{"podcast":{"title":"Growing For Market Podcast","slug":"growing-for-market-podcast-5952314","podcast_index_feed_id":5952314,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/nlt5gqze","website_url":"https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast?utm_source=simplecast_feed&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast_traffic_feed","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c5ec968b-fc95-406a-a374-a2d1f4d5f5e7/2d8f4c8b-2a2d-43b5-ac43-b853409dda9e/3000x3000/gfmtemplogofinal.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Growing For Market Magazine","episode_count":177,"summary":"Growing for Market is the farmer-to-farmer magazine for local food and flower growers, for 33 years and growing. GFM keeps you informed about the business of growing and selling vegetables, cut flowers, plants, herbs, and other food products. If you are market farming or gardening, you'll find valuable information that will help make your business more profitable and enjoyable, all written by farmers, for farmers. Please join us today! Link: https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T10:17:22.702074+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-for-market-podcast-5952314"},"episode":{"title":"Lessons from 37 years of market farming with Chip and Susan Planck of Wheatland Farms in Virginia","slug":"lessons-from-37-years-of-market-farming-with-chip-and-susan-planck-of-wheatland-farms-in-virginia","published_at":"2026-06-02T20:48:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-for-market-podcast-5952314/lessons-from-37-years-of-market-farming-with-chip-and-susan-planck-of-wheatland-farms-in-virginia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-for-market-podcast-5952314","url":"https://growingformarket.com/pages/growing-for-market-podcast?utm_source=simplecast_feed&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast_traffic_feed","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/9b291c82-b939-4d8a-b279-b2e211eabf96/80a93498-78ac-4cf8-829e-de35934f86d0/episodes/audio/group/42d0e82e-9973-4cb0-8192-d8405b46696d/group-item/9499be52-dfe2-4dba-ae75-c355495f89bd/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=nlt5gqze","summary":"Chip and Susan Planck ran Wheatland Farms growing vegetables in Virginia for 37 years, and in this interview, we talk with them about what worked, what didn’t and what changed in market farming over almost four decades. We talk about founding farmers markets, and then how they pulled off 10-15 farmers markets every week during the season. That involved employing hundreds of people over the years, and we talk about why it was important to hire people and not have them work as apprentices or interns.","meta_description":"Chip and Susan Planck ran Wheatland Farms growing vegetables in Virginia for 37 years, and in this interview, we talk with them about what worked, what di…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4731,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/growing-for-market-podcast-5952314/episodes/lessons-from-37-years-of-market-farming-with-chip-and-susan-planck-of-wheatland-farms-in-virginia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/growing-for-market-podcast-5952314/lessons-from-37-years-of-market-farming-with-chip-and-susan-planck-of-wheatland-farms-in-virginia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}