What it's Like to Leave a City to Farm + Planting into Cover Crop Mulch

Welcome to episode 159 of Growers Daily!

We cover: planting into cover crop residue, thirstwaves (like heat waves but thirsty), and what it was like to leave the city all those years ago and start farming.

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Thirstwaves article in Phys: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-thirstwaves-common-states.html

Thirstwaves Research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004870

Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb

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