The Growing For Market Podcast

Growing for Market is the magazine for local food and flower growers, since 1992.

GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables and cut flowers.

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Recent Podcast Episodes:

Building a farm with smart borrowing and pivoting from wholesale to retail with Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm in Michigan
Lower the noise on the farm with detailed planning and systems with Luke Sheldrick of Terramor Farm in Ontario
How farmers are changing cropping strategies in response to a changing climate with Masha Vernik
Changing mum bloom time with light deprivation and recovering from natural disaster with Rose and Rick Bengtson of Ice Moon Farms in Texas

Meet your podcast host:

Andrew Mefferd

Andrew Mefferd is the editor of Growing for Market magazine, and the author of The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook, The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, and Practical No-Till Farming: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing.

He spent seven years in the research department at Johnny’s Selected Seeds, consulting with researchers and farmers on the best practices in greenhouse growing. He worked on farms in Pennsylvania, California, Washington State, Virginia and New York State before starting his own farm in Maine.

Katie Kulla

Katie Kulla is a farmer, author and illustrator. She and her husband have operated their Oregon farm Oakhill Organics since 2006. Her writing and illustration focuses on nature, farming, and family. She also writes regularly for Growing for Market and other magazines.

She illustrated Edible: 70 Sustainable Plants that are Changing How We Eat (October 2023), and is writing a book about farming and parenting. Katie can be found at KatieKulla.com and on Instagram: @katiekulla

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