I'm glad I found you just when I'm about to start a market garden. Your videos are great inspiration for me. I've subscribed. Thank you and keep up the good job. LOVE FROM NIGERIA!
So u deliver personally to customers. Okay that is a game changer for me and I why I never thought of that I don’t know. So u are the farmer, customers service and sales. Thanks for taking your time to film this. Very informative five star all the way
Farmers Markets, for me, was a good way to pick up individual customers. Many shoppers can't be there each week to get their produce so it's a great way to get your name out, get some face time, and pick up additional clients for your delivery route. I picked up about 1/2 of my restaurants out of a local farmers market and a handful of weekly personal deliveries.
Totally! There are pros and cons about any sales outlet or time you spend marketing. Doing a farmer's market is just as much about selling as it is marketing. I have just chosen not to do for the reasons mentioned in the video.
@@JoshSattinFarming absolutely..I've done a farmers market just one Saturday every couple months. You choose a weekend of a festival or something going on in town when lots of people are out and about.
My produce is in 4 stores and this is my first year growing anything everything he says is absolutely possible as long as its what you really want to do
I feel like the best part of Josh is how clearly you can see his passion for what he does. He genuinely seems excited and happy to be providing nutritious greens to his customers. ( At one point he called his customers his 'families') This kind of passion is what is going to grow this channel. I don't grow food (yet) but I still really enjoy this channel. Thanks for your hard work and the information!
Josh, I'm just finding you this past month and I absolutely love your channel, your delivery , transparency and techniques. Please keep them coming, you are making a big difference for the new and beginning farmer :) Your awesome and one of my favorites !
I want to start my own microfarm next year, and have 1/4 acre of land, but its possibile to rent another 1/4 from my wifes family. You gave me really good ideas. Thanks man!
It is very refreshing listening to you. You are really honest, straight and passionate. I like this energy which is very different from the others farmer market who talk only about money profit and make more money out of the viewer, which become a little obnoxious after a while. I understand, we need to sell to survive but the main reason I watch those video is for the technical. I am not interested in how Curtis will make more money next year. Just the technics and real life normal family situation
Hey, thanks for the kinds words.There is a lot you can take from everyone out there. I have learned so much from Curtis. If you are doing this sort of thing as a business you always need to keep your eye on sales, profits, costs, etc. I also think there are other forms of capital besides money. Let's keep sharing and help each other out. Thanks for watching!
@@JoshSattinFarming totally agree. What you are doing is returned to you thousand fold because you are doing something that passionate you and you are sharing your knowledge with others. Thank you and yes I agree with the sharing of idea, technics and experience. Thats what I try to do also in my temporary new little community. Patience is needed, but it is kind of fun.
I'm loving your channel. I'm moving the direction of farming, still learning my grow seasons in North Idaho at 2300 ft in the mountains. We got snow in the last week of September and the frost is getting heavy. I love the Idea of micro greens, but my market is not really salad eaters. Steak and taters if a salad is eaten ice burg and ranch. These people put ranch on everything it's used more than ketchup, and everyone has chickens. Eggs here are $2.50 -3 a doz. Chickens are traded like baseball cards. The delivery well I live 45 miles from the city, so this is a thing I'm tossing around. Have yet to meet a vegan in Idaho. love the work learning buttloads from you keep it up.
Awesome Josh! One point especially rural areas, having lived in different parts of the country, A road stand by your farm is the excellent avenue. Having experienced it, customers know they can find your product when they need it & family can be involved. Great work and much success.
That could be a good sales outlet in a rural situation for sure! You usually do need someone to staff the stand though. I live in a suburban neighborhood at the end of a street. We don't get any traffic in front of our house, even for an honor system type setup.
Hi Josh! Really appreciate your videos- I’ve really learned a lot from your videos in my first year farming. I have been using insulated shopping bags from Holden bags- keeps things nice and cold for deliveries and not too expensive. Plus you can add your logo to the bags pretty easily.
Long time watcher, but first time commenting - awesome video! Thank you for uploading and sharing, really useful for a new grower looking at their options here in the Highlands of Scotland. 👍🏴
I love your videos Josh. This is my first year farming (practice year) and I have been helped soo much by you. My family moved out of the suburbs in Durham up to Roxboro to do exactly what you are doing. Keep these videos coming and let me know if my family could come and meet you sometime. Stay blessed and keep on growing!
I have watched a few of your videos now and am now a sub. I am in my first year of homesteading and you are an inspiration for my second one. I agree 1000% on researching your local customers wants and needs. Micro in my area just wouldn't fly so I am having to raise more traditional fruits while also offering some exotics to the area to try and expand the locals taste buds. Keep up the good work.
