The Ag Engineering Podcast: Recent Episodes

Andy Chamberlin

Where we talk tools, tips, and techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. Learn from farmers and UVM Extension as we bring the best knowledge of fruit and vegetable farming practices to the surface.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Little Compton Rhode Island, where we visit with Skip Paul of Wishing Stone Farm. He shares all kinds of tips and tricks he’s learned over his 40+ year career as a farmer growing mixed vegetables and fruit, largely sold at farmers markets. We cover greenhouse production to have tomatoes in early May, including grafting, heating, and steaming, then transitioning to the tunnels over to winter greens.

He shares how they grow both conventional and organic crops. Interseeding brassicas, cover crop incorporation with a high speed disc, stone barriers, flail mowers and power harrows.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Chittenden Vermont where we visit with Baird Farm. If you’ve heard of them you may recognize that they are NOT a diversified vegetable farm. They are a medium scale maple producer with about 15,000 taps. Vermont is known for its maple but what makes them unique is that 90% of their volume is sold directly to the consumer. They lean heavily on online sales, and agritourism for their retail business.

Like most of my shows the first hour features a walking tour where Jacob and Jenna provide an overview of maple production and what it looks like on their farm. We walk to the woods to see some trees and sap lines, pop our heads in a pump house then tour seeing the sugar house which includes the bottling room and retail area. Once we’ve gotten the lay of the land we then pull up a stool in the farm stand. Jenna’s Dad, Bob, also known as the Syrup Daddy joins us for the conversation to share some insights to his history of Vermont agriculture and how it’s transitioned over the years into the business it is today.

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Today’s Episode comes to you from Kingston New York where we visit with Bryn and Wes of Solid Ground Farm. They are growing on over a dozen acres, with 4 tunnels of mixed veg for their CSA.

We start of the episode with a tour of their wash/pack, cooler, CSA Space and growing areas before pulling up a chair in the kitchen to learn what motivates them to be a produce grower and how they are building the business to meet their families needs and how they can be an asset to the community.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Fletcher Vermont where we visit with Bob Lesnikoski of Vermont Cranberry Company. He is the one and only commercial cranberry grower in the state! We start off the episode with a tour of his packing barn where they sort and box up fresh cranberries, press juice, and bottle seltzer. We then pull up a stool in the commercial kitchen and learn more about the cranberry market in the Northeast.

I hope you enjoy this episode learning about Vermont Cranberries!

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Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont where we visit with Katie Rase Seward from Head Over Fields Farm. Katie Rose has been farming for 10 years and half of those are here on her home farm. She sells organic veg from about 5 acres in production with several high tunnels through a retail year round farm stand, CSA, wholesale, and farmers markets.

We start off with a winter tour of the farm after some fresh January snow where she shares about growing winter greens, getting water on the farm, and growing in varying soil conditions across the sloping landscape. We then pull up a stool in the wash pack and talk about how she got into ag, the challenges of starting a diversified veg farm in the 2020’s and how friends and mentors helped her through the growing pains she experienced while building up this farm business.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Shrewsbury Vermont where we visit with Jess and Connor of Stones Throw Farmstead. They are young farmers who are in their third season after moving to Vermont and focused on building up a 1 acre market garden to be part of the community and support the local farmers markets. We start off by looking at the farm stand, microgreens set-up, and how they’ve laid out their farm. They utilize several cat tunnels, inter cropping, and managing it with hand tools. We then sit down and learn a bit more about where they got their farming backgrounds, why they got into agriculture and why they chose to settle in Vermont. I hope you enjoy this episode, thanks for listening.

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Today’s episode comes to you from South Royalton Vermont where we visit with Ashley Loehr of Hurricane Flats Farm. She’s got over 25 years farming experience, and is getting a good feel for the land as this is her 4th season since buying this farm. This episode starts off in the field checking out pretty much all the crops. We talk about field prep, inter seeding, cover cropping, and weeds. We talk about vegetables, strawberries and high tunnels. She shows us around the barn where she stores equipment, and even processes their own popcorn. So whether you like crops, equipment, or organic agriculture this episode is a good one.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Hyde Park, Vermont where we visit with Jeff Carpenter from Zack Woods Herb Farm. They grow medicinal herbs and have been doing so for 26 years. We start off with a look into his high tunnel where they grow their starts, discuss the construction of their batch dryer, check out a field of perennial herbs and take a look inside their packing shed. We then sit down on the back deck and chat about how and why they’ve built this business to meet their needs. He shares the lessons they’ve learned by scaling up too much, and how investing in labor savings tools has paid off.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Bakersfield Vermont where we visit with George van Vlaanderen of Does’ Leap Farm (https://doesleap.com/). He shares how they developed the farm from raw wooded land while raising children, goats and living in a yurt all at the same time over twenty years ago. He shares now how his grazing system has evolved using electronet fences to wireless collars and how he's improving the biodiversity of his pastures using the Vermont Ripsower.

