Nazirahk Amen of Purple Mountain Organics
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Jesse talks with Nazirahk Amen of Purple Mountain Organics, located outside of Washington DC. They cover small-scale PROFITABLE grain production, a seed to sale journey on dry-land rice by the acre, importing appropriate scale equipment from Japan, enhancing biology with compost tea applications, and using cover crops at scale to reduce weed pressure. Located outside of Washington DC. Sorry-not-sorry for all of the small-scale grain producers this episode of the podcast may produce. You can find some of the tools he uses at Purple Tools.