Efficient Farming Methods

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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If you’re looking to start a market garden, you’re going to have to become more efficient. Josh shares some of his most efficient methods for packing, washing, and growing food. Connect With Josh Sattin: Josh Sattin is a filmmaker and farmer sharing all sorts of tips about small scale sustainable farming. Josh Sattin on YouTube Josh Sattin on Instagram No Till Growers Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on, everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Kevin here. We've got Josh
0:17.1	that in back on the show. He is a filmmaker. He's a farmer. He's got a bunch of amazing tips and
0:23.0	we're going to be talking about more of those tips in today's show. Josh, you were saying that you've
0:26.8	built three farms in four years and you've done different methods, different techniques, but all
0:32.3	with this underpinning of just being very efficient and practical. I'm curious, if you're running
0:39.3	a backyard farm, you don't have tons of labor, you don't have tons of help necessarily. You've
0:45.7	got to make use of some pretty ingenious tools and practices. I'm curious, what are some of your
0:50.1	favorites there? Yeah, this is something I really love nerding out on. I don't want to waste
0:56.0	time, energy, money, if possible. When you're working by yourself, which for the two years of my
1:02.8	farm, when I started, I was by myself a hundred percent. Obviously, at Royal City Farm, I had a
1:06.6	lot of volunteer help. I do have a friend helping me out a little bit here now too, but generally,
1:12.3	you want to try to be as efficient as possible. There are a lot of ways to do this. One way is to
1:19.0	keep everything standardized on your farm or your garden. If you're doing raised beds, for example,
1:24.3	don't have an eight foot, a 10 foot, a 13 foot, try to keep everything the same so that if you have
1:30.7	hoops that you're covering things with or insect netting or row cover or plastic or irrigation lines
1:35.9	or any of those things, if they're all the same size, you can just grab a set and you'd be ready to
1:41.2	go and you're not like, oh, this isn't the one for that one and you're like, oh, where's that other
1:45.0	piece? When you standardize everything, it just makes everything so much more simple and you're not
1:51.6	thinking about all the details. When you're talking about seeding out trays or
1:56.7	transplanting or direct seeding, whatever it is, if it's all the same, it makes it so much easier.
2:02.8	I noticed that Royal City Farm, every bed was 50 feet on the whole farm. Inside tunnels,
2:09.2	outside for direct seeded crops, for trellising crops, everything. I had to move overhead irrigation
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