November 10, 2024

VIDEO: SCALING UP THE SMALL FARM – Interview with JM Fortier


Talking about JM’s first season experience with scaling up to 3 acre market garden.
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30 thoughts on “VIDEO: SCALING UP THE SMALL FARM – Interview with JM Fortier

  1. Great news! 🙂
    Why they have that high beds in the greenhouse? Just thinking, they don't need to channel away excess water in there. Or are they planning to use ramial woodchips between the beds?

  2. hi curtis ! Thank you for the interview – it's great that you two are staying connected ! I have a question .. do you or JM use any apps to help organizing / documenting activities on the farm? Like FarmLogs, eFarmer, agroFarm … and so on. I think on your farm it would not be a necessity, but on JM's new farm? What do you think about apps like these? Are they even suiting the new , revolutionary farms like yours? I think a tool to communicate between the "chef" and the employees and document would be great ( like making a foto of something whats wrong, tag it like a "task" what is to complete in the next 3 days … and so on.

  3. Curtis! "good food revolution"! you guys are inspiring and I am infinitely grateful to your collective pioneering efforts to developing sustainable and profitable small farming practices. I'm working on a project with three others scaling up from 1-3 acres, and I follow both of your guys very closely. Can you please please please ask/discuss the application of broadforking on JM's 4 acres, please! My colleague has 2 critiques. She thinks broadforking between all plantings/even all beds 1-2 times per year is impractical on farms bigger than 1 acre, and (2) she read that broadforking over accelerates organic matter decomposition and that we should explore rotating long radishes and carrots to till or similar non broadforking maneuvers instead.

  4. I am very happy to see you two young guys sharing so much GOOD information to the masses. I hope the youth get inspired and try to expand our society into more positives in whatever they want to do!!! You inspire me to do something and I am 66. Best regards :})

  5. Great stuff! JM was totally heading to ideology and motivations right at the end of this vid, would love to hear more next time you guys connect… Love what you do Mr. Stone!

  6. Yo, a few days ago you mentioned that your getting married. If for any reason your not sure you want to marry your fiance, then consider the Philippines. Thats where I went. Tons of young and beautiful women who would kill for a white Canadian guy. Just FYI.

  7. Way cool! Just read JM's book a few months ago. Inspiring, lended to me by a Canadian friend. Let's hope these ideas spread to the Western US, especially Utah.

  8. Ok Curtis we know your the micro greens expert. Even the bigger guys follow you haha. It's funny though about the necessaries that keep a well oiled system running. Keeping it small at first isn't about keeping your vision small but it's about keeping the vision manageable. Even on a small grow for your self and family system a well managed plot can be multiplied. Entering into the food industry is also a great way to make friends and just enjoy food together and build good vibes.

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