The Collaborative Farming Podcast

Dec 11 2024 31 ep. 68 mins 113

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A podcast series dedicated to multi-owner farms and cooperative farming models hosted by farmer Jackson Rolett.

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Practical Tools & Advice When Starting a Co-op w/ Kelly Maynard of UW Center for Co-op Development

Dec 11 2024 59 mins

Kelly Maynard is a cooperative development specialist at the university of Wisconsin center for cooperative development and we're going to get into some practical advice and tools you can use when thinking about going into cooperative farming, yourself, or yourselves, as it were. This is the second coop development person, or forth depending on how you define that role, I’ve had

Looking to the past to move decentralized regional food systems forward with Lexi close of Appalachia regional cooperative development

Nov 27 2024 57 mins

Welcome back to Collab Farm, the podcast where we talk about all the ways small- and mid-scale farmers can work together, even in big $10 million food system rebuilding kinds of ways. Like this conversation that I had with Lexi Close from Appalachia Regional Cooperative Development and the Appalachia Producers Co-op. Now, Lexi is involved with much of the work going on in a coopera

A Simple Cooperative Farm Model & a Short History of Modern Co-ops w/ Chris Bodnar of Close to Home Organics

Nov 13 2024 83 mins

I’m going to be real honest with you, I’ve been working hard lately. If you’re listening to this, I bet you’ve been working hard, too. Case in point, I JUST got our garlic in the ground in down here in zone 7, but better late than never I suppose. So, I thought I’d seize this opportunity to bring back an old episode, the very FIRST episode of collaborative farm, actually,

Growing on Principles: Soil Health, Farmer Health, and Community Health... An OAK Field Day w/ Jackson Rolett

Oct 23 2024 53 mins

In the spirit of collaboration, I'm gonna do something a little different. A couple weeks ago I did a field day with OAK--that's the Organic Association of Kentucky--If you're listening to this and live in Kentucky you should totally be a member. We and acouple of dozen other farmers and farm professionals walked through our gardens. We talked about the conservation practices we'

Perspectives on Starting Different Cooperative Business Models, Roundtable at the TN Local Food Summit (Live Recording)

Oct 09 2024 64 mins

This roundtable with Jameson Parker of the Moonlight Collective, William Crenshaw of the Nashville Food Coop, Rhianna Michelle of the Waterbear cooperative land project, & Lexi Close of the Appalachian producers co-op offers different perspectives on starting a cooperative business and was recorded at the '23 TN Local Food Summit. A special thank you to Natalie Seevers for invit

Coordinated Crop Planning with Emma Busby from Southeast Tennessee Young Farmers

Sep 25 2024 56 mins

Emma Busby used to be the former Chapter Coordinator for the Southeast TN Young Farmers and has since moved on to be a board member of the Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network. We met back at the ’23 TN Local Food Summit whose focus that year was "cultivating cooperation" and she had some really interesting work and insights to share, particularly some work she facilitated wit

Big Team Farms w/ Sarah K. Mock

Sep 11 2024 68 mins

Sarah K. Mock has written two books that I absolutely love and have had a profound effect on how I view my own farming outside of just growing better carrots, Farm and Other F Words and Big Team Farms, about how we can begin to chart a path forward by… you guessed it… working together. She has a substack, People Eat the Land, and a much better podcast than this one, The Only

The Modern Farm Commons with Ian & Kristina of The Farmers Land Trust

Aug 28 2024 76 mins

Ian McSweeney & Kristina Villa, co-directors of The Farmers Land Trust, are responsible for creating and supporting farmland commons, a vehicle for preserving farmland and ensuring its dedication to regenerative agriculture in perpetuity while respecting both the farmers and the communities they feed. I mean, what's better than that? If you like what you hear, are a farmer or a

Mike & Armonda of Rose Hill Farm Stop

Mar 24 2023 88 mins

Hey folks, it’s Jackson and today I’ve got a bonus episode of Collab Farm with Mike & Armonda of Rose Hill Farm Stop in Bloomington, Indiana. I attended a session with them at the Organic Association of Kentucky conference '23 and was really impressed. You’ll see why in a minute... Now, you may have heard the last episode of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast with the great A

Building a Relationship-Based Model, Tianna Kennedy of 607 CSA

Jun 30 2022 75 mins

Tianna Kennedy is a founding member and 1/3 owner of Star Route Farm in New York and owner/coordinator of the 607 CSA. She talks about how Star Route Farm began as a partnership, how/why they incorporated a third owner and how it’s multiform CSA component split off to form a whole other organization which she now coordinates. Now, the 607 CSA includes dozens of producers, hundred