Podcast Episodes

Creating The Minimum Viable Farm - $20,000 on a 2000 Square Foot Micro-Farm - The Urban Farmer - S2W5 (FSFS46)

What would the 2000 sq.ft. farm, let's call it a micro-farm, look like?

How could you best utilize that space and take many of the techniques that Cu…

9 years, 10 months ago

If you don't succeed it's your own fault. Stop blaming people and get to work. - The Urban Farmer - S2W4 (FSFS45)

It's currently April 12, 2016.

We start off today talking about whether you should start farming with a greenhouse or not.

The conversation quickly t…

9 years, 10 months ago

How To and Why To Start Lettuce in Micro Soil Blocks - The Urban Farmer - S2W3 (FSFS44)

It's currently April 5, 2016.

Today's episode focuses on starting and transplanting Salanova via micro soil blocks.

Curtis will talk about how he s…

9 years, 10 months ago

Scaling Up The Market Garden - A Visit to the Farm of the Future - The Urban Farmer - S2W2 (FSFS43)

It's currently March 30, 2016.

And over the past few months Curtis has literally been all around the world.

I today's episode we'll look back at so…

9 years, 11 months ago

Taking Advantage of Time with the Passive Techniques of Over-Wintered Crops and Stale Seed-bedding - The Urban Farmer - S2W1 (FSFS42)

If we go back to where we left of Season One of the show, it was December and there really wasn't any crop production happening on the land itself fo…

9 years, 11 months ago

"I am now on the path to starting my own farm!" - TUF Listeners Share Their Stories - The Urban Farmer - S1W45

All of the guests for this episode are listeners of the show.  Listeners just like you.  

A few months ago I asked for feedback on the first season o…

10 years, 1 month ago

Farming in the City – The Presentation – The Urban Farmer - S1W44

Today's episode is actually a rebroadcast of a presentation that Curtis gave in January in San Francisco.

The presentation is called Farming in the C…

10 years, 1 month ago

What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Can't Make a Living - DISSECTED - A Case Study – The Urban Farmer - S1W43 (FSFS41)

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

An article titled....

Wha…

10 years, 1 month ago

Six Months of Transition Into Farming – A Conversation with New Farmer Scott Hebert – The Urban Farmer - S1W42

Scott Hebert started farming in June 2015 when his family business shut down. At that time he didn't have anything to fall back on. But he had always…

10 years, 2 months ago

Profitable Small Scale Farming in Sebastopol – A Visit to Singing Frogs Farm with Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser – The Urban Farmer - S1W41

While Curtis and I were on tour we made a stop at Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol to visit with farmers Paul & Elizabeth Kaiser.

It's a pretty remar…

10 years, 2 months ago