Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 74 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback Friday! Are there plants that deter moles? And The Flow State and Chefs.  Links from this episode:    Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8   Pocket gopher IPM guide: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/pocket-gophers/pest-notes/#gsc.tab=0   One MAter Gardener's battle with gophers using plants: https:...

Welcome to episode 73 of Growers Daily! We cover: When The Garden Won't Drain, When the Cover Crops Won't Die, and static aerated compost  Links from this episode:  Living pathway and static aerated compost Ep: https://youtu.be/3GsiPJMIjo4   Static Aerated Compost System:   https://youtu.be/755RfsdIzbQ   Four Winds Farm Composting System: https://youtu.be/bu9aYT7h5Gs   background music:  https://w...

Jared Zystro is a research and education director at the Organic Seed Alliance . Jared is based in Arcada, California. I invited Jared onto this episode so he can tell you about the Organic Seed Growers Conference in Corvallis, Oregon that is taking place from February 26th to March 1st, 2025. I first went to this conference in 2008 and it was the single most important learning experience to my se...

Welcome to episode 72 of Growers Daily! We cover:   History is not history, what data to collect in the garden this year, and what tillage does to soil (but why I sometimes recommend it)  Links from this episode:  Link to discussion about setting goals: https://youtu.be/pThCulhXXp8 Crop Profitability post on the forum: https://notillgrowers.community.chat/post/crop-profitability-comparison-1355264...

Welcome to episode 71 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Country currency, can biochar deactivate herbicides, and shouts to farm conference  Links from this episode:  Bio char and persistent herbicide study: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.05.052 Review of biochar and chemical contaminant remediation:  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651322011629   S...

My guest is Jerry Toth of To'AK Chocolate , a luxury chocolate brand. Jerry studied economics at Cornell University and was a Hansard scholar at the London School of Economics. After very briefly working as an investment banker, he switched gears and relocated to South America in his 20s and then nomadically roamed the continent for several years, working as a foreign correspondent first for Adbus...

Welcome to episode 70 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Feedback Friday + Your soil blocking questions answered + a human-powered compost spreader.  Links from this episode:  Landzie tools:   https://landzie.com     Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https:// www. Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors:   Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful He...

Welcome to episode 69 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Growing onions from seed, do you need to trim onions before planting, and a passive potting mix? Maybe! Links from this episode:  Trimming onions study: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8213/9e1802c8f5b57f434f5b0a751a71cbbffdcd.pdf reduced fertilizer and pesticide applications and onions study https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/6/1292     Support...

Hey Compost Lovers, I just booked my flights to Phoenix for USCC Compost Conference 2025 . Join me, January 27th to 30th for compost enthusiasts from all over the globe unite to celebrate all things soil, sustainability, and innovation. What's in store? Workshops galore. Dive into fresh ideas, techniques, and discussions that'll make your Compost games stronger. The trade show. I'll be hanging at...

Welcome to episode 68 of Growers Daily! We cover:    why I'm Dropping Organic certification and bailing on the farmers market and also, thoughts on recycling waste water from washing vegetables.  Links from this episode:  Sanidate label: https://cdn.commercev3.net/cdn.arbico-organics.com/downloads/sanidate-5_sds_20200729.pdf   Sage Hill Ranch Video: https://youtu.be/ipNv8yo8uoY Foop Video: https:/...

Welcome to episode 67 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Soil Blocks Vs The World + Our Lost Relationship with Fire + can you grow popcorn and sweet corn together Links from this episode:  Swiftblocker: https://www.swiftblocker.com Winstrips: https://neversinktools.com/collections/winstrip-trays All About the Garden cell trays: https://allaboutthegarden.com/collections/long-lasting-seed-trays   Book: An...

Welcome to episode 66 of Growers Daily! We cover:   How Farming is Already Futuristic,  how much every tray of seedlings is worth, What the next few months look like on the farm.  Links from this episode:    Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https:// www. Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors:   Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Herita...

On today's show, Alex Ball of Old City Acres sits down -again- with Jordan Schiebel of Middle Way Farm to discuss his newest project, Grinnell Farm to Table located in Grinnell, Iowa. We dig deep on managing a multi-farm food hub, Justins's sales in the farm and diversifying your food business to be more resilient. Jordan is a wealth of knowledge and someone I've really enjoyed watching as he's ev...

Welcome to episode 65 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Feedback Friday, How to keep bed width, and what to plant and what to transplant  Links from this episode:    Soil test variation research: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/saj2.20280   Soil test variations research 2:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00103624.2019.1709488   Ten Mothers Bed Flip Video: https://...

Welcome to episode 64 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Solar Panels on Farms + The Market Garden in The Dead of Winter, bird flu, cancer warnings on alcohol, LA fires,  Links from this episode:  The CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html   Innovative Solar Practices Integrated with Rural Economies and Ecosystems: https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE   Jack's Solar Garden https://www...

Welcome to episode 63 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Marketing a Farm, Soil testing with Deep compost mulc 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: https://peacefulheritage.com   CODE: NOTILL   MY BOOK! The Living Soil Han...

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: https://peacefulheritage.com   COD...

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 Sponsors:   Harnois Greenhouses...

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 is to flourish. All are interrelated. For young an...

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/id1570007965?i=1000682307661   Josh's Course: https:/...

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/notillgrowers     Show Sponsors:   Har...

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/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has...

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 membership. He talks about his returning to the farm, th...

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/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The...

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/documents/pdf/in-service-training/ist...