Jan 17, 2024
Being a Market Gardener means serving our buyers where they are most likely to convert into repeatable sales at prices to keep you thriving in your agricultural business. In this episode, we look at many sales opportunities small farms have to serve their markets through traditional farmers markets, direct-to-consumer...
Sep 13, 2023
Mindful Garden's Sean Pessarra has made hundreds of thousands if not a million soil blocks over his farming career. He is also the inventor of the Mindful Gardener Soil Block Drop Seeder.
In this interview, Sean discusses the how-to's, whats, and whys of Soil Blocking for seed starting.
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Jul 14, 2023
A re-release of our 1st interview with Kupu Place Farm’s Anthony Mau. In this 2021 Interview, Anthony was beginning year 3 of production on his Honolulu, Hawaii Aquaponic farm featuring shallow water culture raft beds, microgreen production, and edible flowers. Learn about some of the history of agriculture in Hawaii...
Jul 14, 2023
Welcome back to Kupu Place, 2023! Bootstrap Farmer revisits Anthony Mau of Kupu Place Farms for a year 5 catch up. Since the last time, we spoke they have acquired a second location to serve the Hawaiian Islands ever growing food needs. This is an interesting look at the differences in how a farm business owner group...
Jun 3, 2023
Two transplants move to Texas to start new farms.
Karl Binger (Paris Natural Farm) and Bootstrap Farmer's own Karl Russell discuss moving to a new state and starting a farm from scratch. Find out how they carved out their market, moved chickens across America, and how no one ever told them about fire ants before moving...