How to Turn a Microfarm Into a Business
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Interested in taking a small farm and turning it into a profitable business that you can run part or full time? Brandon Youst of Bootstrap Farmer is on the show to talk all about it.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We've got an |
| 0:17.4 | awesome, awesome guest this week. Brandon Youst, he's the founder of Bootstrap |
| 0:21.9 | Farmer. It's a company that brings on a lot of really inventive new products |
| 0:26.7 | for small farmers. |
| 0:28.2 | He's also the founder of the Urban Farm Academy, |
| 0:30.0 | which is kind of like their educational arm |
| 0:32.1 | to teach more people how to start a farm business. |
| 0:35.1 | And first of all, Brand, it's awesome to have you on. It's awesome to connect because I remember |
| 0:40.0 | Googling for a more heavy duty version of a 1020 tray and that's the first |
| 0:45.2 | time I ever heard about you guys and I was like this is such a no-brainer idea |
| 0:48.7 | because I break them all the time I think that's probably why you invented them so yeah I mean it's great to have you on and finally connect. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, thanks for having me and you know I had the same thought too and I was just being crazy enough to actually |
| 1:01.0 | at day by day continue to pursue that. |
| 1:03.3 | And, uh, yep, and here we are because of it. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, awesome. |
| 1:07.3 | Cool. |
| 1:08.3 | So do you want to give people just a little background on kind of how |
| 1:10.9 | Bootstrap Farmer came to be? |
| 1:12.1 | And I know in today's episode, |
| 1:14.0 | we're talking about taking a micro farm |
| 1:17.1 | and turning that into something |
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