Starting a Regenerative Farm with Spencer Scott & Nick Schwanz

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Nick Schwanz and Spencer Scott are the visionary couple behind Solar Punk Farms in Guerneville, California. They transformed their lives from careers in brand strategy and bioengineering to create a community-focused, environmentally conscious farm. Solar Punk Farms grows food and flowers, enabling Nick and Spencer to host memorable community gatherings and provide environmental education in hopes of making the sustainable revolution irresistible.

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0:24.1	On the show, she discusses how her experiences have taught her to navigate life's unexpected
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0:45.2	podcasts. Many of us city dwellers have probably dreamt of leaving everything behind to move to the country and work on a farm.
1:05.0	It sounds idyllic.
1:06.8	You get to spend the entire day outside in the sunshine, working with your hands in the dirt,
1:11.8	picking flowers and plants you can actually eat.
1:15.0	The reality is that farming is both extremely fulfilling and a ton of work.
1:21.1	Spencer Scott and Nick Schwanz learned this firsthand when they moved out of San Francisco
1:25.7	to start a regenerative farm.
1:29.0	We had started a little garden in the back of our tiny San Francisco home.
1:35.1	And to be totally honest, the move up to the farm was like really going from setting 2 to
1:40.9	setting 11.
1:42.2	We joke about how we're like, we grew like four cherry tomatoes,
1:45.6	so we're like, let's buy a 10-acre farm.
1:49.7	That's Nick. In 2020, Nick and his husband, Spencer, bought a piece of land in Gernville, California,
1:56.0	about an hour and a half north of San Francisco. They named it Solar Punk Farms. Their vision for
2:02.7	solar punk is multifaceted. Of course they want to grow food and flowers, but they also want
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