Join Rob as he revisits the original interview with Mom and Dad, remastered and re-released to celebrate their 49th anniversary. Details and key points of the episode below.
We cover the history of the farm including:
- When the property was first identified and purchased
- When Bob and Denise sold their old home and finally moved into a rental property in the same town
- The challenges of maintaining a property when you don’t live there
- specifically the management of berry bushes, fruit trees, and ducks
- What was needed to provide a quick return at farmers market
- Produce with a quick turn around time
- Biscotti and free coffee
- Learning to make items in the winter season for sale in the spring before produce was ready
- The challenges of failure and inexperience
- Willingness to adapt and change to fill voids at the farmers market
- The challenges of taking on too much, too fast
- How this led to our current set up with a tenant farmer
- Embracing concepts of permaculture and self-sufficiency
- Health problems – specifically gastrointestinal problems...
- And how that relates to fermented foods
- How we settled into what we’re doing now with fermented foods and bath and body products
- All the potential here and the vision for the future
Key points in the episode:
- You can’t do it all and you can’t do it well
- Raising and growing vegetables is a HUGE time input with tremendous variables in profitability
- A willingness to adapt and embrace change is critical to success
- We are constantly evolving and stagnation is death
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