Just came across your channel love it so far and how your up front with everything. The hands on showing up close how you'd recommend doing things is great.
I'm so glad someone like you thought about basically a pay as you go sub before me. It's pretty much what I want to do starting next year or so after I've started growing and am confident enough in my skills. As always, great video!
Hi Josh, love your channel, really generous of you to share how you sell🙏🏾, love the honest energy of your videos, keep up the good work👍🏾, love from the uk-london.
Thanks so much for sharing all the awesome information! I'm just in my planning process right now and projecting to start next year. I have learned so much from your videos.. Super grateful!
Thanks Josh for showing us how you go about selling your produce. I bring most of my produce to my shop where I work a full time job and sell my produce from there. I thought about the CSA deal but it is a bit more complicated then what I want to deal with at this time. Maybe once I retired from my day job then we will look at other ways to move our produce. I am just outside of Sanford so you are about an hour from me. Thanks for the tips and ideas. Hope you have a great week!
You're welcome. Happy to share. Everyone's context is different and I'm sure this model won't work for everyone. But... I think it's important that we share so we can all help each other sell more good food to our community. Thanks for watching!
Yes Sir you got that right. I have no problem selling everything I can grow so I focus on my channel to help others learn how to grow some amazing veggies for themselves. Nothing better then from garden to table. Thanks for doing what you do! Hope you have a great week!
great vid brother !! glad I found your videos !! my wife and I are just breaking ground on our farm here in N ID , your videos have been great !!! Thanks !!!1
nice video, here a weekly box it's not been done by anyone neither have a farmer's market... it's difficult to sell produce directly, so even in low volumen have to use a store to move the produce...
Great video Josh 👍👍 I’m a fairly new subscriber and I can honestly say, your videos are informative and educational - THANK YOU for your time and efforts.
@@JoshSattinFarming You're doing something that many people can only dream of because of too many responsibilities. Something personal and up close. When you become a guy with a big farm I won't consider you a hero any more. Fair? :D
We only own 2 acres and we don't want to move again so I'm not sure how big I could even go here. I do want to help others learn how to grow better though. That might have more impact in the world.
Banker's boxes, they collapse down, have lids. They're a little bigger, but that's what we are going to try to use this 1st yr here on our homestead. Thanks for sharing!
Hey man, i love ur vids! Great work! Love the fact that u go organic and small. And even if u don't go full permaculture, ur still doing an amazing job for the earth and the people u produce food for in comparison to the big farmers. Great work, keep it up. Greetings from the Netherlands:)
Thank you! I'm glad you have been liking the videos. I think it's important to look at things through a Permaculture lens, but you have to do things differently when you are growing in larger areas with less diversity. I have an observational approach and try to work with nature and not against it as much as possible.
I tried this in my area for a season. It was challenging to make it. I did not have the individual families to sell to. I had one local restaurant and two local store/retailer I distributed to. I could not make enough selling this way. The restaurant loved fresh produce, but the retailers were hard to do business with because of the price per lb. I was selling at $4 a lb for bagged greens mix. Fresh radishes too. I like the way you do the BOX I seems to work better then competing with $/lb at the retailers volume.
great info. Idk if you got a website for people in your area to visit, but even a simple static website with basic info about what you provide could help a lot.
I love this idea I've been using clam shells containers for herbs and microgreens and then plastic bags on the roll but I heat seal for lettuce greens but I really like this box idea to put it all together. Garden City Greens LLC. Boise Idaho
Man I am loving your videos! We started an Urban Farm this year and are already looking to expand to a 5 acre property. We are getting ready to make an offer on the farm in the next week or so. We were thinking of using some sort of rubber maid tote or custom wood box for CSA/Greens Box. We would have a small fee for the customer to cover cost of containers so as to make sure they are responsible with taking care of it. If we broke it then we would replace it. Keep up the good work!
Great video- I appreciate the perspective of a sort of “reverse CSA”. Looking at selling options as well and I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the up front subscriptions either. Thanks for your insight.
Thanks for taking us along for the ride and showing your box model. I was wondering how you maintain your family list and communicate with your customers? Is it all done through email?
My pleasure Steven! Yes, I do all of the communication with my families via email. I send out a newsletter type email on Mondays with any information, farm updates and what to expect in the box that week. I do all of my invoicing through Square.
