345-The Lean Micro Farm: Raise Crops with Maximum Efficiency

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Joe Lamp'l

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Whether you have a small space that you want to make more productive or you have a sprawling garden that you struggle to maintain, you’ll want to hear what this week’s guest has to say. Ben Hartman is a farmer and author who applies the super-efficient “lean” system to gardening and micro farming and teaches others how they can do the same.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody.
0:01.0	This is Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.
0:05.3	Today's conversation is with Ben Hartman.
0:07.9	Ben is a micro farmer.
0:10.6	He and his wife Rachel and their two sons live in Goshen, Indiana.
0:15.3	Ben is a really good farmer and he downsized significantly from a five acre farm to a one-third
0:24.2	of an acre farm and he's actually more productive now than he's ever been working about half
0:29.1	the time.
0:29.9	Really amazing.
0:30.9	We're going to talk about that story.
0:32.4	He's got great principles in his book on how, whether you are a market farmer or a Gardner,
0:38.2	just growing your own food, how to do that more efficiently and simplify your life.
0:42.4	If you are interested in making money at it, you can convert 5,000 square feet to a $20,000
0:49.4	a year revenue source.
0:51.6	That's in his book.
0:52.6	He is just a delightful person and I so enjoyed our conversation.
0:57.2	Today we'll stick to a focus around his new book, The Lean Micro Farm, How to Get Small,
1:02.6	Embrace Local, Live Better and Work Less.
1:06.0	It really is a very applicable book if you grow food at all just for yourself or if you
1:11.0	want to make money at it.
1:12.7	This book is amazing, but a little bit more about Ben.
1:16.4	His original book called The Lean Farm came out in 2016 and 2017.
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