Growers Daily

Babies, I consider it one of the hallmarks of professionalism to bring you people who share our tendency towards obsession, because we all know that obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness, but the best obsessions bring forth the most exquisite results. And today, we are talking to not one, but two beautifully, and I mean it, beautifully obsessed people. It is my extreme pleasure to introduce you to my very dear friends Robin Touchet and Kevin Pike of Branchwater Farms. Robin and Kevin have an incredible backstory. They have this beautiful website. I can't recommend enough that you go and read it all and look at it all. It's so pretty and well done and well thought. But more than that, they're making amazing spirits. Their story is incredible. We will get into some of it. They both have a wine background. They've graduated to something much stronger, and they've landed in this beautiful farm in the Hudson Valley. We're gonna get into all the things with Kevin and Robin, and they do their production of the various things that they grow, their ambitions are to be no -till, and we talk about the struggles with that along the way. It's a fascinating journey, and they are so wonderful, and I highly recommend you check them out and follow them. The Branchwater Farms beautiful website and Instagram Check out Mimi Casteel's Hope Well Wine and follow Stone Barns on Instagram Folks who make the show possible... Rimol Greenhouses are strong, durable and easy to assemble, offering the quality you need to grow productively year-round. Visit Rimol.com today. Discover the beauty of BCS on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost, mowing under fences, clearing snow, and more – at bcsamerica.com. When you need proven varieties you can count on and detailed guidance from seeding to harvest, consider Johnny's your trusted growing partner. Visit johnnyseeds.com 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. ... 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 39 of Growers Daily! We cover: Stop talking about going to Mars, dealing with garden waste, and it's feedback Friday! Links from this episode: Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill 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🚨 Preorder 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 38 of Growers Daily! We cover: Is it Actually a Farm Without Livestock, Leeky Elephant Garlic, how to track sales at market. Links from this episode: Elephant garlic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7249167/ Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill 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🚨 Preorder 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 36 of Growers Daily! We cover: Companion planting, interplanting, accents, and is the farmers market worth it? Links from this episode: Companion Planting Video: https://youtu.be/MvzQKEa2z_A Root knot nematode study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030442381500076X#:~:text=Although%20all%20tested%20companion%20plants,2009/128/EC). Tomato whitefly and marigold study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6396911/ Accents and Social Mobility in the UK https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1360780418816335 Editorial: Language beyond Words: The Neuroscience of Accent https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5169099/#:~:text=Christiner%20and%20Reiterer%20investigate%20the,Romero%2DRivas%20et%20al. Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill 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🚨 Preorder 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

Heron Breen is this episode's guest. Heron grows seed on six acres at Fruits of Our Labors in St. Albans, Maine. In this episode, Heron and I discussed the nature of seed work as a plant-based meditation that encompasses sculpture, art, science, and quantum physics, and the generational connection that seed provides across time and space. And then we pivot into talking about how to space seed crops and the reasons and importance of broader spacing before delving into what words like heirloom and open pollinated seeds really mean. In the deep dive, we talk about growing onions and leeks for seed. Follow Dan on Instagram, get his newsletter, & follow Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm PRE-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 36 of Growers Daily! We cover: How to get rid of slugs, planning for the planning [sic}, and information overload. Links from this episode: live trap: https://amzn.to/4fWpads new organic grower book: https://amzn.to/4fRLeWh sluggo: https://amzn.to/48ZMaFR Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill 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🚨 Preorder 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 35 of Growers Daily! We cover: Reviving dead soil, growing messy carrots, and what happened to all the bugs on windshields? Links from this episode: Denmark bug study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6580276/ Colorado Bug Study: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.462 Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural- networking-workshop Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/ 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🚨 Preorder 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

Hey everyone, it's Alex Ball of Old City Acres back for another season and I'm so excited to bring you all new interviews with small farmers from all across the country and abroad. This season, we're going to dig deep at what it takes to survive as small -scale farmers, grow your business, and meet your individual farm business goals. We're launching my year off right with a very enlightening and uplifting interview with Jennifer Dunbar of Lovelight Farm in Birmingham, Alabama. We talk about farming in a tropical climate, working with local schools and community members, collaborating with other farmers on products and inputs, and much, much more. Folks who make the show possible... Rimol Greenhouses are strong, durable and easy to assemble, offering the quality you need to grow productively year-round. Visit Rimol.com today. Discover the beauty of BCS on your farm with PTO-driven implements for soil-working, shredding cover crops, spreading compost, mowing under fences, clearing snow, and more – at bcsamerica.com. When you need proven varieties you can count on and detailed guidance from seeding to harvest, consider Johnny's your trusted growing partner. Visit johnnyseeds.com 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. ... 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 34 of Growers Daily! We cover: Feedback friday! Today we also discuss "do you have to mulch garlic" , plus sweet potato roots after being grown in growbags, strawbales and the soil. Female Farmer Books: The Ecological Farm: https://amzn.to/3O6caps Sustainable Market Farming: https://amzn.to/4hJn2qS For the Love of Soil: https://amzn.to/3YOaqq4 Worm Farmers Handbook: https://amzn.to/4fQJYTh Other links from this episode: Managing Cover Crops Profitably: https://www.sare.org/resources/managing-cover-crops-profitably-3rd-edition/ Garlic study: https://wap.hillpublisher.com/UpFile/202003/20200303201934.pdf Sweet potato study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022022381 Dan Brisebois' Garlic experiment: https://danbrisebois.com/2014/07/05/mulched-garlic-vs-unmulched-garlic/#:~:text=We%20have%20always%20mulched%20our,earlier%20than%20the%20mulched%20garlic. Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers 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 Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural- networking-workshop Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/ 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🚨 Preorder 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 33 of Growers Daily! We cover: Static Aerated composting, farm conferences, and Living Pathways Johnson-su: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUGk161Ly8&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fregenerationinternational.org%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-networking-workshop static aerated vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755RfsdIzbQ Support our work (👊) at www.notillgrowers.com/support or www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers MY BOOK (in four languages)! 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 Evansville Event: https://www.events.humanitix.com/farm-vitality-soil-health-andagricultural-networking-workshop Show Sponsors: Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill RESOURCES TO SUPPORT HURRICANE VICTIMS Carolina Farm Stewardship Association CSFA (numerous resources) https://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/cfsa-helene-resources Organic Growers School OGS ( list of farmers in need ) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YC235Gbq6YwWbC9mQe8Lh9iMsNp4Lpub9oZIP66Qye0/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) donate: https://asapconnections.org/about-us/ 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🚨 Preorder 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