Ep. 437 - Happy Anniversary to the Founders!

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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