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Welcome to episode 131 of Growers Daily! We cover: soil health on a budget, tips for how to remember to keep some dang records, and calculating how much water you need for 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: USDA Climate Smart Grant Cancellation: https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/04/14/usda-cancels-biden-era-climate-slush-fund-reprioritizes-existing-funding-farmers Spring cover crops: https://youtu.be/NKaVeDYRdWQ Simplified irrigation calculations from UK (go cats): https://publications.ca.uky.edu/sites/publications.ca.uky.edu/files/HO122.pdf MUSIC from this episode: Kaleidoscope by Kylie Dailey 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

Welcome to episode 130 of Growers Daily! We cover: a plant it and forget it farm business model, harvesting from cover crops, and what we're up to right now on our farm. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Making Money from Cover Crops Episode: https://youtu.be/KOaH6J02qos?si=EQZod4fs7H2DKaYv MUSIC from this episode: Aint Gonna Live Like This No More by Bo the Drifter This Bird is Free by Alicia Goodwyn 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

Welcome to episode 129 of Growers Daily! We cover: If you can level a plot, should you just go ahead and do it and we're gonna take a look at what the challenges of plastic free farming says about farming We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Sweet potato curing research stuff: https://my.ucanr.edu/sites/Postharvest_Technology_Center_/files/228558.pdf Biodegradable mulches episode: https://youtu.be/Ls4xN-zrGE0?si=uS_zBIRgaxzpBXkY Ben Hartman post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHgu3QKOoHo/ Urbavore Farm: https://www.instagram.com/urbavorefarm/?hl=en MUSIC from this episode: Out of Control by Gloria Tells Potato Salad 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/ 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

Welcome to episode 128 of Growers Daily! We cover: Creative ways dealing with limited compost options, how to choose which fruits to grow, and can weed wacking a cover crop and then tarping it kill the cover crop more quickly. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Show from 2/18: https://youtu.be/_It_M9rnQyI Ben Hartman post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHgu3QKOoHo/ MUSIC from this episode: Trouble Stay from My Door by Roy Williams In Full Bloom by The Eastern Plain via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on April 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 127 of Growers Daily! We cover: Sweet potatoes—from growing the slips to eating and selling the vines, interplanting, all of it. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666 Links for today: Sweet potato video: https://youtu.be/l_GsoT8Fg64 MUSIC from this episode: Sweet Potato Luke by Jerry McHoy via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on April 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 126 of Growers Daily! We cover: Fire ants, the cost of starting and running a farm podcast, and why gardening and farming has been so neglected in art. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Forum: https://notillgrowers.community.chat The episode where I detail why notillgrowers is changing: https://youtu.be/Sd8UEDohV9U Fire Ants organically: https://lubbock.tamu.edu/files/2015/10/ENTO_009.pdf Review of fire ant treatments (orgnic and not): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7694179/#:~:text=2.2.,%2C%20USA)%20%5B16%5D. Boiling water study from 2007: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2999503/ Mary Mito's art: https://www.quarryfinearts.com/mary-mito MUSIC from this episode: Belle Epoque by The Devil's Sway Lazy Art by Martin Landstrom via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on April 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 125 of Growers Daily! We cover: Microplastics messing with photosynthesis, agrochemicals in alcohol, and why we can't just turn plastic into bricks. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Microplastics and plants: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/microplastics-are-making-photosynthesis-harder-for-plants-and-that-could-slash-crop-yields-study-suggests-180986209/ Microplastics and Plants (The Guardian):https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation What Microplastics do to plants: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/20/3554 What we know about alcohol's link to cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00729-5 Glyphosate in Beer (even organic beer): https://pirg.org/missouri/foundation/resources/glyphosate-pesticide-in-beer-and-wine/#:~:text=Large%2C%20conventional%20brands%20such%20as,glyphosate%20levels%20above%2025%20ppb.&text=One%20brand%2C%20Peak%20Beer%2C%20did,contain%20detectable%20levels%20of%20glyphosate. Plastic bricks in Kenya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKTgMogqBxs Plastic bricks in Ivory Coast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWNA1CjIaIw Brothers Make video on plastic bricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPAmGf-0i0 MIT on how much plastic is being recycled: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/#:~:text=How%20much%20plastic%20is%20actually,the%20demand%20for%20virgin%20polymers. MUSIC from this episode: The Band is Broken by Daniel Fridell via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on April 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 124 of Growers Daily! We cover: Farming like you're old, damping off, and it's feedback friday! We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Investing in Regenerative Agriculture podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food/id1268558109 When John was on our show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-till-market-garden-podcast/id1441886206?i=1000449101621 When I was on John's Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zj9SUeIXPA John's damping off episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/regenerative-agriculture-podcast/id1372359995?i=1000694324992&r=1636 Article on Socially Responsible investing: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/socially-responsible-investing MUSIC from this episode: Back of My Mind by Melanie Bell via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on April 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 123 of Growers Daily! We cover: If it matters which way you orient your garden beds, old horse manure, and getting an old pile of manure composting. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Bioassay Episode: https://youtu.be/FKtj-A8Gx9U Kickstarting Compost Pile Episode: https://youtu.be/Ls4xN-zrGE0 MUSIC from this episode: Be Enough by Kylie Dailey via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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

Welcome to episode 122 of Growers Daily! We cover: What the pros wear in the garden and get a celery breakdown from seed to harvest. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: sweet potato video: https://youtu.be/l_GsoT8Fg64 The crocs I wear: https://www.crocs.com/p/crocs-on-the-clock-work-slip-on/205073.html?cgid=outlet&cid=001 Xtratuf boots: https://www.xtratuf.com/Home Grundens: https://grundens.com Trimming Celery study :https://californiaagriculture.org/api/v1/articles/111163-celery-yields-and-uniformity-are-affected-by-pre-transplant-practices.pdf Good Basic Celery Guide from MSU: https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/celery_commercial_vegetable_recommendations_e1308 MUSIC from this episode: Fire Trails by Staffan Carlen via www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil 11th: www.FARMHAND.PARTNERS/NEWSLETTER Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.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