The 7 Types of Waste on a Farm

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Implement the lean system in your garden, and you’ll reduce at least 7 types of waste. Hear how Ben Hartman minimizes waste on his lean farm. Everything from how to store tools, to where you orient your garden, all the way to how you harvest are topics to consider. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aM2PNI Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3NZEr1k Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/48sVh0T EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/48AwvvN 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you are a humble gardener like myself or you have aspirations to start a
0:17.4	farmer you actually have a farm there are many ways to reduce waste we've
0:22.2	learned a little bit yesterday about the lean
0:25.0	system and applying that to farming with our guest Ben Hartman, author of the
0:30.0	Lean micro-farm and the lean farm and the farmer at Claybottom Farm. So Ben, maybe we could start out with the
0:36.4	seven types of waste that are identified in the lien system because I actually don't know what
0:41.6	they are off the top of my head.
0:43.0	Yeah, sure.
0:45.0	So Teichiano, an engineer at Toyota, he developed a list of seven ways that he trained workers on the shop floor at
0:53.1	to who had to look for. These were waste that existed on Japanese rice farms
0:57.6	so these rice farmers brought this thinking onto the shop floor. The most
1:00.9	insidious waste in farming and in food in general is over production.
1:07.0	Okay and you've probably seen the estimates that up to half the food that's produced in this country is not even not ever eaten and
1:13.7	there's waste all along the chain but certainly on farms and in gardens we're
1:18.7	often over-producing and so noticing that what I like to say is every seed should turn into cash.
1:25.0	And if it didn't, then waste entered into the flow of work somewhere.
1:29.0	And very often it's the case that we just simply didn't align our production with with what
1:34.1	customers were wanting. Second type of waste is waiting. This means when did it
1:39.6	one was a crop sitting not moving closer to the customer and when were workers standing around
1:46.4	or sitting around and not adding value to crops.
1:49.2	So waiting waste is number two.
1:51.7	The third would be transportation waste. This would mean excess
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