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TUF043 - What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Cant Make a Living - DISSECTED - A Case Study The Urban Farmer Encore Episode 3

Published: Feb. 22, 2016, 5:18 a.m.

In this episode Curtis and I dissect an article that was published on Alternet on January 1, 2016 by farmer Jaclyn Moyer. \xa0

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An article titled....

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What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Can\u2019t Make a Living - People say we're "rich in other ways," but that doesn't fix the ugly fact that most farms are unsustainable

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This one is a good one and we cover a lot of business basics such as...

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  • Who is your customer? What is their demographic? And what do they want?
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  • What are you selling? \xa0Is that the right crop?
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  • What are you focusing your time on? \xa0Is that the right thing?
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  • And are you the right person to be doing this job.
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We will break down the article to hopefully help a lot of you avoid some of the troubles that Jaclyn talked about in the article. \xa0\xa0

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Read the article at permaculturevoices.com/tuf43.