Love the videos, I have a homestead in Minnesota and I am always looking for different ideas. I sell most of mine roadside but like the idea of green boxes. Keep up the awesome work
Lots of great ideas, especially about the ice packs. I'm always afraid of pricing things and often sell too low. I guess I need to do some research in my local stores and go from there
Within the first 2 minutes I was like - yes! My thoughts exactly and just the video I was looking for. Lol Covid19 shut down my teaching job so I am attempting a Veggie box too here in SE Iowa. First year may be low profit but I look at it as building that list of dedicated families and friends. 💕Plus it’s income - better than nothing.
Seems like the next logical step if you wanted to acquire more customers without further burdening your Friday’s is to find some office buildings or manufacturing sites. Still plenty convenient for them and you get to drop 5-10 or more boxes in one stop.
You have the hook up bro! Just have to squeeze a couple work places out of your existing customers. I think the hardest thing would be getting the companies to go for it. But if u make it non disruptive most places want their employees to be healthy. I’m going to start playing around w targeted digital marketing for subscription accounts. I’ll let u know if I have any useful info for you. Markets are killin me..
Hi,Josh im a new subcriber to your channel and man i gotta tell ya my wife and i just inherited my father in laws 3 acre poultry farm through the years her and myself raised thousands of birds here.We had a USDA certification but have not raised birds in 5 yrs but you have inspired me man im about to fire this farm back up Blackcreek Ga Micro greens and poultry Thanks for sharing your work and ideas.Charles Huggins
How have I never seen you before?? I have a brand new small farm and have harvested a wee bit for the first time. Thank you for the ideas on marketing the produce:))
@josh Stattin - You should talk with your customers like this and see if they would be interested in giving you their compostables and veggie scraps along with your empty box but maybe inside of a 2gal bucket with a lid and you give them a clean empty bucket with your new delivery. Maybe a 5gal bucket for the vegan family. This would give you loads of material to compost and build your soil better. This would help them if your area already requires them to separate recycling materials. As well it would give them the feeling that they are helping to minimize green house gases, further enriching the local soil quality, enriching their food. I mean there are so many ways to put a positive spin on this. Would help make amazing worm castings too and it wouldn’t take up much space inside your van either. A stack of them on the flood of the front seat would be plenty. Then just put the sealed buckets in the back once the boxes start to be delivered
Hello Josh. Thank you very much for posting your videos. Very informative. Can you tell us what salad greens (if any) you grow during the heat of the summer. Can you share varieties of different crops, e.g. carrots, lettuce, etc. Thanks.
Check out this video to learn about the lettuce that I grow ruclips.net/video/Ihp3LaQfZgo/видео.html I am currently growing lettuce, kale, mizuna, sorrel, radish, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil
This video answers a lot of my questions and gives me more questions. I'll narrow it down to two. What was the process to get this off the ground in the beginning to get your first crop out the door before anyone knew who you were? Do the customers ever ask you to tweek their box slightly for their preference and if so how do you deal with that. Thanks man, these videos are answering simple questions that I have going into this market in about a year.
As I mentioned it started with friends and friends of friends. I then used social media and further networking to get new customers. I am very up front with people about how the boxes will work before they even sign up and I bring them their first box.
hi Josh. great video as usual :) could you make a video explaining how you approach social media. Do you use more than one, do you have a plan or not, etc. I am struggling with that part the most, because, honestly, i never got into them that much (well part from RUclips i guess) and I find that what i try to do comes out fake (does that makes sense at all)...
I'll put it on my video list, but that would probably be a tough video to make. I primarily use Instagram for the farm. I have it automatically send the posts over to Facebook.
Josh - Great videos you are helping alot of people. Question: How far into summer can you grow/sell your lettuce? Mine was pretty much done about a week ago. I am near Charlotte NC....
They Josh love the videos. Do you chop or cut your salad mix before you bag? What ratios of lettuce do you do in your mix? Thanks from Stafford Hill Farms!
