The No-Till Market Garden Podcast is a nuts and bolts (and earthworms and microbes) look at how to run a productive, profitable no-till market garden for small and mid-sized farmers.
The No-Till Market Garden Podcast is an incredibly valuable resource for anyone interested in farming, particularly those looking to start their own small market no till farm. The podcast provides informative and fun content that listeners can learn from and apply to their own farming endeavors. The hosts are knowledgeable and the guests hold nothing back, providing realistic and down-to-earth knowledge about gardening and farming. It covers a wide range of topics, from collaborative farming to seed saving, making it a valuable tool for both novice market farmers and home gardeners.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is its informative nature. Listeners consistently learn little tips and tricks that greatly benefit their farming endeavors. The guests on the show are experts in their field, providing a wealth of knowledge and experience. The podcast also touches on various topics that may not be easily found through other resources, such as grants for new market gardeners or incorporating hugelkulturs into a profitable market garden. Additionally, the hosts are engaging and make learning about farming fun.
While there are many positive aspects to this podcast, one potential downside is that some episodes may be more applicable to commercial farmers rather than casual hobbyists. However, even hobbyist farmers can still learn a lot from the show and find value in the information provided. Another minor criticism is that the remix of the theme music can be distracting for some listeners who enjoyed the original version.
In conclusion, The No-Till Market Garden Podcast is an excellent resource for anyone interested in farming or gardening. It offers valuable insights into various topics related to no till methods, soil health, cover cropping, and more. The hosts are engaging and knowledgeable, making learning about farming enjoyable. Despite some minor drawbacks, this podcast is highly recommended for anyone looking to enhance their knowledge of sustainable farming practices and improve their own farming endeavors.
Welcome to episode 339 of Growers Daily! We cover: the many species of HUMANS who once walked the earth together, valuing your labor, and I'm gonna bring you along while I start some seeds. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 338 of Growers Daily! We cover: spinach from seed to table, and taking a quick question about grants for market gardeners. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 337 of Growers Daily! We cover: water filtration for municipal water, self sustaining farms, and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 336 of Growers Daily! We cover: starting market gardens and finding customers, balancing soil disturbance and cover crops, and stretching them muscles so you don't hurt yourselves. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 335 of Growers Daily! We cover: your spring prep questions-LIVE! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 334 of Growers Daily! We cover: what to do if you can't trust your local mulch options, harvest bins, and some takeaways from the oak conference. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 333 of Growers Daily! We cover: radishing HARD, and we'll take a question about weed control in the orchard. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 332 of Growers Daily! We cover: deer fencing, what is standing in the way of the history I want to learn about (which will or possibly WON'T make sense presently) and it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 331 of Growers Daily! We cover: chicken manure in the compost bin, aphids on the plant starts and liability insurance for u-pick flowers. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 330 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we are chatting with Lincoln Fishman of Momentum Ag all about living mulches. We discuss his own evolutions to planting directly into living covers. We discuss his aha moment using them. Some of the challenges, ideas, and gaps in knowledge on the subject. And the many ways to look at this idea of planting directly into or with perennial crops. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 329 of Growers Daily! We cover: what the next month will look like on the farm (assuming all the ice melts), bed shapers vs rotary plows, and the standing soil blockers. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 328 of Growers Daily! We cover: shallots in all their lovely entirety, plus earwigs—good, bad? We'll see. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 327 of Growers Daily! We cover: where the microbes go in winter, what happened when we started telling time(hint: it kind of started telling us) and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 326 of Growers Daily! We cover: checking in on KNF and JADAM, we ask if magnetizing irrigation water works, and we take a question about too much mulch on garlic. Is it a thing? We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 325 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we are chatting with Keenan McVey of Blue Goose Farm in Ontario Canada. Keenan, along with his wife Ashley, run this small farm and along with it a really interesting, in-town Farm Store that is a little different from what you might think of as a farm store and has proved to be an invaluable marketing option for them. Keenan's roots are in the culinary world, and the farm was also started with another chef from the area some of you may know, named Matty Matheson (of the excellent show The Bear). Keenan tells us that story as well as helps detail the technical stuff about how the gardens were created and how they are maintained. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 324 of Growers Daily! We cover: wetlands and agriculture going fisticuffs (but not really), using legumes to fertilize heavy feeders (?), and I will break down my favorite garden hoes (in my context). We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 323 of Growers Daily! We cover: breaking down Leeks, we take a fun wide ranging series of questions about unconventional tunnel crops, tomatoes dropping flowers, and so much more. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 322 of Growers Daily! We cover: a year-round cover crop conundrum, we are embracing the "progress" dissenters throughout history, And it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 321 of Growers Daily! We cover: We are talking about alfalfa pellets, plastic mesh inside your sod, Stink bugs infestations, sanitizers in wash water, should I swap my tractor for a walk-behind, and a small fruit conundrum, SO MANY topics! