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-reports/features/113321#:~:text=Canadian%20public%20health%20officials%20closed,was%20released%20from%20the%2...
Dec 12, 2024•22 min
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 Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-m...
Dec 11, 2024•20 min
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, if nothing else, drive the point home that there are people out there who's life work it is support...
Dec 11, 2024•59 min
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/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.i...
Dec 10, 2024•20 min
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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-till-market-garden-podcast/id1441886206?i=1000450827032 KNF book: htt...
Dec 09, 2024•24 min
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 research project comparing essentially different farming systems, not just different farming practices,...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 10 min
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 return some of these seeds to the families of the folks who shared them with him, and the joy and connect...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 4 min
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://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-viven...
Dec 03, 2024•20 min
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&list=PLGMgkMLKOtWu2VFfX46liznymtIz1o69p Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www...
Dec 02, 2024•18 min
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 Hoard, and grew into the actual production farm Renegade Acres. Katie, who started the seed business, ...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 10 min
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 guide https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/08/early-season-heating-shows-promise-boosting-ginger-harvest#...
Nov 29, 2024•26 min
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://neversinktools.com/collections/lowcat-low-tunnel/LowCat-Covering Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/s...
Nov 27, 2024•28 min
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 processing facility that's currently under construction in Washington County, Eastern Tennessee. We get in...
Nov 27, 2024•57 min
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/tools-supplies/seeders/pinpoint/four-row-pinpoint-seeder-9285.html The Haraka Seeder I want to try one day wh...
Nov 26, 2024•27 min
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://youtu.be/nz8TXSjnwtk Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY...
Nov 25, 2024•25 min
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 introduce you to my very dear friends Robin Touchet and Kevin Pike of Branchwater Farms. Robin and Kevin...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 23 min
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://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-viv...
Nov 22, 2024•19 min
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.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy https://w...
Nov 21, 2024•18 min
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 and marigold study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6396911/ Accents and Social Mobility in the UK h...
Nov 20, 2024•19 min
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 crops and the reasons and importance of broader spacing before delving into what words like heirloom and...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 38 min
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 Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https:/...
Nov 19, 2024•19 min
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.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook F...
Nov 18, 2024•18 min
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 uplifting interview with Jennifer Dunbar of Lovelight Farm in Birmingham, Alabama. We talk about far...
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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://amzn.to/4fQJYTh Other links from this episode: Managing Cover Crops Profitably: https://www.sare.org/res...
Nov 15, 2024•21 min
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755RfsdIzbQ Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/supp...
Nov 14, 2024•19 min
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 compost operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XabdzBXJq0&t=583s Support our work (👊) at www.no...
Nov 13, 2024•32 min
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 Chris bonder of Close to Home Organics and Glen Valley Farm . This one still comes to mind as one o...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 23 min
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: https://amzn.to/3O67GPW The Winter Harvest Handbook: https://amzn.to/3O9fqAk The Market Gardener: https://amz...
Nov 12, 2024•21 min
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: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/2%20Exempt%20Producers%20FINAL%20RGK%20V2.pdf Suppor...
Nov 11, 2024•20 min
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. The researcher sent me to Bernis, who has established herself as one of the experts in growing hasca...
Nov 11, 2024•56 min
