The FARMily Life

Ep 7. Know Your Farmer: Venture-Capitalism, the American Diet, & Eating Healthy on a Budget


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In this episode, Matt and Jerica start out by discussing how GrazeCart (the online shopping-cart software that they use on their online store) was recently sold to a larger company. "Would we sell Shady Grove Ranch is someone made us an offer we couldn't refuse?"

Then, they transition to some harder years of farming, when they had 200 piglets with illegitimate ancestry and how it almost sunk the farm, and a "farm-to-table distributer" who prefered a posh margin and greenwashing to acutally searching out local, pasture-raised pork.

Have you every wondered "How can I possibly afford 'fancy' meat and veggies, when I'm living paycheck-to-paycheck right now? If the alternative is "The American Diet", they think you can't afford not to.

So come, sit back and enjoy the wandering ponderings of these two farmers from Shady Grove Ranch.

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The FARMily LifeBy Matt & Jerica Cadman