VT Ripsower: https://www.landcarecoop.com/vt-ripsower

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Today’s episode comes to you from Williamstown Vermont where we visit with Jon Waner and Karin Bellemare of Bear Roots Farm and The Roots Farm Market. Together they’ve built up a 20 acre vegetable farm and local goods store in Central Vermont. Jon starts off by sharing how they got started in Long Island, and how they ramped up their business here in the Green Mountains. Karin joins in later on and talks about how business coaching (a few times), grants, and personal growth helped get them to where they are today.

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Today’s Episode comes to you from Brookfield Vermont where we visit with Kyle Dodda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm. They’ve got many balls in the air with a wide range of crops from veggies to perennial fruit, eggs and meat, hard cider and a restaurant. They sell retail out of a farmstore, wholesale, CSA & go to a farmers market. This seems like a lot to me for a couple growing on about 5 acres, so I joined them in a conversion to figure out what motivates them and how they manage such a diverse business.

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Today’s Episode comes to you from Bradford Vermont where we visit with David Pierson of Pierson Farm. After 42 years of running a mixed vegetable farm to supply a roadside farm stand, with 3 acres of strawberries being one of the big draws, he was able to retire, leasing the farm to a long time employee Dan. We start off the episode walking the farm where the crew is actively planting a new batch of strawberries, check out the farm stand and reflect on the challenges of farming with today’s expensive circumstances, then he shares the benefits of getting to live up to the motto “adventure before dementia.” Thanks for listening.

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Today’s episode comes from Granville Vermont where we visit with John Hirsch of Clearfield Farm. With over 10 years under his belt he’s refined his farm business to be lean on labor and focused in scope as his primary crops are wholesale carrots and potatoes. He’s also excited to be getting into grain and doing more intensive rotations with cover crops. We start off the episode with a look at his new harvester, hop in the truck to check out the fields, before digging deeper into his motivations and visions of his farming career later in the episode.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Worthington Massachusetts where we visit with Trip Shaw of Four Corners Farm. He’s been growing over 16 years and produces over 8 acres of mixed vegetables for his newly built farmstand. We start off the episodes in this new farm building which has a front porch, farmstand, wash/pack space, walk-in cooler, and even a commercial kitchen space where value added goods will be made to round out this farm stand with coffee, sandwiches, and other taste goods grown on location. We then talk about his Farmall 140 tractors outfitted with new Tilmor tools, walk through the fields and check on the greenhouses before circling back to the barn.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Plainfield Vermont where we visit with Kagen Dewey and Elise Magnant of Blackbird Organics. They’ve been farming since 2018 and have set their roots on their own farm with high tunnels and field production. We start off the visit with a tour of the greenhouses, walk around the fields, then circle back into a tunnel to hear how they are building their farming career.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Newbury Vermont, where we visit with Bob Gray of 4 Corners Farm. He and his wife Kim purchased the farm in the late 1970’s after finding success selling their abundance of vegetables at a farmers market and overtime built a highly diversified farm that supports them and their children. Bob shares about the importance of cow manure, greenhouses and attention to detail, and reflects on his career as a farmer in Vermont.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Jericho Vermont where we visit with Spencer Hardy and Jake Kornfeld of The Farm Upstream (https://www.thefarmupstream.com). They are friends who are just setting roots on this new farm and share how they've structured their business to grow collaboratively to support multiple households.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Shaftsbury Vermont where we visit with Andrew Knafel of Clear Brook Farm. As he just farmed for the 30th season we reflect on how they grows on about 30 acres and in 11 greenhouses. He markets mixed vegetables and bedding plants mostly all sold from his retail farmstand. We start off the episode with a look inside a couple of his high tunnels, talk about a large cooler build, and then hang out in the display greenhouse during the December rain to reflect on how he got started, and learn what sustainable farming means to him through the lens of his farming career.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Johnson Vermont where we visit with Tony and Joie Lehouillier of Foote Brook Farm. They grow sod, and 35 acres of vegetables for both wholesale markets and their on-farm store. We start off the episode seeing what’s growing in one of the greenhouses in early December, take a look in the farm stand, then talk about how they cleaned up from the flooding that buried their entire farm. With over 4’ of water in their barn they lost crops, equipment, supplies, you name it, it was destroyed, or at least severely damaged.

