up his buying club and how he interacts with his buying club members. Charles has built his farm on this sales model and it has been the primary income model for the farm since Day 1. Follow Charles: https://www.instagram.com/mayfield.pasture View...
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Brooding Chicks on Pasture Questions
Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses
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Industrial Farmer to Regenerative Agriculture Icon, Will Harris III of White Oak Pastures
This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses Will Harris III from White Oak Pastures joins me to talk about his inspirational journey of converting his one-time factory farm to a beyond organic farming...
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Selling Convenience - An Alternative Method of Selling Farm Products - Part 2 (GFL132)
In Part 2 of this series farmer, Luke Groce talks about the results from selling turkeys by size category (not specific weight) last fall. He also covers taking deposits on orders and balancing cash flow. Luke discusses wholesaling turkeys and other strategies to move more product. Follow Luke:...
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Selling Convenience - An Alternative Method of Selling Farm Products - Part 1 (GFL131)
Luke Groce talks raising turkeys in an open cell grazing system, selling turkeys in a different way, and what to do with turkeys you don't sell. Stay tuned next week for Part 2 of the mini-series when we follow up with Luke and see how it went. Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com…
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A Very Important Topic Affecting Farmers (and Everyone Else)
Depression is an issue that affects over 20 million Americans, and the farm space is not isolated from that. Today Farmer Chris Gilbert joins me to talk about the topic of depression and some of his experiences with depression. Follow Chris: https://www.instagram.com/gilbertsgrapesiowa/ Get...
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Farm Marketing: Real World Proven Strategies with Darby Simpson (GFL130)
Regardless of what products you are farming, you must have a diversified marketing and business plan for your farm to be successful. Darby Simpson has developed from scratch a "real world", successful direct marketing approach for his farm thru nearly 10 years of trial and error. In his three…
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Silvopasture: Increase Farm Resilience and Graze Marginal Land with Steve Gabriel (GFL129)
Steve Gabriel, author of the book Silvopasture joins me to talk about all things silvopasture. Why you would want to do, why you wouldn't want to do it, and what's possible. Silvopasture has the potential to increase farm resilience by giving you forage when grasses are dormant and it may give…
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Strategies to Grow Bulk Sales and Build Market Streams with Adam Trost (GFL128)
Adam Trost joins us to talk about some of the challenges he is facing growing his farm business on the side. We cover topics such as building bulk sales programs, growing sales, and where to focus your efforts when you have limited time. Learn more about Farmer Adam Trost at…
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Thoughts on Growing Lush Perennial Pastures with Farmer Gabe Brown (GFL127)
Gabe Brown joins me to talk cover crops, no-till, and building soil that can sustain lush pastures. All topics from his new book Dirt to Soil. Connect with Gabe: BrownsRanch.us SoilHealthConsultants.com Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider. Learn more at...
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Using Social Media to Grow Farm Sales with Paul Greive (GFL126)
Social Media: Learn practical tips to leverage this powerful and often misunderstood marketing tool with farmer Paul Greive of Primal Pastures. This talk will teach you to focus on generating farm revenue while avoiding the popularity contest trap. Learn from Paul at the Growing Your Farm…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming, grass based livestock, pastured poultry, grassfed beef, pastured pigs, farmsteading, farm sales and marketing, and work-life balance.
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Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring two hosts: Darby Simpson and Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. We focus on small family farming,...
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