Yes, I cut the lettuce then wash and pack it as a lettuce mix. This year was 70% Muir, 15% Magenta, 15% Cherokee. I haven't decided what I'll be doing next year. There is more about all of that in this video ruclips.net/video/Ihp3LaQfZgo/видео.html
Short question; you are currently working with 15-20 families and x restaurants to 'grow' a decent living? Or are there other opportunities you use too? (I know expenses and living is different everywhere, but the numbers somewhat give a target to work)
Short question, but probably a long answer. Last season was my first, but I almost consider this season to be my first real season. Yes, you can do a quick calculation and figure out the gross income from this, but of course that isn't the whole story. There is context to everything! I also sell eggs as an add-on product to these customers. My goal for this season was to maintain my Greens Boxes and slowly add restaurants. This has been going well so far. It depends on where you are located, but there is a decent market for me with chefs here. I just don't want to grow too quickly because I need to do right by my customers. I also plan on doing some educational type stuff moving forwards as well. Also also, my wife has a pretty demanding job and because my job is fairly flexible for household stuff, like getting the kids off to school, shopping, cooking, etc. I am very busy and things are going in the right direction. All businesses take time to grow. I hope you are enjoying my videos.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thanks for the long answer on the short question :) Context is everything, especially when it comes to farming. With clear goals and family matters planned out, it is easier to keep focus, I found. I learned a lot from this video and the answer. Build up slow, focus on the quality and don't forget why clients are your clients. They all have a reasoning why they want to buy from a local farmer (either food fanatic (vegan/true foods/straight from the source), quality seekers, regional focused folks, chefs) Currently slowly building up my place. Same approach, let it grow slowly and establish things first. Then add new things. Thanks for crafting these video's between all the jobs!
I'm glad I found you just when I'm about to start a market garden. Your videos are great inspiration for me. I've subscribed. Thank you and keep up the good job. LOVE FROM NIGERIA!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
I believe you can do it 😉
I used your video in my Small Business Agriculture class today. Thanks
Wow! One of the best start up market garden business models I've seen! And totally doable for a beginning gardener who wants to start gradually.
Thanks. It's not a perfect model... well there isn't really a perfect model. But yeah, it is simple to get started.
So u deliver personally to customers. Okay that is a game changer for me and I why I never thought of that I don’t know. So u are the farmer, customers service and sales. Thanks for taking your time to film this. Very informative five star all the way
Yep, I am a one man farm at the moment. This can be tough at times, but it is doable at this scale.
Farmers Markets, for me, was a good way to pick up individual customers. Many shoppers can't be there each week to get their produce so it's a great way to get your name out, get some face time, and pick up additional clients for your delivery route. I picked up about 1/2 of my restaurants out of a local farmers market and a handful of weekly personal deliveries.
Totally! There are pros and cons about any sales outlet or time you spend marketing. Doing a farmer's market is just as much about selling as it is marketing. I have just chosen not to do for the reasons mentioned in the video.
I love how you put family before money. So important.. Saturdays with family are everything. Good man you are.
Thanks. It's a balance though... the family does need money too.
@@JoshSattinFarming absolutely..I've done a farmers market just one Saturday every couple months. You choose a weekend of a festival or something going on in town when lots of people are out and about.
Hearing the customer reviews made me smile :)
My customers are awesome! I do my best to keep them happy.
My produce is in 4 stores and this is my first year growing anything everything he says is absolutely possible as long as its what you really want to do
I feel like the best part of Josh is how clearly you can see his passion for what he does. He genuinely seems excited and happy to be providing nutritious greens to his customers. ( At one point he called his customers his 'families') This kind of passion is what is going to grow this channel. I don't grow food (yet) but I still really enjoy this channel. Thanks for your hard work and the information!
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to hear you have been enjoy my videos. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for being so upfront and taking me for a ride... you have lovely customers...
You're welcome. Yeah, we have some awesome customers for sure. Thanks for watching!
I really apreciate this video, its not usual to see this level of sincerity about your own business. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. Happy to share and I'm glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!
Josh, I'm just finding you this past month and I absolutely love your channel, your delivery , transparency and techniques. Please keep them coming, you are making a big difference for the new and beginning farmer :) Your awesome and one of my favorites !
Thank you so much for your kind words. Glad to hear that you have been enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching!
I want to start my own microfarm next year, and have 1/4 acre of land, but its possibile to rent another 1/4 from my wifes family. You gave me really good ideas. Thanks man!
Found your channel this last month and I am so thankful for all your great tips. Love the idea of a veggie box.
You're welcome. Glad you like the channel and thanks for watching!
Glad to hear you sell the boxes the way you do. I'm doing senior boxes. Smaller amount thus slightly lower cost per week.
That's a great idea. Seniors often don't eat well, they don't want to cook for just 1 person, etc
It is very refreshing listening to you. You are really honest, straight and passionate. I like this energy which is very different from the others farmer market who talk only about money profit and make more money out of the viewer, which become a little obnoxious after a while. I understand, we need to sell to survive but the main reason I watch those video is for the technical. I am not interested in how Curtis will make more money next year. Just the technics and real life normal family situation
Hey, thanks for the kinds words.There is a lot you can take from everyone out there. I have learned so much from Curtis. If you are doing this sort of thing as a business you always need to keep your eye on sales, profits, costs, etc. I also think there are other forms of capital besides money. Let's keep sharing and help each other out. Thanks for watching!
