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Welcome to episode 284 of Growers Daily! We cover: Dan Brisebois, host of The Seed Farmer Podcast and author of The Seed Farmer joins us to talk saving bean seeds, pepper seed saving, and creating your own hybrid seed. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 283 of Growers Daily! We cover: how compost mulch acts differently in different regions, a potentially new way to nonprofit, and getting good brassica heads in hotter climates. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 282 of Growers Daily! We cover: gravel mulches, storing seeds, and it's feedback… monday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 281 of Growers Daily! We cover: our very first Growers Daily "best of" or roundup video in which we talk all things tools for your farm! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 280 of Growers Daily! We cover: Kaolin clay for things like squash bugs, is it too late to start next year's garden (and would there be any value to tarping under snow), plus we look at vermicompost in a seed starting mix. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 279 of Growers Daily! We cover: Yoko Takemura from Assawaga Farm in CT joins us to chat about covercropping, using salt marsh hay, growing Asian veg, and how farming in the US compares to farming in Japan. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 278 of Growers Daily! We cover: the idea of dirt mulches, the power of true citizenship and winterizing the irrigation. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 277 of Growers Daily! We cover: landscape fabrics and if they are really so bad, a farming podcast that changed me (and many others) plus perennial ryegrass. What a lineup! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 276 of Growers Daily! We cover: a new irrigation system called the sumi soaker and some early thoughts on that. Plus we get hopeful about the future AND, it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 275 of Growers Daily! We cover: using rye cover crops in a warm region, growing tomatoes in the same place every year, and what constitutes a crop rotation REALLY. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 274 of Growers Daily! We cover: if our gardens are contaminated enough to be concerned about it, anxiety VS farming, and woodchips as a bed mulch. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 273 of Growers Daily! We cover: lasagne gardening at scale, some fun farmer recipes (and a challenge for you) plus why I kind of miss our farm livestock (but also why we won't bring them back). We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 272 of Growers Daily! We cover: small farming versus disasters, cardboard as a mulch, and when what you do looks bananas to your neighbors. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 271 of Growers Daily! We cover: how the cost of the future is farmland, talking about storing water in dry, cold climates, and it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 270 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic that didn't survive the storage process, making sense of soil tests, plus what is the microplastics risk with high tunnels. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 269 of Growers Daily! We cover: our monthly LIVE episode! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 268 of Growers Daily! We cover: the effects that smoke has on crops, mulching with leaves, and What farming has taught me about people, places, and myself. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 267 of Growers Daily! We cover: finding good mulches, the (somewhat false) productivity of conventional agriculture, and the changing landscape of farming information. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 266 of Growers Daily! We cover: good disturbance, we are discussing how to fit compost into the amendment regime, and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 265 of Growers Daily! We cover: master gardener courses, Rabbit poop in the garden, and straw with tack? Good idea, bad idea? We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 264 of Growers Daily! We cover: Mikey and Kez from Five Tales Farm in Australia chat with us about diversifying markets, the stigma of doing that as a farmer, and farming while pregnant and beyond. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 263 of Growers Daily! We cover: the mighty beaver (finally!), how we could make ourselves beaver like, and improving on sweet corn (and other seeds) when we seed them. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 262 of Growers Daily! We cover: our November garden plans, offering some thoughts on flail mowing, and some critical farmer things I'm terrible at. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 261 of Growers Daily! We cover: pricing and packaging for restaurants, working in restaurants and then working as a farmer, and it's feedback friday ! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 260 of Growers Daily! We cover: overwintering a new garden spot in a way that improves its health, onions you plant in the fall, and are radishes over-hyped as a high profit crop? We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 259 of Growers Daily! We cover: why the decline in bird populations (but the uptick in sea turtles), mid-size cold-storage options for produce, and the big life mistake I almost made. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 258 of Growers Daily! We cover: what to do if your farm was previously a car lot, should compost operations just start a farm instead, and why it's hard to scale back a farm without losing money. