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  • 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 Idigenous Poeple's History of the United States: https://amzn.to/4hcv36P

    Paperpot vid : https://youtu.be/R53jNXK2-qw

    NYtimes Article about US Forest Service member arrest: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/oregon-prescribed-burn-boss-arrested.html

    New Mexico Fire: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/us/new-mexico-wildfire-forest-service.html

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  • 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.

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  • 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 evolved his food business over the last couple of years.

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    ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) will offer the Business of Farming Conference on Saturday, February 22, in Asheville, North Carolina. Find out more at asapconnections.org.

    Since 1972 Ohio earth food has been the go-to source for soil testing, consulting, fertilizers, seed starting soils, foliar sprays and disease and insect controls. Visit them at ohioearthfood.com.

    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

  • 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdH3rhiGIl8&t=248s

    Why rates of tobacco use have declined so dramatically https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3894634/#:~:text=Improved%20understanding%20of%20the%20health,report%20on%20smoking%20and%20health.

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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.instagram.com/jackssolargarden/

    A good Agrivoltaics summary: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/made-shade-promise-farming-solar-panels

    INspire: https://openei.org/wiki/InSPIRE/ASTRO

    Agrivoltaic Raspberry farm in the netherlands : https://www.baywa.com/en/about/electricity-heating-mobility/europes-largest-fruitvoltaic-project#:~:text=A%20Roof%20for%20Raspberries%3A%20How,be%20enough%20for%202%2C810%20households.

    German cost comparison: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/03/26/cost-comparison-between-agrivoltaics-and-ground-mounted-pv/

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • Welcome to episode 63 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Marketing a Farm, Soil testing with Deep compost mulc

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    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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?

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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 and old alike, this work together will create a place in which to become, in the true sense, a full human being."

    Babies, today Mimi is speaking with Martin Ping of Hawthorne Valley Farm and Hawthorne Valley Association, which is, to call it the farm or an association or anything could never really appreciate everything that it is. Martin has been at Hawthorne Valley for more than 30 years. You will appreciate what a treasure he is just listening to him. He's one of those people that you feel immediate kinship with and I can't tell you how much I recommend just browsing the websites of the Hawthorne Valley Association, because you can then begin to appreciate how they have managed to really honor that vision of holes nested in other holes and the interconnection and interrelated nature of all of the work that needs to be brought within one organism for everything to thrive.

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    When you need proven varieties you can count on and detailed guidance from seeding to harvest, consider Johnny’s your trusted growing partner. Visit johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand is the only all-in-one virtual assistant built by and for farmers. Sign up for a free trial with the link in the show notes, because NOW is the best time to dial in those systems for the next growing season.

    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

  • 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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhRvDbqclpaKG2pYidQ3P2U0sPcY-5I2

    Cornell Small Farming Course: https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/online-courses/

    Article with Earl Butz Quote 1972: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/16/archives/up-up-up-butz-makes-hay-down-on-the-farm-butz-makes-hay-down-on-the.html?searchResultPosition=1

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  • 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

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/

    Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI&t=21s

    Onion Video: https://studio.youtube.com/video/0dZKcDITq5c/edit

    Organic Farmland Shrinking in France: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/06/18/france-s-organic-farmed-land-shrunk-for-the-first-time-in-2023_6675100_19.html

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    Show Sponsors:

    Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/

    and

    Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com

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    The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

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  • 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, their simplified and flexible business structure, using what he learned about ecology to develop the farms ownership/membership model, and that you don’t have to have it all figured out to begin to include other members of the farm in the decision-making process.

    Heather, his wife, is the manager of the Slo-Farmers Coop, a farmer marketing cooperative of eight small farms providing a free choice, direct to consumer CSA, and we get into how that evolved over time, took off during covid, and how keystone farms can leverage their production capacity to not only sell more produce, but make space for beginning and specialty farmers, as well.

    They, and I mean the now five farmer owners of fun circle community farm, were awarded the marbleseed farmers of the year award in 2024. If your interested in hearing more about what they are doing, both Andrew and Heather will be presenting at Marbleseeds 2025 conference happening February 20th through the 22nd.

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  • Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Lessons from Indigenous Agriculture + What Insurance Farmers Need

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    Tending the Wild (book): https://amzn.to/3DMndSJ

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  • 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/ist30614/IST30614---23.pdf

    Grafting tomatoes economics study: https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/23/5/article-p613.xml

    Organic feed the world study in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01410-w

    A good balanced summary of the research on “Can organic feed the world” https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/Vol08x07CanOrganicFarmingFeedTheWorld.pdf

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  • 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 when I talked with Bernice about honeyberries, she was discussing the spotted wing drosophila. So it was neat to get to the biology of SWD with Catherine. I hope you enjoy our conversation and maybe even take advantage of some of these programs that are out there to help farmers with some of these ecological practices to encourage native pollinators and the like.

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    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

  • 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 climates.

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    Rimol Greenhouses are strong, durable and easy to assemble, offering the quality you need to grow productively year-round. Visit Rimol.com today.

    Discover the beauty of BCS on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost, mowing under fences, clearing snow, and more – at bcsamerica.com.

    When you need proven varieties you can count on and detailed guidance from seeding to harvest, consider Johnny’s your trusted growing partner. Visit johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand is the only all-in-one virtual assistant built by and for farmers. Sign up for a free trial with the link in the show notes, because NOW is the best time to dial in those systems for the next growing season.

    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

  • Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Feedback friday and cash crops from cover crops.

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  • 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

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    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

    German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374

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  • 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.

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    MTN Roots Wash Pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KoaRHV1I4 Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

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    The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

    French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot

    Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html

    German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374

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