Julia Shanks's guest appearances

Julia Shanks

GREEN Organic Garden Podcast

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Michelle Lipp

Mark Usewicz

Jes Pearce

Marla Esser Cloos

Harold Thornbro

Laura Behenna

Cindy Ondish

Linda Kelso

Jenny Jack

Conner Flynn

Tom Natan

Kim Romeril

James Rolin

Nick Lubecki

Rich Bowden

OwlTail

The Farmer’s Office One of the things my guests have talked about a lot is effective bookkeeping and record keeping whether your a small backyard gardener or a busy market farmer. Today Julia Shanks is going to share her knowledge of business, farming, cooking and restaurants, her books and her new course on how to be the most effective producer you can be and how to enjoy growing a successful garden.  Julia Shanks Author of the The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business is here today to share her brilliance and talk about her new course the Farmer’s Edge starting January 11th, 2017!  FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON! Let’s Get to the Root of Things Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden. No, I love it all. I can’t get into the garden enough. I love weeding in the morning with my coffee I find it meditative . . .  What is your favorite activity to do in the garden. Probably, I do enjoy the weeding I get the weeds in the thread stage and I get to see the clean beds…. just sitting and pondering the different cycles vegetables behind watching the vegetables.. What is the best gardening advice you have  ever received? Well, I’m thinking the most recent gardening advice there’s a dfference between decomposing vegetables and compost my compost system isn’t very good, that’s  I tried that. as long as it’s composting well, if the worms the die… the compost gets really stinky, I have a lot of worms in my soil, I feel like I’m vermi-composting, it’s aerated,  You have to drill al to of holes, holes in the bottom of the bin… as you put  not gonna get the same air s A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. I don’t have a lot of tools, I need my hose to water, I just got drip irrigation I have a trowel, a  Well, I just got the drip irrigation hoses, I bought them at home depot, I just snaked them around the garden… water doesn’t  plant everything pretty darn close small garden, 100-200 feet was enough…  especially with the drought, on the  be careful concentrate the water where you want it, turn it on when you need to soak the water … A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden? I do make that kale salad regularly the other dish  I saute with garlic raisins curry powder romesco sauce tomato pepper sauce  that’s a favorite I wrote this book with my friend Brett, the farmer in Maryland he has a dish … for potato December dishes because it’s cold  sauted greens with potatoes scallions simple  good curry recipes I like the coconut curry with chili paste restorative and creamy and rich healthy  The Cookbook is called the   The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce A favorite internet resource?  this is gonna be really self serving but my website I have a lot of resources I’ve been writing lots of articles  lots of tools and tips templates find a cash flow lots of excel templates webinars videos accounting… food and ag  links to the  articles…. A favorite reading material-book, mag, blog/website etc you can recommend? I gotta say I do enjoy growing for market guilty pleasure is Modern Farmer I don’t think anyone  written who want to be farmer… I enjoy it… good magazine… If you have a business to you have any advice for our listeners about how to sell extra produce or get started in the industry? I would say, track your costs… as much as you can… that’s the only way you are going to figure out what works if you do’t know how much you are growing… if you’re gonna make that kind of financial investment Final question- if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale? What I am thinking about right now is how can we support small farmers to be sustainable, they are the ones thinking about our soil providing  the carrot project providing business  that’s what I’m thinking in California local dept of ags supporting local farmers … Do u have an inspiration tip or quote to help motivate our listeners to reach into that dirt and start their own garden? follow your passion but be realistic if you love gardening  How do we connect with you? Sure! They can go to my website JuliaShanks.com  The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce cookbook and the business class  The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business  The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacyChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