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 320 of Growers Daily! We cover: we chat with Jamie Swofford of Old North Farm and Old North Shrub to chat about the farm he owns with his partner Keia, his transition from chef to farmer, selling to chefs, and much much more. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 319 of Growers Daily! We cover: if you need grow lights or heat lamps (and what the pros use for their starts), we discuss newspaper as a mulch or assistant mulch, and we'll go out to the field and do a little soil-block-a-long. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 318 of Growers Daily! We cover: a full crop breakdown of Peas, and we'll take a question about how much bug damage is too much to sell your produce. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 317 of Growers Daily! We cover: controlling horsetail (and other rhizomatous weeds), the place of cities and suburbs, and it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 316 of Growers Daily! We cover: wool in the garden, taking a CSA crop diversity question, and we talk trellising in wider beds. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 315 of Growers Daily! We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you're gonna wanna hear. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 314 of Growers Daily! We cover: what to consider with soil mixes, soil blocking tips to keep them from drying out and being a big, heavy waste of time and money, and also flameweeding! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 313 of Growers Daily! We cover: planting and raving about fennel, and we get a question about lowering and leaning stuff. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 312 of Growers Daily! We cover: jumping worms and solarization, we evaluate the good or badness of cities, and of course, it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 311 of Growers Daily! We cover: the great onion roundup of 2026! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 310 of Growers Daily! Today we are going live to take your questions We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 309 of Growers Daily! We cover: producing your own mulches. our current business model, and the lottery! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 308 of Growers Daily! We cover: making mulching work for you, if collaborative farms are the answer… why aren't we seeing more of them, and it's almost the new year… can I still sow some cover crop? We'll find out! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 307 of Growers Daily! We cover: bed widths, the "if I had my druthers" ideal mulch strategy, and where does tech make sense in ag. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 306 of Growers Daily! We cover: straw mulch leveled up, tannins in the ground water, and scams. Literally scams. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 305 of Growers Daily! We cover: reclaiming a pseudo junk yard for farming, the overwhelming possibility of having land, and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 304 of Growers Daily! We cover: how we clean our seeds, Interplant-a-sow-a-companion (not sure if that will even make sense when we get there), and the intersection of gardening, kids, and sports. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 303 of Growers Daily! We cover: We are joined by Mikey Densham as well as Jay Dunstan, who works at Five Tales but has become an integral part of the business in some very cool ways (which we discuss). Also on the agenda for today is how their farm business collides with different holidays (like have you ever thought about how different your business would be if the holiday season landed smack dab in the middle of your growing season) AND we take on a patreon question about agritourism. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 302 of Growers Daily! We cover: should you mulch now for spring crops, fitting brassicas in the rotation and one thing that often get forgotten in a farm business plan We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 301 of Growers Daily! We cover: fertilizers in a couple different ways—like should you fertilize if you mulch, and how to decipher those dang fertilizer labels, and human scale farming. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 300 of Growers Daily! We cover: planting late fall strawberries, testing the soil for proper moisture, and we take on a very fun, specific farming challenge. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 299 of Growers Daily! We cover: planting late fall strawberries, testing the soil for proper moisture, and we take on a very fun, specific farming challenge. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 298 of Growers Daily! We cover: mulch papers, winter farm hygiene, and alfalfa hay. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 297 of Growers Daily! We cover: planting into a thick mat of cover crop residue, can you ripen nightshades by topping them, and some of the intimidating details of starting a farm business. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 296 of Growers Daily! We cover: finding our own agronomists, talking about planting into compost mulch and looking at leaves as individuals. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 295 of Growers Daily! We cover: my microscopes and dry farming AND it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 294 of Growers Daily! We cover: where to start with crop planning, what's all that science for in lettuce packaging, and tackle a specific strawberry-to-soil question. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 293 of Growers Daily! We cover: our monthly check in with Mikey and Kez at Five Tales Farm in Australia. We talk about their low fi tomato grafting and some farm team dynamics. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 292 of Growers Daily! We cover: where we get our seeds, Straw, and helping the soil recover from a drought. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 291 of Growers Daily! We cover: cover crops as a mulch, fill dirt concerns, AND We'll also tack on a little feedback monday per tradition (of missing fridays). We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 290 of Growers Daily! We cover: chatting with Noah East of Wild East Farm in Western North Carolina. We talk about the aftermath of Helene, numbers on the farm, and some new farming enterprises they are doing at Wild East. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 289 of Growers Daily! We cover: your questions! We are a Non-Profit!
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