Join Kevin Hicks and me as we talk with Bill McKibben, agronomist extraordinaire, author and friend as we start a series on how to read soil, paste and water tests. Bill is the the agronomist at Logan Labs and has been a big piece of the EarthWorks agronomy team for years. We talk about how a soil test report can be interpreted and how the Albrecht model of base saturation can and is used.

In a slight departure from the format, this week’s podcast starts with some mid-season musings, thoughts about our industry in 2020 - year of coronavirus. But stay tuned (or fast forward to) a great conversation with Brian O’Malley of River Vale Country Club. Brian shares some of his strategies of how to do more with less!

Today’s guest on the EarthWorks podcast is Gerry Flaherty, CGCS. Gerry is the superintendent at the prestigious Valley Club in Hailey, ID. We’ll talk a little about his time as a welder in the Naval Shipyards in NJ, casino employee in Atlantic City to his early career in golf course management. We’ll also talk about the recent renovation project at the Valley Club and take a little time to discuss his side hustle with the Task Tracker labor and equipment tracking tool. We thank you for tuning in and supporting our efforts. Enjoy the conversation.

Jerry Brunetti was a founding partner in EarthWorks and a world renowned speaker and author. In this second version of this series we are still learning with Jerry. Hear Jerry talk about the importance of re-minealizing soils, a foundation of the EarthWorks vision. His brilliance and passion continues to be clear with these clips in a speaking engagement in Australia back in 2013.

Jerry Brunetti was a founding partner in EarthWorks and a world renowned speaker and author. In this podcast we have the opportunity to hear some of Jerry’s brilliance and passion as we share a few of his agronomic talks from a speaking engagement in Australia back in 2012.

Join us for a fascinating sports turf discussion with Troy Crawford the grounds manager for FC Dallas. Troy and I discuss, among other things, the ROI that he discovered by investing in amending his fields at time of construction.

In today’s podcast interview with Nathan Cox, owner of Desert Green Turf, we’ll discuss his approach to work/life balance, how he chooses which turf varieties to produce on his farm, and some of the specific (and interesting) projects he’s been involved with since diving into the world of sod production.

This version of the EarthWorks Podcast we have the pleasure to interview our friend Kevin Mercer, The Grounds & Landscape Manager at Denison University in Granville, Ohio just north of Columbus. Kevin is a very studied Grounds Manager and talks about his years in the golf industry and the transition to University Grounds Management. He shares some interesting stories about his unique take on soils management, his reduction in pesticide usage, how he became a Stuart of the soil and how biological soil management has been his agronomic focus for most of his career. Kevin is both informative and entertaining and worth the listen.

This week I had a chance to catch up with an old friend, Glenn Smickley, the General Manager at the California Golf Club in San Francisco California. We talked about his days as superintendent at The Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, its establishment and grow in and the incredible network of superintendents that Glenn has mentored over his career and whats it like to move desks from the superintendents office to the GM’s. Enjoy!

Today’s podcast with Tom Higgins of Jumping Brook Country Club discusses the regrassing of collars and intermediate cut around greens. Tom is a very generous guy, and it was fun to hear some of his stories!