Create a thriving vegetable farm or homestead with advice from 20+ successful veggie growers + sellers!
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Three days of free training on planning, producing, and selling veggies fresh from your farm.
Join us LIVE January 11-14, 2024
Create a thriving vegetable farm or homestead with advice from 27+ successful veggie growers + sellers!
Get FREE training on planning, producing, and selling veggies fresh from your farm or homestead.
Join us LIVE January 11-14!
Over three days, you'll learn how to plan, grow, and market your vegetables efficiently.
DAY ONE
So you want to grow vegetables? Where do you start?
You’ll hear about the creative ways people are growing vegetables, from integrating food into their home landscape, to building a thriving yet compact four-acre farm. You'll learn about soil testing, planning your crops, balancing farm & family, and other advice for getting started.
DAY TWO
Building a thriving vegetable operation with high yields.
Explore strategies that can save you time and boost your yields, like greenhouse automation or composting or growing winter greens. You'll also learn about weed control, soil fertility, and other topics to help you cultivate your vegetables with better results.
DAY THREE
You've got vegetables. Now how do you sell them?
During the last day of the summit, you'll learn about selling channels and marketing methods for your produce! Learn how to draw in customers with food photography, fix your marketing mistakes, create a successful U-pick farm, and more!
Just a few of things you'll discover in the Thriving Farmer Vegetable Summit!
- The vegetable farming system that can double your yields and save time through greenhouse automation.
- How John Dindia & Bailey Samp efficiently harvest hundreds of pounds of microgreens and manage to fulfill an abundance of orders.
- The types of photos you need on your farm or homestead website to attract and convert your ideal customers. Hint: It's not just pretty pictures of your farm!
- Why Iain Tolhurst tills his fields as shallow as possible and keeps his soil teeming with 4-6 million earthworms per acre.
- How you can integrate food into your home landscape.
- How Laura Fernandez started her business with just a wheelbarrow and borrowed circular saw, but used a simple advertising method that boosted her business quickly and developed a product ladder to keep customers coming back!
- What goes into running a successful U-pick farm.
- Diverse markets and sales channels you can use to sell high-profit rhizomes like ginger and turmeric.
- Why Jill Ragan farms on less than an acre and focuses on varieties with a high yield.
- Stacey Murphy's master sheet for building a thriving farm with the help of local volunteers in the community.
Hear all the ways you can thrive while simplifying your farm or homestead, with 27+ farmers and homesteaders just like you.
Get the training you need to see your farm GROW.
Join us LIVE January 11-14, 2024
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Watch the Classes
Implement, Grow, & Earn!
Our 27+ speakers are excited to share their top tips for growing & selling vegetables!
Share Your Roots and Harvest Your Potential
Maximizing Your Small Farm with Simple Growing Tweaks
Balancing the Good Life on the Farm with Your Family
The 4th Season: The Low Stress, High Reward Winter Farm
Growing Vegetables to Educate and Build Community
How to Buy Land for your Homestead or Small Farm
Integrating Food into your Entire Landscape
5 Marketing Mistakes (& How to Fix Them!)
Feed Future Generations by Saving Your Own Seeds
Managing Weeds Through Smarts & Steel
Perpetual Harvest: Planning Out Your Crops the Easy Way
5 Expert Techniques to Double or even Triple your Tomato Yields
Get Out of the Rut With Greenhouse Automation
Learning About Plant Health Through Sap & Soil Testing
Gardening for Growth: Teaching, Transplants, and Tending Gardens
5 Most Profitable Crops & Sales Channels
Converting Customers With Food Photography
Building Blocks to a Successful U-Pick Farm
Sustainable Abundance: High Organic Yields, Zero Fertilizers
Choosing the Best Varieties for Your Area
Cold Climate, Rich Harvest: Permaculture Success in Canada
Truly Understanding your Plants
Black Gold: Unearthing the Secrets of Effective Composting
What You Should Know Before Buying a 2-Wheel Tractor System
Adding Football Fields of Soil Surface Area With BioChar
How We Produce over 3000 Cucumbers per 100 Bed
The Weed Free Farm: Zone-Controlled Soil Steaming
High Profit Rhizomes: Growing Ginger and Turmeric
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Who should attend this summit?
It's perfect for you if you want to...
Grow Your Own Vegetables
Maybe you are an urban or suburban dweller with an itch to grow some of your own food, live off the land, or start a homestead. We'll show you some simple ways to get started growing delicious vegetables for your kitchen, even if you have limited space!
Ditch the Nine-to-Five
Are you a weekend farmer or homesteader who wishes you could ditch the nine-to-five and live the farming dream? Learn how to scale from backyard gardening to a thriving vegetable operation.
Work Less & Earn More
Are you looking for ways to get the most out of your vegetable farm? We'll share strategies for maximizing space, increasing fertility, and much more in order to double your vegetable yields. Plus share marketing + selling strategies for your farm!
What if you could...
- 2x your vegetable production?
- turn your backyard into food?
- have a steady flow of customers?
- produce veggies all year round?
- have more time to spend with your family?
- grow better food for your community?
Could you...
About Your Guide
Michael Kilpatrick is the farmer at Farm on Central, an urban farm in southwest Ohio. He and his family raise vegetables, flowers, and value and income added products - which they sell through an on-farm store, CSA, wholesale, online farmers markets, and nationwide.
He’s the host of the top rated Thriving Farmer Podcast as well as the Thriving Farmer Summit series, which has been viewed by over a quarter million farmers.
He's passionate about spending time with his kids, growing the best carrots and ginger, and helping farmers make more income on their farms.
Join us for a free viewing of the Thriving Farmer Vegetable Summit!
Get three days of free training on all things veggies! Learn all about planning your vegetable garden or farm, using high-yield cultivation methods and strategies, and marketing & selling your fresh produce.
Join us LIVE January 11-14, 2024!
27+ Speakers. Training on how to plan, produce, and sell your farm-fresh veggies!
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Is this actually free? Where is the hidden cost?
Our free airing of the Vegetable Summit is Jan 11-14, 2024. There is also the option to purchase the entire summit for lifetime access viewing at any time. This is not required, only an option if you want to rewatch the summit sessions later on.
How will this apply to me in a different region since growing zones differ?
Although the growing zones vary depending on where you live, there is still a wealth of knowledge to be gained from these experts on vegetable farming. Our speakers come from many different growing zones, and most of their advice is adaptable for different regions. I recommend you sign up for the free viewing and take what you can from it!
What is the schedule of the summit? Do I need to watch it live? When does it start?
Each day's viewing starts at 6 am EST and is available for 24 hours from that point. Most sessions are pre-recorded to allow you to view them within your schedule that day, but there will be a few LIVE calls as well. You'll receive emails with links and times for LIVE events, so keep an eye out for that.