Episodes

  • The Final No-Till Market Garden Podcast - A Roundtable With Hosts Jesse, Mimi, Alex, and Natalie

    The Final No-Till Market Garden Podcast - A Roundtable With Hosts Jesse, Mimi, Alex, and Natalie
    Mar 17 2025

    The No-Till Market Garden Podcast has been going strong since 2018 and today we say goodbye with the hosts. Natalie Lounsbury, Mimi Castell, Alex Ball and Farmer Jesse all share some of their favorite moments of hosting and interviewing. Thank you for the many years for support and of listening.

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    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Converting an Alfalfa Field into Gardens + Raw Biochar on Raw Soil

    Converting an Alfalfa Field into Gardens + Raw Biochar on Raw Soil
    Mar 14 2025

    Welcome to episode 109 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: raw biochar, converting a field from alfalfa to gardens, the importance of being annoyed, AND it’s feedback friday.

    ‼️ Tax Deductible Donation ‼️ https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ

    Links for today:

    Bracket challenge (live Sunday): https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2gezdombthezda===?pool-join-key=m4l5sc8uf8ffxr5cjs2m76zvz56m2962&invited-by=ivxhi4tzhiytsnrtgqydgmby&via-medium=copy&ttag=FF25_lk_cbssports_cbb_bpm_copySetupInvite&sender-role=mzaonqamgfe2r7

    MUSIC from this episode:

    Walk with YouBy Kylie Dailey

    via www.epidemicsound.com

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    or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

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    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 👇

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    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

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    Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

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    20 mins
  • Farming a Frigid Climate + Adding Chemical Nitrogen in Compost??

    Farming a Frigid Climate + Adding Chemical Nitrogen in Compost??
    Mar 13 2025
    Welcome to episode 108 of Growers Daily! We cover: certified organic seeds are important for organic systems, miracle gro in compost, farming in a very cold climate, and the term “farm” used outside of farming. Tax Deductible Donation! -> https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: A review on conventional seeds on organic farms: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157352141000014X The term Farm: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-origin-of-farm The Microplastics Polymor study: https://showme.missouri.edu/2025/research-reveals-hidden-risks-from-plastic-coated-fertilizers-in-soil/#:~:text=While%20PC%2DCRFs%20can%20boost,plastic%20particles%20into%20the%20environment. Green Acres Farmer Training program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEuvXWf8Cs freelance sound editor: www.sellassoundworks.com auger bits: https://amzn.to/4htwwFr MUSIC from this episode: Never Had To By OTE feat. Naiad via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: www.sowrightseeds.com code NOTILL https://www.harnois.com Mention Growers Daily 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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    21 mins
  • Spring Beet Breakdown + Making Your Tools Last

    Spring Beet Breakdown + Making Your Tools Last
    Mar 12 2025

    Welcome to episode 107 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: a beet breakdown (a BEETdown, if you will) and taking care of those tools, but also a fun announcement many years in the making.

    Links for today:

    Beet video: https://youtu.be/-w1tvgVj-9k

    Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ

    MUSIC from this episode:

    GrowBy Gloria Tells

    via www.epidemicsound.com

    Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support

    or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

    Show Sponsors:

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    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
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    19 mins
  • Where to Put a Garden + Hardest Vegetables to Grow

    Where to Put a Garden + Hardest Vegetables to Grow
    Mar 11 2025

    Welcome to episode 106 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: the hardest vegetables to grow, competition from community gardens(?), and where to put a garden in the first place.

    Links for today:

    Common Earth Gardens https://cclou.org/common-earth-gardens/

    MUSIC from this episode:

    AcrobatBy Martin Hall

    via www.epidemicsound.com

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    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
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    20 mins
  • Easiest Vegetables to Grow + Do Vegans Make the Best Compost?

    Easiest Vegetables to Grow + Do Vegans Make the Best Compost?
    Mar 10 2025

    Welcome to episode 105 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Veganic composts, how to test your soil moisture without tools, and the easiest veggies to grow!

    Links for today:

    Soil moisture publication from ATTRA: https://attra.ncat.org/publication/soil-moisture-monitoring-low-cost-tools-and-methods/

    NRCS irrigation Guide: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/7385.pdf

    Daylight Saving Episode: https://youtu.be/iW6L1dzUroI

    MUSIC from this episode:

    El Agua By Caro Luna

    via www.epidemicsound.com

    Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support

    or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

    Show Sponsors:

    www.sowrightseeds.com code NOTILL

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    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
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    23 mins
  • SILVOHORTICULTURE, Integrating Trees into the Market Garden with Ben Raskin & Andy Dibben

    SILVOHORTICULTURE, Integrating Trees into the Market Garden with Ben Raskin & Andy Dibben
    Mar 10 2025

    Squirrels, today we begin with an ending and we will end with a beginning. My guests today, the wonderful and amicable Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin, authors of the new book SilvoHorticulture will be inspiring us to participate in the great art of welcoming trees into our cropping systems. The planting of trees that will continue to bestow generations to come with gifts unnumbered feels like the perfect last episode, doesn't it? Let's get inspired, shall we.

    Folks who support the show...

    Farmhand is the only all-in-one virtual assistant built by and for farmers. Sign up for a free trial with the link in the show notes, because NOW is the best time to dial in those systems for the next growing season.

    ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Dry Farming in Dry Climates + Biggest Regrets in Starting a Farm

    Dry Farming in Dry Climates + Biggest Regrets in Starting a Farm
    Mar 7 2025

    Welcome to episode 104 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: dry Farming in dry climates, and big farming regrets + it's feedback friday!

    Links for today:

    Shared pathogens with alpaca https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10778254/

    Indian Agriculture in America book: https://amzn.to/4iadp4j

    If I could do it all again would I still farm episode: https://youtu.be/OLTFx5DCX9Q

    MUSIC from this episode:

    "It Blows My Mind" By OTE feat. Edie

    via www.epidemicsound.com

    Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support

    or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers

    Show Sponsors:

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    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
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    22 mins