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Wayne Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1154 total appearances

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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Are orders coming in?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Are we going somewhere else?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Am I speaking?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Is there some other way that we can monetize what we're doing and help keep this thing alive?

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So it's never, there's a routine to it.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

But at this stage of my life, I'm more the executive farmer.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

I still get dirty.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

I still do those things, but I don't have to be as hands-on as I used to be.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Yeah.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And then getting the right people.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So what I found was the best product comes from like, if you want tomatoes,

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Find somebody that's got a backyard that's growing some tomatoes to give you, I don't know why, they're going to be better than anything else you can get.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So what I found was my product was better because it was basically my backyard.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So when I grew and I needed to scale, I would find other people that were like me that wanted nothing to do with the marketing side of it.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

They wanted nothing to do with communicating with people.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And I would say, hey, not only am I going to buy those cows, if you follow all my practices and principles, I'm going to put a little premium on it.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

I need you to be able to get a good first basement for your kid when it's time.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

I don't need you struggling.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It means you make less money, but you have more security.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And I think sometimes we fall into, especially at our age, I'm 52, so down to probably like the 30s, the drug game was so impactful to our culture, we think everything's a drug split.