FSFS105: The Long Journey of Slowly Scaling a Farm on the Side with farmer Travis Schulert - Farm Small, Farm Smart

Everyone enters the world of farming for different reasons. Reasons spanning from environmental concerns to bringing high quality food to their local market to creating a path to a more independent future… For my guest today, Travis Schulert, farming became a mode of a change, because prior to farming Travis described his situation as… "I was stuck in a dead end lifestyle, living in a trailer park, no savings, no plans, and between 24 and now (28) I started a CSA on leased land, funded the infrastructure of the farm and gave myself the money to build a tiny home. My wife and I lived in the tiny home and saved what we could, started doing markets and learning to sell and grow. " Farming has been a means to get Travis and his wife out of that lifestyle which wasn't working. But it hasn't all been smooth sailing. Between production issues, CSA issues, and trouble with land tenure, it's been a bumpy road. Travis has been able to navigate that road so far and is now in his 4th year of farming, but one which is also a new beginning as he starting his first season on a new plot of land currently dominated by grass. As you'll hear in this episode, like all things in farming, Travis is taking it in stride and doing his best with it, and now realizing "farming is only romantic until you start doing the work." Today it's all the trials and tribulation of slowly scaling a farm on the side with farmer Travis Schulert. Learn more at http://www.permaculturevoices.com/farmsmallfarmsmart Support the show at http://www.permaculturevoices.com/support