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Episode-2857- Building a Farming Business as a Teenager with Nick Hazelton

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Nick Hazelton is a young yak and hog farmer based in Western Oregon. Started raising yaks after dropping out of high school at 16. His focus is on living with the land and make complicated systems easy to understand and manage. Success isn’t the goal, learning to do it right is. Nick has been on the show a few times before the first time he was 17 and had made the decision to live life on his own terms.  At 22, he is still living the life he decided he would. Resources for today’s show… Follow Life With Jack on … Continue reading →

Episode-1558- Getting into Cattle Ranching on a Shoestring Budget

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Lucas Branham is a 32 year old aspiring rancher from Taylorsville, KY. He has worked two jobs around 55 hours per week for the last 14 years. He has grown tired of the grind and wants to spend more time with family and work from a home based operation. He’s started a small cattle operation on leased land with 14 head currently and soon to be 30. He ran a small csa and pastured broiler operation in 2014. Lucas joins us today to provide advice on securing funds for start up cattle operation, securing leased land, running cattle on a … Continue reading →

Episode-1121- Darby Simpson on Pastured Poultry and Pork and Grass Fed Beef

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Darby Simpson is the owner of Simpson Family Farm, a 7th generation family farm (1828-present) and a lifelong Indiana resident Darby grew up not realy learning anything about farming, became a mechanical engineer. He worked in the engineering field from 1994-2010. Began small scale pastured based meat farming (Joel Salatin style) in 2007. Grew the business while continuing to work off farm full time. In 2010 like many Americans he lost his job due to the recession and took the farm full time. The farm now provides his family with a full time income. Today he joins us to discuss … Continue reading →