Vermont has been hit 3 times over the last two seasons with major flooding events and this is one of the farm’s that’s received the blow from each one of these. They are right on a major river and at the foot of nearby mountains, a familiar location for many farms across our region.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Middlebury Vermont where we visit with Spencer Blackwell of Elmer Farm. He’s been growing for 30 years and built this property up from a homestead to a CSA & wholesale vegetable farming growing crops on over 7 acres. We start off with a tour checking out the wash and pack area, then hop in the truck during this rainy November day to take a look at the fields and various equipment. After that we pull up a seat in the boiler room of their greenhouse and dig deeper into Spencer's farming history to learn how he’s built the business it is today.

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Today's episode comes to you from Post Mills Vermont where we visit with Tim and Janet Taylor of Crossroad Farm. They are recently retired from a 40+year farming career growing over 50 acres and 20 greenhouses of diversified vegetables. What started out as a garden turned into a business that was able to be sold and retired off from. The first half of this episode goes into their history of building things up, and the second half goes a little deeper to how they managed to keep it sustainable.

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Today’s episode comes to you from the editor's desk. Farmer’s are busy during peak harvest season so in this episode your host, Andy Chamberlin provides a bit of background information on himself, his career, life and reflects on how hard a career in farming is.

This one is short, and interviews with the experts will resume again shortly in the fall. Thanks for tuning in.

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Today's episode comes to you from Ely Vermont where we visit with Jake Guest of Killdeer Farm. Like many interviews we start with a tour around the farm where we visit his perfectly rectangular fields in sandy soil where he grows carrots and cilantro and spinach. Jake shares a bit about cover cropping, cultivation, and dealing with oak leaf goosefoot. After that we get out of the 90° heat and sit around the kitchen table to learn a little bit about how he got started farming, and what he recommends for new or young farmers facing today’s farming challenges. Jake has a long history in the Vermont agricultural space, and helped craft the organic movement, and is actively involved in the real organic project, we ran out of time to really discuss all the avenues that his farming life has taken him and I'll have to revisit with him to share more of this interesting history but I hope you enjoy this episode of The Farmer's Share.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Shaftsbury Vermont, where we visit with Lisa McDougall of Mighty Food Farm. We start off the episode with a tour through her seven greenhouses and glance at some of the equipment that she’s using to farm over 14 acres of vegetables. We then pull up a stool in the greenhouse and have a deeper conversation about how she got started farming, And what she’s done to maintain employees and customers and run a business for over 18 years.

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Today’s Episode comes to you from Danville Vermont where we visit with Jacob Mills of McDonald’s Farm Stand. We start off the show with a tour of a newly built 30x40 wash/pack space. Then continue through several high tunnels and talk about spinach, tomatoes, tulips and more. We talk about field production as well and wrap the episode with a brief tour of his sugarhouse before they started to boil for the evening.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont, where we visit with Adam Hausmann and Jessica Sanford of Adam’s Berry Farm. Today’s visit is part 2. The previous episode was a farm tour and a field walk through the berry plants, high tunnels and barn. This episode shares the growing practices, farming history, and steps towards the development of this farm business.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Charlotte Vermont, where we visit with Adam Hausmann and Jessica Sanford of Adams Berry Farm. Our visit today will be split into two episodes, the first one, is a walking tour of his blueberry fields, and strawberry patches, and raspberry plantings. We step inside the high tunnels to look at the fruit in there, as well as the barn which houses a kitchen, farm stand, and packing equipment. This visit had a bit of snow along the tree line, so if you hear a crunch at times that's why. The next episode will highlight how they got started farming, and built their farm up over the last 20 or so years, and we get into why they chose the farming practices they did.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Lancaster County Pennsylvania in a town called Lititz, where we visit John and Peter Shenk of Shenk’s Berry Farm. While their farm may not ring a bell, you may have seen these guys at a trade show or recognize their side business especially if you are into strawberries as they also run the company of Hillside Cultivator.

