In Support of Farmers Everywhere - More Change, More Growth Coming To Bootstrap Farmer

On March 1, 2018, Nick Burton joined Bootstrap Farmer as Creative Director.  This is huge for us in fulfilling our mission in support entrepreneurs in launching low-cost businesses that merge the agricultural and culinary industries.

Nick Burton runs State of the Soil Media, an online summit platform for agricultural business strategies and marketing.  We believe this merger will allow both companies to combine talents to better serve the needs of the local farming community and culinary businesses like food trucks, meal prep/delivery services, and hospitality event companies. By bringing proven high-level business development strategies and effective marketing into the hands of new and practicing farmers and food services who may have never been exposed to business training before.

One of the first big projects we'll be launching is Bootstrap Farmer Radio, an upcoming podcast, which will support our online community and future live events.  We've got a bunch of awesome recordings all ready to go - so keep a lookout for an update!

We are going to be challenging each other on this podcast to do great things and will be using The Bootstrap Farmers Business Network Facebook group as a place to interact and keep each other accountable!

Further to that, Bootstrap Farmer will continue to build its product line and online education in support of our client’s business and marketing strategies in a variety of different ways that we are keeping under wraps for now.

Both Nick and I are believers in continuing education and self-development to scale businesses. We feel the lack of beginning and advanced business education specifically for the owners of small farms, startups, and unique distribution models have space to grow within the marketplace in today’s local food movement, has been overlooked, and needs leadership. While there are learning platforms and resources for growing better, and basic business practices, we feel today’s agricultural practitioners are ready and deserve the very best in business development and growth support.

Between the both of us, we've built and maintained two small farms, two food trucks, a salad subscription delivery service, a farmers market stand, farm to table and pop up culinary events, an agricultural supply and manufacturing and distribution company, a yearly online summit for business and marketing for small farmers, an online course for agricultural product and services launch, a social media management company, and a property management company, so we feel like we've got something to say.

The Bootstrap Farmer Business Network and Bootstrap Farmer Radio will be guided by the following cornerstones:

Business Development

Collaborations

Community and Network Building

Continuing Education

Giving Back

Hospitality

Implementation

Leadership

Bootstrap Farmer Radio Podcast will launch the first week of April 2018 followed by regular online learning workshops and yearly live events. Empowering small business owners to scale up and take market leadership rolls locally means quality of life improvements for the owners, their communities, and the environment.

For more information visit Bootstrap Farmer and join our FB community @BootstrapFarmer on Facebook.

Thank you all for reading.  I hope everyone has a great start to Spring!

Kind Regards,
Brandon Youst
Owner, Bootstrap Farmer