834: Kirsten Simmons on Streamlining Farmers' Busy Work

834: Kirsten Simmons on Streamlining Farmers' Busy Work

She is all about helping farmers in the back office.

In This Podcast: We follow the journey of Kirsten Simmons. After experiencing farm failures, she co-founded Good Agriculture in 2022, a company that manages administrative tasks and provides financial, marketing, and grant-writing support for farmers. Kirstin shares how the company has grown, helped farmers become more profitable, and developed manual and automated tools to support farm operations. Good Agriculture aims to streamline back-office tasks, enabling farmers to focus on farming, with services tailored to small and large farms..

Our Guest: Kirsten began growing mixed vegetables in 2016 in Atlanta, and currently focuses her growing efforts on Yupik strawberries.

In 2022, she co founded Good Agriculture, where she and her team create products that manage the back offices for farmers..

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