What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are back with Josh

Satin, filmmaker and a farmer. You know we've been talking a lot about just farming on a small scale

and I think a lot of people will wonder okay well what can you actually grow that uh that

makes money that allows you to support yourself and I guess Josh a question for me would be is

it true that you know in a small scale you're growing a lot of greens you're growing a lot of

like baby root vegetables and it can get a little uh not basic but a very very stripped down crop

selection. Yeah and I think I want to preface this bigger question about profitability and small

scale if you can't sell it it doesn't matter what you grow. Yeah so if you're trying to make money

and I think that a lot of people including myself when I started I looked at people like

Curtis Stone and look at his model you know he had his whole his whole farm was laid out in his

book and on his on his YouTube videos and it was like hey if you just follow Curtis Stone's model

you'll make how much money on however much land well if you can't a sell it then it's not going to

work for the price that you need and be it may not grow in your your contacts right you know like

everyone is in a different area you can't necessarily grow the same density of crops or the same

styles of crops uh where you are so those are things you have to keep in mind but generally speaking

if you're on a small scale and you're trying to make a lot of money you need to grow a lot of high

value crops that grow very quickly and I think that's really I mean it's kind of a no-brainer it's

kind of common sense right like grow stuff that is expensive and grows quickly and then you'll be

successful and I think a lot of people also start with micro greens because investment is very small

and it's very easy to scale you can actually do it in a garage or a basement spare bedroom

if you want to grow under lights and I made the decision to not grow micro greens last year

in this year and for a few reasons but they can be extremely profitable that's one way but yeah I

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