Episodes

  • Is This Product the Next Big Soil Amendment + A Day in the Life of Farmer Jesse

    Is This Product the Next Big Soil Amendment + A Day in the Life of Farmer Jesse
    May 6 2025
    Welcome to episode 145 of Growers Daily! We cover: fertilizing and three sisters planting, is microalgae the hottest new soil amendment and a little day in the life. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Dawns thread on No-till for beginners: https://notillgrowers.community.chat/post/notill-beginners-corner-13599985?trail=15 What is Microalgae: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1073546/full Use of Microalgae study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723080543 Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb MUSIC from this episode: Give Me a Break by Daniel Fridell My Valentine by Roy Edwin Williams Still Got the Vibe by Windshield via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Ring of Fire: https://ringoffire.earth/growers FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    20 mins
  • Our Tomato Trellis + Can I Plant the Same Crop Family in the Same Place?

    Our Tomato Trellis + Can I Plant the Same Crop Family in the Same Place?
    May 5 2025
    Welcome to episode 144 of Growers Daily! We cover: our high tunnel tomato trellising system (called QLIPR), can cover crops break up a crop rotation, and what’s trending in the market gardening world right now. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Tomato trellis video: https://youtu.be/QaLNP3wr6hc Do you need to rotate crops video: https://youtu.be/bL2Y_JZtopY SARE publication on cover cropping and crop rotations: https://www.sare.org/publications/managing-cover-crops-profitably/crop-rotation-with-cover-crops/ Continuous Tomato production and cover cropping in high tunnels: https://iastatedigitalpress.com/farmreports/article/5180/galley/5042/view/ Pasture to Production Video: https://youtu.be/wm4cM6ZOe-w Mulch Video: https://youtu.be/SoF7Z6sWiEY What to expect when planting into compost video: https://youtu.be/4UReRcyMBMk A trellis to make you jealous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqRMKOxaW8 Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb MUSIC from this episode: Anymore by Windshield via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Ring of Fire: https://ringoffire.earth/growers FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    18 mins
  • What People Get Wrong About Geoengineering + Working With Limited Compost

    What People Get Wrong About Geoengineering + Working With Limited Compost
    May 2 2025
    Welcome to episode 143 of Growers Daily! We cover: if you should use compost as a mulch or rather as an amendment when starting a garden on poor soil, we’ll parse fact and fiction about geoengineering… Oh, and it’s feedback friday. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Article about native bees vs honey bees: https://e360.yale.edu/features/will-putting-honey-bees-on-public-lands-threaten-native-bees#:~:text=“Honey%20bees%20are%20super%2Dforaging,to%20rear%2033%2C000%20native%20bees. What the british government is doing with Geoengineering https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/uk-scientists-outdoor-geoengineering-experiments The blocked geoengineering plan in Cali: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/california-geoengineering-blocked-00161733 The Harvard study that was abandoned: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089879/harvard-halts-its-long-planned-atmospheric-geoengineering-experiment/ Scientists being like “No thanks” in Geoengineering: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/solar-geoengineering-uk CBC report on cloud seeding: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/cloud-seeding-faq-1.7176435#:~:text=How%20effective%20is%20it?,to%20work%2C%22%20Cotton%20said.&text=size%20of%20hail-,The%20U.A.E.,to%20seed%20clouds%20in%20Alberta. Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb MUSIC from this episode: We Will All Be Saved by Rock and Roll by Roy Williams The Worst Best Thing by Northside via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Ring of Fire: https://ringoffire.earth/growers FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    22 mins
  • Which Seeder Do You Actually Need + Turning a Commercial Greenhouse into a Market Garden