John and Peter take me around their farm in early February and share their experiences growing strawberries for over 40 years. With that we get into the details of: Varieties, weed control, plasticulture vs. matted row, irrigation, weather patterns, climate change and disease. The 2nd half of the conversation covers the topics of:

No till pumpkins
Cover crops
Running a cultivator business on the side of a family farm
Black raspberries
The space between certified organic and conventional practices
And General lessons learned and key principles of maintaining a sustainable farm business.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Plainfield, New Hampshire where we visit with Pooh Sprague of Edgewater Farm. This episode is a bit of a ramble as a 50 year career in farming is expected to be! That being said in this episode Pooh Shares:

How he got started in the early 70’s
Selling bedding plants
Labor challenges
100 acres, over 30 high tunnels, 7 H2A
Tracking water usage
FSMA Produce Safety Rule
Climate Change
Resilience
Soil stewardship
Farm transition
Knowing your market
Not being organic
Strawberries
No-Till and cover crops

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This episode comes to you from South Royalton Vermont Where we visit with Geo Honigford of Hurricane Flats Farm. He’s grown mixed vegetables, popcorn, and hay for 26 years. He also made the decision to sell his farm just a few years ago and pursue a different career path. I thought this was unique and wanted to chat with him about this decision to sell and pivot to a new chapter in life.

We start off by learning his background and experience at the top of the episode. Then we spend a significant part of the conversation talking about popcorn as Hurricane Flats Farm is the only farm I know growing that crop in Vermont and I’ve experimented with growing it myself and curious what it takes to grow it beyond the hand scale experimenting. We wrap up the end of the episode with additional tips and take a way's reflecting on farming as a career. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope you do to.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Au Sable Forks New York where we visit with Becca Burke of The Meadow Farmstead. She’s managed a diversified vegetable farm and CSA for the last few years on the Vermont side of lake Champlain, but finally landed some growing space of her own over in New York. She hit the ground running and I visited with her at the tail end of the first season on this new farm. We discuss strategic investments, lessons learned from other farms to set this new garden up right from the start and she shares how she’s striving to provide affordable food for her community.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Hyde Park Vermont where we meet with Ryan Demerast and Genica Breitenbeck. They run two businesses off of their farm of less than 3 acres. Ryan runs Naked Acre Farm, and Genica runs a gardening service business called Home Front Gardens.

Together we sat down as they shared their winding paths into agriculture. They share the challenges they faced finding access to land and why they decided to settle here in Vermont, all while making the decision to purchase by digging through the snow in the middle of winter to take a look at the soil. Ryan and Genica share how they boot strapped their way to build a sustainable farm business which is now in the 10th year of farming. They open up and share how they navigated some stressful seasons farming, and their plans to maintain the current size of their farm and not expand beyond the intensively managed land they are working now.

This episode contains two parts of conversation, the first hour and twenty minutes is a sit down discussion talking about their farm story and the remaining forty minutes part of of the show features a walking tour of the farm where you can listen to the rain as we walk between high tunnels and rows of kale.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Underhill Vermont where I interview Paul Chamberlin of Chamberlin’s Garden & Farm Market. This episode hits close to home, because it is home. This summer I took a rainy Saturday morning and sat down to interview my grandpa and capture a few of his favorite farm stories and some of the history of our farm. Grandpa and my Grandma Joan purchased the property in 1976, and were planning to have a garden and raise their family.

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This episode takes us all the way down to Mansfield Georgia where we visit with Monica and Russell of Love is Love Cooperative Farm. Myself and a few other colleges visited in October 2022 as part of a farm tour focused on wash/pack design and produce safety. This project is titled SCRUB, Sanitizing and Cleaning Resources for Your Business. From this project we were able to learned what market farmers needed in order to improve their produce safety and we either collated or created resources to help improve the cleanliness, and reduce produce safety risks.

This visit was an honor, to see a farm that is in the early stages of growth, and that we also helped to design this wash/pack space and recommend tools and products that’d improve efficiencies. This episode is a unique one, where two of the owner/members share what it’s like to build a business with a cooperative farm model, raising funding, and investing in infrastructure. Russell also shares a bit about the Oggun cultivating tractor and why he decided to go with that machine as the primary cultivation tool.