<h4>The Farmer’s Office</h4> One of the things my guests have talked about a lot is effective bookkeeping and record keeping whether your a small backyard gardener or a busy market farmer. Today Julia Shanks is going to share her knowledge of business, farming, cooking and restaurants, her books and her new course on how to be the most effective producer you can be and how to enjoy growing a successful garden. <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Julia Shanks Author of the <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business</a> is here today to share her brilliance and talk about her new course the <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Farmer’s Edge</a> starting January 11th, 2017! <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h1>FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON!</h1> <h1>Let’s Get to the Root of Things</h1> Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden. No, I love it all. I can’t get into the garden enough. I love weeding in the morning with my coffee I find it meditative . . . What is your favorite activity to do in the garden. Probably, I do enjoy the weeding I get the weeds in the thread stage and I get to see the clean beds…. just sitting and pondering the different cycles vegetables behind watching the vegetables.. What is the best gardening advice you have  ever received? Well, I’m thinking the most recent gardening advice there’s a dfference between decomposing vegetables and compost my compost system isn’t very good, that’s I tried that. as long as it’s composting well, if the worms the die… the compost gets really stinky, I have a lot of worms in my soil, I feel like I’m vermi-composting, it’s aerated, You have to drill al to of holes, holes in the bottom of the bin… as you put not gonna get the same air s A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. I don’t have a lot of tools, I need my hose to water, I just got drip irrigation I have a trowel, a Well, I just got the drip irrigation hoses, I bought them at home depot, I just snaked them around the garden… water doesn’t plant everything pretty darn close small garden, 100-200 feet was enough… especially with the drought, on the be careful concentrate the water where you want it, turn it on when you need to soak the water … A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden? I do make that kale salad regularly the other dish <ul> <li>I saute with garlic raisins</li> <li>curry powder</li> <li>romesco sauce</li> <li>tomato</li> <li>pepper sauce</li> </ul> that’s a favorite I wrote this book with my friend Brett, the farmer in Maryland he has a dish … for potato December dishes because it’s cold <ul> <li>sauted greens with potatoes</li> <li>scallions</li> <li>simple</li> </ul> good curry recipes I like the coconut curry with chili paste restorative and creamy and rich healthy The Cookbook is called the  <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h4><a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce</a></h4> A favorite internet resource? <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/tools-for-entrepreneurs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> this is gonna be really self serving but my website I have a lot of resources I’ve been writing lots of articles lots of tools and tips <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/thefarmersofficetemplates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">templates</a> find a cash flow lots of excel templates webinars videos accounting… food and ag links to the articles…. A favorite reading material-book, mag, blog/website etc you can recommend? I gotta say I do enjoy growing for market guilty pleasure is Modern Farmer I don’t think anyone written who want to be farmer… I enjoy it… good magazine… If you have a business to you have any advice for our listeners about how to sell extra produce or get started in the industry? I would say, track your costs… as much as you can… that’s the only way you are going to figure out what works if you do’t know how much you are growing… if you’re gonna make that kind of financial investment Final question- if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale? What I am thinking about right now is how can we support small farmers to be sustainable, they are the ones thinking about our soil providing the carrot project providing business that’s what I’m thinking in California local dept of ags supporting local farmers … Do u have an inspiration tip or quote to help motivate our listeners to reach into that dirt and start their own garden? follow your passion but be realistic if you love gardening How do we connect with you? Sure! They can go to my website <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JuliaShanks.com</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h4><a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce</a></h4> cookbook and the business class <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business</a> The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to <a href="http://amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">amazon.com</a> If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/organic-gardener-podcast/id962887645" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link here</a>. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - <a href="https://podsights.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podsights.com/privacy</a> Chartable - <a href="https://chartable.com/privacy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chartable.com/privacy</a>

Replay of my interview with  Julia Shanks author of the Farmer’s Office

The Farmer’s Office One of the things my guests have talked about a lot is effective bookkeeping and record keeping whether your a small backyard gardener or a busy market farmer. Today Julia Shanks is going to share her knowledge of business, farming, cooking and restaurants, her books and her new course on how to be the most effective producer you can be and how to enjoy growing a successful garden.  Julia Shanks Author of the The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business is here today to share her brilliance and talk about her new course the Farmer’s Edge starting January 11th, 2017!  FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON! Let’s Get to the Root of Things Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden. No, I love it all. I can’t get into the garden enough. I love weeding in the morning with my coffee I find it meditative . . .  What is your favorite activity to do in the garden. Probably, I do enjoy the weeding I get the weeds in the thread stage and I get to see the clean beds…. just sitting and pondering the different cycles vegetables behind watching the vegetables.. What is the best gardening advice you have  ever received? Well, I’m thinking the most recent gardening advice there’s a dfference between decomposing vegetables and compost my compost system isn’t very good, that’s  I tried that. as long as it’s composting well, if the worms the die… the compost gets really stinky, I have a lot of worms in my soil, I feel like I’m vermi-composting, it’s aerated,  You have to drill al to of holes, holes in the bottom of the bin… as you put  not gonna get the same air s A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. I don’t have a lot of tools, I need my hose to water, I just got drip irrigation I have a trowel, a  Well, I just got the drip irrigation hoses, I bought them at home depot, I just snaked them around the garden… water doesn’t  plant everything pretty darn close small garden, 100-200 feet was enough…  especially with the drought, on the  be careful concentrate the water where you want it, turn it on when you need to soak the water … A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden? I do make that kale salad regularly the other dish  I saute with garlic raisins curry powder romesco sauce tomato pepper sauce  that’s a favorite I wrote this book with my friend Brett, the farmer in Maryland he has a dish … for potato December dishes because it’s cold  sauted greens with potatoes scallions simple  good curry recipes I like the coconut curry with chili paste restorative and creamy and rich healthy  The Cookbook is called the   The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce A favorite internet resource?  this is gonna be really self serving but my website I have a lot of resources I’ve been writing lots of articles  lots of tools and tips templates find a cash flow lots of excel templates webinars videos accounting… food and ag  links to the  articles…. A favorite reading material-book, mag, blog/website etc you can recommend? I gotta say I do enjoy growing for market guilty pleasure is Modern Farmer I don’t think anyone  written who want to be farmer… I enjoy it… good magazine… If you have a business to you have any advice for our listeners about how to sell extra produce or get started in the industry? I would say, track your costs… as much as you can… that’s the only way you are going to figure out what works if you do’t know how much you are growing… if you’re gonna make that kind of financial investment Final question- if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale? What I am thinking about right now is how can we support small farmers to be sustainable, they are the ones thinking about our soil providing  the carrot project providing business  that’s what I’m thinking in California local dept of ags supporting local farmers … Do u have an inspiration tip or quote to help motivate our listeners to reach into that dirt and start their own garden? follow your passion but be realistic if you love gardening  How do we connect with you? Sure! They can go to my website JuliaShanks.com  The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce cookbook and the business class  The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business  The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the link here.

