Podcasts Science Natural Sciences Farm Small Farm Smart Daily TUF043 - What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Cant Make a Living - DISSECTED - A Case Study The Urban Farmer Encore Episode 3

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.

b'

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

\\n

An article titled....

\\n

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

\\n

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

\\n
    \\n
  • Who is your customer? What is their demographic? And what do they want?
    • \\n
  • What are you selling? \\xa0Is that the right crop?
    • \\n
  • What are you focusing your time on? \\xa0Is that the right thing?
    • \\n
  • And are you the right person to be doing this job.
    • \\n
\\n

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

\\n

Read the article at permaculturevoices.com/tuf43.

'