Feb 11, 2020
Notes for intro:
Pasture-Raised Podcast, Episode
3! Thanks for tuning in again. I hope you enjoyed our first
interview last week with Dave Shields. I appreciate all of the kind
feedback I've received on it, and want to welcome you to subscribe
and leave a review and let other folks know about it if you've
found it to be valuable.
Before we get into today's
episode, let me just talk a little about what you might be able to
expect with this podcast going forward: My plan is to release an
episode towards the beginning of the week, each week, through the
remainder of the winter. As we push into spring, that frequency
will likely go to every other week or so. As you've gathered I'll
be doing mostly interview style shows with farmers about the farm
businesses folks are running. But I do have a few discussions
coming up that will be a little more topically focused as
well.
This week we've got a great
interview for you with Jordan Green of J and L Green Farm, and the
Farm Builder YouTube channel. With his wife, Laura, Jordan raises
and sells weaned pigs, pork, beef, chicken, and turkey in
Edinburgh, Virginia. Jordan is a very smart fellow. as you'll see
in a minute. He's applying radically independent critical thinking
and finding opportunities and exploiting them at every turn while
understanding and managing his risk very well. There is probably no
evidence of this better than the fact that the farm business he's
built is unique and robust.
One big thing that struck me is
how Jordan is so capable of taking his high-level thinking,
experience, and well-earned perspective, and presenting it at a
conceptual level, in order to, in a sense, further value-add his
own knowledge and help the rest of us see more clearly how we can
apply these business and farming principles in our own context. I
suppose experience and knowledge with the ability to communicate it
effectively and applicably, in a motivating way, is the essence of
what a good teacher is. And that's exactly what you have here. For
those of us who got into farming with more idealism than business
principles swirling around in our brains, teachers like this offer
a necessary counter-balance, and are examples in the ways we will
need to think and farm if we are going to be in this for the long
haul.
Jordan's Links:
https://www.instagram.com/farmbuilder_1/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC11kHJNUV88Qp-Sz06N1o1A
My Links:
Grocefamilyfarm.com
Instagram.com/grocefamilyfarm
facebook.com/grocefamilyfarm