<h4>The Farmer’s Office</h4> One of the things my guests have talked about a lot is effective bookkeeping and record keeping whether your a small backyard gardener or a busy market farmer. Today Julia Shanks is going to share her knowledge of business, farming, cooking and restaurants, her books and her new course on how to be the most effective producer you can be and how to enjoy growing a successful garden. <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Julia Shanks Author of the <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business</a> is here today to share her brilliance and talk about her new course the <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Farmer’s Edge</a> starting January 11th, 2017! <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h1>FULL SHOW NOTES COMING SOON!</h1> <h1>Let’s Get to the Root of Things</h1> Which activity is your least favorite activity to do in the garden. No, I love it all. I can’t get into the garden enough. I love weeding in the morning with my coffee I find it meditative . . . What is your favorite activity to do in the garden. Probably, I do enjoy the weeding I get the weeds in the thread stage and I get to see the clean beds…. just sitting and pondering the different cycles vegetables behind watching the vegetables.. What is the best gardening advice you have  ever received? Well, I’m thinking the most recent gardening advice there’s a dfference between decomposing vegetables and compost my compost system isn’t very good, that’s I tried that. as long as it’s composting well, if the worms the die… the compost gets really stinky, I have a lot of worms in my soil, I feel like I’m vermi-composting, it’s aerated, You have to drill al to of holes, holes in the bottom of the bin… as you put not gonna get the same air s A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be. I don’t have a lot of tools, I need my hose to water, I just got drip irrigation I have a trowel, a Well, I just got the drip irrigation hoses, I bought them at home depot, I just snaked them around the garden… water doesn’t plant everything pretty darn close small garden, 100-200 feet was enough… especially with the drought, on the be careful concentrate the water where you want it, turn it on when you need to soak the water … A favorite recipe you like to cook from the garden? I do make that kale salad regularly the other dish <ul> <li>I saute with garlic raisins</li> <li>curry powder</li> <li>romesco sauce</li> <li>tomato</li> <li>pepper sauce</li> </ul> that’s a favorite I wrote this book with my friend Brett, the farmer in Maryland he has a dish … for potato December dishes because it’s cold <ul> <li>sauted greens with potatoes</li> <li>scallions</li> <li>simple</li> </ul> good curry recipes I like the coconut curry with chili paste restorative and creamy and rich healthy The Cookbook is called the  <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h4><a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce</a></h4> A favorite internet resource? <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/tools-for-entrepreneurs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> this is gonna be really self serving but my website I have a lot of resources I’ve been writing lots of articles lots of tools and tips <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/thefarmersofficetemplates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">templates</a> find a cash flow lots of excel templates webinars videos accounting… food and ag links to the articles…. A favorite reading material-book, mag, blog/website etc you can recommend? I gotta say I do enjoy growing for market guilty pleasure is Modern Farmer I don’t think anyone written who want to be farmer… I enjoy it… good magazine… If you have a business to you have any advice for our listeners about how to sell extra produce or get started in the industry? I would say, track your costs… as much as you can… that’s the only way you are going to figure out what works if you do’t know how much you are growing… if you’re gonna make that kind of financial investment Final question- if there was one change you would like to see to create a greener world what would it be? For example is there a charity or organization your passionate about or a project you would like to see put into action. What do you feel is the most crucial issue facing our planet in regards to the environment either in your local area or on a national or global scale? What I am thinking about right now is how can we support small farmers to be sustainable, they are the ones thinking about our soil providing the carrot project providing business that’s what I’m thinking in California local dept of ags supporting local farmers … Do u have an inspiration tip or quote to help motivate our listeners to reach into that dirt and start their own garden? follow your passion but be realistic if you love gardening How do we connect with you? Sure! They can go to my website <a href="http://www.juliashanks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JuliaShanks.com</a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <h4><a href="http://amzn.to/2j7qv5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce</a></h4> cookbook and the business class <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://amzn.to/2j7m3DP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Farmer’s Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business</a> The Organic Gardener Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to <a href="http://amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">amazon.com</a> If you like what you heard on the Organic Gardener Podcast we’d love it if you’d give us review and hopefully a 5 star rating on iTunes so other gardeners can find us and listen to. Just click on the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/organic-gardener-podcast/id962887645" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link here</a>.

