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Back to Search17,500lbs of Vegetables Produced on One Third of An Acre - A Closer Look at What Was Produced on the Farm this Year - The Urban Farmer - S1W37 (FSFS37)
All in Curtis produced about 17,500lbs of product off of his farm this year. That's a lot of food coming from a small space. Remember Curtis is only …
10 years, 5 months ago
Dealing with Real World Troubles and Issues with Restaurant Customers, and How to Prevent Problems from Arising - The Urban Farmer - S1W36 (FSFS36)
In this episode we will be talking about real world issues and troubles with restaurant customers.
How Curtis has dealt with customers who haven't pa…
10 years, 5 months ago
Your Business Model Sucks, or You're Not Very Good at It... (and what to do about it) – The Urban Farmer - S1W35 (FSFS35)
Where do you draw the line between this isn't working, but I can figure it out, and this will never work?
Let's just accept the fact that farm start-…
10 years, 5 months ago
Ask The Urban Farmer – Curtis Answers Questions – From Startup to Restaurant Sales to Record Keeping – The Urban Farmer - S1W34 (FSFS34)
It's currently November 2015 and the main farm season for Curtis is pretty much over. And along with, so is this season of the show. For the remainde…
10 years, 6 months ago
Improving Processes to Be More Time, Energy, and Labor Efficient AND more Profitable – The Urban Farmer - S1W33 (FSFS33)
What's your time worth as a farmer? How much should should you be charging yourself to do tasks on the farm?
That's an important metric to think abou…
10 years, 6 months ago
Post Harvest Crop Processing and Small Farm Equipment That You Wouldn't Think Of – The Urban Farmer - S1W32 (FSFS32)
In this episode we talk about post crop harvest processing, including how Curtis has changed some of his techniques over the years.
We also talk abou…
10 years, 6 months ago
Being Realistic with Your First Year Expectations - Work to Learn, Not to Earn – The Urban Farmer - S1W31 (FSFS31)
Set yourself up for success by having realistic plans and expectations for the first year. Match your lifestyle and your budgeting to those realistic…
10 years, 6 months ago
When to Expand the Farm By Adding More Land and When NOT TO Expand By Maximizing What You Have – The Urban Farmer - S1W30 (FSFS30)
Big isn't always better. More just for the sake of having more is pointless.
Just because you have access to more land doesn't mean you need to take …
10 years, 7 months ago
Increase Profits and Get More Done.. by Doing Less Work - The Urban Farmer - S1W29 (FSFS29)
Think about how much work you do on the farm now. How much of that work is actually being done efficiently and effectively?
Are you making the best u…
10 years, 7 months ago
The Importance of Record Keeping: You can only know where you're going if you know where you've been. – The Urban Farmer - S1W28 (FSFS28)
How can you a lot mistakes and wasting valuable resources by overproducing a crop, and the inverse of that, not producing enough?
Good record keeping…
10 years, 7 months ago