Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 363 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we are talking about creative ways to sell and price produce. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ge2tcnjzga3ta===/join?invited-by=ivxhi4tzhizdgmbug4zdgojr&via-medium=copy&ttag=FF26_cpy_invite_new_mt_bpm&pool-join-key=mulds48mf7ftx454je2y7kz6zt6b2o6v&sende...

Welcome to episode 362 of Growers Daily! We cover: We're gonna discuss scythes and hand scythes and if they're worth it then we will revisit a few old segments including which tools you should buy first, weeding gear, and the tools that make it easier from interview with the great Erin Worrall. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tour...

Welcome to episode 361 of Growers Daily! We cover: we'll discuss how I grow carrots in clay, making every crop succeed, especially carrots, and a little snippet from an old carrot video from 2022 (so the sound may be a bit different for that segment). We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ge2tcnjzga3ta===/join?invi...

Welcome to episode 360 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're gonna talk farm resiliency in the first two segments, and then in the third discuss the art of making farm decisions. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ge2tcnjzga3ta===/join?invited-by=ivxhi4tzhizdgmbug4zdgojr&via-medium=copy&ttag=FF26_cpy_invite_new_mt_bpm&po...

Welcome to episode 359 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're gonna do a harvest day celebration, talking about the most and least enjoyable crops to harvest, how to dry greens, types of packaging for each crop, and what crops you should harvest first on harvest day. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ge2tcnjzg...

Welcome to episode 358 of Growers Daily! We cover: all about improving the soil this spring: decompacting the soil without making it worse, some basics of soil amending and even managing rocky soil. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports.com/college-basketball/ncaa-tournament/bracket/pools/kbxw63b2ge2tcnjzga3ta===/join?invited-by=ivxhi4tzhizdgmbug4zdgojr&via-medium=copy&ttag=FF26_cpy_invite_new_mt_bp...

Welcome to episode 357 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode is all about potting up, we're gonna hear a little bit from composter Nathan Rutz and talk about proper usage of the broadfork. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA brac...

Welcome to episode 356 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode is all about tomatoes, from starting tomatoes, grafting tomatoes, and finally, can you let your tomatoes grow wild? We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: This year's NCAA bracket Challenge: https://picks.cbssports...

Welcome to episode 355 of Growers Daily! We cover: While my voice is recovering we're going to keep my current talking to a minimum and let some of my OLDER talking do some work. So today's episode we've gathered some segments on common garden pests, growing squash without the bugs, pests you can't just exclude, and even get a little cameo from our friend Jayne Merner to talk about pests in compost. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/1...

Welcome to episode 354 of Growers Daily! We cover: today is a total tunnel show, looking back at a few segments we did on big high tunnel mistakes, if heating a tunnel would be worth it, and building that dream tunnel. We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from this episode:  Quiet Days by Victor Lundberg via www.epidemicsound.com   Suppor...

  We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:  Patreon link to ask questions: https://www.patreon.com/posts/quick-update-on-152589833     MUSIC from this episode:  Solace by Staffan Carlan via www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers   Show Sponsors:  GrownBy: coop.grownby.com/notill  ...

Welcome to episode 353 of Growers Daily! We cover: we are chatting with Dan Gangon of Broadfork Farm in Virginia. I saw Dan and his partner Janet speak at the VABF conference a few years back and I just loved how down to earth they were about the ups and downs of winter farming, farming in general, and work life balance, which is a lot of what we chat about today. We are also gonna be talking about how and why they certify as Certified Naturally Grown, and how that label has worked for them. We...

Welcome to episode 352 of Growers Daily! We cover: not transferring a certain potato disease from the tubers, solving big problems little-ly, and it's feedback friday, of course. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Study on controlling scab with biological inoculum: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/4/904 Good scab info from Cornell: https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/potato-scab/ Biologicals + mustard M...

Welcome to episode 351 of Growers Daily! We cover: why plants can go from good to bad so quickly sometimes, cover cropping in raised beds, and a nightmare straw scenario.  We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:    MUSIC from this episode:  Running to Recess by American Legion via www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https...

Welcome to episode 350 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're talking coffee! As a coffee drinker and soil nerd myself, I was very excited when I met Patricia Cordero at the OAK conference last month and she told me her area of study was soil conservation in coffee production in Puerto Rico. So, naturally, I asked her to come on and talk a bit about the coffee production and soil there and oh boy is it both very awesome with lots of multispecies plantings among the coffee, and also quite sad with the state of agriculture there...

Welcome to episode 349 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we're talking air, we discuss speeding up the potatoes, and flailing the fire out of some grass and weeds. Or just a special type of mower. Or both. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: IHME study on air pollution and dementia: https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/new-report-shows-nearly-9-10-global-air-pollution-deaths-are Air polluters: https://www.thegu...

Welcome to episode 348 of Growers Daily! We cover: growing for green tomatoes (and not the heirloom types) and fats in the compost pile We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:      MUSIC from this episode:  February Moon by Victor Lundberg via www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrower...

Welcome to episode 347 of Growers Daily! We cover: some soil blocking alternatives (with a fun AI question attached—you know how that goes with me), saving the soil for the future, 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: Studies on rice desiccation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4609533/ OpenAI testing ads at ChatGPT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/technology/chatgpt-ads...

Welcome to episode 346 of Growers Daily! We cover: we will put the N in no-till (see what I did there—N? Nitrogen), anyway we will also be keeping basil looking fresh, and talking about what to look for in a software. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Obituary for Dr. Ingham https://soilfoodweb.com/obituary-for-dr-elaine-ingham/ MUSIC from this episode: TV by First...

Welcome to episode 345 of Growers Daily! We cover: we are checking in again with our friends Mikey and Kez down there at five tales farm in Australia to see how the season has treated them so far. February is basically their august, so although things are winding down, they're still cranking and we chat about why they grow what they grow, and they also bring along a surprise topic to ask me at the end. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://a...