@@JoshSattinFarming totally agree. What you are doing is returned to you thousand fold because you are doing something that passionate you and you are sharing your knowledge with others. Thank you and yes I agree with the sharing of idea, technics and experience. Thats what I try to do also in my temporary new little community. Patience is needed, but it is kind of fun.
I'm loving your channel. I'm moving the direction of farming, still learning my grow seasons in North Idaho at 2300 ft in the mountains. We got snow in the last week of September and the frost is getting heavy. I love the Idea of micro greens, but my market is not really salad eaters. Steak and taters if a salad is eaten ice burg and ranch. These people put ranch on everything it's used more than ketchup, and everyone has chickens. Eggs here are $2.50 -3 a doz. Chickens are traded like baseball cards. The delivery well I live 45 miles from the city, so this is a thing I'm tossing around. Have yet to meet a vegan in Idaho. love the work learning buttloads from you keep it up.
Tough situation. Best of luck!!
Thank you for sharing. I wish there was someone in my area with "greens" weekly delivery. Great job and good luck!
You make it look so easy
Oh man. This is far from easy, but I love it!
Love your videos! I always come away with information I don't find anywhere else. Keep up the quality work!
That's awesome. I'm so glad to hear that people are finding the videos helpful. Thanks for watching!
YAY! So glad I stumbled across your account on IG and became a member of the Sattin Hill Farm!! :)
You're the best Rachel. So appreciative of your support and involvement!
Love these videos. Theyre so helpful. I love the honesty and the easy to understand approach, and no pretentiousness. Youre doing a great job.
Awesome Josh! One point especially rural areas, having lived in different parts of the country, A road stand by your farm is the excellent avenue. Having experienced it, customers know they can find your product when they need it & family can be involved. Great work and much success.
That could be a good sales outlet in a rural situation for sure! You usually do need someone to staff the stand though. I live in a suburban neighborhood at the end of a street. We don't get any traffic in front of our house, even for an honor system type setup.
Hi Josh! Really appreciate your videos- I’ve really learned a lot from your videos in my first year farming. I have been using insulated shopping bags from Holden bags- keeps things nice and cold for deliveries and not too expensive. Plus you can add your logo to the bags pretty easily.
Those look amazing. Which ones have you been using? Have they been holding up well?
Great video with lots of helpful content, thanks Josh. Your honesty and transparency are awesome !
You're welcome. Glad you like the video and thanks for watching!
Josh great video, enjoyed listening to some nice customers talk about your produce boxes. Keep up the great work Josh. You are killin it
Thank you. Glad you liked the video and thanks for watching!
Long time watcher, but first time commenting - awesome video! Thank you for uploading and sharing, really useful for a new grower looking at their options here in the Highlands of Scotland. 👍🏴
Awesome! Glad you have been finding the content useful. Thanks for watching!
Wow great video!! Love to know stuff like this still exists! Also 6:52 to 7:15 😍😍😍
I love your videos Josh. This is my first year farming (practice year) and I have been helped soo much by you. My family moved out of the suburbs in Durham up to Roxboro to do exactly what you are doing. Keep these videos coming and let me know if my family could come and meet you sometime. Stay blessed and keep on growing!
I have watched a few of your videos now and am now a sub. I am in my first year of homesteading and you are an inspiration for my second one. I agree 1000% on researching your local customers wants and needs. Micro in my area just wouldn't fly so I am having to raise more traditional fruits while also offering some exotics to the area to try and expand the locals taste buds. Keep up the good work.
Glad you like the videos and thanks for watching!
What if you rebranded them
Just came across your channel love it so far and how your up front with everything. The hands on showing up close how you'd recommend doing things is great.
Glad you have been enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching!
I'm so glad someone like you thought about basically a pay as you go sub before me. It's pretty much what I want to do starting next year or so after I've started growing and am confident enough in my skills.
As always, great video!
Hi Josh, love your channel, really generous of you to share how you sell🙏🏾, love the honest energy of your videos, keep up the good work👍🏾, love from the uk-london.
Thank you. Glad you like the videos and thanks for watching!
A suggestion for boxes:
Make boxes out of pallet boards in the office season.
And I fill Powerade bottles with water and freeze for ice packs.
Thanks so much for sharing all the awesome information! I'm just in my planning process right now and projecting to start next year. I have learned so much from your videos.. Super grateful!
You're welcome. I'm glad to hear that my videos have been helpful for you. Thanks for watching!
