Listen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Join our Closed Facebook Group HERE This week we talk with Adam and Jean O’Neal of PepperHarrow Farm. PepperHarrow Farm is a 20-acre boutique flower farm in Iowa that Adam and Jenn have scaled over time without increasing acreage. They have done this by leveraging multiple revenue streams…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Check out the Forbes AgTech Summit HERE Tune in to hear the story of how Chiles Wilson started Branch to Box, a fruit delivery service that provides companies with fresh produce and snacks on a recurring, subscription basis. This episode has it all, as we talk through starting a…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Join our Closed Facebook Group HERE California Olive Ranch is the premier olive oil producer in America. We had the great opportunity to talk with Logan Jennings, the production operations manager at CA Olive Ranch, to discuss his journey with the company over the past several years. Logan…
Read MoreListen on Apple Podcasts or Everywhere Else Join our Closed Facebook Group HERE If you are just getting into farming or need some inspiration for thinking creatively in agriculture, this is the episode for you. Brad Squires joins us to talk about how he transitioned out of the tech industry, where he helped build an…
Read MoreListen 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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