Episodes

  • The Best Small Farm Books Episode + Cover Cropping for an Entire Year?

    The Best Small Farm Books Episode + Cover Cropping for an Entire Year?
    Nov 12 2024
    Welcome to episode 31 of Growers Daily! We cover: Welcome to the book show! We discuss books, how to publish a farm book, and green fallowing. All the books... The Organic Business Farmers Handbook: https://amzn.to/40COeBI The No-till Organic Vegetable Farm: https://amzn.to/4fp45rY The Lean Farm: https://amzn.to/4epQfo8 The Lean Micro Farm: https://amzn.to/3O1hqea The New Organic Grower: https://amzn.to/3O67GPW The Winter Harvest Handbook: https://amzn.to/3O9fqAk The Market Gardener: https://amzn.to/4foo1ev The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Growers Guide: https://amzn.to/4fzW43q First Generation Farming: https://stan.store/sylvanaquafarms/p/first-generation-farming The Teaming With Series: https://amzn.to/3CjiVBG A Soil Owners Manual: https://amzn.to/3Z0EAaQ The Ecological Farm: https://amzn.to/3O6caps No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: https://amzn.to/4fKpfk2 The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments: https://amzn.to/4fIvBjZ Jadam: https://amzn.to/3CkNt6i Sustainable Market Farming: https://amzn.to/4hJn2qS The Seed Farmer: https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural- networking-workshop Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/ 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🚨 Preorder 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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    21 mins
  • A New Way to Grow Potatoes + A Way NOT to Grow Potatoes

    A New Way to Grow Potatoes + A Way NOT to Grow Potatoes
    Nov 11 2024
    Welcome to episode 30 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Welcome to Messy Monday--today we discuss exemptions to the organic rule, exemptions to compost rules, refereeing soccer, and oh, a potential game-changing potato method.

    FSMA exemptions: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma/fsma-final-rule-produce-safety

    Potato video: https://youtu.be/ZJLdLFv6w6o

    Organic cert exemptions: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/2%20Exempt%20Producers%20FINAL%20RGK%20V2.pdf


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

    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

    Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-

    networking-workshop

    Show Sponsors:

    Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

    RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS

    Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources

    Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/

    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🚨

    Preorder 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 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
  • Honeyberries & other perennial fruits for small-scale production w/ Bernis Ingvaldson of HoneyBerryUSA

    Honeyberries & other perennial fruits for small-scale production w/ Bernis Ingvaldson of HoneyBerryUSA
    Nov 11 2024

    Hey listeners, it's Natalie. I have a sweet, tart, and charming treat for you today. Bernis Ingvaldson runs Honeyberry USA with her husband Jim out of their farm in northern Minnesota. So this all came about because last year a friend and guest listener, shout out to Michelle, suggested I contact a USDA researcher she knew who had done some work with honeyberries, which are also known as hascaps. The researcher sent me to Bernis, who has established herself as one of the experts in growing hascaps in The States. I think perennial fruits are one of the most delightful things in the world and it's super exciting to me that there are more out there than what most consumers or even farmers know about. I'm appreciative of people like Bernis who have worked to develop systems that can make these crops profitable, not just for the home gardeners and to the breeders who have developed these new varieties. You can check out her website where they have a lot of practical information on growing hasgaps, honey berries, and more. It's just full of good stuff. And, also, you can order your hascaps when you're done being inspired by Bernis!

    Honeyberryusa.com to learn more about and order your own honeyberry (and other berry) plants!

    The HoneyBerryUSA YouTube channel

    Mentioned in the show...

    Folks who make the show possible...

    Rimol Greenhouses are strong, durable and easy to assemble, offering the quality you need to grow productively year-round. Visit Rimol.com today.

    Discover the beauty of BCS on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost, mowing under fences, clearing snow, and more – at bcsamerica.com.

    When you need proven varieties you can count on and detailed guidance from seeding to harvest, consider Johnny’s your trusted growing partner. Visit johnnyseeds.com

    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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    56 mins
  • Can you Turn a Pond into a Garden? + Unfairly Awesome Life Changes

    Can you Turn a Pond into a Garden? + Unfairly Awesome Life Changes
    Nov 8 2024
    Welcome to episode 28 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Feedback friday! Also we discuss converting a rice paddy, and unfairly awesome life changes.

    the drinking episode: https://youtu.be/YYsX_rzcfsQ


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

    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

    Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-

    networking-workshop

    Show Sponsors:

    Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

    RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS

    Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources

    Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/

    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🚨

    Preorder 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 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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    18 mins
  • Clearing Woods for a Garden + Farming Herbs

    Clearing Woods for a Garden + Farming Herbs
    Nov 7 2024
    Welcome to episode 28 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Clearing a forest, farming herbs, and why did you get into food?