Great information, I appreciate your transparency. I learn something from every video, which is my goal for YT. TY Josh!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Great info! Thanks for sharing. As a starting market farmer/gardener myself it’s always nice to see what’s working and not for others.
You're welcome. I'm glad this information was helpful for you. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Josh for showing us how you go about selling your produce. I bring most of my produce to my shop where I work a full time job and sell my produce from there. I thought about the CSA deal but it is a bit more complicated then what I want to deal with at this time. Maybe once I retired from my day job then we will look at other ways to move our produce. I am just outside of Sanford so you are about an hour from me. Thanks for the tips and ideas. Hope you have a great week!
You're welcome. Happy to share. Everyone's context is different and I'm sure this model won't work for everyone. But... I think it's important that we share so we can all help each other sell more good food to our community. Thanks for watching!
Yes Sir you got that right. I have no problem selling everything I can grow so I focus on my channel to help others learn how to grow some amazing veggies for themselves. Nothing better then from garden to table. Thanks for doing what you do! Hope you have a great week!
Wow great idea! I'm a first year, left everything to be a farmer! 10 acre agg property! We will give it a try, my 16 year old can deliver!
Cool beans idea!! I loooove it! I wish you much success in your business and gardening! Happy gardening!🍅💕💕💕🌽🍆🍍🍎🍌🍐💕💕💕
Great video! I really enjoyed hearing from your customers.
Thank uou!. Glad you liked the video and thanks for watching!
Best content of all the channels I subscribe to
great vid brother !! glad I found your videos !! my wife and I are just breaking ground on our farm here in N ID , your videos have been great !!! Thanks !!!1
Nice work! I also started my vegetable business by delivering to people with volvo v70 😄 not most practical but comfy and safe to drive
your brilliant Josh and nothing like home grown veggies, there real, not mass produced with not much goodness in them
nice video, here a weekly box it's not been done by anyone neither have a farmer's market... it's difficult to sell produce directly, so even in low volumen have to use a store to move the produce...
You really pack a nice thoughtful box. Congratulations. May our Lord continue to bless you!
Great video. Love the XC70, just like mine, everything dripping with quality.
Great video Josh 👍👍 I’m a fairly new subscriber and I can honestly say, your videos are informative and educational - THANK YOU for your time and efforts.
You're welcome. I'm glad that you find my videos helpful. Thanks for watching!
You are my hero! Seriously.
Oh please. I'm just a guy with a tiny farm.
@@JoshSattinFarming You're doing something that many people can only dream of because of too many responsibilities. Something personal and up close.
When you become a guy with a big farm I won't consider you a hero any more. Fair? :D
We only own 2 acres and we don't want to move again so I'm not sure how big I could even go here. I do want to help others learn how to grow better though. That might have more impact in the world.
Banker's boxes, they collapse down, have lids. They're a little bigger, but that's what we are going to try to use this 1st yr here on our homestead. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent job Josh! 😊
Thank you!
@@JoshSattinFarming 😊
Hey man, i love ur vids! Great work! Love the fact that u go organic and small. And even if u don't go full permaculture, ur still doing an amazing job for the earth and the people u produce food for in comparison to the big farmers. Great work, keep it up. Greetings from the Netherlands:)
Thank you! I'm glad you have been liking the videos. I think it's important to look at things through a Permaculture lens, but you have to do things differently when you are growing in larger areas with less diversity. I have an observational approach and try to work with nature and not against it as much as possible.
I tried this in my area for a season. It was challenging to make it. I did not have the individual families to sell to. I had one local restaurant and two local store/retailer I distributed to. I could not make enough selling this way. The restaurant loved fresh produce, but the retailers were hard to do business with because of the price per lb. I was selling at $4 a lb for bagged greens mix. Fresh radishes too. I like the way you do the BOX I seems to work better then competing with $/lb at the retailers volume.
Yeah, it's been working for me, but this model won't work everywhere. You should always know your market.
great info. Idk if you got a website for people in your area to visit, but even a simple static website with basic info about what you provide could help a lot.
I am actually working on it this week and I will be launching it next week. It's been on my to-do list forever.
I love this idea I've been using clam shells containers for herbs and microgreens and then plastic bags on the roll but I heat seal for lettuce greens but I really like this box idea to put it all together. Garden City Greens LLC. Boise Idaho
Absolutely awesome info
Excellent informative video
Dude, what an amazing video! I'm commenting before it's even finished. So inspiring. The future of entrepreneurship! Cheers!🍻
Glad you like the video. Thanks for watching!
Man I am loving your videos! We started an Urban Farm this year and are already looking to expand to a 5 acre property. We are getting ready to make an offer on the farm in the next week or so. We were thinking of using some sort of rubber maid tote or custom wood box for CSA/Greens Box. We would have a small fee for the customer to cover cost of containers so as to make sure they are responsible with taking care of it. If we broke it then we would replace it. Keep up the good work!
Great info! Just subscribed! Keep it up! Just got a Homestead looking fwd to doing something like this in my community! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Great video- I appreciate the perspective of a sort of “reverse CSA”. Looking at selling options as well and I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the up front subscriptions either. Thanks for your insight.
You're welcome. There are pros and cons of every sales outlet for sure, but this was a good way for me to get started. Thanks for watching!
Awesome Job Josh! Another Great Video! Blessings!
Your giving us great info. How did you advertise? Another thing you could grow and sell in each box is some perennial herbs, thyme oregano ect.
I use social media (Instagram and Facebook), word of mouth and general networking.
Thanks and God Bless you
Thanks for taking us along for the ride and showing your box model. I was wondering how you maintain your family list and communicate with your customers? Is it all done through email?
My pleasure Steven! Yes, I do all of the communication with my families via email. I send out a newsletter type email on Mondays with any information, farm updates and what to expect in the box that week. I do all of my invoicing through Square.
@@JoshSattinFarming Nice simple and easy! Thanks for sharing. I've been considering starting up something similar so this helps.
Great content! Also love that your shirt is the same color as your house!
We're all trying to go green, right? ;)
Great video Josh 🤙. Loved the info. Thinking of doing something like this here in central Oregon.
I will come be your business partner
I love this channel. You remind me of my old best friend. Were no longer friends bc hes mad at me i wouldnt support his habbits...
Awesome thing you’re doing
Thank you!
Love the videos, I have a homestead in Minnesota and I am always looking for different ideas. I sell most of mine roadside but like the idea of green boxes. Keep up the awesome work
I really like the idea of the green box:)
Ur crops look beautiful. Thks for sharing
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Josh👍
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
New subscriber here. Loved this channel, just started farming. I've learned a lot. Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭😍
Lots of great ideas, especially about the ice packs. I'm always afraid of pricing things and often sell too low. I guess I need to do some research in my local stores and go from there
Another great video! I'm designing a subscription program, this was super helpful. Thanks, Josh!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Within the first 2 minutes I was like - yes! My thoughts exactly and just the video I was looking for. Lol
Covid19 shut down my teaching job so I am attempting a Veggie box too here in SE Iowa. First year may be low profit but I look at it as building that list of dedicated families and friends. 💕Plus it’s income - better than nothing.
This is so similar to my dream goals for my town. Wow thank youuuu
Love it! Looks like we have a lot in common Josh. Glad I found ya. New sub.
Awesome. Thanks for watching!
Seems like the next logical step if you wanted to acquire more customers without further burdening your Friday’s is to find some office buildings or manufacturing sites. Still plenty convenient for them and you get to drop 5-10 or more boxes in one stop.
Yep, that would be cool. Just need the hookup!
You have the hook up bro! Just have to squeeze a couple work places out of your existing customers. I think the hardest thing would be getting the companies to go for it. But if u make it non disruptive most places want their employees to be healthy. I’m going to start playing around w targeted digital marketing for subscription accounts. I’ll let u know if I have any useful info for you. Markets are killin me..
Very cool! Thank you for all this info.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
Hi,Josh im a new subcriber to your channel and man i gotta tell ya my wife and i just inherited my father in laws 3 acre poultry farm through the years her and myself raised thousands of birds here.We had a USDA certification but have not raised birds in 5 yrs but you have inspired me man im about to fire this farm back up Blackcreek Ga Micro greens and poultry Thanks for sharing your work and ideas.Charles Huggins
You're welcome. Glad we connecte and good luck with your farm!
Very useful video Josh. Thank you.
How have I never seen you before?? I have a brand new small farm and have harvested a wee bit for the first time. Thank you for the ideas on marketing the produce:))
CB sent me, and so glad he did!
You're welcome. Glad you find my videos helpful. Thanks for watching!
