Scaling Small Farm Knowledge with Jason Grauer of Stone Barns Center

Today, we are going to break into the uniform tranquility of a beautiful region to speak with my guest, Jason Grauer, who is the Senior Director of Farm and Innovation at the Stone Barns Center. You all may be familiar with Blue Hill at Stone Barns, the very famous and very deservingly famous restaurant in the Hudson Valley of New York, Dan Barber, being the chef there, who also authored the book The Third Plate and who has inspired chefs, eaters, and farmers the world around with his commitment to deliciousness at every level. Today we are speaking with Jason about all of the really fascinating work that they're doing at the Stone Barn Center, which is very, very interesting for those of us who are interested in market gardening or farming in general, because their financial model, their approach and their sort of nonprofit status search and ways of approaching farming systems that I think we can all appreciate being independent operators and unable to sometimes put the bill for that kind of R&D ourselves.

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