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 Adbusters magazine and taking other odd jobs. But during that time, he witnessed an era of unrestrained e...
Jan 20, 2025âĸ1 hr 43 min
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 (đ) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https:// 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 Handbook đ đ https://www.noti...
Jan 17, 2025âĸ24 min
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 our work (đ) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https:// www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Spons...
Jan 16, 2025âĸ20 min
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 booth 501 checking out Viably's latest Komptech innovations and so much more. The demo day on the la...
Jan 16, 2025âĸ24 min
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://youtu.be/yqfExLFPixY Support our work (đ) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https:// www.Patreo...
Jan 15, 2025âĸ21 min
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.b...
Jan 14, 2025âĸ23 min
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 (đ) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https:// 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 Handbook đ đ https://www.notil...
Jan 13, 2025âĸ18 min
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. Folks who make the show possible... Farmhand ...
Jan 13, 2025âĸ1 hr 24 min
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://p...
Jan 10, 2025âĸ22 min
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-promi...
Jan 09, 2025âĸ18 min
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 (đ) 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 Handbook đ đ https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/...
Jan 08, 2025âĸ19 min
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 (đ) 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 Handbook đ đ https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of Th...
Jan 07, 2025âĸ20 min
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 (đ) 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 Liv...
Jan 06, 2025âĸ21 min
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 hu...
Jan 06, 2025âĸ1 hr 16 min
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://sma...
Jan 03, 2025âĸ24 min
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 (đ) 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 ...
Jan 02, 2025âĸ25 min
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&...
Jan 01, 2025âĸ20 min
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 f...
Jan 01, 2025âĸ43 min
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 (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook đ đ 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-fr...
Dec 31, 2024âĸ16 min
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/hor...
Dec 30, 2024âĸ20 min
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 wa...
Dec 30, 2024âĸ1 hr 7 min
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. Folks who make the show possible... Rimol Greenhouses are strong, durable and easy to asse...
Dec 23, 2024âĸ1 hr 14 min
Welcome to episode 55 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback friday and cash crops from cover crops. Links from this episode: Support our work (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook đ đ 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 ...
Dec 20, 2024âĸ20 min
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 Support our work (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living S...
Dec 19, 2024âĸ17 min
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 (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Living Soil Handbook đ đ https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot Italian Copy h...
Dec 19, 2024âĸ19 min
LÊa 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, LÊa 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 back to where they originated. Ferdinand describes the seed house at Buzuruna Juzuruna and how they c...
Dec 18, 2024âĸ1 hr 16 min
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! đ https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The biochar handbook : https://amzn.to/3ZAbgHc Revino Recycling Wine Bottles: https://www.revinobottles.com Support our work (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers ...
Dec 17, 2024âĸ32 min
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! đ https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook First Year Expense Post from the Forum: https://notillgrowers.community.chat/post/a-financial-summary-of-a-firstyear-farm-13536423?trail=15 High-...
Dec 16, 2024âĸ22 min
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, she specializes in biochar technology and market development commissioned by a broad portfolio of ...
Dec 16, 2024âĸ1 hr 24 min
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! đ 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.html Support our work (đ) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK! The Li...
Dec 13, 2024âĸ19 min
