Michael and Karma Glos began their small, diversified organic farm in Berkshire, New York, located 20 miles east of Ithaca, in 1996. Since then, three of those years have included commercial operations.
They specialize in producing free-range organic meat (poultry, pork, beef) and organic herbs and specialty vegetables, and are certified by NOFA-NY Certified Organic LLC. All the vegetables, herbs and poultry are certified; the pork and beef are raised according to organic standards after 6 weeks of age.
The Glos' launched their business with no formal training, but relied on a love of farming and their experiences as farming apprentices.
We realized that as we got into our fifth year -- we did approach it somewhat methodically -- that we were going to take our first few years and look at our markets, figure out what we could grow on our land, what we wanted to grow, what grew well, what sold well and we did a lot of different enterp...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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