Growers Daily

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 spotted wing drosophila, which was cool because whe...

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 markets, and using compost as a deep mulch in cooler by...

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://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://ww...

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-ski-resort-carbon-monoxide-poisoning.html  ...

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 Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.n...

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 importance of reclaiming these seeds and bringing them b...

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 Revino Recycling Wine Bottles: https://www...

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/livingsoilhandbook     First Year Expense Post from the For...

You've all heard it. Black is the new green. We're gonna, we're talking today about biochar and a big, big topic these days in the arenas that we tread in. Kelpie Wilson, my guest today, wrote and just released the Biochar Handbook . Kelpie is founder of Wilson Biochar Associates and a mechanical engineer, writer and consultant with a background in renewable energy and forest protection. Currently...

Welcome to episode 50  of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback friday! Plus we discuss tips for a more efficient farm and the simplest of crop planning tactics.    Links from this episode:  ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Bird Flu USDA hotline - 1-866-536-7593 CDC updates on Bird Flu outbreak:  https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.ht...

Welcome to episode 49  of Growers Daily! We cover: A Guide to bird flu for small farmers, why I don't own a tractor, and where to get farm and market garden updates.    Links from this episode:    Bird Flu USDA hotline - 1-866-536-7593 Chris Newman Video on Farm Subsidies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY5rTMGRPJY&t=625s Canadian Teenage with Birdflur: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-report...

Welcome to episode 48  of Growers Daily! We cover:   Would Wood Chips Make a Good Surface mulch? Had a weedy year--here's what to do.  And the phases of a farm.  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...

Kelly Maynard is a cooperative development specialist at the university of Wisconsin center for cooperative development and we're going to get into some practical advice and tools you can use when thinking about going into cooperative farming, yourself, or yourselves, as it were. This is the second coop development person, or forth depending on how you define that role, I've had on this season to,...

Welcome to episode 47  of Growers Daily! We cover:   End Daylight saving--a farmer's solution. We discuss AI generated forecasts and what that will mean for farms, and naps. Naps for president.    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/livingsoilha...

Welcome to episode 46 of Growers Daily! We cover:   watermelon profitability, traveling, KNF, biodynamics, JADAM and more!  Links from this episode:    Sunday's Video: https://youtu.be/SxFjb0i8sbE   OAK Conference: https://www.oak-ky.org/annual-conference   KNF study from Hawaii https://gms.ctahr.hawaii.edu/gs/handler/getmedia.ashx?moid=3976&dt=2&g=12   Chris Trump Podcast with me 2019: https://po...

Hey listeners, it's Natalie and today I've got a conversation with my friend Ryan Maher from Cornell, formerly from the Cornell Small Farm Program about deep compost mulch. If that sounds familiar, it might be because Jesse talked about Ryan's research on his daily podcast several weeks ago or months ago. I don't know. I lose track of time. Ryan and his colleagues were able to do an eight-year res...

Stephen Silverbear McComber is a seedkeeper and a recently elected chief on the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke whose portfolio is sustainable development. Silverbear tells us about the seeds that different people shared with him while visiting different First Nations communities within the Confederacy. He tells us how he has taken care of these seeds and a generation later, he has been able to retur...

Welcome to episode 45 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Squash bugs, getting lists done, and the crops I like to grow that don't make dough.  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 44 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Should farms actually be three farms? Overwintering Peppers on Production Farms, and late season cover cropping.  Links from this episode:  ‼️  Support us by Shopping Patagonia: https://www.patagonia.com/black-friday.html ‼️  No-Dig Dahlias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EUobMZfWc Cover Crop Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-IYSxbbuE...

Today, host Alex Ball sits down with Chirstian Flickinger of Renegade Acres to discuss their certified organic heirloom vegetable farm and their organic seed business, Garden Hoard. They are a year round operation growing produce through the spring-fall for sale to farmers markets while saving and processing seeds for winter packaging and sales. Their business started as a seed business, Garden Ho...

Welcome to episode 43 of Growers Daily! We cover: Today we are talking about growing ginger, dealing with the weeds from seeds, and it's feedback friday! Dan Brisebois joins the show again! Preorder Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Links from this episode:  ‼️  Support us by Shopping Patagonia: https://www.patagonia.com/black-friday.html ‼️  Grow ginger...

Welcome to episode 41 of Growers Daily! We cover: Farming can be a lonely job, how to breed the seeds we want (and where to get the seeds to start with), and prepping the farm for winter.  Links from this episode:  Preorder Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook O'Hara No-Till book: https://amzn.to/3Orn0Xh Neversink perforated polytunnels: https://neversinkto...

Welcome back to Collab Farm, the podcast where we talk about all the ways small- and mid-scale farmers can work together, even in big $10 million food system rebuilding kinds of ways. Like this conversation that I had with Lexi Close from Appalachia Regional Cooperative Development and the Appalachia Producers Co-op. Now, Lexi is involved with much of the work going on in a cooperative beef proces...

Welcome to episode 41 of Growers Daily! We cover: Seeders, non-profits vs for-profit farms, and what seeds make sense for you to save in your region.    Links from this episode:  Jang Seeder: https://shop.moderngrower.co/collections/jang   Earthway Seeder: https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/seeders/earthway/earthway-seeder-9170.html   Four Row Pinpoint Seeder: https://www.johnnyseeds.com/t...

Welcome to episode 40 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Seed Week Begins with talking about some of the my favorite seeds to save. We also discuss how I'm adapting my planting to a warmer climate and later frost date, and Dan Brisebois joins the show to talk seed contracts!    Links from this episode:    From Homestead to Farm Video: https://youtu.be/Lh1MOOpxjAU cover crop gone wild Video: https://you...