What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone?

What's going to?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin Espiritu

here. We are joined again by Brandon Youst. He is the founder of Bootstrap

Farmer. They're a company that brings on a bunch of really cool

inventive new products for small farmers and you know even sometimes just twists on products

that makes them twice as good with just a simple little change like the heavy duty

10-20 trays which to me are kind of like that standout product that really put you

on the map.

Brand is also the founder of the Urban Farm Academy. That's what we're talking

about today. It's kind of their educational

arm to teach more people how to start a farm business. And I think specifically the word

business there, Brandon, in the world of farming sometimes gets overlooked right because it's one of those things that people start out of a

inherent love and sometimes that means that the focus on profitability and making it actually work as a business doesn't get focused on right?

Yeah and as you probably know there's a huge difference between growing as a hobby and growing as a business

and you know the industry is going to be stronger if the people that go into it for a

business really can understand what they're getting themselves into and what

we're trying to do with the Urban Farm Academy is just provide frameworks that really help us, you know, navigate not just the times that we're in now, but you know anytime really and just keep it modern to what's going on in 2020 and have small farmers adapt

to what's really changing all the time.

Yeah, yeah, it makes total sense.

Okay, so if I hop into the Urban Farm Academy, I'm on the fence and there's a particular urban farm model that I'd like to try out, what am I getting when I get in there?

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