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Forage Kombucha Expands from Restaurant to Retail Brand
1 hour 1 minute Free course content by Edible-Alpha®
Henry Aschauer, co-founder of Forage Kombucha and Forage Kitchen in Madison, Wisconsin, sits down with Tera to discuss his multifaceted business and how the restaurants and beverage brand behoove each other as both continue scaling.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
FACT Helps Farmers Raise Animals Humanely
56 minutes Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Andy welcomes Larissa McKenna of Food Animal Concerns Trust to discuss how livestock and poultry farmers can make their operations more humane, benefiting the animals, the environment and even their bottom line.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Exploring the Arc of Entrepreneurship with Kwadwo Owusu-Ofori
1 hour 15 minutes Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Brad invites in Twi Pods founder Kwadwo Owusu-Ofori for a compelling conversation about the journey of entrepreneurship today and what it takes for food startups to break through and thrive.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Hill Valley Dairy Broadens Family Legacy
1 hour 3 minutes Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Ron Henningfeld, owner and cheesemaker at Hill Valley Dairy, drops by to discuss putting his own spin on a family farm business and expanding into new opportunities.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Biological Farming and Human Scale Meat
1 hour & 35 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
To satisfy demand for local/organic meats, Barlett Durand needed consistent throughput and quality. Rather than scaling up to compete with large-scale industrialized meat processors or launching a direct to consumer farm, he began aggregating meat from existing local farms under the brand Black Earth Meats.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Building Yumbutter Into a National Nut and Seed Butter Brand
1 hour of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
Matt D'Amour of Yumbutter talks about the challenges in growing a national food brand and it is important to raise the right amount of money (usually more than you think) to support the roll-out of your national brand in grocery stores. It is important for your brand to have multiple pillars to remain defensibly unique.
Podcast about Raising Capital for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Paul Dietmann on Setting Your Farm Up for Financial Success
1 hour & 15 minutes of Free audio by Farmer To Farmer Podcast
The single most important thing to do when starting a farm is to create a month-by-month cash flow projection. In the short term, cash flow is much more critical than profitability, because if cash flow is negative, the farm cannot survive once cash runs out. Profitability comes into play when the farmer is ready to retire or pass it on to the next generation.
Podcast about Raising Capital for businesses that are Pre-Venture | Startups
A Steady, Slow Growth Path For Quince and Apple’s Niche Domination
1 hour & 10 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
Because Quince and Apple has labor-intensive, artisanal products, the best strategy was not to compete on quantity or price. Instead, they chose to compete by dominating an emerging niche (pairing their products with specialty cheeses) while telling the defensibly unique story of their artisanal processes.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Rightsizing The Ship: A Farmer’s Tale of Scaling Down
1 hour & 40 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
This hub discovered that the bigger the business got, the more money it lost and that moving aggregation functions off of the owner's farm caused the operation to be less efficient at that level of sales. The owner chose to contract the business to focus on getting profitable and repaying existing suppliers.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
ReGrained, A Business Model For The Long Term And The Planet
1 hour & 10 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
ReGrained launched their product at scale in January 2018 after multiple iterations of their product (in the crowded bar category) and now are working with other businesses to help them produce/co-brand new products using their production facility and the expertise embedded in their proprietary process.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling