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Podcast The Urban Farmer Podcast

The Urban Farmer Podcast

Diego Footer

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Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 78

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Re-released for its 10th anniversary. The Urban Farmer is a documentary-style podcast that takes you behind the scenes of a real urban farming business to show you what it truly takes to run a successful farm in the city. Follow farmer Curtis Stone's journey over an entire growing season as he produces food on just a third of an acre in Kelowna, BC, Canada. The show was initially recorded in 2015. This series, hosted by Diego Footer, explores the daily struggles and successes of urban farming. Curtis shares his hard-earned knowledge of intensive production methods, season extension, optimal crop selection, farm planning, and financial management. But this podcast goes beyond the nuts and bolts of growing—it gives an honest look at the entrepreneurial, social, and lifestyle aspects of urban farming. Whether you are a new grower dreaming of starting your own urban farm or a seasoned producer looking to refine your systems, The Urban Farmer will inform and inspire you. Follow along as Curtis demonstrates how to produce an abundance of food in the most unlikely places and build a viable business supporting a high quality of life. If you've ever wanted to see how profitable and rewarding small-scale farming can be, this podcast is for you.
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Stop Asking What Tool to Use for Weeding

mercredi 17 juin 2026Duration 14:22

What's the best tool for weeding? Wrong question. That question assumes weeding is inevitable. The best market gardeners don't have a favorite weeding tool, they've built solid systems so they barely need to weed at all.

Watch the video version over on our YT Channel!

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
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Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

4 Ways to Make More Money Without Adding More Land

mercredi 10 juin 2026Duration 13:20

How many of your beds are actually in production right now? Not how many you have — how many are earning revenue today. For most small farms, the honest answer is: not all of them.

Watch the video version over on our YT Channel!

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

7 Records Every Market Farmer Should Track

mercredi 15 avril 2026Duration 18:34

After interviewing hundreds of farmers over the past decade, the pattern is consistent: the farms that survive aren't the best growers...they're the best record keepers.

Watch the video version over on our YT Channel! 

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

The $50/hr Crop vs. The $250/hr Crop

mercredi 8 avril 2026Duration 15:45

You harvest lettuce for an hour. $300 in revenue. Great, right? But you also spent 30 minutes planting, an hour weeding, an hour washing and packing. That's 3.5 hours total — $86 per hour, not $300.

Click here to watch the full episode on our YouTube Channel.

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

How to Never Overproduce (or Underproduce) a Crop Again (S1W28)

mercredi 1 avril 2026Duration 45:40

In this episode, find out the one habit that separates profitable urban farmers from those who struggle: meticulous record keeping.  Curtis walks us through how tracking shortages, sales trends, and planting dates has made this his best shoulder season yet, with virtually zero wasted production.

Watch the video version over on our YouTube Channel!

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

7 Numbers That Separate $80K Farms from $20K Farms (Rewind S1W27 - 2)

mercredi 25 mars 2026Duration 25:01

In this episode, Diego breaks down the seven metrics that separate $80K farms from $20K farms on the same amount of land: revenue per square foot, cost per unit produced, harvest ratio, labor hours per $1,000 in revenue, customer acquisition cost, cash flow gap, and gross profit margin by channel.

Click here to watch the video version over on our YouTube Channel!

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

The REAL Cost to Start an Urban Farm (Rewind S1W27 - 1)

mercredi 18 mars 2026Duration 26:43

How much money do you ACTUALLY need to start a profitable urban farm? One farmer turned $7,000 into a six-figure operation on a third of an acre.

In this Urban Farmer Rewind episode, Diego breaks down the five real expense categories every new farmer needs to budget for: including the hidden costs that nobody talks about. 

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Stop Waiting for Perfect: Start Your Farm With $5,000 (S1W27)

mercredi 3 décembre 2025Duration 46:46

This episode pulls no punches about starting a new farm: the sacrifices, struggles, and tough decisions that separate dreamers from doers. Curtis Stone and Diego Footer discuss why successful farmers like Jean-Martin Fortier started in tents and teepees, how to prepare for worst-case scenarios, and the one question that will either motivate or haunt you for decades: "Why didn't you just go for it?"

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Why Working to Learn Beats Working to Earn in Your First Farm Year (Rewind S1W26 - 2)

mercredi 26 novembre 2025Duration 15:38

Why do the most successful farmers barely break even in year one? How could chasing profits too early destroy your farm business? In this episode, we're answering all that and more as we dive into the counterintuitive strategy that transforms struggling growers into profitable operations by year three, including actionable exercises to track what really matters: your cost per square foot, true profit margins, and which crops are secretly draining your time and money. Diego breaks down the exact approach that helped Curtis Stone build a thriving urban farm, including a 90-day learning sprint that will teach you more about your farm's economics than most farmers learn in years.

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

The Hidden Trap of Starting Too Big: Why 5,000 Square Feet Beats 2 Acres (Rewind S1W26 - 1)

mardi 25 novembre 2025Duration 11:50

In this episode, Diego schools us in on the four critical principles that separate successful farms from the 90% that fail within three years. We dive deep into all the reasons why starting small (just 5,000 square feet) gives you the validation, data, and sustainability you need before scaling up. Siego also breaks down how to track unit economics, understand your true capacity, and avoid the complexity cascade that destroys farm businesses.

 Subscribe for more content on sustainable farming, market farming tips, and business insights! 

 Get market farming tools, seeds, and supplies at Modern Grower.

Follow Modern Grower:
 Instagram
 Instagram

Listen to other podcasts on the Modern Grower Podcast Network:
 Carrot Cashflow
 Farm Small Farm Smart
 Farm Small Farm Smart Daily
 The Growing Microgreens Podcast
 The Urban Farmer Podcast
 The Rookie Farmer Podcast
 In Search of Soil Podcast

Check out Diego's books:
 Sell Everything You Grow on Amazon 
 Ready Farmer One on Amazon

**** Modern Grower and Diego Footer participate in the Amazon Services LLC. Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.


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