Growing for Market with “The Greenhouse Guy”– Friday Flashbacks – Epi-77

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode I was joined by Steve Kasarda who had started, built, owned and sold 3 nurseries. Now he grows for market (show theme) and manufactures greenhouses. He joined us to discuss “growing for market” without spending thousands of dollars. In this episode Steve and I went into a wide range of topics centered around greenhouse growing and turning gardening into a profitable venture. We discussed the fundamentals of greenhouse and poly tunnel use, from managing soils and plant starts to maintaining ideal grow temperatures and using supplemental heat when necessary. We also explored the steps to getting started … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Well, you pull yourself up, they keep bringing you down.
0:08.0	Are they going to bail you out or just run you around?
0:15.0	They said you should have a house, the American way.
0:25.8	Well, hi, folks. This is Jack Spirica with the survival podcast.
0:29.1	Welcome to an episode of Friday flashbacks.
0:34.5	After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday,
0:37.2	beginning with the oldest of them and going forward, there's a tremendous
0:38.4	library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year. So sit back and enjoy, whether
0:44.2	this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode. I'm sure you will
0:49.7	enjoy it and learn a lot from it. And remember, you can help support the survival podcast and the work we do just by becoming a member of the survival podcast members support brigade.
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1:22.8	sign up. Now let's get into today's Friday Flashback. And today we are flashing back to January the 4th, 2012.
1:32.2	We have moved to a new year in our flashbacks.
1:35.3	This was originally episode 813, and it was called Growing for Market with Steve the Greenhouse Guy.
1:44.0	In this episode, Steve and I went into a wide range of topics centered around greenhouse growing and turning gardening into profitable ventures.
1:51.9	We discussed the fundamentals of greenhouse and polytunnel use from managing soils and plant starts to maintaining ideal road temperatures and using supplemental heat when necessary.
2:02.0	We also explored the steps to getting started at the market, how to price your products,
2:06.7	organize your displays, and create a compelling mix of offerings.
2:10.2	A big focus was on the customer experience, how to treat people in the way that keeps them all coming back.
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