{"id":92384,"date":"2021-11-24T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=92384"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:30:25","slug":"episode-18-michelle-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-18-michelle-howell\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 18: Michelle Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/21247310\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four-season farmer Michelle Howell works at the intersection of farming, health, art and equity. In this podcast episode, hear about how Michelle has woven these aspects together at her family\u2019s diversified Need More Acres Farm in Scottsville, Kentucky.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle walks us through what a week looks like on the farm, beginning with their harvest day, working with 20 to 30 different produce items, year-round. Learn from their creative, community-centric marketing approach (some customers get 80 percent or more of their food from the farm!) and the ways they\u2019ve created new opportunities to put their food into the hands of more people, including through the HOTEL, INC food pantry, Community Farmers Market and a brand new meal-kit service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She tells us how she and her husband, Nathan, have encouraged all five of their children to be involved in the farm\u2014the oldest having just decided he wants to farm full-time\u2014and how that\u2019s benefited not just the kids but the whole community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, get tips from Michelle about growing diverse crops year-round, not just for your own home use but as a marketing outlet in itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.needmoreacres.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need More Acres Farm website<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/needmoreacresfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/needmoreacresfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 18: Michelle Howell - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Episode 18 of Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good with Michelle Howell! 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