Episode 174: Scaling Regenerative Practices from Micro-Farms to Row Crops with Briana Bosch
3/19/20261 hr 16 min
Briana Bosch is the founder of Blossom and Branch, where she manages a two-acre flower micro-farm in Denver and a 180-acre family grain farm in Minnesota. With a background in journalism and a master's in marketing, she has become a prominent voice in the regenerative movement by focusing on scaling soil health concepts for both small-scale market gardens and large-scale commodity operations.
Last year marked a significant milestone in her transition of the family's century-old Minnesota farm, as she implemented intensive regenerative practices for the first time, including the total elimination of herbicides and fungicides on her...
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First 90 secondsJohn Kempf· Host0:00
Hi, friends. This is John. Welcome to the Regenerative Agriculture podcast, where we have all kinds of fun conversations related to growing things, growing healthy things, growing healthy people, growing healthy soil, growing healthy plants. Uh, I'm delighted today to be joined by Bree from Blossom and Branch, who I encourage you to check out on YouTube and on Instagram, uh, for all the awesome work that she's doing, both scaling up and scaling down these concepts and ideas around growing healthier soil and plants and people. Bree, thank you so much for joining me today and for being willing to have this conversation. Give us some context for the scope of all the fun you have.
Briana Bosch· Guest0:41
Yeah. Thanks for having me, John. I've been a fan of the podcast for many years. It's informed a lot of [laughs] what I do, actually. So, um, yeah, I've got two, two farms. So one is, you know, what we'd probably consider a, a microfarm. It's two acres in Denver, just outside of Denver, Colorado, and that is a flower farm, so that's the reason why it's small, and flowers are cultivated, grown, harvested pretty much primarily all by hand. And so scaling that up much beyond two acres with one person is, is difficult. Then we also have, in Minnesota, we have 180 acres, uh, in corn and soybeans, and that is a almost a century farm in our family, so just, just two years to go, and pretty conventionally farmed. Um, we've started taking chunks of that and converting it