Locally Grown Meal Preparing
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Instead of selling at the farmer’s market, what about growing, aggregating, and preparing meals for local families? This is a fantastic idea for expanding the local food model.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's up everyone? |
| 0:13.8 | up everyone welcome back to our final episode with Brandon Youst. |
| 0:18.6 | My name is Kevin. |
| 0:19.6 | Brandon's here again for the last episode at least for now and he's the founder of Bootstrap Farmer and Urban Farm Academy |
| 0:25.8 | but really in the beginning times Brandon you had the food truck or the food cart right and you were doing the value added meals and that sort of evolved |
| 0:36.2 | into Craven food market right and could we explain a little bit about what that is and how it works? |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah sure so I mean the whole thing started was, you know, I'm working in the corporate 9 to 5, and I'm a person who |
| 0:48.0 | like to make all of my meals on Sunday. |
| 0:50.3 | You know, I'd make five different things, you know, on Sunday then I'd have them all sit in the |
| 0:54.4 | fridge all week long so I was kind of doing my own meal prep and when I was thinking |
| 0:59.1 | about the whole you know leaving my job but I wanted a farm but I didn't want to be a poor farmer and then coming |
| 1:05.0 | up with a $2 head of lettuce into the $10 salad. |
| 1:08.3 | That led me to, I only did the food truck because it was the cheapest way that I could have my own |
| 1:14.1 | commercial kitchen on my property and have like I could take the food truck out |
| 1:18.8 | somewhere and it's another revenue source so it was just allowed me to be really flexible and adaptable, |
| 1:24.9 | but really it could be anything. |
| 1:26.8 | So when we're talking about like farmer-grown meal plans |
| 1:31.0 | or the whole farm to food truck model is just saying we're going to |
| 1:33.9 | grow something we're going to harvest it prepare it and turn it into a meal |
| 1:38.4 | that we're going to deliver to people on a weekly basis because you know I was someone who was eating five different meals a week and |
| 1:46.6 | I was just I just thought there was more of me out there who didn't want to eat the same thing every single week. |
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