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 257 of Growers Daily! We cover: why there are no Nobels (or any other big prize) for farmers, what to do about persistent mold on alliums, and some insights gleaned from the Kentucky composting conference about commercial composting startups. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 256 of Growers Daily! We cover: what to do when hay is the only mulch you got, the dogma free garden, and it's feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 255 of Growers Daily! We cover: bind weed vs cover crops, interplanting with figs in a tunnel, a perennial living pathways challenge. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 254 of Growers Daily! We cover: Ian McSweeney with The Farmers Land Trust and Farmland Commons and Julian Lauzzana join us to talk about a new path toward farmland ownership. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 253 of Growers Daily! We cover: plants feeding the soil, why we avoid disturbance (within reason) and woodchips in the tunnel pathways.. OR NOT. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 252 of Growers Daily! We cover: lemongrass and the basic principles of soil health. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 251 of Growers Daily! We cover: we are taking a question from a flower grower wondering about synthetic fertilizers to address soil deficiencies, meta pirating farm books for AI, and it's feedback Friday. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 250 of Growers Daily! We cover: balancing the good and the bad, Decompacting clay without making it worse, and we hear about what it's like to go from good soil to well… not great soil. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 249 of Growers Daily! We cover: October LIVE!!! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 248 of Growers Daily! We cover: we're celebrating one year of this show, so we'll talk a bit about that and what I've learned in the last year and what the experience of doing a daily show is like, we will take a question about when to cover what, then talk WHAT to cover it with. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 247 of Growers Daily! We cover: if we should heat our tunnels (like financially and environmentally does it make sense), cover crops that you would plant for mulch next summer and which cover crops work for that. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 246 of Growers Daily! We cover: fungal to bacterial ratios for soil health and whether it means anything for you, we discuss the death of curiosity, and it's feed back friday We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 245 of Growers Daily! We cover: tools I've discovered (that aren't necessarily meant for how I use them), how to achieve that big brassica success, and we'll start a garden on texas clay. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 244 of Growers Daily! We cover: corn stalks with five ears and what the heck that means, what resellers do and don't bring to local markets, and we will peer into october and see what the next month holds. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 243 of Growers Daily! We cover: silage tarps–the good, bad and ugly (because they are definitely a little ugly), what to do for water in wet climates where it's wet in the spring but dry in the summer, and how to pick garlic seed. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 242 of Growers Daily! We cover: curing sweet potatoes to sweeten them up, Farmer jargon, and should you plant cover crops and garlic together? We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 241 of Growers Daily! We cover: if we should keep this year's potatoes to grow next year's potatoes, the lifespan of a business, AND it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 240 of Growers Daily! We cover: crop rotations in a small garden, whether you can compost the plant that makes ricine (yeah, the poison) and lettuce diseases. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 239 of Growers Daily! We cover: Mikey Densham is going to join me for a show to talk a bit about the challenges of farming there in Australia where he and his partner Kez run a market garden called Five Tales Farm. We discuss some of the tools that make their work easier and more organized. And Mikey got a scholarship that sent him all over the world to look at what makes small farms productive and profitable. And what he found may surprise you. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 238 of Growers Daily! We cover: potentially having too high of organic matter levels, lessons from my milpa patch, and what to do for next year if your garden lost to weeds this year. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 237 of Growers Daily! We cover: the nerdy details of actually getting those winter killed cover crops in the soil + we answer a question about is it a good idea to plant one kind of berry to protect another kind of berry from birds. We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 236 of Growers Daily! We cover: how to use the weeds around the property, and can you “compost” materials right where you plan to plant, and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit!
Welcome to episode 235 of Growers Daily! We cover: if you can get rid of perennial weeds like bindweed and johnsongrass by the spring, plus we'll take questions about bean beetles and squash bugs and what to do about those dweebs next year. We are a Non-Profit!