How to Make $20,000 From Your Backyard, Part 2

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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How do you make $20,000 from your own backyard harvest? Ben Hartman outlines some of the ways you can organize your garden and harvests in the second installation of the ways you can make money implementing the lean system. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TWkVqe Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Sf2yLX Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/48yTGXw EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/41UwHUe Connect With Ben Hartman: Ben Hartman is the author of The Lean Micro Farm (Chelsea Green, 2023) and The Lean Farm (Chelsea Green, 2016), winner of the prestigious Shingo Institute Research and Professional Publication Award. In 2017, Ben was named one of fifty emerging green leaders in the United States by Grist, and published a companion guide to The Lean Farm titled The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables. Ben and his wife, Rachel Hershberger, own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana, where they make their living growing specialty crops on 1/3 acre of land in production. Ben has developed an online course in lean farming, which can be found at claybottomfarm.com The Lean Farm Books The Lean Farm Books on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Chelsea Green Website Instagram YouTube Facebook Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're back my friends. How to make $20,000 from your backyard, part two with Ben Hartman,
0:18.5	the author of The Lean Micro Farm and The Lean Farm and The Lean Farm and The
0:21.2	Farm and The Farmer at Claybottom Farm.
0:23.7	So we talked yesterday, I guess, Ben, about the basic math, some of the tools,
0:27.7	some of the planting logic. Where do we go from here?
0:32.4	Okay, so there's one other piece of,
0:34.0	now two other pieces of infrastructure that you'll need.
0:37.0	These can be low cost, and the one I mentioned a few episodes ago,
0:41.0	which is the germination chamber. So if you have a
0:44.4	neighbor someone has a used chest freezer or upright refrigerator, put a
0:48.8	crock pot in it. Go to buy an Incberg external thermost that you plug that crock pot into.
0:55.0	It's the best way to germinate your seeds.
0:57.3	You can stack your trays one on top of the other so you don't need some elaborate shelving
1:02.3	system in there and then you'll also need a place to
1:08.4	to cool your crops. Now the beautiful thing is if the compressor is working on that germination chamber
1:14.9	You can use it for cooling crops too. And so we actually do that in the springtime we germinate seeds in it in the summertime we store tomatoes in it.
1:24.6	And we'll use that in third thermostat and we'll set it to 55 Fahrenheit which is the lowest
1:28.8	temperature you want tomatoes to go to and that's where we will store tomatoes.
1:35.0	You might need more, if you're growing a lot of greens,
1:37.6	you'll want to go lower temperature than that around 40
1:40.7	Fahrenheit to store any greens that you might be producing.
1:46.0	So then if you're going to wash your greens,
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