172: Allan Gandelman of Main Street Farms on Meeting People’s Needs through Scaling and Marketing Decisions
Farmer to Farmer with Chris Blanchard
English - August 02, 2018 08:30 - 1 hour - 177 MB - ★★★★★ - 327 ratingsSociety & Culture Health & Fitness local pitchfork agriculture blanchard chris entrepreneur entrepreneurial farming hightunnel hoophouse Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Allan Gandelman raises 45 acres of crops at Main Street Farms in central New York state with his partner, BobCat. With twenty employees in its eighth year in business, Main Street Farms sells through a CSA, farmers market, and wholesale accounts.
Main Street Farms got its start in 2011 with an acre of production and an aquaponics set up, so they’ve grown a lot in the last eight years and Allan and I talk a lot about the process of scaling up their operation and finding their way with different mixes of enterprises and marketing outlets, and how that has meshed with meeting the needs of people on the farm.
We dig into Main Street Farms’ 42-week CSA, their acre of greenhouse production, and their new hemp enterprise and how it all fits together into a coherent whole.
Perennial support for the Farmer to Farmer Podcast is generously provided by Vermont Compost Company.
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