    Medicinal Herb Farmer Book: https://amzn.to/4fB4xTP

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

    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

    Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-

    networking-workshop

    Show Sponsors:

    Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

    RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS

    Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources

    Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/

    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🚨

    Preorder 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 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
  • The Leaf Episode + Important Crop Storage Advice

    The Leaf Episode + Important Crop Storage Advice
    Nov 6 2024
    Welcome to episode 27 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Composting Leaves, Mulching with leaves and storing food because why not.?!

    Coolbot: https://storeitcold.referralrock.com/lv1/Y6I33LJV/

    Thermostat: https://amzn.to/3Cq40Wh

    Root Cellar book: https://amzn.to/3NUmHUP

    static aerated cmpost vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755RfsdIzbQ

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

    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

    Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-

    networking-workshop

    Show Sponsors:

    Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

    RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS

    Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources

    Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/

    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🚨

    Preorder 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 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
  • Farm-Raised Kids w/ Author & Farmer Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics & Growing for Market

    Farm-Raised Kids w/ Author & Farmer Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics & Growing for Market
    Nov 6 2024
    Katie Kulla is the author of Farm-Raised Kids. A brand new book from Storey Publishing. Katie is also an illustrator, one of the hosts of the Growing For Market Podcast and farms with her husband at Oakhill Organics on Grand Island in rural Dayton, Oregon. In this episode, we do discuss Katie’s brand new book but we also talk a lot about Katie’s experience growing seeds and how that experience has changed over the years. Katie’s early seed experience was mostly growing seed contracts on her market farm. Katie liked how seed crops occupied a different time and space than growing vegetables for CSA or farmers markets. And also how seed crops often generated more $ per square foot than vegetable crops. Then when Oakhill Organics moved to offering a full diet CSA, they moved out of seed contracts and shifted to growing seed for food such as grains, beans, and popcorn. And now that the farm plays a smaller role in Katie’s life and she is focusing on other interests such as writing books, Katie is still harvesting seed whenever it is easy to do so from the crops in her fields. This brings us to Farm-Raised Kids, Katie’s new Book. We talk about the dream and the actual reality of having kids on the farm. How there is an idyllic vision that children can just chill out and hang around the fields but having kids on your farm is actual work and farms can also be dangerous places for little ones. Katie talks about how it is still an amazing opportunity for kids to grow up on a farm. How they pick up so much knowledge about different crops and food bit by bit over the years. And how kids wind up learning real skills like how to handle knives and breaking down just about any vegetable. Katie also explains how satisfying it is for kids to put their hands in gooey fermenting seed tomatoes or getting to hit dry beans with a stick to thresh them or just getting to sink their arms in buckets of clean seed. In the deep dive, we talk about growing dry beans for seed because Katie’s family just loves eating dry beans and there is really no comparing the flavour with store bought beans. We talk about how bush beans are a lot easier than pole beans, how farming in the Willamette Valley with its dry summers means you can dry seed outdoors without cover in your backyard but how Katie might still bring seed indoors if she was still growing commercial seed contracts. And how she still wishes she’d invested in a good set of screens. Katie also has a reminder that you should make a point of not eating all your dry beans and make sure to keep some as seed for next year’s crop! Mentioned in the show... https://www.katiekulla.com/ https://www.instagram.com/katiekulla Follow Dan on Instagram, get his newsletter, & follow Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm PRE-ORDER Dan's new book, The Seed Farmer, from notillgrowers.com to further support our work! Folks who support The Seed Farmer Podcast The goal of the Culinary Breeding Network is to improve communication between plant breeders, seed growers, farmers, chefs, produce buyers and others to improve quality in vegetables, fruits and grains. Learn more and check out upcoming events! Are you a farmer looking for educational resources in Canada? Check out Young Agrarians! They are a farmer-to-farmer educational resource network for new and young ecological, organic, and regenerative farmers. This February, join thousands of farmers like you from across the U.S. for three days of community building and farmer-led learning at the 36th annual Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Truelove Seeds is a farm-based seed company offering culturally important and open pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Check out their podcast, Seeds & Their People, wherever you're listening to The Seed Farmer Podcast!
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Should We Create a New Farm Certification + Doing the Farm All Over Again

    Should We Create a New Farm Certification + Doing the Farm All Over Again
    Nov 5 2024
    Welcome to episode 25 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: Certifications, big mistakes we made on our farm, and New Years Resolutions... but in November.

    NRCS soil survey: https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/

    Certified Naturally Grown: https://www.naturallygrown.org/get-certified/

    Real Organic Project: https://realorganicproject.org/get-certified/

    NYE resolution study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7725288/

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

    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

    Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-

    networking-workshop

    Show Sponsors:

    Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

    Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

    RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS

    Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources

    Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/

    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🚨

    Preorder 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 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