Our Mission
helping farmers excel at marketing so they can attract profitable customers and build local food communitiesYOUR FARM MARKETING MENTOR
Running any small business is challenging. But few are more so than farm businesses, especially when marketing directly to customers. Whether you're producing pastured proteins, soap or cheese or running a vegetable CSA, you wear too many hats, have too much to do, and have too little time.
Unfortunately, marketing is what usually suffers. If only you had someone to help you--someone who knows farming, marketing, and technology.
Hi, I'm Tim Young, founder of Small Farm Nation, and here's my background. I've been a self-employed entrepreneur since 1995...that's when I left "Corporate America" and started my first business, a marketing services agency. Through strategic and marketing execution, I built the 130th fastest growing privately held company in the United States (Inc. 500 winner).
Now, while building a 450 employee company from a one-person start-up was exciting--it wasn't soul-satisfying. So I sold that business and started a pastured-livestock and artisan cheese business in 2006. We sold both direct to consumers (CSA and drop sites) as well as through retailers such as Whole Foods.
One thing I've learned in my corporate and entrepreneurial career is this inescapable truth: great companies and brands achieve that status through great marketing. Whether it's another farm you admire or a big corporation you're loyal to, I bet they're highly effective marketers. And that's what I want to help you become.
So, I founded Small Farm Nation with a simple mission:
TO HELP FARMERS EXCEL AT MARKETING SO THEY CAN ATTRACT PROFITABLE CUSTOMERS AND BUILD LOCAL FOOD COMMUNITIES.
If you're looking to become a more proficient farm marketer, you'll find my farm marketing courses invaluable. You can pick and choose individual farm marketing courses here.
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