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Today’s episode takes us to East Dummerston Vermont where we visit with Jack Manix of Walker Farm. Jack is celebrating two major milestones this spring when I visited, the first being 50 years of marriage with his wife Karen; and the second milestone is this is also their 50 year farming. This interview gives us a tour of his farm and garden center which includes 25 varying greenhouse structures. Some of these are the earliest of designs with hoops and plastic and some of them are the highest of tech including fully automated glass houses. We then take a ride in the truck to set eyes on the fields, and visit the Christmas tree farm where he then shares some of the wisdom that has kept the farm business in operation for his entire career.

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In this episode we take a ride in the tractor with Mark Fasching of Jericho Settlers Farm as he is incorporating a cover crop of winter rye using a speed disc. He explains how this piece of equipment works, and shares how he uses it to improve the soil health on their farm.

We first heard from Mark on episode 3 when he and his wife Chirista shared how they built their farm business.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Hatfield Massachusetts where we visit with Harrison Bardwell of Bardwell Farm.

We start off the episode with a tour of his greenhouses, and check out a few of his experiments this year with early peppers and overwintered onions. After that, he shares some of his background that equipped him to build up and manage a 30 acre vegetable business all while only being in his mid 20’s.

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This episodes gives you an introduction to the show. Learn whos your host, the reason for the show, and what types of farmers will be interviews.

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Today's episode comes to you from Amherst Massachusetts, where we visit with Kerry Taylor of Brookfield Farm. (https://www.brookfieldfarm.org) She shares how they run a 500 member CSA, incorporate an intern weeding crew, and shares the challenges of being a new manager for a farm that’s been in the community for over 35 years.

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This episode comes to you from 3 different locations in central Vermont where we meet with Henry Webb, John Hirsh and Taylor Mendell. These three young farmer friends of mine have been interviewed by me before and this visit checks in to see how their spring is going so far. I visited the first week of April and this episode shares some of what’s happening this time of year on vegetable farms.

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This episode comes to you from Hollis New Hampshire, where we visit with Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm and get a tour of his farm supplies business. This conversation takes you on a walking tour with Andy Chamberlin, Chris Callahan and Hans Estrin as we visit with Trevor and see what equipment he’s got in his buildings and what new technology he’s bringing into the states.

This episode was recorded in April of 2022 so pricing and availability is likely different from what you’re hearing from today but it will give you a rough idea and what to expect out of this side of the industry.

We start off the episode next to their apple packing line, and controlled atmosphere rooms, and pretty quickly walk into the newly built warehouse addition and hear about all the different ways you can spend all your hard earned cash to improve or switch up your farming systems.

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Elizabeth Keen and her husband Al have been farming at Indian Line Farm in Great Barrington, MA for over 25 years. After taking a sabbatical in 2016, they had the realization that after 10-15 years “just running the farm” it was time that some things needed to change to make the farm more sustainable in their next phase of life. The upgrades to the farm included the purchase of a delivery van, a 30’x96’ hoop house, and replacing the 6-wire high tensile electric fence with an 8’ fence to keep the deer out. Additionally, Elizabeth decided it was time to make some improvements to the post-harvest area on the farm.

This podcast gives a tour of the barn upgrades and the conversation is mostly led by my colleague Chris Callahan of the University of Vermont Extension. This story is also shared as a full postharvest case study on our blog. So if you want to see photos or a video from this visit make sure to visit https://go.uvm.edu/indianline.

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Today’s episode comes to you from Jericho Vermont where we visit with Mark Fasching and Christa Alexander of Jericho Settlers farm. We learn how they grew their farm from selling at their local farmers market, to producing good food year round wholesaling storage crops into Vermont's food system. They share the reasons why they stopped raising livestock and doubled down on veg, as well as reflect on what advice they’d give to themselves starting out, and how that answer would be different for new farmers in today’s age of agriculture. Mark and Christa both share the struggle of managing a business and how they’ve structured that to work together with raising their family.

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This farm visit starts off quickly - literally. Since most of the fields at the home farm are in cover crop this season we jumped on the side by side for a stretched out field tour. After seeing fields of storage crops including onions, potatoes and sweet corn we hop out of the truck and step into the barn where I asked Justin about how he got into farming, what fulfills him in this career and advice he’d give for those just starting out. He describes how he's structured the business to his personality, and to align with his goals of the farm. We wrap up the episode with a walk past some field equipment and get a tour of the greenhouses that are all a part of wholesaling over 30acres of vegetables.

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In this episode we’re visiting with Jon Cohen of Deep Meadow Farm where they grow ~50acres of mixed vegetables on the Connecticut river in Ascutney Vermont.

