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Grassfed Life

Weekly insights for small farmers and aspiring farm based entrepreneurs who want to earn a living on the land doing something that they care about. A weekly show that tracks the farm season featuring... Read more

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Start Your Successful Farm Business with Joel Salatin (GFL86)

Start Your Successful Farm Business with Joel Salatin (GFL86)

Farmer Joel Salatin joins me to talk farm startup and his new book Your Successful Farm Business: http://amzn.to/2nk7a3S... Read more

29 Jan 2018

1hr 42mins

Ranked #2

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How to Produce More Product Faster for a Rapidly Growing Customer Base (GFL146)

How to Produce More Product Faster for a Rapidly Growing Customer Base (GFL146)

Chris Kiesz of Yellow Hutch Farm in Minnesota joins us to talk about picking up jobs and moving 2000 miles across the co... Read more

15 Apr 2020

1hr 40mins

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Ranked #3

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Getting Free Land by Building Pasture - More Grass Means More Animals - Part 1 [GFL27]

Getting Free Land by Building Pasture - More Grass Means More Animals - Part 1 [GFL27]

When you have an animal that eats grass, then you as a farmer have a big advantage. Grass is free.   You don't have to ... Read more

3 Oct 2016

52mins

Ranked #4

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Advice on Choosing Hatcheries, Chicken Tractors, and How Darby Starts His 500 Broilers on Pasture [GFL3]

Advice on Choosing Hatcheries, Chicken Tractors, and How Darby Starts His 500 Broilers on Pasture [GFL3]

500 baby chicks have arrived at Darby's farm thus beginning the cycle of raising broilers for the season.  With the chic... Read more

18 Apr 2016

1hr 2mins

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Micro Beef - Raising Grassfed Beef on Less Land Than You Thought Possible (GFL69)

Micro Beef - Raising Grassfed Beef on Less Land Than You Thought Possible (GFL69)

Don't have much land, not a problem, a lot is still possible. Recently Darby and I have gone through exactly what's poss... Read more

14 Aug 2017

48mins

Ranked #6

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Facebook Farm Marketing and the Selling Meat Subscription Boxes (GFL107)

Facebook Farm Marketing and the Selling Meat Subscription Boxes (GFL107)

Kelly Bush joins me to follow up on last weeks episode with his radio ad results.  He also discusses marketing his farm ... Read more

8 Oct 2018

1hr 10mins

Ranked #7

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The Sustainable Cattle Herd - An Introduction to Calving on Farm (GFL78)

The Sustainable Cattle Herd - An Introduction to Calving on Farm (GFL78)

Darby and I talk about the why, the pros and cons, and the basics of calving on farm. Get exclusive content each week ... Read more

23 Oct 2017

1hr 1min

Ranked #8

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How to Start Planning Your Farm Business (and Life) for Success (GFL108)

How to Start Planning Your Farm Business (and Life) for Success (GFL108)

Darby and I go discuss why it's so important to start planning your farm business off the farm.  Don't blow up the rest ... Read more

15 Oct 2018

1hr 13mins

Ranked #9

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Homestead Sheep with Dan Ohmann of the Grassfed Homestead (GFL80)

Homestead Sheep with Dan Ohmann of the Grassfed Homestead (GFL80)

Dan Ohmann is a homesteader who has recently started raising lamb on a homestead level, while dabbling in selling some o... Read more

6 Nov 2017

1hr 27mins

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Grassfed Cattle Basics - An Introduction to Raising Cattle on Grass - Part 1 [GFL19]

Grassfed Cattle Basics - An Introduction to Raising Cattle on Grass - Part 1 [GFL19]

Let's say you start raising chickens on grass, pastured poultry. You're rotating the chickens around your land and as y... Read more

8 Aug 2016

1hr 6mins

Ranked #11

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Profitable Pigs for the Farmstead, Homestead or Small Farm (GFL68)

Profitable Pigs for the Farmstead, Homestead or Small Farm (GFL68)

Running a profitable pig enterprise on just 1 acre, is it possible, and if so, what is possible? What’s that operation g... Read more

11 Aug 2017

57mins

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How to Create Cash Flow Early In the Season Using a CSA Program [GFL43]

How to Create Cash Flow Early In the Season Using a CSA Program [GFL43]

When you start a farm, what's one of the most important things that you need to do... Hint… it’s not growing the food...... Read more

30 Jan 2017

56mins

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Going from Near Bankrupt to Debt Free and Owning 15 Farms, Grazing Cattle on Leased Land with Greg Judy (GFL91)

Going from Near Bankrupt to Debt Free and Owning 15 Farms, Grazing Cattle on Leased Land with Greg Judy (GFL91)

Greg Judy joins me to talk about turning his farm around from one that lost money to one that was very profitable.  Greg... Read more

5 Mar 2018

55mins

Ranked #14

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Thoughts on Growing Lush Perennial Pastures with Farmer Gabe Brown (GFL127)

Thoughts on Growing Lush Perennial Pastures with Farmer Gabe Brown (GFL127)

Gabe Brown joins me to talk cover crops, no-till, and building soil that can sustain lush pastures.  All topics from his... Read more

20 Feb 2019

1hr 1min

Ranked #15

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Farm Transition - Being a Great Employee, so You Can Be a Great Business Owner [GFL18]

Farm Transition - Being a Great Employee, so You Can Be a Great Business Owner [GFL18]

Think about your life and your work situation. Is it one that consumes a huge majority of your time? And is that by choi... Read more

1 Aug 2016

52mins

Ranked #16

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$10,000 An Acre Pastured Poultry (GFL125)

$10,000 An Acre Pastured Poultry (GFL125)

Is it possible to make $10,000 in PROFIT raising pastured poultry on just 1 acre?  Can you make $50 an hour raising past... Read more

28 Jan 2019

56mins

Ranked #17

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Increasing Farm Profits by Raising Turkeys [GFL34]

Increasing Farm Profits by Raising Turkeys [GFL34]

The person buying Darby's turkeys isn't focused on the sticker - they have other reasons to buy a turkey from him, reaso... Read more

21 Nov 2016

48mins

Ranked #18

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A Beginners Look at Fencing for Livestock (GFL57)

A Beginners Look at Fencing for Livestock (GFL57)

During the workshops and via email, we've gotten a lot of questions on one subject which we have never really covered be... Read more

8 May 2017

53mins

Ranked #19

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How to Create a Startup Budget for a Pastured Poultry Business (GFL109)

How to Create a Startup Budget for a Pastured Poultry Business (GFL109)

Darby and I go through planning a pastured poultry enterprise in Excel - including what costs are more important than ot... Read more

22 Oct 2018

1hr 4mins

Ranked #20

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75 Chicks to 10000 - No Experience to Full Time Farmer

75 Chicks to 10000 - No Experience to Full Time Farmer

This BEST OF GFL episode is a replay of a previous episode. Grassfed Life Courses: https://farm-business-essentials.teac... Read more

23 Oct 2019

1hr 16mins

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