A behind the scenes podcast where we visit with farmers and learn what it takes to be a sustainable produce grower across people, profits and our planet.
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Skip Paul – Wishing Stone Farm: EP43
Today’s episode comes to you from Little Compton Rhode Island, where we visit with Skip Paul of Wishing Stone Farm. He shares all kinds of tips and tricks he’s learned over his 40+ year career as a farmer growing mixed vegetables and fruit, largely sold at farmers markets. We cover greenhouse production to have tomatoes in early May, including grafting, heating, and steaming, then transitioning to the tunnels over to winter greens. He shares how they grow both conventional and organic crops. Interseeding brassicas, cover crop incorporation with a high speed disc, stone barriers, flail mowers and power harrows. Follow…
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Talking Sugaring with Jenna, Jacob and the Syrup Daddy at Baird Farm: EP42
Today’s episode comes to you from Chittenden Vermont where we visit with Baird Farm. If you’ve heard of them you may recognize that they are NOT a diversified vegetable farm. They are a medium scale maple producer with about 15,000 taps. Vermont is known for its maple but what makes them unique is that 90%…
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Farm Tour with Wes & Bryn of Solid Ground Farm: EP41
Today’s Episode comes to you from Kingston New York where we visit with Bryn and Wes of Solid Ground Farm. They are growing on over a dozen acres, with 4 tunnels of mixed veg for their CSA. We start of the episode with a tour of their wash/pack, cooler, CSA Space and growing areas before…
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Visiting Vermont Cranberry Company: EP40
Today’s episode comes to you from Fletcher Vermont where we visit with Bob Lesnikoski of Vermont Cranberry Company. He is the one and only commercial cranberry grower in the state! We start off the episode with a tour of his packing barn where they sort and box up fresh cranberries, press juice, and bottle seltzer.…
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Starting up a farm is tough. A visit with Katie Rose of Head Over Fields: EP39
Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont where we visit with Katie Rase Seward from Head Over Fields Farm. Katie Rose has been farming for 10 years and half of those are here on her home farm. She sells organic veg from about 5 acres in production with several high tunnels through a retail…
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Visiting Stones Throw Farmstead: EP38
Today’s episode comes to you from Shrewsbury Vermont where we visit with Jess and Connor of Stones Throw Farmstead. They are young farmers who are in their third season after moving to Vermont and focused on building up a 1 acre market garden to be part of the community and support the local farmers markets.…
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Field Walk – Produce and Popcorn with Ashley at Hurricane Flats Farm: EP37
We visit with Ashley Loehr of Hurricane Flats Farm. With over 25 years farming experience, this is her 4th season on this farm. We talk about field prep, inter seeding, cover cropping, and weeds. We talk about vegetables, strawberries berries and high tunnels.
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Growing, Drying and Selling Medicinal Herbs with Jeff of Zack Woods Herb Farm: EP36
Today’s episode comes to you from Hyde Park, Vermont where we visit with Jeff Carpenter from Zack Woods Herb Farm. They grow medicinal herbs and have been doing so for 26 years. We start off with a look into his high tunnel where they grow their starts, discuss the construction of their batch dryer, check…
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Fenceless Goat Grazing at Does Leap Farm: EP35
This episode visit with George van Vlaanderen of Does’ Leap Farm. He shares how they developed the farm from raw wooded land while raising children, goats and living in a yurt all at the same time over twenty years ago. He shares now how his grazing system has evolved using electronet fences to wireless collars…
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Long Island Landscaper to 20 Acres of Vegetables with Jon & Karin of Bear Roots Farm: EP34
Today’s episode comes to you from Williamstown Vermont where we visit with Jon Wagner and Karin Bellemare of Bear Roots Farm and The Roots Farm Market. Together they’ve built up a 20 acre vegetable farm and local goods store in Central Vermont. Jon starts off by sharing how they got started in Long Island, and…
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Mushrooms, Veggies, Meat and More! From Farmers Market to on Farm Cider House at 1000 Stone Farm: EP33
Today’s Episode comes to you from Brookfield Vermont where we visit with Kyle Dodda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm. They’ve got many balls in the air with a wide range of crops from veggies to perennial fruit, eggs and meat, hard cider and a restaurant. They sell retail out of a farm store,…
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This Show Evolved From
The Ag Engineering Podcast
Where we talk tools, tips and techniques to improve the sustainability of your Farm
A topic centered podcast that rolls right into the details on tools, tips and techniques that improve you, your farm, and our world.
The Ag Engineering Podcast (2019-2022) shared the tools, tips and techniques that improve you, your farm, and our world.
The Farmer’s Share includes the farmer’s story in how they got growing and how they’re running the business for success and sustainability.
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