Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 369 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're gonna try to speed up your onion endeavors, we'll talk celery leaf curl and pill bug/roly poly management (specifically in the celery, but also everywhere) and crop planning for success… ions.   We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/1604...

Welcome to episode 368 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're going to talk mulches—specifically how to mulch to actually suppress weeds, finding the right mulch, and wood chips cause why not. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from this episode:  The Eight...

Welcome to episode 367 of Growers Daily! We cover: we're asking if agriculture was the biggest mistake in history, we're taking a question about switching to a greenhouse from an…. In-the-house, and the mighty (useful) auger bit We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Jare...

Welcome to episode 366 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're doing a whole eggplant breakdown, and using (and improving) the lawn for mulch.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from this episode:  I Stepped Out in the Sunshine by Daniel Fridell I'm Gonna G...

Welcome to episode 365 of Growers Daily! We cover: farmland (what's left of it at least), the dogma free garden, and a little about AI because it's friday and why not. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Brooks' Essay:  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/ 03/12/opinion/who-w...

Welcome to episode 364 of Growers Daily! We cover: what the next month looks like on my farm and some related topics from episodes from other months on my farm. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  This year's NCAA bracket Challenge:  https://picks. cbssports.com/colleg...

Welcome to episode 363 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we are talking about creative ways to sell and price produce. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  This year's NCAA bracket Challenge:  https://picks. cbssports.com/college- basketball/ncaa-tournament/ bracket/poo...

Welcome to episode 362 of Growers Daily! We cover: We're gonna discuss scythes and hand scythes and if they're worth it then we will revisit a few old segments including which tools you should buy first, weeding gear, and the tools that make it easier from interview with the great Erin Worrall. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVS...

Welcome to episode 361 of Growers Daily! We cover: we'll discuss how I grow carrots in clay, making every crop succeed, especially carrots, and a little snippet from an old carrot video from 2022 (so the sound may be a bit different for that segment). We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666  ...

Welcome to episode 360 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're gonna talk farm resiliency in the first two segments, and then in the third discuss the art of making farm decisions. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  This year's NCAA bracket Challenge:  https://picks....

Welcome to episode 359 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're gonna do a harvest day celebration, talking about the most and least enjoyable crops to harvest, how to dry greens, types of packaging for each crop, and what crops you should harvest first on harvest day. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ p...

Welcome to episode 358 of Growers Daily! We cover: all about improving the soil this spring: decompacting the soil without making it worse, some basics of soil amending and even managing rocky soil. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  This year's NCAA bracket Challenge...

Welcome to episode 357 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode is all about potting up, we're gonna hear a little bit from composter Nathan Rutz and talk about proper usage of the broadfork. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/...

Welcome to episode 356 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode is all about tomatoes, from starting tomatoes, grafting tomatoes, and finally, can you let your tomatoes grow wild? We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt...

Welcome to episode 355 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode we've gathered some segments on common garden pests, growing squash without the bugs, pests you can't just exclude, and even get a little cameo from our friend Jayne Merner to talk about pests in compos...

Welcome to episode 354 of Growers Daily! We cover: today is a total tunnel show, looking back at a few segments we did on big high tunnel mistakes, if heating a tunnel would be worth it, and building that dream tunnel. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from...

  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Patreon link to ask questions: https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-update-on-152589833     MUSIC from this episode:  Solace by Staffan Carlan via  www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at  https://www.notillgrowers.com/supp...

Welcome to episode 353 of Growers Daily! We cover: we are chatting with Dan Gangon of Broadfork Farm in Virginia. I saw Dan and his partner Janet speak at the VABF conference a few years back and I just loved how down to earth they were about the ups and downs of winter farming, farming in general, and work life balance, which is a lot of what we chat about today. We are also gonna be talking abou...

Welcome to episode 352 of Growers Daily! We cover: not transferring a certain potato disease from the tubers, solving big problems little-ly, and it's feedback friday, of course. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Study on controlling scab with biological inoculum:  h...

Welcome to episode 351 of Growers Daily! We cover: why plants can go from good to bad so quickly sometimes, cover cropping in raised beds, and a nightmare straw scenario.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    MUSIC from this episode:  Running to Recess by American Leg...

Welcome to episode 350 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're talking coffee! As a coffee drinker and soil nerd myself, I was very excited when I met Patricia Cordero at the OAK conference last month and she told me her area of study was soil conservation in coffee production in Puerto Rico. So, naturally, I asked her to come on and talk a bit about the coffee production and soil there and oh boy...

Welcome to episode 349 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're talking air, we discuss speeding up the potatoes, and flailing the fire out of some grass and weeds. Or just a special type of mower. Or both.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  IHME study on air pollutio...

Welcome to episode 348 of Growers Daily! We cover: growing for green tomatoes (and not the heirloom types) and fats in the compost pile We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from this episode:  February Moon by Victor Lundberg via  www.epidemicsound.com   Suppo...

Welcome to episode 347 of Growers Daily! We cover: some soil blocking alternatives (with a fun AI question attached—you know how that goes with me), saving the soil for the future, and it's feedback friday!  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Studies on rice desiccati...

Welcome to episode 346 of Growers Daily! We cover: we will put the N in no-till (see what I did there—N? Nitrogen), anyway we will also be keeping basil looking fresh, and talking about what to look for in a software.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Obituary for D...