@josh Stattin - You should talk with your customers like this and see if they would be interested in giving you their compostables and veggie scraps along with your empty box but maybe inside of a 2gal bucket with a lid and you give them a clean empty bucket with your new delivery. Maybe a 5gal bucket for the vegan family. This would give you loads of material to compost and build your soil better. This would help them if your area already requires them to separate recycling materials. As well it would give them the feeling that they are helping to minimize green house gases, further enriching the local soil quality, enriching their food. I mean there are so many ways to put a positive spin on this. Would help make amazing worm castings too and it wouldn’t take up much space inside your van either. A stack of them on the flood of the front seat would be plenty. Then just put the sealed buckets in the back once the boxes start to be delivered
Hello Josh. Thank you very much for posting your videos. Very informative. Can you tell us what salad greens (if any) you grow during the heat of the summer. Can you share varieties of different crops, e.g. carrots, lettuce, etc. Thanks.
Check out this video to learn about the lettuce that I grow ruclips.net/video/Ihp3LaQfZgo/видео.html
I am currently growing lettuce, kale, mizuna, sorrel, radish, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil
Field trip from the field!
Great job. Learned a lot
This gives me more perspective. Thanks!
Very nice video.🥰👍❤️
I would like to go ahead with another season it's a good way to make extra $ and let the land produce some $
Dollar store has huge $1 thermal bags with handles that keep the food really cold.
By the way, I really liked your video.
Yes, I use something similar.
You should make a video on seed buying how much you have to buy when you buy it we’re you buy it from would be very informational thanks
Thanks for the suggestion. I added it to my list.
You got out of the car like a FARM BOSS!!!
Great video!
Thank you!
This video answers a lot of my questions and gives me more questions. I'll narrow it down to two. What was the process to get this off the ground in the beginning to get your first crop out the door before anyone knew who you were? Do the customers ever ask you to tweek their box slightly for their preference and if so how do you deal with that. Thanks man, these videos are answering simple questions that I have going into this market in about a year.
As I mentioned it started with friends and friends of friends. I then used social media and further networking to get new customers. I am very up front with people about how the boxes will work before they even sign up and I bring them their first box.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thanks, it seems like a good model to start with since it appears to be simple and effective.
hi Josh. great video as usual :)
could you make a video explaining how you approach social media. Do you use more than one, do you have a plan or not, etc.
I am struggling with that part the most, because, honestly, i never got into them that much (well part from RUclips i guess) and I find that what i try to do comes out fake (does that makes sense at all)...
I'll put it on my video list, but that would probably be a tough video to make. I primarily use Instagram for the farm. I have it automatically send the posts over to Facebook.
@@JoshSattinFarming that is helpful right there. I'm gonna go see your feed now, thx :)
Josh - Great videos you are helping alot of people. Question: How far into summer can you grow/sell your lettuce? Mine was pretty much done about a week ago. I am near Charlotte NC....
We grow lettuce year-round here. It has a lot to do with variety, timing and watering. Check out this video ruclips.net/video/Ihp3LaQfZgo/видео.html
They Josh love the videos. Do you chop or cut your salad mix before you bag? What ratios of lettuce do you do in your mix? Thanks from Stafford Hill Farms!
Yes, I cut the lettuce then wash and pack it as a lettuce mix. This year was 70% Muir, 15% Magenta, 15% Cherokee. I haven't decided what I'll be doing next year. There is more about all of that in this video
ruclips.net/video/Ihp3LaQfZgo/видео.html
Short question; you are currently working with 15-20 families and x restaurants to 'grow' a decent living? Or are there other opportunities you use too? (I know expenses and living is different everywhere, but the numbers somewhat give a target to work)
Short question, but probably a long answer. Last season was my first, but I almost consider this season to be my first real season. Yes, you can do a quick calculation and figure out the gross income from this, but of course that isn't the whole story. There is context to everything! I also sell eggs as an add-on product to these customers. My goal for this season was to maintain my Greens Boxes and slowly add restaurants. This has been going well so far. It depends on where you are located, but there is a decent market for me with chefs here. I just don't want to grow too quickly because I need to do right by my customers. I also plan on doing some educational type stuff moving forwards as well. Also also, my wife has a pretty demanding job and because my job is fairly flexible for household stuff, like getting the kids off to school, shopping, cooking, etc. I am very busy and things are going in the right direction. All businesses take time to grow. I hope you are enjoying my videos.
@@JoshSattinFarming Thanks for the long answer on the short question :) Context is everything, especially when it comes to farming. With clear goals and family matters planned out, it is easier to keep focus, I found. I learned a lot from this video and the answer. Build up slow, focus on the quality and don't forget why clients are your clients. They all have a reasoning why they want to buy from a local farmer (either food fanatic (vegan/true foods/straight from the source), quality seekers, regional focused folks, chefs)
Currently slowly building up my place. Same approach, let it grow slowly and establish things first. Then add new things. Thanks for crafting these video's between all the jobs!
You got it man!