Dorothy Suput

Jennifer Hashley

On episode 53 of Sourcing Matters we welcome leadership from the The Carrot Project.  Based out of Massachusetts, The Carrot Project creates a sustainable local farm and food economy by providing financing and business assistance so farm and food enterprises thrive. With a goal to foster a sustainable, diverse food system by supporting small and midsized farms and farm-related businesses - The Carrot Project is expanding accessible financing and increasing farm operations’ ability to use it to build successful, ecologically and financially sustainable, businesses.  Joining us for the 45 minute discussion is The Carrot Project founder and Executive Director Dorothy Suput. Suput's commitment to a sustainable food system grew out of the incredible contrasts between Midwestern agriculture, with which she grew up, and the locally focused food and farming system in Switzerland, where she lived after graduating with a BS from Purdue University. Following graduate school at Tufts, Dorothy worked as the first regional organizer on the 1995 Farm Bill for the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group under the auspices of the Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, and subsequently, as a consultant for business and agency.  Also profiled in this episode is Julia Shanks, who serves as the Senior Business Advisor to The Carrot Project, and is owner &amp; principal of Julia Shanks food Consulting. Shanks brings a broad range of professional experiences to her clients, from pilot to chef to serial entrepreneur. Julia received her professional training as a chef at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, her BA from Hampshire College and an MBA from Babson College. After more than 10 years of professional cooking, Julia became a college professor of accounting and now works with food businesses and farms, helping them maximize profits and streamline operations through business planning, feasibility studies and operational audits. Julia’s second book, The Farmer’s Office provides tips, tools and templates for farmers to successfully manage a growing farm business.  Co-host Jennifer Hashley of The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project happens to also be a strategic advisor to The Carrot Project, and as always, Jen brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding to round out our interesting conversation. Tune-In to these agents of change focused on a more stable and regional food system based on pragmatic economic modeling and a better understanding of the interests of a modern consumer.   www.SourcingMatters.show

On episode 53 of Sourcing Matters we welcome leadership from the The Carrot Project.  Based out of Massachusetts, The Carrot Project creates a sustainable local farm and food economy by providing financing and business assistance so farm and food enterprises thrive. With a goal to foster a sustainable, diverse food system by supporting small and midsized farms and farm-related businesses - The Carrot Project is expanding accessible financing and increasing farm operations’ ability to use it to build successful, ecologically and financially sustainable, businesses. Joining us for the 45 minute discussion is The Carrot Project founder and Executive Director Dorothy Suput. Suput's commitment to a sustainable food system grew out of the incredible contrasts between Midwestern agriculture, with which she grew up, and the locally focused food and farming system in Switzerland, where she lived after graduating with a BS from Purdue University. Following graduate school at Tufts, Dorothy worked as the first regional organizer on the 1995 Farm Bill for the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group under the auspices of the Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, and subsequently, as a consultant for business and agency. Also profiled in this episode is Julia Shanks, who serves as the Senior Business Advisor to The Carrot Project, and is owner &amp; principal of Julia Shanks food Consulting. Shanks brings a broad range of professional experiences to her clients, from pilot to chef to serial entrepreneur. Julia received her professional training as a chef at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, her BA from Hampshire College and an MBA from Babson College. After more than 10 years of professional cooking, Julia became a college professor of accounting and now works with food businesses and farms, helping them maximize profits and streamline operations through business planning, feasibility studies and operational audits. Julia’s second book, The Farmer’s Office provides tips, tools and templates for farmers to successfully manage a growing farm business. Co-host Jennifer Hashley of The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project happens to also be a strategic advisor to The Carrot Project, and as always, Jen brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding to round out our interesting conversation. Tune-In to these agents of change focused on a more stable and regional food system based on pragmatic economic modeling and a better understanding of the interests of a modern consumer. <a href="http://www.sourcingmatters.show/index.php/podcast-archive/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.SourcingMatters.show</a>

ep. 53: Dorothy Suput & Julia Shanks -ft. Jennifer Hashley