Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 191 of Growers Daily! We cover: making perishable greens and such last in the cooler (plus other harvest tips), a cover crop for root knot nematodes and a bokashi composting tomato situation… We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Sunn Hemp Episode: ...

Welcome to episode 190 of Growers Daily! We cover: an awesome interview for you with Dr. Patrick Freeze of the Ward Labs which is where we have been getting soil tests the last few years. And Dr. Freeze discusses what this test is, how to take it, and what soil amending looks like when biology is the focal point. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_but...

Welcome to episode 189 of Growers Daily! We cover: automating the farm to grow it, how I started this whole doing this making videos thing, and $400 musk melons. Yeah, each. TILTH TUESDAY! www.tilthsoil.com We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Onions Video: https://yout...

Welcome to episode 188 of Growers Daily! We cover: mulching around tomatoes in a tropical climate, the fall garden… yeah, now, in July, we have to talk about it because it's coming right up in farmer time, and it's feedback… monday.  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 187 of Growers Daily! We cover: seed storage, sweet potato spacing to maximize space, and burying rotten woodchips We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Review on fireworks research and ecology:  https://www.publish.csiro.au/ pc/Fulltext/PC22040#:~:t...

Welcome to episode 186 of Growers Daily! We cover: prepping soil for heavy feeders, the wild world of rhizosheaths, and sowing a crop into a standing cover crop. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Rhizosheath: Distinct features and environmental functions:  https://...

Welcome to episode 185 of Growers Daily! We cover: what would you grow for cooking if you couldn't eat alliums, we will discuss the perils of washing our hands of greenwashing, and what to do with excess 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:     Vermont green F...

Welcome to episode 184 of Growers Daily! We cover: if school teaches us what we will actually use, different types of packaging for produce, and what we're up to headed into July. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Brother ql-800 series printer: https://amzn.to/ 4et...

Welcome to episode 183 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic rust and what to do about it, how to tell if your soil is healthy, 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:    Garlic Rust Info:  https://blogs.cornell.edu/ livegpath/gallery/garlic/ garlic-r...

Welcome to episode 182 of Growers Daily! We cover: birds that cause problems in the garden, composters avoiding contaminants, and starting a market garden when you're sixty. 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 birds and brassicas, cucurbits and solanaceae: ...

Welcome to episode 181 of Growers Daily! We cover: the current state of farmer's markets, the ins and the outs of a market manager's day, and market tensions that arise. Catt Fields White from Farmer's Market Pros and the Tent Talk podcast joins us for a chat! We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/1...

Welcome to episode 180 of Growers Daily! We cover: if natural dyes will become a market for small-scale growers, how to manage yourself in the heat, and then how to manage the garden.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Video Clip Request: Send a (no more than) 20 s...

Welcome to episode 179 of Growers Daily! We cover: broadcasting cover crops into untouched ground, why no-till actually makes things harder, and the explosion of tick populations. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Video Clip Request: Send a (no more than) 20 second...

Welcome to episode 178 of Growers Daily! We cover: a potting soil horror story, how to understand your farmland, 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:  OAK Event in Lexington:  https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd   Data Centers, electricity and farming art...

Welcome to episode 177 of Growers Daily! We cover: if compost counts as a crop in a rotation, ants, and crop planning tips for a CSA. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  OAK Event in Lexington:  https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd   Compost and disease suppression:  https://sci-...

Welcome to episode 176 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic curing and storage, the overlooked relationship between manufacturing and farm land, and flower power. But the easy way.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  OAK Event in Lexington:  https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd  ...

Welcome to episode 175 of Growers Daily! We cover: deficiencies versus diseases (or pests), public lands being sold for development, and just to shake things up, do hedgerows work? We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  OAK Event in Lexington:  https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd  ...

Welcome to episode 174 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic harvesting, if you have to follow the food safety guidelines, and how to use the different types of lettuce. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  Listeria Outbreak:  https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/ 10.1056/NEJMoa1...

Welcome to episode 173 of Growers Daily! We cover: chefs using AI, dealing with cover crops in the land where they will not die over winter, 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:  The Chef and AI Article:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/ 06/02/dini...

Welcome to episode 172 of Growers Daily! We cover: what agricultural term best fits you, Comfrey, and diseases and crover crops! We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:  A good comfrey breakdown:  https://www.permaculture.co. uk/articles/comfrey-its- history-uses-benefits/#...

Welcome to episode 171 of Growers Daily! We cover: I had the absolute privilege of catching up with Betsy Lamb, part of Cornell University's Integrated Pest management program who offered us a ton of insight not just on how aphids work and what they do to plants but what we as growers can do to manage them.  We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_i...

Welcome to episode 170 of Growers Daily! We cover: walking on garden beds (or not), give a shout to the woods, and rotating crops in tight spaces. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    A review of forest therapy research:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article...

Welcome to episode 169 of Growers Daily! We cover: a crop rotation puzzle, we'll discuss increasing your soil's health this summer, and sheep as complementary livestock to market gardening. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    None!   MUSIC from this episode:  Summer...

Welcome to episode 168 of Growers Daily! We cover: dirty produce, jumping worms, and it's feed back 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:    2024 Jumping worms research  https://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/ S1164556323001267   good primer on jumping...

Welcome to episode 167 of Growers Daily! We cover: trellising pole beans in a tunnel, what is actually going on inside of a compost pile, and cover some of the basics of soil amending. We are a Non-Profit!   👇  🙌  DONATE   🙌  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/ profile/16047666   Links for today:    Great Science of compost breakdown:  https://c...