Our conversation starts off by the farm stand wanders towards the greenhouses before moving to the brassica field. Jon shares what he likes and dislikes about the wizard vacuum seeder and reflects on his career as a farmer.

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In this episode, we wrap up the series of The Ag Engineering Podcast, reflect on its growth and introduce what the future of the podcast is going to look like.Ag Engineering Resources:
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In this episode, we visit with Sue Decker of Blue Star Farm (http://www.bluestarfarmny.com) and get a tour of high tunnels, caterpillar tunnels and wash pack areas on her farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Sue Decker of Blue Star Farm (http://www.bluestarfarmny.com) to talk about her heated greenhouse benches.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Eli Hersh of Honey Field Farm who shares his experience purchasing this farm, and the challenges faced in order to get the business going.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Eli Hersh of Honey Field Farm (https://honeyfieldfarmvt.com) takes us on a tour of his 12 different greenhouses for their bedding plant, and vegetable start business.

Eli shares his potting soil process, irrigation systems, differences in ventilation and heating. From growing succulents, potted plants, veggie starts and inground tomatoes there are a lot of moving parts in the spring under the tunnels.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we get to know Stephen Park of Full Belly Farm in Monkton Vermont who shares his experience starting this farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Stephen Park of Full Belly Farm in Monkton Vermont who shares his experience mulching strawberries and protecting his crop from frost.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Stephen Park of Full Belly Farm in Monkton Vermont who shares his experience with different strawberry growing systems.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Stephen Park of Full Belly Farm in Monkton Vermont who shares his experience with the Ebb and Flow rolling greenhouse benches.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Stephen Park of Full Belly Farm in Monkton Vermont. This is an intro to the farm where we touch upon cover crops, plastic mulch, pot fillers, flail mowers and round bale shredders for strawberry mulching.

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In this episode, we visit with Harrison Bardwell of Bardwell Farm Farm to talk about his custom built no-till MaterMacc Planter.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Howard Prussack of High Meadows Farm who reflects on his career of farming and shares some tips for the next generation.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Howard Prussack of High Meadows Farm to talk about his Rainflo plastic mulch layer used on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Howard Prussack of High Meadows Farm to talk about some of the new equipment used on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Howard Prussack of High Meadows Farm to talk about some of the old equipment used on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Josh Volk of Slow Hand Farm to talk about his books and experience making hand tools for the farm.

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In this episode, we visit with Becky Maden of Singing Cedars Farmstead (http://www.singing-cedars-farmstead.com) and UVM Extension to talk about soil steaming.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about the transplanter from Checchi Magli and cultivation tools he uses for weed management.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about the Culti’track cultivating tractor from Terrateck.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about how he’s managing to rebuild a cooler in the peak of the growing season.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about some of the equipment that’s made a difference on his farm. It’s a bit of a random show, but totally worth a listen if you are a vegetable grower.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about some innovative tools from Terrateck including a greenhouse cart and the walk behind greens harvester.

