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Beth Hoffman speaks frankly on the financial challenges of farming [replay]
Manage episode 422394227 series 3382448
“It’s a great thing to be outside, to have birds chirping, to be around green grass, and animals. But the problem has become, that you can’t really be a business unless you are a financially viable business.”
This week on the show we explore the economics of small scale farming, and debunk some of the myths of the agrarian lifestyle. We talk with Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Farming in America, and we hear from farmers across Indiana about how they’re “making it pay.”
This week on the show we debunk some of the myths of the agrarian lifestyle. We talk with Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm and we hear from farmers across Indiana about how they’re “making it pay.”
223 episodes
Manage episode 422394227 series 3382448
“It’s a great thing to be outside, to have birds chirping, to be around green grass, and animals. But the problem has become, that you can’t really be a business unless you are a financially viable business.”
This week on the show we explore the economics of small scale farming, and debunk some of the myths of the agrarian lifestyle. We talk with Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Farming in America, and we hear from farmers across Indiana about how they’re “making it pay.”
This week on the show we debunk some of the myths of the agrarian lifestyle. We talk with Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm and we hear from farmers across Indiana about how they’re “making it pay.”
223 episodes
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