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.
At the beginning of the year, we figure out what we want to do and go ahead and do it. But we would get to the end of the year and usually have a disappointment of how much money we made, what we had done. Largely, we found out that basically we didn't have any idea of what we wanted, or hadn't ex...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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