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Welcome to episode 52 of Growers Daily!

We cover: Today we talk about the future of the wine industry, cool ecological work in viticulture, and if you could do it all over again, would you farm?

Links from this episode:

ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

The biochar handbook :https://amzn.to/3ZAbgHc

Revino Recycling Wine Bottles: https://www.revinobottles.com

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German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374

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Welcome to episode 51 of Growers Daily!

We cover: Happy Monday. Today we are discussing what days to maturity means on a seed packet, we're talking about how to meet like-minded farmers, and we're talking about the real costs of starting a farm.

Links from this episode:

ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

First Year Expense Post from the Forum: https://notillgrowers.community.chat/post/a-financial-summary-of-a-firstyear-farm-13536423?trail=15

High-density Maple syrup production: https://www.youtube.com/@ATFence

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

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Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

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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

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You've all heard it. Black is the new green. We're gonna, we're talking today about biochar and a big, big topic these days in the arenas that we tread in. Kelpie Wilson, my guest today, wrote and just released the Biochar Handbook. Kelpie is founder of Wilson Biochar Associates and a mechanical engineer, writer and consultant with a background in renewable energy and forest protection. Currently, she specializes in biochar technology and market development commissioned by a broad portfolio of clients. Ms. Wilson has been a reliable voice for Climate Change, Energy, and the Environment, and has authored white papers, research summaries, reports, cost study papers, grant proposals, and hundreds of articles. Her clients include the International Biochar Initiative, Cool Planet Energy Systems, Oregon Biochar Solutions, Frye Poultry, Pembroke Family Farmers. This is a very long list. It goes on and on and on. As communications editor and project development director for the International Biochar Initiative between 2008 and 2012. Kelpie managed the public process and document development to publish the first international standards for product definition and testing.

Kelpie's links...

Pre-register for Kelpie's Practical Biochar Course on Regenerative Living

The Biochar Handbook by Kelpie Wilson now available for order

Order your Ring of Fire Biochar Kiln: RingofFire.earth

Check out my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@KelpieWilson

Subscribe to The Biochar Prepper: https://biocharprepper.substack.com/Ms.Kelpie Wilson

Wilson Biochar Associates Email: [email protected]

JOIN THE DISCUSSION: If you'd like to subscribe to the free Biochar in the Woods Discussion Group, visit https://biochar.groups.io/g/Biocharinthewoods

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 50 of Growers Daily!

We cover: Feedback friday! Plus we discuss tips for a more efficient farm and the simplest of crop planning tactics.

Links from this episode:

ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

Bird Flu USDA hotline - 1-866-536-7593

CDC updates on Bird Flu outbreak: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html

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)

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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

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Welcome to episode 49 of Growers Daily!

We cover: A Guide to bird flu for small farmers, why I don't own a tractor, and where to get farm and market garden updates.

Links from this episode:

Bird Flu USDA hotline - 1-866-536-7593

Chris Newman Video on Farm Subsidies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY5rTMGRPJY&t=625s

Canadian Teenage with Birdflur: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113321#:~:text=Canadian%20public%20health%20officials%20closed,was%20released%20from%20the%20hospital.

UVM guide to Bird Flu for backyard poultry: https://extension.umn.edu/poultry-health/avian-influenza-basics-noncommercial-poultry-flock-owners#:~:text=Tremors,Laying%20down%20and%20pedaling

Sings in dairy cattle: https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza/avian-influenza-virus-type-h5n1-us-dairy-cattle#:~:text=Tests%20so%20far%20indicate%20that,of%20cows%20within%20a%20herd.

CDC updates on Bird Flu outbreak: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html 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

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Welcome to episode 48 of Growers Daily!

We cover: Would Wood Chips Make a Good Surface mulch? Had a weedy year--here's what to do. And the phases of a farm.

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

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5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL)

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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

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Kelly Maynard is a cooperative development specialist at the university of Wisconsin center for cooperative development and we're going to get into some practical advice and tools you can use when thinking about going into cooperative farming, yourself, or yourselves, as it were. This is the second coop development person, or forth depending on how you define that role, I've had on this season to, if nothing else, drive the point home that there are people out there who's life work it is support the development of your "working together" ideas. Not only do you not have to farm alone, you don't have to build cooperative systems alone.

Mentioned in the show...

Farm Commons resource on FSA farm ownership loans

Farm Commons and UWCC toolkit on sharing labor

Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

UWCC recorded webinars, see Tools for an Effective Board and Decision-Making Tools for the Board Room

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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

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Welcome to episode 47 of Growers Daily!

We cover: End Daylight saving--a farmer's solution. We discuss AI generated forecasts and what that will mean for farms, and naps. Naps for president.

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

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Johnnys Selected Seeds: https://www.johnnyseeds.com

Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.partners/notill

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Preorder Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

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Welcome to episode 46 of Growers Daily!

We cover: watermelon profitability, traveling, KNF, biodynamics, JADAM and more!

Links from this episode:

Sunday's Video: https://youtu.be/SxFjb0i8sbE

OAK Conference: https://www.oak-ky.org/annual-conference

KNF study from Hawaii https://gms.ctahr.hawaii.edu/gs/handler/getmedia.ashx?moid=3976&dt=2&g=12

Chris Trump Podcast with me 2019: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-till-market-garden-podcast/id1441886206?i=1000450827032

KNF book: https://ilcasia.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chos-global-natural-farming-sarra.pdf

Book Loosely about KNF: https://amzn.to/4gqYt0I

Jadam Books: https://amzn.to/4gqYqSA

Jadam Site: http://en.jadam.kr

Jeff's Book: https://amzn.to/4gaEjZa

Jeff Videos: https://youtu.be/h4AU5kd4RUs

Paper on Steiner: https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/hist_fac/article/1080/&path_info=Staudenmaier_3569.pdf

Biodynamic review: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opag-2019-0064/html

Biodynamic vs Conventional and Organic: https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/research/sv/findings-from-a-recent-comparative-study-on-biodynamic-agriculture#:~:text=Biodynamic%20versus%20conventional:%20Biodynamic%20methods,farming%20reduce%20dependency%20on%20imports.

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)

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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

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👕 MERCH 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook

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Hey listeners, it's Natalie and today I've got a conversation with my friend Ryan Maher from Cornell, formerly from the Cornell Small Farm Program about deep compost mulch. If that sounds familiar, it might be because Jesse talked about Ryan's research on his daily podcast several weeks ago or months ago. I don't know. I lose track of time. Ryan and his colleagues were able to do an eight-year research project comparing essentially different farming systems, not just different farming practices, and it yielded a wealth of agroecological and economic data. As Jesse discussed, and Ryan readily admits, there were some limitations to the research as there always are. But as with any good research project, it set the groundwork for additional questions, especially when it comes to the different phases of a farming system, sort of the setup or establishment phase, the maintenance phase, and how we might best manage that balance between nutrient management and weed management when it comes to using mulch, especially compost mulch. This was farmer-led research and I want to give a lot of credit to the researchers at the University of Maine and Cornell for recognizing this emerging deep compost mulch system when they did nearly a decade ago. It's no small feat to maintain a research trial for eight years and it's really great to have this wealth of data!

Natalie's Tarping Cover Crops Facilitates Organic No-Till Cabbage Production & Suppresses Weeds research

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