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Welcome to episode 513 of Growers Daily! Today is mailbag day and it's a good and nerdy one. We will be discussing what to bunch produce with; plant roots invading drain lines, AND do plants ward off or attract pests with the sugars they create? We shall see. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16...

Welcome to episode 512 of Growers Daily! Today, we're gonna talk all the frost hardy crop talk we can. So we will do a winter greens breakdown, growing great leeks, and a fall kale deep dive. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league: ...

Welcome to episode 511 of Growers Daily! Today you are coming with me to this 2026 KY composting council conference to hear from legend (and dear friend) Jayne Merner on the composting farm she helps run with her dad, plus we will hear a little bit from the great Jean Bonhotal on her work as well. Pack your bags.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu...

Welcome to episode 510 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking corn, like all of it. AND we do some germination trouble shooting as we are wont to do around here. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantasy. premierleagu...

Welcome to episode 509 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking about compost as the future, we're discussing treated seeds ("treated" is a generous term there), 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:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  http...

Welcome to episode 508 of Growers Daily! Today we are dipping into our mailbag to see what's in there. We will take a question about using spent potting mix from a hydroponics grower, we will talk Yellow Jackets, we will talk refrigeration options, and how to get rid of (practically) weed. Jam packed today! We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id...

Welcome to episode 507 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking about the market garden in the dead of winter, What it takes to winter garden, and some Lessons in winter farming with Dan gagnon of Broadfork 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:  No-Till Growers Fanta...

Welcome to episode 506 of Growers Daily! Today we are officially kicking off interview season with, well, some of our new favorite interviewers (Iriel Edwards and Myles Gaines) talking small grain growing and hosting a podcast about it. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for toda...

Welcome to episode 505 of Growers Daily! Today we are going to finally do some mushroom talk as promised, and we talk about how to store what produce where. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantasy. premierleague.com...

Welcome to episode 504 of Growers Daily! Today we talk about the potential and proven roles of engineers on farms, plus I take you out to the field with me to plant some garlic. Oh, and did I mention it was feedback friday? It's true. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:...

Welcome to episode 503 of Growers Daily! Today we are discussing plant based ground covers, talking about microscopes and taking a question about taking a cutting from a perennial and rooting it—-a lively mailbag day if ever there was one, so let's do it. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/160476...

Welcome to episode 502 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking all about farming with kids: from farming with a baby, to getting kids into gardening, and we even revisit a conversation with with the great Mikey and Kez at Five Tales Farm about the subject. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/160476...

Welcome to episode 501 of Growers Daily! Today we are going to talk about making big decisions and we'll talk both Teff and Chia (yes again, but better) and some expanded thoughts on how to use them as cover crops or potential pathway crops (for the teff). We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047...

Welcome to episode 500 of Growers Daily! Today we are going to just do some general seed saving talk, discuss what you need to know about your first frost, and we take a question from someone who discovered their garlic was moldy 3 weeks before planting. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/1604766...

Welcome to episode 499 of Growers Daily! Today we take a question about when the weeds take over the garden like a frustrating but fairly quiet rebellion. Then we visit our sweet potato harvest to talk about some good and some pesty stuff. And it's feedback friday, y'all.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.o...

Welcome to episode 498 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking one of my FAV subjects (farm footwear), we talk planting garlic in the spring, and about a ground fit for a meadow.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fant...

Welcome to episode 497 of Growers Daily! Today we are going to revisit episode one of the show and talk a little about what I've learned in two years of doing this show every day We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fant...

Welcome to episode 496 of Growers Daily! Today we are dialing in our cover crop mixes to our soil health needs. And getting ground ready on the fly (but on the healthy, too). We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantasy....

Welcome to episode 495 of Growers Daily! Today we're breaking down garlic because 'tis the season, and we'll also take a question about soil sampling without breaking the bank. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantas...

Welcome to episode 494 of Growers Daily! Today we're talking about adding sand to clay (or more precisely why you definitely should not do that), We'll plant some winter kill cover crops from the field, 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:  No-...

Welcome to episode 493 of Growers Daily! Today we're gonna look at aging and longevity responsibly, take another question about purslane as a ground cover (there must be something in the water this year) and discuss some of my favorite things No-Till Growers has done.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/...

Welcome to episode 492 of Growers Daily! Today we're gonna talk Living Pathways: my lessons in them; regrets, but also what grows there.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantasy. premierleague.com/leagues/ auto-join...

Welcome to episode 491 of Growers Daily! Today we are going to discuss a few things to consider before you just start throwing cover crops seed down for the winter AND we take a question about starting a regenerative farming organization in this world.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666...

Welcome to episode 490 of Growers Daily! Today we are talking green beans, if those nitrogen fixing rhizobium inoculants are worth it, and all things green bean.   We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  https://fantasy. premierlea...

Welcome to episode 489 of Growers Daily! Today we're talking about why starting a farm should not start with land, we check in on the chia cover cropping trials, 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:  No-Till Growers Fantasy Football league:  ht...