Rob Smith of Viva Farms

<p>Rob Smith is the director of <a href= "http://instagram.com/vivafarms"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Viva Farms</strong></span></a> in Burlington, Washington. Viva farms is an incubator farm and offers not just access to land and infrastructure that beginning farmers may struggle with, giving them time to build their market before investing in those decisions, but also opportunities for a real on-farm education and on-site aggregation/distribution. If you’re interested in incubator farms and want to learn more about the programs Viva offers, because we barely scratch the surface here, <a href= "https://vivafarms.org/"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>visit their farmsite</strong></span></a>.</p> <p>Also check out the <a href= "https://farmtofarmer.org/"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Farmer to Farmer land link program</strong></span></a>.</p> <p>This podcast is brought to you by <a href= "https://growingformarket.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Growing for Market Magazine</strong></span></a>, <span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href= "https://www.southernexposure.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Southern Exposure Seed Exchange</a></strong></span>, and <a href="https://www.barn2door.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Barn 2 Door</strong></span></a>. It's also brough to you by growers like you. If you got something from this podcast, or any of our podcasts, you can support our work at <a href= "http://notillgrowers.com/support" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><strong><span style= "text-decoration: underline;">notillgrowers.com/support</span></strong></a></p>