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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.

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This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode.

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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 operation that celebrates polyculture and closes the loop on wastes. His farm closes the loop on sustainability through rotational grazing, solar power, and the recycling of all of his various "wastes" from his animal operations. All of the wash water, bones, and other animals "wastes" end up back on the land, building the soil over time. Will's story is an inspiration and another example of what is right in modern-day agriculture.

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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.

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http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/

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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.

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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.

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https://www.instagram.com/gilbertsgrapesiowa/

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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 hour workshop, he'll cover all of the basics you will need to successfully sell your products for a profit. The marketing portion will focus on how to build a marketing list, marketing displays, free marketing tools, how to select a farmers market, customer interaction and education, income diversification, working with restaurants or health food stores and more. During the business planning session, he will deal with various business strategies, cash flow management, production cost analysis, economies of scale, setting retail and bulk program prices, tracking expenses, liability insurance, legal protection and more.

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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 you the ability to turn marginal land unsuitable for traditional pasture into a valuable food source.

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http://www.silvopasturebook.com

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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 www.bentarrowacres.com

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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.

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BrownsRanch.us

SoilHealthConsultants.com

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