Growers Live

Josh Q&As w/ Andrew Mans of Mans Organics in Alberta, Canada. Mans growers in an acre of protected culture and 100 acres of field production. And if you're in Canada, check out Grow Hoops for Canadian-built caterpillar tunnels.

This is Josh's LAST GROWERS LIVE... for a while. He's taking a break after more than a year of Grower's Live to focus on some other projects for both No-Till Growers and himself. If you haven't already, check out Josh's Sattin Hill YouTube channel, which is a wealth of not only micro-farming information, but beautiful farm profiles of other growers around the South. He's does an absolutely phenomenal job, folks.

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Josh Q&As with Beau & Paul of Mountain Roots Farm in Eastern Tennessee about their shared history in brewing, farming in partnership, beginning again on a new farm (i.e. set it up right!), growing mostly under protected culture, EARTHWORK, leveraging carbon through their tree service, and As to listener Qs.

Mentioned in the show...

Farmers Friend Caterpillar Tunnels

The Neversink Farm Course

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com/support to pitch in a few bucks a month to keep it going. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Aloha, y'all! Josh Q&As with Stephen Ciancioso of Buena Vista Gardens in Hawaii about simple, low-tech, high-production, veg farming in a tropical climate. Stephen is a fantastic grower in a unique context, even despite the challenges and limitations of growing on a rural island farm. A LOT of good technical insight, some challenging topics, and common sense in this one!

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com/support to pitch in a few bucks a month to keep it going. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Josh Q&As with Jesse Frost, author of The Living Soil Handbook (finally, out now). Get it from No-Till Growers and more of your hard-earned $s will go toward making more podcasts and videos free for growers everywhere. New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com/support to pitch in a few bucks a month to keep it going. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Josh Q&As w/ Howard Allen of Faithfull Farms in Chapel Hill, North Carolina about faith, family, and farming, growing mostly under tunnels, educating up-and-coming farmers, having an abundence mentality in the local marketplace, the KIS mindset and SOPs, making decisions with a long view of small-scale agriculture, and so SO much more. Howard is a great guest, grower, and guy. Score two alliterations in one show note.

Check out these videos at Faithfull Farms Year-Round No-Till Tunnel Production Bootstrapping High Tunnels Buffer Zone Between Tunnels Flipping Beds of Baby Greens

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Josh Q&As w/ Terrance Layhew, an organic inspector and the host of The Intellectual Agrarian podcast. He goes deep on organic certification from the other side of the clipboard (which is fascinating), how to be an important part of agriculture without being a farmer, answers some live organic certQs, & talks about his great agricultural philosophy podcast. Follow him on the Grams and subscribe to it where you're getting this one!

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com/support to pitch in for more free content. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Josh Q&As w/ Evan Perkins of Small Axe Farm about building a homestead and market gardening, off-grid, on-slope, at a high elivation in Vermont. Follow Small Axe Farm on Instagram and check out their super rad Farmers Friend Good Life Farm Tour!

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Josh Q&As with Erich Shultz of Steadfast Farm about how his current operation better reflects his quality of life goals, farming with a systems-based mindset, details on his honor-system farmstand, being practical -and- clean, hiring and labor processes, growing in the Southwest, agrihoods, and of course soil managment. Erich is truly a leader in the small farm space for good reason and definitely a farmer you should be following his work on Instagram.

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Josh Q&As with Jayne Merner Senecal of Earth Care Farm, a professional high-quality compost operation AND farm, about the composting business, considerations when starting one, fostering microbiology in the composting process, some compost philosophy, persistent herbicides, and a ton of listener composting Qs.

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by Farmers Friend. Order two or more caterpillar tunnels and get free shipping (as of podcast episode release). Also, brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com. As always, patreons get first dibs on questions.

Josh Q&As with Jesse Frost of Rough Draft Farmstead and No-Tiill Growers about living pathways, dealing with poor drainage, experimentation, biodynamics and his history with wine, getting the most from tasks on the farm you love to do, the stress of early season CSA managment, being honest with your farmer self, and having a no-dogma approach to no-till.

New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by Farmers Friend. Order two or more caterpillar tunnels and get free shipping (as of podcast episode release). Also brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters.

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