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PPT048 Pat McNiff Goes from Cocker Spaniels and Hamsters to Professional Pastured Poultry

In this episode, I profile Rhode Island pastured poultry farmer Pat McNiff of Pat’s Pastured. At the time of this interview, Pat raised 11,000 broilers, 600 turkeys, 1,800 laying hens, 250 laying ducks, 150 meat ducks, and 50 quail, in addition to hogs and beef. We cover a lot of ground about Pat’s successes, setbacks, and…

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PPT047: Cultivating Customers with Simon Huntley

Simon Huntley, founder of Small Farms Central and author of Cultivating Customers: A Farmers Guide to Online Marketing joins the podcast to talk about online marketing. Buy Cultivating Customers (and support this podcast with the commission Amazon pays). Discover these marketing gems and more: “It may be tempting to think everyone is your customer because…

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PPT040: Mike Marchand Shares His Business Perspective on Growing His Pastured Poultry Farm From Scratch

[app_audio src=””] Talk about this episode on Facebook. Mike Marchand of Whitehurst Farms joins the show to talk about his rapidly growing career as a pastured poultry farmer in the Houston, Texas area. He sold his successful non-farming business and starting raising poultry in 2014. Today, he manages a laying flock of 1700 pastured hens…

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