We are starting a farm and I was stressed. It's also day 3... We had this conversation last night! Great video and insight Diego. Go for it!
@tom8836
6 жыл бұрын
This is your best video yet. As a former CPA, Ive worked with a lot of small business owners and seen them fail due to overexpansion, not perfecting their processes, or losing focus that their business needs to be run like a business. There are a lot of videos here on youtube that are basically suggesting people jump in with both feet and they will make 6 figures on a half acre and the reality is that without a solid plan, these business will fail. Again, great video and a must watch!
@foreverpermaculture8572
6 жыл бұрын
Your videos are inspiring. I grew up in the city, never knew much about farming. Started researching it and learning about a year ago. Fell in love with it. There is so much more to it than you ever would of thought. But, I figure if I'm going to do anything with my life that I can truly be happy about. It would be waking up everyday and growing healthy food for my family, friends, and community.
@ronbootsfarm8266
7 жыл бұрын
Can't let "perfect" be the enemy of getting started and sustaining the business. Great video Diego! 👍
@KnightsofColumbusdiscuss
7 жыл бұрын
great to see someone so passionate about something and being willing to help others jumpstart their dreams. I am not into farming but I like to check out Diego's videos every once and a while. Keep up the good work you are doing Diego
@ImmanuelCan
4 жыл бұрын
Very deep! That's not only applicable to farming, but a sound philosophy when you start any kind of thing. Focus on the primary thing: Long-term survival. First, sustainability means to "stay alive" and that means finance, health and mood / social first, optimizations and tryouts second.
@tizianogarulli880
Жыл бұрын
This is so true! And yet so easy to fall in the trap of "ideology haste". Start putting one foot in front of the other. Thanks Diego!
@freeyourmind9000
7 жыл бұрын
you should do a complete guide on how to start a farm business. a really long one..or a series. have guests on your show about this topic.
@arenosofarms824
7 жыл бұрын
The owners of the land i farm on always remind me that my goal is "the journey and not a destination". After 3 years of wanting to do "everything"(growing all the crops i like, making my own compost, incorporating additional streams), i realized that if i want to continue to farm and be profitable, i need to concentrate on what is actually making money. Thanks for driving this issue,as i feel many folks can be steered too far with their ideals and lose track of what their real goal was: making a living growing food that the local community wants to buy. Diego hit the nail on the head here - once you have a farm up and running and paying for itself and more, you can then add or incorpoarate more of what you want, hedge rows, ponds, swells, livestock, etc - but you have to get up and running first, all of your goals wont be started and completed in a day, month, or year, they are all for the long game.
@davesipsy7587
7 жыл бұрын
Perfect! Great message, brother. I'm one of those who is just starting, with a leased farm (this week in fact); so I needed to hear this.
@debbieburke9840
7 жыл бұрын
I like that video better! We need more videos on how to begin!
@spaulding304
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Diego. I needed to hear this. I believed having the green house erected asap would be the key into getting and keeping a lot of customers. I could get a loan, or hopefully find an investor, but I am broke and only have 1 weekly client. If I just gradually grow the business and save money, then I could dedicate one room out of my house to grow microgreens from and save money, and then build one in due time when I couldn't possibly add on anymore clients with the space I am utilizing. Good tip, don't let your business outgrow itself or the model may implode.
@user-ug7hu1vu4w
7 жыл бұрын
Great video!!! You can't change the world over night, but you can make a small change every day. Major changes can't always accomplish any thing but small changes can achieve major large changes in the long run.
@Allocated_Brain
7 жыл бұрын
Quality practical advise here. During my first year of gardening I did so in a community garden here in Cleveland and had such a wonderful source of knowledge of how to grow a plant that that first step so many go through I never really felt as though I had to struggle until I started doing things a more experimental style.
@bradsuarez2683
7 жыл бұрын
BEST ADVICE EVER! This is something you don't hear much permaculture teachers talk about and that is PROFITABILITY of a permaculture farm. However this needs to change if we truly want permaculture to be a viable alternative to monoculture farming. It's great to have these ideals but what is the point if the ideal itself isn't sustainable.
@jeffefird2400
4 жыл бұрын
Great advice. I just bought 24 acres with my parents. This helped ease my mind in not being the best or most sustainable in the beginning.
