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.
I guess the big surprise is that, and we are coming to that now, is that we are not a farm or a farm business and that we have a lot of skills we need to learn from a production aspect. We didn't realize we needed to learn the business aspects of our farm. So people have told us from Day One -it's...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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