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  • Does Compost Make Crop Rotations Obsolete + Crop Planning Tips for a CSA

    Does Compost Make Crop Rotations Obsolete + Crop Planning Tips for a CSA
    Jun 19 2025
    Welcome to episode 177 of Growers Daily! We cover: if compost counts as a crop in a rotation, ants, and crop planning tips for a CSA. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: OAK Event in Lexington: https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd Compost and disease suppression: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2020.100192 And another disease and suppression article: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-08/documents/disease.pdf Some animals in the US that will eat ants: https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/resources/keep-texas-wild/awesome-ants/student-research-pages-ants-animals-and-us MUSIC from this episode: Wicked One by Velvet Moon Things Will Work Out by Windshield 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 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 m
  • How to Cure and Store Garlic + You Need Flowers (but keep it simple)

    How to Cure and Store Garlic + You Need Flowers (but keep it simple)
    Jun 18 2025
    Welcome to episode 176 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic curing and storage, the overlooked relationship between manufacturing and farm land, and flower power. But the easy way. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: OAK Event in Lexington: https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd The industral park story: https://www.state-journal.com/business/residents-speak-out-against-proposed-industrial-park/article_12ef44b6-00cf-11f0-af93-23f3aa9fb7e4.html Good garlic harvest guide:https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/garlic-harvest-curing-storage#:~:text=After%20curing%2C%20garlic%20can%20be%20kept%20in,under%20low%20relative%20humidity%2C%20ie.%2C%20%3C%2075%25.&text=For%20long%2Dterm%20storage%2C%20garlic%20is%20best%20maintained,°F%20with%20low%20RH%20(60%20to%2070%25). MUSIC from this episode: Flowers For Sale by OTE Dust and Rain by Victor Lundberg 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 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 m
  • How to Tell Between Deficiency or Disease + Do Native Hedges Actually Work

    How to Tell Between Deficiency or Disease + Do Native Hedges Actually Work
    Jun 17 2025
    Welcome to episode 175 of Growers Daily! We cover: deficiencies versus diseases (or pests), public lands being sold for development, and just to shake things up, do hedgerows work? We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: OAK Event in Lexington: https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd Nutrient Deficiency guide: https://www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/nutrient-deficiencies Proposal to Develop More Public Lands: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html California native hedge study: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.03.030 Research suggests a correlation between environmental simplification and pesticide use: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1100751108 Increase in predators, decrease in native bees in apple orchards: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880923000233 MUSIC from this episode: Feels Like Summer by Staffan Carlen Kasuga Rain by Candelion Red Guitar, Purple Haze by Roy Williams 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 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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  • The Different Types of Lettuce + When to Harvest Garlic

    The Different Types of Lettuce + When to Harvest Garlic
    Jun 16 2025
    Welcome to episode 174 of Growers Daily! We cover: garlic harvesting, if you have to follow the food safety guidelines, and how to use the different types of lettuce. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Listeria Outbreak: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1215837 FSMA fact sheets: https://www.fns.usda.gov/f2s/fsma-produce-safety-rule TCS foods: https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/programs/agriculture/documents/fsma/uri-tcs.pdf Refrigeration stuff: https://www.fda.gov/food/retail-food-industryregulatory-assistance-training/program-information-manual-retail-food-protection-recommendations-temperature-control-cut-leafy MUSIC from this episode: Ride it Out by Ludlow 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 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 m
  • These Chefs are Wrong + Is There a No-Till Option to Kill Any Cover Crop?

    These Chefs are Wrong + Is There a No-Till Option to Kill Any Cover Crop?
    Jun 13 2025
    Welcome to episode 173 of Growers Daily! We cover: chefs using AI, dealing with cover crops in the land where they will not die over winter, 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: The Chef and AI Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/dining/ai-chefs-restaurants.html206?i=1000634603077 The Hardfork Podcast Episode about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trump-musk-fallout-a-doge-coder-speaks-chefgpt/id1528594034?i=1000711823159 EPA rolling back regulations on power plants: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/climate/epa-power-plants-mercury-carbon-trump.html?searchResultPosition=2 Government EPA study that points out these actions will lead to more premature deaths: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-06/utilities_ria_proposal_111_repeal_2025-06.pdf MUSIC from this episode: Sway Together by Hannah Juanita Tennessee on My Mind by Will Harrison via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqgk0VfWTP9WyXFq_eOEDAsljtonKZ4OwDWuSRaHITLQAPBQDK5 Farmhand: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ Precip: https://precip.ai/ 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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  • Is Comfrey Worth the Hype + Can You Call Yourself a Farmer IF…

    Is Comfrey Worth the Hype + Can You Call Yourself a Farmer IF…
    Jun 12 2025

    Welcome to episode 172 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: what agricultural term best fits you, Comfrey, and diseases and crover crops!

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    A good comfrey breakdown: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/comfrey-its-history-uses-benefits/#:~:text=In%20the%201950s%2C%20Hills%20developed,wound%20and%20apply%20light%20pressure.

    Comfrey medicinal concerns: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/16/6171

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    The Turn by Martin Hall

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  • Are We Thinking about Aphids All Wrong? I Asked an Expert.

    Are We Thinking about Aphids All Wrong? I Asked an Expert.
    Jun 11 2025

    Welcome to episode 171 of Growers Daily!

    We cover: I had the absolute privilege of catching up with Betsy Lamb, part of Cornell University’s Integrated Pest management program who offered us a ton of insight not just on how aphids work and what they do to plants but what we as growers can do to manage them.

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    Betsy Info: https://cals.cornell.edu/people/elizabeth-betsy-lamb

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    El Camino by Jaque Rascon

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    41 m
  • Can You Walk on Garden Beds? + You Are WHERE You Eat

    Can You Walk on Garden Beds? + You Are WHERE You Eat
    Jun 10 2025
    Welcome to episode 170 of Growers Daily! We cover: walking on garden beds (or not), give a shout to the woods, and rotating crops in tight spaces. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: A review of forest therapy research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866720304039#:~:text=There's%20growing%20scientific%20evidence%20that%20forest%20therapy,ability%20to%20improve%20physical%20and%20mental%20wellbeing.&text=Also%20compared%20to%20no%20intervention/usual%20care%2C%20participants,%25%20CI%20%5B3.40%2C%2085.21%5D%2C%20p%20=%20. Study from harvard: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/ Episode where I discuss the harvard study: https://youtu.be/0felVslsuhE?si=UTM8Bb-dg4n0zMvO A european study on air pollution effects: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/harm-to-human-health-from-air-pollution-2024 People are happier outside: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378013000575 MUSIC from this episode: Riverboat Rambler by Bo the Drifter Into the Forest by Jakob Ahlbom Natural Diver by Kylie Dailey via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqgk0VfWTP9WyXFq_eOEDAsljtonKZ4OwDWuSRaHITLQAPBQDK5 Farmhand: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Farmraise: https://www.farmraise.com/ Precip: https://precip.ai/ 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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