The Lean Micro Farm

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Ben Hartman turned to a lean system when his meticulously built greenhouse was destroyed by high winds. By using this concept, he’s instituted a simple way to farm, framing it in terms of production and waste – two sides of the same coin. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/48PPp1p Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aQS4d9 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Hh6N3r EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3NZeLlw 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... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you have been thinking,
0:04.7	if you have been thinking about taking gardening to the next level, perhaps farming or
0:18.1	micro farming then, I think you're really going to like this week of episodes with Ben Hartman, who is the author of The Lean Micro Farm
0:26.6	and The Lean Farm.
0:28.5	And Ben, I have to say, Jacques on our team is a huge fan.
0:32.0	And so he's quite jealous that we're chatting
0:33.8	today but but hopefully you know he'll be listening to these episodes so
0:36.4	hello Jacques. Well Jacques thank you and thank you Kevin for having me this is a
0:41.4	pleasure to be here and I love the work that you all are doing. Thank you. Hey likewise I'm like Kevin for having me and this is a pleasure to be here and I love the work that you all are doing.
0:43.5	Thank you. Hey, likewise, I mean we learn a lot from
0:47.5	specifically smaller scale farmers because it's sort of like gardening on steroids right like you actually have to have
0:56.0	something come to market that's how the business works instead of us sometimes
1:00.2	messing around with plants and maybe being a little bit less rigorous in some of our methods.
1:04.8	And so I'm excited to chat with you today and I think everyone's going to learn a lot.
1:10.0	And I kind of want to start with the idea of the lean farm in general because it is a different
1:16.9	twist on some of the traditional sort of education you hear about urban farming.
1:21.6	Yeah, sure.
1:24.0	Well, the lien production method is really a way of doing business that goes back to the Edo period in Japan
1:32.0	if we can back up a couple hundred years and we
1:34.1	had rice farmers during this time in Japan that was very the country is isolated
1:39.2	from the rest of the world so you had Kab, Banuku puppets, origami, paper folding. You had all these coincidentally
1:47.0	Japanese things going on during that time period. But on farms something was interesting was happening.
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