Listen to more episodes of Carrot Cashflow Episode Summary If you’re a farmer who can’t set your own prices, it can be disheartening—especially when you know just how much time, effort, and money it takes to put out those products. As heartbreaking as it sounds, that was the reality that many dairy farmers in the US faced. Because of that reality, many dairy farmers tried to either add or...
Listen to more episodes of Carrot Cashflow Episode Summary When you’re a small farm, what’s a good way to incentivize your local community to support you and what you’re doing? How about tying up a CSA share with a project you want to do on the farm? In this episode of Carrot Cashflow, we’re talking to farmer Jeamette Lock of Pack River Farm in Sandpoint, Idaho to talk about how their community...
Listen to more episodes of Carrot Cashflow Episode Summary When you’re a new farm struggling to get yourself out there and secure your first few customers, then marketing can be a great tool to broaden your reach, make yourself known, and hopefully get more yourself in front of paying customers. So, what’s a good way to approach marketing? In this episode of Carrot Cashflow, we’re talking to...
Listen to more episodes of Carrot Cashflow Episode Summary When farmer’s markets are your only market stream, every week can be a gamble. Some weeks you can sell out every single vegetable you bring, and some weeks—particularly the not-so-sunny ones—you can take more than half of your produce back home, all slated to be given away or to be tossed into the compost pile. What if you can go to the...
Listen to more episodes of Carrot Cashflow Episode Summary Farmer’s markets are a great way to get local food fresh from the farmers, but let’s face it—not everyone can spare the time to go to farmer’s markets every week. Well, what if there was a hub for local produce that’s open and operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year? In this episode of Carrot Cashflow, Bill Brinkerhoff...
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