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Our guest today is Ben Hartman from Claybottom Farm in Goshen IN, and author of The Lean Farm and The Lean Farm Guide To Growing Vegetables. Together we’ll discuss how he started farming, what lean thinking is, and how it became implemented on Claybottom Farm.

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Show Notes:

• Claybottom farm is sustained on less than an acre of Produce
• All their producer is delivered within a mile of their farm
• The goal of the farm is that every seed turns into cash
• Ben grew up on a 500 acre corn and soybean farm, and his wife in town.
• They started farming as an occupation after graduating college
• Ben was on track to become a teacher at a University, but instead decided to farm
• Ben and Rachel started off as Urban Micro Farmers
• The size of American farms have been doubling, but the number of farmers have decreased
• There’s an increasing trend of young people eating local, good food, but at the same time, people are eating more in restaurants.
• The first lean practitioners were actually rice farmers
• In a nutshell lean is a coin with two sides, first it involves value, which is determined by the customers.
• More notes at - https://intellectualagrarian.com/hartman

Claybottom Farm Links:

Learn Lean from Benjamin Hartman - https://www.theleanfarmschool.com/

Claybottom Farm - http://claybottomfarm.com/

The Lean Farmers Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/119257068669186/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLeanFarm/

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