Kerry Taylor - Brookfield Farm: EP7

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Today's episode comes to you from Amherst Massachusetts, where we visit with Kerry Taylor of Brookfield Farm. (https://www.brookfieldfarm.org) She shares how they run a 500 member CSA, incorporate an intern weeding crew, and shares the challenges of being a new manager for a farm that’s been in the community for over 35 years.

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Chapters

1. Beginning of the show (00:00:00)

2. What made the decision to move onto this farm? (00:05:17)

3. Checking out the barn (00:15:00)

4. Root Cellar (00:18:46)

5. Share Room (00:21:36)

6. Bioplastic (00:23:14)

7. Equipment Tour (00:24:57)

8. Flame Weeding (00:28:05)

9. Number of crops grown (00:29:07)

10. Most challenging time farming (00:32:44)

11. Feeling successful in the next year of farming. (00:36:58)

12. Holistic farm planning (00:39:28)

13. Advice for a beginning farmer. (00:44:23)

14. The meaning of sustainable agriculture for Kerry (00:51:19)

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