Welcome to episode 62 of Growers Daily! We cover: Changes to No-till growers, do farmers need a microscope, and finding seeds all in one place? Links from this episode: Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery:…

Welcome to episode 61 of Growers Daily! We cover: Hello from an epic Ice storm + builidng a dream tunnel + Relay Cropping Links from this episode: Threefold Climate Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acByGuSMALc solar wrap https://www.solawrapfilms.com Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show…

In the 1970s, one of the leaders of the Waldorf movement, Karl Ege, wrote in his essay "An Evident Need of Our Times." "What we are founding here is a seed, the seed of a living organism. The organism is essentially three-fold, pedagogical, artistic, and agricultural, as reflections of thought, feeling, and will. Each needs the others if the whole …

Welcome to episode 60 of Growers Daily! We cover: It's feedback Friday + Modeling Farms Off Ecological Systems + Tariffs and Small Farms Links from this episode: Tariffs and farmers: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/30/farmers-trump-tariffs Collab podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-collaborative-farming-podcast/id157000…

Welcome to episode 58 of Growers Daily! We cover: Are the farming masterclasses worth the money? How to price produce and which lable maker to buy? Links from this episode: Lable Maker: https://amzn.to/3ZZ4oDl USDA market report:https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/organic Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/not…

Welcome to episode 57 of Growers Daily! We cover: Farming in this economy?! + The Secret to a Long Healthy (Farm) Life (ie the harvard human development study) + Ramping up for the growing season. Links from this episode: the harvard study: https://www.adultdevelopmentstudy.org and this about that study: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/…

Andrew Adamski, or walkie talkie callsign gopher, is one of the farmer owners of Full Circle Community Farm in Wisconsin, the land of coops in the US. He came back to his generations old family farm in 2017 after college, along with his now wife heather, to not only continue the family farming tradition, but diversify both its production and member…

Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily! We cover: Lessons from Indigenous Agriculture + What Insurance Farmers Need Links from this episode: Tending the Wild (book): https://amzn.to/3DMndSJ Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livin…

Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily! We cover: Can organic ag feed the world and tomato grafting Links from this episode: Biochar video: https://youtu.be/yqfExLFPixY Nitten Paperpot video: https://youtu.be/R53jNXK2-qw Grafting Video: https://youtu.be/5o4ZXWqh2Qk Grafting study with root-knot nematodes:https://hos.ifas.ufl.edu/media/hosifasufledu…

Hey everyone, it's Natalie and I am thrilled to bring you today my conversation with my neighbor Catherine Coverdale who is a partner biologist with the Xerces Society and NRCS. We talk about programs that NRCS and Xerces do for pollinator plantings and weather stations. And we talk about her research for her masters, which was on blueberries and s…

On today's interview, Alex Ball sits down with Jarrad Hearman of Capland Acre in Somerset, UK. Like many other beginning farmers, Jared made the jump to farming during the pandemic and has been working ever since to dial-in his operation and maximize his production. We dig deep on scale-appropriate crop selection, selling at multiple farmers market…

Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback friday and cash crops from cover crops. Links from this episode: Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amz…

Welcome to episode 54 of Growers Daily! We cover: Carbon monoxide poisoning, farm collaborations, and do legume inoculants (rhizobia)persist in the soil? Links from this episode: Legume Inoculation primer: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/plantmaterials/natpmtn13723.pdf Portable Generator kills 12: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/world/europe/georgia-s…

Welcome to episode 53 of Growers Daily! We cover: We cover: How to Dry Greens all the Way, tillage vs no tillage economics, and where to find a farm job. Links from this episode: MTN Roots Wash Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KoaRHV1I4 Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living…

Léa and Ferdinand are two of the twenty-two members of Buzuruna Juzuruna, a 2 ha seed farm and school farm in Lebanon. In this episode, Léa and Ferdinand define the terms “peasant seeds” and “balady seeds” and the challenges of finding local seeds in Lebanon. They also discuss the role of international seed banks in preserving seeds and the importa…

Welcome to episode 52 of Growers Daily! We cover: Today we talk about the future of the wine industry, cool ecological work in viticulture, and if you could do it all over again, would you farm? Links from this episode: ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The biochar handbook :https://amzn.to/3ZAbgHc R…

Welcome to episode 51 of Growers Daily! We cover: Happy Monday. Today we are discussing what days to maturity means on a seed packet, we're talking about how to meet like-minded farmers, and we're talking about the real costs of starting a farm. Links from this episode: ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandb…