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Why Grow Lettuce - The Lettuce Grower Series - Episode 1

Why Grow Lettuce - The Lettuce Grower Series - Episode 1

FromFarm Small Farm Smart


Why Grow Lettuce - The Lettuce Grower Series - Episode 1

FromFarm Small Farm Smart

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This is the first of ten episodes in The Lettuce Grower Series. Diego Footer, from @paperpotco, hosts the series, and the presenter is farmer Ray Tyler from @rosecreekfarms.    Episode 1 is all about why market farmers should grow lettuce. Ray will explain how lettuce can contribute significant cash flow to your farm. It's a valuable crop that can be grown year-round in most of the US. Most customers like it, making it an easy sell. The hard part is mastering how to grow it consistently. In this series, Ray will get into details to help you do that. The series follows Ray's book The Farmers Guide to Growing Organic Lettuce. You can get the book here. Ray also has an online course dedicated to growing lettuce. Learn more about the course here.  Get tools to help you grow lettuce at Paperpotco.
Released:
Mar 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Weekly insights for vegetable farmers and market gardeners who earn, or want to earn, a living growing vegetables profitably. The show is hosted by Diego Footer of Permaculture Voices. Each week I talk with a beginning, or experienced farmer diving deep into their story to find out what makes their market farm successful. I focus on farming challenges and struggles, sales and marketing, soil preparation, weed management, post harvest processing, appropriate technology, farm startup, market selection, and work-life balance.