@addisababa7677
Жыл бұрын
I'm from ethiopia 🇪🇹 watch you Diego. I like vegetables
@user-mj7ko1oz7p
4 жыл бұрын
Hey man, thanks for this video. It’s a really good advice! For people like me, that are just in the dreaming stage yet, it’s pretty enlightening. I will check your podcast. The best vibes for you!
@chris-2496
2 жыл бұрын
Very important message - everyone who gets ideology disconnected from practicality will butn out and abandon the project. It's not even about money but thinking whether the necessary labour at the chosen scale associated with the management practice of choice is sustainable in the long run.
@mio.giardino
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for saying this! I wish people & governments would realize that very thing, if you can't pay for it first, if it's not economical, don't force the idea or it'll make you & us poor.
@allisonlavine8178
7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately - you are right and my other half is right... He has tried to tell me we need to sell a couple goats... and I am too attached to them. The ideology... we have to be able to support the farm/homestead and by selling a couple goats- that would be better for us in the long run.
@cricketknowledge5781
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Thank you very much. Love from Sri Lanka.
@bmllz
5 жыл бұрын
I really needed this today! haha Thanks Diego!
@frodehau
6 жыл бұрын
Good advice, but at the same time, what if you could make money on intercroping between those oranges, what if you could SAVE money on ferilizer by growing legumes, what if the plants established better if there was some water holding capacity? Seed isn't that expensive. But then again, I have no experience growing in that climate, and it looks pretty challenging.
I get what he's saying here, but I also kind of hate it. I feel like putting business first is also an ideology in of itself and it's one that stems from capitalism. I also feel like its that ideology that has gotten us in such a mess with the climate... but I don't know... I get that you can't get things perfect right from the start. However, it's a part of Permaculture ideology to start small and work from there and constantly accepting feedback to grow appropriately. Thus, I feel like it's more about the nature of your ideology more than just setting it aside for the sake of having a good business. I guess what I'm trying to say is: if your goal is business, then yes, start with the business. But if you're like me and wanting an agrarian lifestyle, then start with your needs: shelter, water, food that you like to eat. Then when you grow, you can think about selling the surplus... But maybe that's just me.
@RockhillfarmYT
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Subscribed
@DiegoFooter
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@screwsloose52
7 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Can you make a video about the different styles of sprinkler systems. I live in the desert.
@pierre-el
5 жыл бұрын
Way under 'liked'. Thank you for wisdom.
@paolograsso5085
2 жыл бұрын
Golden suggestion! Thanks, Diego
@blueeyeswhitejesus
7 жыл бұрын
"You don't knooww mee" lol good video, it has taken me 5 years of practice with mushrooms and 2 years heavy garden planting and experimenting everywhere to feel comfortable with what will work on starting my business, and am just now starting, not started lol
@bennythompson1047
3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with you Diego! (and I'm someone that is deeply idealogical)
@CreativeV3
4 жыл бұрын
A1 advice
@Svarainis-oh7kw
7 жыл бұрын
Really good advice :) Thank you.
@addisababa7677
Жыл бұрын
I'm beginner farmer,I like farming business.
@douglasanderson7301
6 жыл бұрын
Perfection is a direction not a destination
@AlexanderNixonArtHistory
4 жыл бұрын
wise man.
@MegaZedlav
7 жыл бұрын
A 100 year farm allows for change 3 crops that are profitable and hopefully sustainable. Grow from there, if all goes not as planned nothing was written in stone so you adapt after all you got 100 years to get it somewhat right? THANK YOU!
@ohhowhappygardener
7 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@zleereed
7 жыл бұрын
the problem you speak of is a good problem to have. People just want to do the best. That's not a bad thing.
@unitedstatesdale
7 жыл бұрын
So true.
@GuitarZombie
7 жыл бұрын
that is my backyard, but I will probably give most surplus away
@yeahok2790
3 жыл бұрын
I got a 404 when trying to listen to the podcast
@Tristram9
7 жыл бұрын
Truth
@tomrobertson3236
7 жыл бұрын
What he said
@afox15101
5 жыл бұрын
like someone once said, follow opportunity not your destiny.
@xzxz-uy2lm
4 жыл бұрын
If you can't beat them join them and destroy from within Mwahahahaaa!!!
@johnny96888
4 жыл бұрын
What I get from this is do what works and don't be a pioneer in business
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