334-A Market Farmer’s Journey to Success-Encore Presentation
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Once you’ve experienced the joy of raising fruits and vegetables to feed your family, it becomes much easier to imagine what it would be like to become a market farmer who grows enough to maintain a successful business. My guest this week, Conor Crickmore, left his tech career in New York City in 2009 to become a homesteader in upstate New York, and soon after he and his wife, Kate, founded Neversink Farm, a 1.3-acre certified organic farm that is one of the most productive farms per square foot in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Joe and as we close out our encore series of episodes this week |
| 0:05.0 | I wanted to finish strong with a really good episode one that has been a favorite of mine for a long time |
| 0:11.1 | And I think you're really going to enjoy it |
| 0:13.2 | But that's all I'm going to say for this right now because the intro to the episode really sets it up nicely |
| 0:18.7 | So that's it take a listen and enjoy it. I hope you do. I think you will and I'll see you back here next week with all new episodes |
| 0:26.5 | Take us out through the end of the year |
| 0:30.1 | Hi everybody. This is Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner show |
| 0:35.3 | Every so often we have a conversation with a small-scale farmer who in many ways is more like a gardener |
| 0:41.0 | They're organic in their growing methods. They love what they do |
| 0:44.3 | They have a real passion for their vocation which often stems from an |
| 0:48.8 | Advocation for gardening and growing. They're doing great things with it and willing to share what they know |
| 0:53.9 | Well today you're going to meet someone that fits all of that to a tea and more |
| 0:58.2 | Conner Creekmore is a small market farmer |
| 1:01.3 | Gardening and growing on just 1.3 acres along the never-sink river and the cat-skill mountains of Northern New York in the very short growing season of zone 5b |
| 1:11.2 | There are a lot of things about Conner as you get to know him in this conversation |
| 1:15.0 | That will lead you to understand why he's been so successful and making the most of his relatively small farm |
| 1:21.7 | But it's his back story the fact that he had no farming or gardening in his past and the risk he took to leave his lucrative job and technology in New York City |
| 1:30.7 | And walk away to start a farm and make a living at it and just so you didn't miss that Conner and his wife were rookies |
| 1:37.8 | No prior skills no equipment and no plan just a vision that as you'll hear |
| 1:43.6 | Became a reality over time with lots of patience hard work and a real belief that they could figure it out |
| 1:49.8 | Well, they did 12 or so years later their family of four is thriving and so are the many customers that buy the produce that never-sink farm produces all through the year |
| 2:00.3 | So whether you're into small-scale farming or not sit back and enjoy this episode |
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