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In this episode, we visit with Andre Cantelmo of Heron Pond Farm (https://www.heronpondfarm.com) to talk about the modifications made to a corn planter to convert it for no-till for sweet corn and pumpkins and the use of a flail mower as part of the system.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Gabby & Henry of Old Road Farm (oldroadfarmvt.com) to talk about their decisions for greenhouses on their farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Gabby & Henry of Old Road Farm (oldroadfarmvt.com) to talk about how they got started and where they want to go with their market farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Gabby & Henry of Old Road Farm (oldroadfarmvt.com) to talk about their stone burrier.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we share an update to the show and reflect on the previous year of the show.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Patrick Sullivan of Ananda Gardens (https://www.anandagardens.com) to talk about what sustainable farming means to him and how he strives to achieve it in multiple ways.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Patrick Sullivan of Ananda Gardens (https://www.anandagardens.com) to talk about one of the most challenging times on his no-till market farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Patrick Sullivan of Ananda Gardens (https://www.anandagardens.com) to talk about wins from this growing season and how it was the best yet on his no-till market farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Patrick Sullivan of Ananda Gardens (https://www.anandagardens.com) to talk about how he uses compost on his no-till market farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kaisa Jarrell of The Green Wagon Farm (https://www.thegreenwagonfarm.com) to talk about the cut flowers on her vegetable farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Phoenix O’Brein of Hall Brook Farm (http://hallbrookfarm.com) to talk about the Scott Viner Harvester.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kaisa Jarrell of The Green Wagon Farm (https://www.thegreenwagonfarm.com/) to talk about using weed mat to save time weeding.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Phoenix O’Brein of Hallbrook Farm (http://hallbrookfarm.com) to talk about the greenhouse structures on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Dave Moore from Market Farm Implement to talk about how his company got started and where it might be going.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kaisa Jarrell of The Green Wagon Farm (https://www.thegreenwagonfarm.com/) to talk about wording your signage to move products.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Pheonix O’Brien of Hall Brook Farm (http://hallbrookfarm.com) to talk about how he uses the Perfect Field Cultivator on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kaisa Jarrell of The Green Wagon Farm (www.thegreenwagonfarm.com) to talk about the scooter seat.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Phoenix O'Brien of Hall Brook Farm (http://hallbrookfarm.com) to talk about harvesting lettuce efficiently on his farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this week's episode I continue the conversation with Elisabeth talking about pest control practices. In Episode 34 she shared practical methods of integrated pest management. In this episode we have a bit more of a back and forth conversation doing some Q&A related to pest control on vegetable farms.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kaisa Jarrell of The Green Wagon Farm (http://www.thegreenwagonfarm.com) to talk about the water wheel transplanter.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Chris Callahan of UVM Extension to talk about precooling your vegetable crops.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Elisabeth Hodgdon the Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension to talk about managing pests on your farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Dave from Market Farm Implement to talk about the MaterMacc vegetable seed planter.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we share a resource we put together on improving handwash stations.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with John Hirsch of Clearfield Farm (clearfieldfarmvt.com) to talk about building a root washer out of a cheap cement mixer.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Dave from Market Farm Implement to talk about MaterMacc Precision Planters.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com) to share some stories from their farming experience.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we share a resource we put together highlighting different spray table materials that could be used on produce farms.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com) to talk about how they use plastic sheet material (silage tarps and greenhouse plastic) on their no-till, hillside farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips, or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with John Hirsh of Clearfield Farm (clearfieldfarmvt.com) to talk about using cheap equipment where you can and investing money on important equipment.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we share a resource from our own blog about options when selecting harvest containers.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Pauline Stevens of Golden Russet Farm (https://goldenrussetfarm.com/) to talk about their pivot into opening up their greenhouses using a sign-up form during the COVID 19 pandemic.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we talk with Rose Wilson (rosewilson.com) to talk about online sales and their long term plan for your farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com) to talk about how they built up their customers and markets on their no-till, hillside farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kyle Doda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm (https://www.1000stonefarm.com) and talk about what they are excited about and what challenges them.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about how they use the Paper Pot Transplanter on their no-till, hillside farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we talk with Zachary Smith (zachary.m.smith@uvm.edu) of the University of Vermont Extension to talk about what farmers need to think about when deciding to get started with e-commerce.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Dave from Market Farm Implement to talk about vacuum seeding.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kyle Doda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm (https://www.1000stonefarm.com/) about how they set-up an on-farm store. 1:41 Farm Store vs. Farm Stand

5:27 How does self-serve work?

10:23 Price lists for high-end products

11:23 Pre-built structure

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12:16 Insulated and open year-round

Holding inventory
Consistent messaging and easy to remember hours: 8-8, every day
Cost: $9k in the building, ~$17k total
ROI is on track for a timely return
There is a demand for this in the area

17:11 Market research & business decisions

Respectful and thankful community
Advertising: Facebook ads, word of mouth, Front Porch Forum
Didn’t want to skimp or cut corners
Variety is beneficial for customer satisfaction

23:36 Capital Investment

Vermont Farm Fund for a low-interest loan
Need money for the site work, building, inventory etc.

“The simplification aspect is huge for the customers and the farmers. Don’t make it more complicated than it needs to be and make it as easy for the customer to access the product as possible, on their terms.”

27:22 Multi-Use building - Farm store & CSA Pick-up

27:57 Regrets or changes on these decisions?

Need to increase the branding and messaging for both their farm and the local, organic, high-quality products they stock in their store.

31:16 Final thoughts - Customers enjoy shopping alone in a low-stress environment.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about how they use Cat Tunnels on their no-till, hillside farm.

2:14 How do you utilize Cat Tunnels?

