Darby answers about starting a profitable farmstead. Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

Darby discusses why good brooder management is so important for pastured poultry.  Starting the chicks off to a good start in the brooder helps them excel in the field.  Darby shares a lot of his tips and advice that he has learned over the years in this one. Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co

Darby discusses how to take advantage of the winter break to plan out your farm season so you can hit the ground running in the spring.   Interested in starting your own farm?   Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses or visit https://www.grassfedlife.co

Darby and I talk about his actual experience trying to set up several fiefdoms on his farm and managing one.  Are they a great or terrible idea?  Darby will share his thoughts on what worked, what didn't and what he wished he did better.  Interested in starting your own farm?   Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

Today I will be sharing some of what I learned as Javan and I each go through our top 5 lessons from 2019. In total 10 simple ways of looking at life, approaching life, and thinking about life that can change your life tomorrow. I look at a lot of these lessons as base principles in an approach to life that very much contradicts the status quo.   None of these lessons require any money or technology to implement. There are no tools or techniques here. It's simply changing your...

Jason Contreras joins me to talk about his journey from working in an office in Southern California to battling cancer to moving across the country to homestead with his family in North Carolina.  Jason's story is inspiring and goes to show that you never should give up. Follow Jason: https://www.instagram.com/sowtheland Learn more with Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

This BEST OF episode is a replay of a previous episode of the Grassfed Life Podcast - https://apple.co/2m75EVG Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses While American Guinea Hogs are suited to a wide variety of environments and will do better than most breeds on low-grade forage, they prefer lush pastures with clover along with access to minerals, kitchen scraps, quality hay in winter, clean water to drink, access to a muddy wallow, minimal shelter from...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses   Ronan' story is so simple, so common, yet uniquely inspiring; IT IS GREAT.This is a real story from a real person. Starting with 75 chicks eight years ago and growing that to over 10,000 today. Going from the corporate world to full-time farmer; Ronan didn't start as a farmer, he became a farmer.In a world of negativity, there are a lot of people out...

Darby and I talk about his actual experience trying to set up several fiefdoms on his farm and managing one.  Are they a great or terrible idea?  Darby will share his thoughts on what worked, what didn't and what he wished he did better.      Interested in starting your own farm?   Not sure where to start? Want to take your farm to the next level? Check out some of the resources we have to offer at https://www.grassfedlife.co  

Luke Groce and Darby discuss some of the changes that Luke has made on his farm in 2019 - why he made them, how they will affect the farm into the future, and how things continue to evolve.   Join Darby and Luke for the Advanced Livestock Marketing Workshop https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/p/advanced-livestock   Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/   Interested in starting your own farm?   Not sure where to start? Want...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider Advanced Livestock Marketing Workshop with Darby & Luke https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/p/advanced-livestock   Luke Groce and I discuss what makes his small family farm work from grazing to economics. Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/   Get exclusive content each week...

Luke Groce talks about his experiences raising and marketing ducks and chicken breeds that have been successful outside of the Cornish Cross. Advanced Livestock Marketing Workshop with Darby & Luke https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/p/advanced-livestock Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/     Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider.  Learn more at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider  

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   Today we'll be going to Louisville, Kentucky to talk to farmer Luke Groce of Groce Family Farm. Luke and his wife Katherine started their farming career in 2009 as a vegetable farm.  An operation that had its successes and its failures.   As Luke said... “I've got a few war stories from the deep trap of doing too many things at the beginning of...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   Mark Shepard of Forest Agriculture Enterprises joins me to talk about the future of agriculture. Mark has a pretty clear view on how he thinks the future of agriculture could be.. restoration agriculture style farms dotting the landscape with animals roaming through grasslands dappled with trees, a perennial polyculture system that builds soil instead...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   Running a profitable pig enterprise on just 1 acre, is it possible, and if so, what is possible? What’s that operation going to look like, what are the trade-offs and the costs, and how much could you make? It's an operation which could bring some nice cash flow into a homestead or diversify a farms revenue streams, and the time inputs and profits...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   500 baby chicks have arrived at Darby's farm thus beginning the cycle of raising broilers for the season.  With the chicks on farm, we will talk about what the next steps are. We also discuss the importance of choosing the right hatcheries and breed.  Not just to make sure that you receive quality birds, but also to make sure that you receive quality...

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   Darren Doherty of Heenan Doherty and Regrarians joins me from Australia to talk about the Regrarian philosophy that he has put together and how it can be used to regenerate landscapes and farming enterprises.The system deals with everything from the work done on the land to how you can synergistically stack multiple enterprises in the same system, and...

John Smajda joins me to talk about how he increased sales at their farmers' market by over 300%.  From display, to customer interactions, to pricing, all of the tips in this one are practical ones anyone could implement. Learn more about the Grassfed Life Insider: https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider

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. Follow Charles: https://www.instagram.com/mayfield.pasture

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. Follow Charles: https://www.instagram.com/mayfield.pasture View the Grassfed Life Courses athttps://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses 

Learn more about the Monthly Farm Business Essentials course at https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/p/farm-business-essentials-monthly   Other Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses

This episode is a sample of a Question and Answer episode available exclusively for Grassfed Life Insiders.  You can hear the full episode by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Support the podcast by becoming an Insider at https://www.grassfedlife.co/insider   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...

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. Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/     Get exclusive content each week with the Grassfed Life Insider.  Learn more at...

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. Follow Luke: http://www.GroceFamilyFarm.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm/  View the Grassfed Life Courses athttps://farm-business-essentials.teachable.com/courses