Growers Daily

Babies, I consider it one of the hallmarks of professionalism to bring you people who share our tendency towards obsession, because we all know that obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness, but the best obsessions bring forth the most exquisite results. And today, we are talking to not one, but two beautifully, and I mean it, beautifully obsessed people. It is my extreme pleasure to intr...

Welcome to episode 39 of Growers Daily! We cover:   Stop talking about going to Mars, dealing with garden waste, and it's feedback Friday!  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://a...

Welcome to episode 38 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Is it Actually a Farm Without Livestock, Leeky Elephant Garlic, how to track sales at market.    Links from this episode:  Elephant garlic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7249167/     Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www. Patreon.com/notillgrowers     MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrow...

Welcome to episode 36 of Growers Daily! We cover: Companion planting, interplanting, accents, and is the farmers market worth it?     Links from this episode:  Companion Planting Video: https://youtu.be/MvzQKEa2z_A Root knot nematode study:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030442381500076X#:~:text=Although%20all%20tested%20companion%20plants,2009/128/EC). Tomato whitefly an...

Heron Breen is this episode's guest. Heron grows seed on six acres at Fruits of Our Labors in St. Albans, Maine. In this episode, Heron and I discussed the nature of seed work as a plant-based meditation that encompasses sculpture, art, science, and quantum physics, and the generational connection that seed provides across time and space. And then we pivot into talking about how to space seed crop...

Welcome to episode 36 of Growers Daily! We cover: How to get rid of slugs, planning for the planning [sic}, and information overload.    Links from this episode:  live trap: https://amzn.to/4fWpads new organic grower book: https://amzn.to/4fRLeWh sluggo: https://amzn.to/48ZMaFR    Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www. Patreon.com/notillgrowers     MY BOOK! The Living Soil...

Welcome to episode 35 of Growers Daily! We cover: Reviving dead soil, growing messy carrots, and what happened to all the bugs on windshields?    Links from this episode:  Denmark bug study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6580276/   Colorado Bug Study: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.462     Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www. Patre...

Hey everyone, it's Alex Ball of Old City Acres back for another season and I'm so excited to bring you all new interviews with small farmers from all across the country and abroad. This season, we're going to dig deep at what it takes to survive as small -scale farmers, grow your business, and meet your individual farm business goals. We're launching my year off right with a very enlightening and...

Welcome to episode 34 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback friday! Today we also discuss "do you have to mulch garlic" , plus sweet potato roots after being grown in growbags, strawbales and the soil.  Female Farmer Books:   The Ecological Farm: https://amzn.to/3O6caps Sustainable Market Farming: https://amzn.to/4hJn2qS For the Love of Soil: https://amzn.to/3YOaqq4 Worm Farmers Handbook: https://a...

Welcome to Episode 33 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Static Aerated composting, farm conferences, and Living Pathways  Johnson-su : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUGk161Ly8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fregenerationinternational.org%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE Evansville Event : https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural- networking-workshop static aerated vid...

Welcome to Episode 32 of Growers Daily! We cover:   How to start a composting operation, how to stay hydrated, how to deal with pests in composting.    Follow Jayne Insta: https://www.instagram.com/earthcarefarm_ri/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@earthcarefarm1247 Watch our videos with Earth Care How Great compost gets made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0CXHT6kQk&t=4s Peek Inside this comp...

I'm going to be real honest with you, I've been working hard lately. If you're listening to this, I bet you've been working hard, too. Case in point, I JUST got our garlic in the ground in down here in zone 7, but better late than never I suppose. So, I thought I'd seize this opportunity to bring back an old episode, the very FIRST episode of collaborative farm, actually, a conversation I had with...

Welcome to episode 31 of Growers Daily! We cover: Welcome to the book show! We discuss books, how to publish a farm book, and green fallowing.      All the books...  The Organic Business Farmers Handbook: https://amzn.to/40COeBI The No-till Organic Vegetable Farm: https://amzn.to/4fp45rY The Lean Farm: https://amzn.to/4epQfo8 The Lean Micro Farm : https://amzn.to/3O1hqea The New Organic Grower: ht...

Welcome to episode 30 of Growers Daily! We cover: Welcome to Messy Monday--today we discuss exemptions to the organic rule, exemptions to compost rules, refereeing soccer, and oh, a potential game-changing potato method.  FSMA exemptions: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma/fsma-final-rule-produce-safety Potato video:  https://youtu.be/ZJLdLFv6w6o Organic cert exemptions: h...

Hey listeners, it's Natalie. I have a sweet, tart, and charming treat for you today. Bernis Ingvaldson runs Honeyberry USA with her husband Jim out of their farm in northern Minnesota. So this all came about because last year a friend and guest listener, shout out to Michelle, suggested I contact a USDA researcher she knew who had done some work with honeyberries, which are also known as hascaps....

Welcome to episode 28 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Feedback friday! Also we discuss converting a rice paddy, and unfairly awesome life changes.  the drinking episode:  https://youtu.be/YYsX_rzcfsQ 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 Li...

Welcome to episode 28 of Growers Daily! We cover: Clearing a forest, farming herbs, and why did you get into food?  Medicinal Herb Farmer Book: https://amzn.to/4fB4xTP   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:/...

Welcome to episode 27 of Growers Daily! We cover: Composting Leaves, Mulching with leaves and storing food because why not.?! Coolbot: https://storeitcold.referralrock.com/lv1/Y6I33LJV/ Thermostat:  https://amzn.to/3Cq40Wh Root Cellar book: https://amzn.to/3NUmHUP   static aerated cmpost vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755RfsdIzbQ   Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or ww...

Katie Kulla is the author of Farm-Raised Kids. A brand new book from Storey Publishing. Katie is also an illustrator, one of the hosts of the Growing For Market Podcast and farms with her husband at Oakhill Organics on Grand Island in rural Dayton, Oregon. In this episode, we do discuss Katie's brand new book but we also talk a lot about Katie's experience growing seeds and how that experience has...

Welcome to episode 25 of Growers Daily! We cover: Certifications, big mistakes we made on our farm, and New Years Resolutions... but in November.    NRCS soil survey: https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/ Certified Naturally Grown :  https://www.naturallygrown.org/get-certified/ Real Organic Project :  https://realorganicproject.org/get-certified/ NYE resolution study :  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.ni...

Welcome to episode 25 of Growers Daily! We cover:  Dealing with cover crops that have gotten a little out of hand, puzzles, and hopeful planting.    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 Ital...

Today, we are going to break into the uniform tranquility of a beautiful region to speak with my guest, Jason Grauer, who is the Senior Director of Farm and Innovation at the Stone Barns Center . You all may be familiar with Blue Hill at Stone Barns, the very famous and very deservingly famous restaurant in the Hudson Valley of New York, Dan Barber, being the chef there, who also authored the book...

Welcome to episode 24 of Growers Daily! We cover: A love of November, Reclaiming an old garden, confirmation bias, and the first month is in the books!     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/4h2bY...

Welcome to episode 23 of Growers Daily! We cover: Death and animals, rodents in the garden, and popcorn!  Rat trap https://amzn.to/3AixDbC Arizona worm farm video: https://youtu.be/s6M8d4aBwP0 Nytimes article on animals and death: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/science/animals-death-monso.html Composter Podcast with Compost Power NYC: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-composter-podcast...

Welcome to episode 22 of Growers Daily! We cover: Tomato Trellis Cleanup. Some facts about kentucky and some thoughts about competition  tomato trellis video: https://youtu.be/QaLNP3wr6hc   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 So...