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Welcome to episode 78 of Growers Daily! We cover: This is the how-to-grow sweet peppers from seed episode! We also talk about when to pull your tarps. ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8 Links from this episode: Original Pepper Video: https://youtu.be/ih2w43nTI9Q MUSIC TODAY "Sunny Side" by Jörgen Hallberg via https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Welcome to episode 77 of Growers Daily! We cover: Perennial Cover Cropping for Clay Soils, No, weeds are not a good thing (necessarily), and what's up at the farm right now ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8 Links from this episode: Perennial Cover Crop Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXLYLzOJNo8 Book, One Straw Revolution: https://amzn.to/4ghx4Oa MUSIC TODAY "We Got Something to Talk About" by Alight the Night via https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Welcome to episode 76 of Growers Daily! We cover: What are "Beneficials" REALLY, Hydroponics for Small Farms? And the conferences within farm conferences ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8 Links from this episode: The Ky hydro farm that shut down: https://apnews.com/article/appharvest-indoor-farming-bankruptcy-martha-stewart-0a32f971f0901510b2de30353b1e0457 Abrupt declines in global fresh water https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153608/global-freshwater-abruptly-declines MUSIC TODAY "We Got Something to Talk About" by Alight the Night via https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Welcome to episode 75 of Growers Daily! We cover: managing slugs with ecology, managing farmer loneliness in the business plan, and chatting with certified organic market gardeners after I dropped both markets and certification 😬 . ‼️ Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8 Links from this episode: Slug episode: https://youtu.be/tO7ixysIph0 MUSIC TODAY "All I know" by Lionel Quick via https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

For this episode, I--Natalie--chatted with Louis Geller from North Spore, which is a mushroom company based out of my home state of Maine. I have known about North Spore since they were founded, which I think was about 10 years ago, and watch their business grow with great enthusiasm because their mission is really cool to bring mushroom cultivation to the masses. And they're doing it very successfully, putting together amazing educational resources to help people get going. I encourage you to check out some of the resources in the show notes for more specifics on cultivating different mushroom species and the different growing systems they've been working on. Folks who make the show possible... 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. ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) will offer the Business of Farming Conference on Saturday, February 22, in Asheville, North Carolina. Find out more at asapconnections.org. Since 1972 Ohio earth food has been the go-to source for soil testing, consulting, fertilizers, seed starting soils, foliar sprays and disease and insect controls. Visit them at ohioearthfood.com. ... 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

Welcome to episode 74 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback Friday! Are there plants that deter moles? And The Flow State and Chefs. Links from this episode: Hiring—Produce/Editor Application: https://forms.gle/vnbTTv24NHw52duj8 Pocket gopher IPM guide: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/pocket-gophers/pest-notes/#gsc.tab=0 One MAter Gardener's battle with gophers using plants: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=30916 Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Welcome to episode 73 of Growers Daily! We cover: When The Garden Won't Drain, When the Cover Crops Won't Die, and static aerated compost Links from this episode: Living pathway and static aerated compost Ep: https://youtu.be/3GsiPJMIjo4 Static Aerated Compost System: https://youtu.be/755RfsdIzbQ Four Winds Farm Composting System: https://youtu.be/bu9aYT7h5Gs background music: https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Jared Zystro is a research and education director at the Organic Seed Alliance. Jared is based in Arcada, California. I invited Jared onto this episode so he can tell you about the Organic Seed Growers Conference in Corvallis, Oregon that is taking place from February 26th to March 1st, 2025. I first went to this conference in 2008 and it was the single most important learning experience to my seed career. I also made so many great friends and contacts that have followed me throughout all my CD endeavors. And I think that you would probably enjoy an experience like this also. So in this episode, Jared and I talk about what is happening at this year's conference and how you can participate not only in person, but also virtually if you can't make it to Corvallis. Jared and I talk about more than just the conference in this episode. We start with Jared's seed story and how it went from working summers on vegetable farms to ultimately getting a PhD in plant breeding and plant genetics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. And we finished with a deep dive into growing quinoa on both a larger commercial scale using a combine and a smaller scale with manual techniques. Free, Crop Planning for Seed Farmers minicourse: www.spreadsheet.farm/seedcropplan Follow Dan on Instagram, get his newsletter, & follow Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm 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!

Welcome to episode 72 of Growers Daily! We cover: History is not history, what data to collect in the garden this year, and what tillage does to soil (but why I sometimes recommend it) Links from this episode: Link to discussion about setting goals: https://youtu.be/pThCulhXXp8 Crop Profitability post on the forum: https://notillgrowers.community.chat/post/crop-profitability-comparison-13552640?trail=15 Music: "Now You Sail Away By OTE feat. Willow from https://www.epidemicsound.com Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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

Welcome to episode 71 of Growers Daily! We cover: Country currency, can biochar deactivate herbicides, and shouts to farm conference Links from this episode: Bio char and persistent herbicide study: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.05.052 Review of biochar and chemical contaminant remediation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651322011629 Song highlight: Losing Friends by Rain Jewel Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers Show Sponsors: Harnois Greenhouses: https://www.harnois.com/en/ and Peaceful Heritage Nursery: https://peacefulheritage.com CODE: NOTILL 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