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I don't even know where to begin. Today, I—Mimi—interview Pat Crowley of Chapul Farms in my own state of Oregon. One of my neighbors. If you've been one of the many thousands who have viewed THIS video of black soldier fly larvae production, this is THAT, but on steroids. Pat describes Chapul: "In 2019, I launched Chapel Farms as a way to continue growing the regenerative potential of insects to bioconvert food and ag waste into healthy foods and microbial-rich soil. We work with selected domestic and international insect farms to scale their operations and provide the highest quality insect products to B to C and B to B markets… we are developing some of the world's largest insect farms focused on uncompromising sustainability metrics." It's all true. If you're interested in any aspect of insect agriculture, this is going to be one for you…

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Hope you're wearing your PPE for this one! Mimi Casteel of Hope Well Wine is speaking with Miguel Altieri, one of the modern pioneers of agroecology. He has written more than 330 publications, including a book: Agroecology, the Science of Sustainable Agriculture & Biodiversity… Miguel is a hero to many of us who have practiced in the field and his bio is very extensive. In addition to being a professor emeritus at UC Berkley, he also served as a scientific advisor to the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development and general coordinator to the United Nations Development Program in Sustainable Agriculture, Networking, & Extension. He's worked in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and is now farming in Columbia.

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Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• Marbleseed Organic Farming

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Jackson's GoFundMe for tornado damage

Today, we sit down with Dan Fillius of Iowa State Extension and Alex Ball of Old City Acres to discuss the role of the university extension agent in supporting farmers, both organic and conventional. We dig deep on the multiple facets of Dan's farming experience as an organic grower and extension agent duties including working with Amish growers, helping growers identify pests/diseases, and how he connects with farmers using social media and his own podcast: "What in the Weather." Dan is a treasure chest of information and is doing the good work on the ground by keeping folks educated and connected with up to date relative agricultural information.

Mentioned in the show...

Check out Dan's awesome Instagram feed!

Organic vegetable production conference

Midwest Veg Growing Guide

What in the Weather? Podcast

Jackson's GoFundMe for tornado/giant damage

Folks who support The No-Till Market Garden Podcast...

Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• Marbleseed Organic Farming

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Hey nerds, Farmer Jesse here, and we're going to break from our regularly scheduled podcasting to bring you a special bonus episode--a roundtable with three living legends: Helen Atthowe, David Blanchard, & Lou Johns. These have been three huge inspirations of my own and I wanted to get them together to discuss living pathways and how they manage them on different acreage and in different systems. This is a very long and in-depth conversation and we cover: how to manage living pathways, strip tillage, mowing walkways, establishing paths, best tillers for strip tillage, and a whole lot more. We hope you enjoy this roundtable as much as we did and we hope to do more of them soon!

Mentioned in the show...

The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist, No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own Fertilizer, System for Organic Agriculture by Helen Atthowe

If you want to see photos of their respective farms during the conversation, check out the YouTube version of the roundatble on The No-Till Growers channel

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Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

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BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Bonjour, it's Mimi, and I'm keeping it real international for my second tour on the podcast. Today we are going to chat with Charles Lachaux from Burgundy, France. He's a sixth generation vigneron at Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux. If you're a person who drinks, appreciates, thinks about wine, you know Burgundy, as these are wines that have a long history, but in the recent past since his return they have been given critical acclaim. One of the things that sets Charles apart in the region is his conversion to regenerative and no-till practices. The regulations and cultural traditions around viticulture in France are very strong, so it makes a big impact when someone breaks tradition and starts doing things differently. For Charles, however, this has given his work and wine a cult appeal. His wines are very hard to get your hands on, but if you truly want to blow someone's mind, seek them out.

Folks who support The No-Till Market Garden Podcast...

Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• ACRES Eco-Ag

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Today we've got a LIVE and very special episode, Alex sits down with the one and only Ben Hartman of Clay Bottom Farm to discuss his third and newest book, The Lean Micro Farm. They dig deep on small farming systems, the importance of proximity to the end-consumer, and the power of empowering and being surrounded by a strong team. When visiting farms like Clay Bottom, we're always reminded by the power of small.

Mentioned in the show...

Ben's newest book, The Lean Micro-Farm How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, & Work Less

The Lean Farming Masterclass

The McGill Big Three for Core Stability

Folks who support The No-Till Market Garden Podcast...

Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• ACRES Eco-Ag

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Today's episode is about a not-so-obvious climate adaptive farm strategy, tree syrups. I, Natalie, know this might be only tangentially related to your production system, and I have yet to be told by Jesse and the team to reign it in, but I love the idea of wild foods that can be sustainably harvested. Selfishly, I just wanted an excuse to learn more about this topic. David Moore is a researcher at the University of New Hampshire and he has been looking at different tree syrups for his dissertation. Because I'm a huge maple syrup fan, I did force him to talk about maple syrup production, but we also get into some of the other trees he's been tapping.

Mentioned in the show...

The Crooked Chimney Syrup Website for more sap & syrup information.

Let us know your guest recommendations!

Folks who support The No-Till Market Garden Podcast...

Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• ACRES Eco-Ag

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

It's three-hundred-million volts of shocking the system with... earworms. You'll see what I did there in just a second. It's Mimi and I'm really stoked to be with you, again. Today, were going to have a look into the worm world, secifically invasive jumping worms, with Dr. Lee Frelich. He's a professor of forest and landscape ecology at the University of Minnesota and is a leading researcher and is widely cited in disturbence ecology and succession in forest ecosystems. This episode may be a somewhat controversial and polarizing, but it's a fascinating look at some of these organisms we see everyday.

Mentioned in the show...

Green Again Madagascar

Folks who support The No-Till Market Garden Podcast...

Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements, on sale through the end of the year!

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• ACRES Eco-Ag

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Farm Lot 59 is an urban, year-round, no-till vegetable and flower farm located in sunny Long Beach, California. Farm Lot 59 was founded in 2010 by Sasha Kanno and a founding board of community members as a place to fight local food insecurity, teach the community about agriculture, and incubate and inspire folks to go rural and start larger farms. Using a unique combination of an on-site farm stand, events, and local food donations, they've built a year-round food project that feeds their local community, employs local farmers, and helps to grow the local food movement through important policy work.

Mentioned in the show...

Farm Lot 59's Farmsite & Instagram

Food Finders: Rescuing Food, Reducing Hunger

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Johnny's Selected Seeds for vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources.

RIMOL Greenhouses for high-quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.

Certified Naturally Grown a grassroots, peer-to-peer, holistic certification.

... 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

Find Farmer Jesse at these upcoming conferences...

• ACRES Eco-Ag

• Organic Association of Kentucky

• Utah Food and Farm Conference

• Dallas Innercity Growers Summit

• Organic Growers School

Hey nerds, Farmer Jesse, welcome back to another season (six!) of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast. Just wanted to say hello, talk about the upcoming podcast season, and give you little farm update before Alex, Natalie, and Mimi take over for the season.

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