Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Join our Closed Facebook Group HERE In this episode, we talk to Jay Hill, who grew his family’s 10 acre hobby farm into a 17,000 acre farming operation today. Jay talks about his journey from a 16-year-old who knew he wanted to build the farm to how he…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else In this episode, we talk with Casey Cox, a 6th-generation farmer from Georgia (yes, 6th!). Casey decided to come back to the family peanut, sweet corn, and timber farm after going away to college and discusses the challenges she’s faced as well as her early successes. Casey is…
Read MoreListen on iTunes HERE Listen on Google Play HERE Jack Zech, a fourth-generation farmer, talks about coming back to his family farm after several years moving up the ladder of a large clothing company. We discuss what he learned through managing retail stores and overall strategy for Uniclo and what motivated him to leave corporate…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Margaux Alvarez, a 5x CrossFit Games athlete, shares how she has built a successful wine business around her personal brand. We cover everything from how she grows her own grapes to the winemaking process to all of the regulatory challenges of the alcohol industry. She has scaled her…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else In episode 6, we talk with Alli Cecchini, Executive Director of First Generation Farmers, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and training of the next-generation of organic farmers. Alli grew up on her family’s asparagus farm and eventually came back and convinced her parents to let her…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else We made it! Episode 1 of The Modern Acre. On the first episode of the podcast, we share more of the vision of The Modern Acre and who we are. We’ll let our voiceover guy take it from here… “The Modern Acre – Agriculture for the Next-Generation Farm…
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