3:58 Construction & Build

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Side “Hooks”

5:25 Shoulder season practices

Wind bracing
End Walls

8:48 Usage on a hill

10:43 Cat tunnels vs. High tunnels

15:58 Heidi’s key takeaways

19:05 Rolling up the plastic during winter

23:50 The biggest tip: Build them up like a hoophouse

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we read an update about Coronavirus & COVID19 as it relates to fruit and vegetable growers.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we share with you a blog post we wrote entitled Getting Started with a Growth Chamber.

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The Ag Engineering podcasts shares a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode chats with Silas Doyle-Burr of Last Resort Farm (lastresortfarm.com) about a time when he felt both successful and challenged farming.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about how they implement no-till production on their farm.

1:56 How do you define no-till on your farm?

3:55 How are you renovating a bed?

6:37 How do you make new beds?

7:54 Farming on a hillside

13:39 Microclimates on a south-facing slope in Zone 4

17:18 No-till and fundamental environmental practices

19:52 Erosion and season extension

22:19 Advantages to hillside growing

26:17 Hoop houses on a hillside

28:06 The Tillie

33:17 Pathway residue compost system

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Silas Doyle Burr of Last Resort Farm (lastresortfarm.com) about integrating CBD hemp as an additional crop to his already diversified farm.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kyle Doda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm (https://www.1000stonefarm.com/) to talk about their use of caterpillar tunnels, how they built them, and their experiences past the shoulder seasons.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kyle Doda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm Farm (https://www.1000stonefarm.com/) about remote temperature monitoring on the cheap.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about the Jang 5 row seeder.

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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Kyle Doda and Betsy Simpson of 1000 Stone Farm Farm (https://www.1000stonefarm.com/) about automated infrastructure to raise a small flock of laying hens.

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The Ag Engineering podcasts is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In This episode we visit with Silas Doyle-Burr of Last Resort Farm (lastresortfarm.com) to talk about bringing strawberries to market as late as October and even into November in Vermont.

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The Ag Engineering podcasts share a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode chats with Silas Doyle-Burr of Last Resort Farm (lastresortfarm.com) about his 5 walk-in climate-controlled rooms.

Silas installed five custom build rooms in his renovated dairy barn to create different climate cones for vegetable storage or germination chambers.

VECS, The installer he used for his cooler monitoring and controls.

Last resort farm on instagram
Silas used Trusscore, a corrugated PVC plant in his wash/pack space. See this and more on our blog post go.uvm.edu/smoothnclean
Video tour of the walk-ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeCFdc0ZUI&list=PLRhtZw1o6RdFOSoR3QriKs3i3njkEYezi&index=5&t=0s

7:00 Coolbot vs. commercial refrigeration

8:00 Accurate temp and humidity controls

12:51 Wireless Options

13:21 Cost?

16:00 What is a relay?

21:01 Regrets with building material choice

22:23 The need for circulation fans

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The Ag Engineering podcasts shares a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode chat’s with Taylor and Jake of Footprint Farm (footprintfarmvt.com) who share both stories of success and challenge on their farm. We also loop back on a follow-up question relating to the labor needs to set-up a cat tunnel.

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The Ag Engineering podcast chats with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to share the tools, tips, and techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode is a conversation with Taylor and Jake of Footprint Farm (footprintfarmvt.com) on forming habits that create a sustainable farm business. Taylor started a blog to share her experiences and practices as well as an Instagram account dedicated to sharing how she copes with the stress and challenges of this career.

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The Ag Engineering podcasts chats with farmers to share the tools, tips, and techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode chat's with Taylor and Jake of Footprint Farm on how they manage multiple sales channels. From CSA members to chefs and caterers they each take a different level of communication. Thanks for listening.

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In this episode we talk with Taylor and Jake of Footprint Farm where we discuss their viewpoint on cat tunnels now that they've used them for several years.

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I am excited to share a new idea and am looking for your feedback and support! Today, I am releasing Episode 0 of the UVM Extension Ag Engineering Podcast! This is a short form audio segment on tools, tips, and techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm.

This is a trial episode to introduce the idea, and give you a feel for what to expect. It is 5 minutes in duration, but I expect future episodes will be 10-20 minute interviews with farmers talking about a specific piece of equipment or farming practice that has changed their farm for the better.

Have a listen, and let me know what you think! If you want to hear more or have a topic idea I’d love to hear it. You can either e-mail me at andrew.chamberlin@uvm.edu.

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