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006 Pastured Poultry Farming AND Processing and Business with Ben Grimes

Pasture-Raised Podcast

Release Date: 02/29/2020

023. 4 Enterprises, 3 Kingdoms, 2 Families, 1 Farm show art 023. 4 Enterprises, 3 Kingdoms, 2 Families, 1 Farm

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For the past decade, two families have settled on a rolling 120 acre property in Henry County, KY under the name “Valley Spirit Farm”. We discuss their unique partnership, the ways they’ve integrated their pork and beef with mushrooms and vegetables, plus marketing, business structure, and much more.

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022 Farm Marketing with Ginger Shields show art 022 Farm Marketing with Ginger Shields

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Ginger shields of Pastured Life Farm joined me to discuss her extensive knowledge and experience in farm marketing.

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21. Ginger Shields on our farms' most important product: future adult humans show art 21. Ginger Shields on our farms' most important product: future adult humans

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When done thoughtfully, farms provide a great context for raising kids; especially when education is seen as life-long, and as wide as the world around us. Dave and Ginger rely on their children to run their successful farm business with them. And they rely on their farm to provide the context for learning about the world around them: how to work and learn, or at least to fan the flames of the curiosity we are all born with. Look for Episode 22 to see our discussion on farm marketing.

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20. Joelle Wood: Striking out on your own: growing, marketing, processing, and skilling up. show art 20. Joelle Wood: Striking out on your own: growing, marketing, processing, and skilling up.

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I talked to Joelle Wood about her path towards guiding her farm as she took on a lot in 2020, feeding her community and seizing on great opportunities to grow her farm; all while holding to her aspirational values. 

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019 The Post-Permaculture Pig Farmer -Cliff Davis show art 019 The Post-Permaculture Pig Farmer -Cliff Davis

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Cliff Davis spent much of his adult life, and became known across the region as a permaculture educator. But in this episode we talk about his new act: farming and breeding pigs, and selling food to his community in central Tennessee. This episode explores much of this transition, as well as going deep into Cliff's business, hog genetics, and the application of his principles to his livelihood on his particular piece of land.

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18 A Farmer, A Butcher, and A USDA Compliance Officer walk into a bar... show art 18 A Farmer, A Butcher, and A USDA Compliance Officer walk into a bar...

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After Jesse sharing on episode 17, Matthew joins the conversation to share about the ins and outs of their operation; but especially hiring and managing employees, and navigating USDA inspected slaughter and processing with both poultry and mammals.

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17 Growing/Processing/Selling/Staffing a farm with Jesie Lawrence  show art 17 Growing/Processing/Selling/Staffing a farm with Jesie Lawrence

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Part 1 of 2 with the Marble Creek Farmstead Team: I had the pleasure of speaking with Jesie and Matthew Lawrence about the many sides of their diverse business, including farming, marketing, selling, and processing on a growing farm. In this episode Jesie helped me wrap my brain around all they do, their infrastructure, staff, and the ways they get their products to their customers. Check them out at the links below!

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016 Mid-Season Check up! show art 016 Mid-Season Check up!

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I asked some of our past guests to share their answers to seven questions, so that we could hear some unique perspectives on how different farms and farmers across the country are faring during the wild year that is 2020. Joe Koopsen, Jordan Green, and Ben Grimes all shared their answers to my questions.

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015 Marketing, Distribution, and Partnerships for Efficient and Successful Farm Business with Curtis Brown show art 015 Marketing, Distribution, and Partnerships for Efficient and Successful Farm Business with Curtis Brown

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Curtis Brown is back for part two of our interview, where we talk all about how he has, and will continue to, get his meat into his customers' hands. We talk CSA logistics, marketing ideas, and streamlining through a cooperative distribution network. 

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014 Regenerating the Northern Plains with Curtis Brown show art 014 Regenerating the Northern Plains with Curtis Brown

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Part one of Two:

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I had a fantastic conversation with Ben Grimes of Dawnbreaker Farms and Dependable Poultry Processors in Hurdle Mills, NC that I'm eager to share with you. Ben is a smart farmer who knows and understands his farm, his processing business, and his numbers, and is thoughtful and wise about how to use them to pursue his goals. 
If you're someone who processes poultry, or has poultry processed by someone else, stay tuned. If you're someone who raises and sells ducks, or is interested in raising and selling ducks, stay tuned. If you're someone who would like to see farmers market sales go way up, stay tuned. And if you're someone who likes to see how people are solving problems on their farms, in their context, with creative solutions that you can learn from, then, as always stay tuned!
A couple of notes: I plan to continue to release episodes at the beginning of the week each week for a while. I hope to be dependable in that. second. This is my last "recorded in a Jetta" episode that i have in the kitty. I hope its not too distracting. And I hope that you'll enjoy better sound quality in the future. And three: my email is [email protected] if you'd like to give me any feedback. I'd love to hear from you! 
 
Ben's course can be purchased through our friends at grassfed life, grassfedlife.co. 
 
While I'm mentioning them: A note about Darby and Diego and grassfed life: Those guys have provided myself and many others I know, and many of you listening a lot of value through their podcast and courses and mentorship, and they have in many ways inspired and helped me to create this podcast. They have also partnered with Ben and I at separate times to create education for farmers. So I just want to say for myself, that I appreciate that they have, in many ways, shared their platforms and audiences in order to help us out and partner with us when they didn't have to.
 
 You can find out more about Ben at Dawnbreakerfarms.com, or Dawnbreaker Farms on all the Social media. Again, thanks to Ben. He's become a good friend, and someone who's example I look to when trying to figure out how to make my farm better. It takes a lot of pieces to make a farm business viable. And smart friends and examples and camarades are an important one.
 
I'm Luke: Grocefamilyfarm.com, [email protected]