    Which Seeder Do You Actually Need + Turning a Commercial Greenhouse into a Market Garden
    May 1 2025
    Welcome to episode 142 of Growers Daily! We cover: which seeder to use for which crop, keeping a farmers market tent where you put it, and we discuss an intriguing question about what it would take to convert a commercial greenhouse operation into a market garden. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: EArthway seeder: https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/seeders/earthway/ Jang seeder: https://shop.moderngrower.co/collections/jang?srsltid=AfmBOoqA1PDjQkzKGXXiTRTbYShvrVltX_6Wl_6Zl2gJI_tWL9eEsJ4_ Pinpoint Seeders: https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/seeders/?_gl=1*19kz3oc*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQjwt8zABhDKARIsAHXuD7apS7qa4gxmJe4drTyItcHWxuEVUKT-Rg5vMFxIuCvUHhZDNWVuSBgaApfGEALw_wcB&gbraid=0AAAAAD_WiV0S3iQfNN3qE4MXSqNWdUYiW Hoss Seeder: https://growhoss.com/collections/garden-seeders Eurmax tent: https://www.eurmax.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqvFGIXvVkN21XFlPTIJkAMT_ZdMT37Q1IZlJadHtiOuL89XRkY Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb MUSIC from this episode: Untamed by Ludlow Bad Spell by Kylie Dailey Weather Any Storm by Cody Francis via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Ring of Fire: https://ringoffire.earth/growers FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    18 mins
  • How to Actually Use a Broadfork + Green Beans Breakdown

    How to Actually Use a Broadfork + Green Beans Breakdown
    Apr 30 2025

    Welcome to episode 141 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: how to use a broadfork properly and effectively, and we’ll talk green beans.

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    I See You by Candelion

    The Welcome of the Dawn by Roy Williams

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    19 mins
  • Which Crops do Best in a Little Shade + Deciding if a Crop is Worth Growing

    Which Crops do Best in a Little Shade + Deciding if a Crop is Worth Growing
    Apr 29 2025
    Welcome to episode 140 of Growers Daily! We cover: crops to grow in shadier areas, how to determine if a crop is worth growing, and why those weeds you are fighting weren’t always weeds. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Weeds that were actually domesticated crops: https://youtu.be/VjFT4PC8YIQ?si=XA1DtXlC_YBCvDMG History of lambs quarter grain: https://ethnobiology.org/forage/blog/searching-lost-traits-extinct-crop Amaranth history: https://my.ucanr.edu/repository/fileaccess.cfm?article=167060&p=OSOIUM Chickweed history and pharmacological uses: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362471590_Stellaria_media_Linn_A_comprehensive_review_highlights_the_nutritional_phytochemistry_and_pharmacological_activities MUSIC from this episode: Sunset by OTE via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.com/ Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    19 mins
  • What No-Till Means From Crops You Dig Up + The Bees Are Dying

    What No-Till Means From Crops You Dig Up + The Bees Are Dying
    Apr 28 2025
    Welcome to episode 139 of Growers Daily! We cover: nematode control, what no-till means for crops that require digging (like potatoes), and the bees are dying at an alarming rate. Again. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Summary of the Bee issue: https://www.dvm360.com/view/alarming-honeybee-colony-losses-across-the-us-are-confirmed Survey about the Bee collapse: https://www.projectapism.org/events/i8yr94doxarjvh453lchfhr0xf3bvq What nomadic commercial bee operations pollonate: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=61623 Bative bee Populations: https://www.nsf.gov/news/pesticides-affect-health-wild-bees-important-plant Comprehensive paper on organic nematode control : https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2009.11.003 Longterm effects of biofumigation study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139323000343#:~:text=Disease%20control%20from%20biofumigants%20is,results%20have%20been%20somewhat%20inconsistent. Correlation between nematodes and Isoil organic matter: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452219821000823 Neonicotinoid Exposure Worsens Varroa Mite Infestations: https://entomologytoday.org/2024/06/20/neonicotinoid-exposure-worsens-varroa-mite-infestations-honey-bees-study/ MUSIC from this episode: I Could Be Happy by Pastis via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.com/ Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ 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-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374 Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨 ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Hats 🧢 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat Music 🎵 👉 via www.empidemicsound.com 👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com
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    19 mins
  • Churches Could be Farms + My Biggest Farming “Aha!” Moments

    Churches Could be Farms + My Biggest Farming “Aha!” Moments
    Apr 25 2025

    Welcome to episode 138 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: my biggest aha moments as a farmer, the “creation care” movement in churches, and it’s feedback friday..

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    Article about Churches new environmental movement: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/climate/indiana-evangelicals-creation-care-stewardship.html

    YAle Climate Connections Catholic Church: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/the-catholic-churchs-vast-landholdings-could-help-protect-the-climate/

    Video we did with Jackson about his Church Farm: https://youtu.be/TBZMwshaebw

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    Love Tokens by Bjurman

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

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    21 mins
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