Joining host Jennie Love on today's show is Denise Richter from Pistil & Stamen in New Orleans. On her small urban flower farm, Denise has had to get very clever over the years with intercropping to maximize the number of harvestable stems. In this conversation, we dive deep into intercropping as well as urban farming, managing super wet soils, and being a farmer florist.

Intercropping is the practice of planting two or more crops at the same time or in quick succession in the same bed space so they are growing together for at least part of their life cycles. This diversifies the types of roots down in the soil and maximizes space and photosynthesis above ground. Intercropping is a key practice to regenerative farming. It's talked about a lot in the grazing and vegetable farming communities. But it really hasn't caught on much yet in flower farming. Hopefully today's show will help change that!

Some of the intercropping pairings mentioned in this episode include:

- sunflowers + dahlias - stock + flowering cabbage + candy tuft - calendula + snapdragons - cardoons + iris - edible peas + dormant perennials - lisianthus + radishes - celosia + dormant ranunculus/anemones

Some seed sources mentioned were Baker Creek Seeds for purple-pod peas and Johnny's Selected Seeds for cover crop peas.

Denise also mentioned Floral Genius pin cups as her favorite design mechanic.

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Host Jennie Love sits down with former aerospace engineer turned author, Nigel Palmer, to discuss his outstanding book The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments. Nigel has done a superb job of putting the science behind homebrewed natural inputs like those touted in Korean Natural Farming and JADAM practices. Nigel tells us how we can conduct our own citizen science to be better regenerative farmers.

The process for testing your own liquid mineral amendments can be found here on Nigel's website.

Nigel's upcoming workshops can be found here.

Nigel's YouTube channel has a growing collection of informative videos on how to make your own natural regenerative inputs.

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No-Till Flowers is a podcast all about regenerative practices to help flower farms be more resilient and our community to thrive.

Flower farms can do so much more than just grow flowers! Through our work on our farms, we can build habitat for other creatures of all sizes, balancing soils, water cycles and ecosystems. If we e give back more than we take.

Come along with me as I ask lots of questions of podcast guests to help piece the puzzle together. Weather you're brand new to flower farming or a seasoned grower, you'll learn something new with each episode.

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Host Jennie Love talks with Erika Eschholz & Ken Michael from Teton Full Circle Farm in Idaho about what it means to be a biodynamic flower farm. We get into both the practical parts of biodynamics and the woo-woo.

Erika and Ken were gracious enough to provide a long list of resources for listeners who want to learn more about biodynamics:

Books Grasp the Nettle By Peter Proctor Agriculture by Rudolf Steiner Gardening for Life by Maria Thun The Biodynamic Way by Maria Thun A Biodynamic Farm by Hugh Lovel Biodynamic Gardening by Monty Waldin Calendars The Maria Thun Biodynamic Almanac 2022 (be sure to get the edition appropriate for your area- e.g. The North America Edition) Stella Natura 2022 Biodynamic Planting Calendar Edited by Sherry Wildfeuer Organizations Biodynamic Demeter Alliance (formerly The Biodynamic Association and Demeter USA) Resources The Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics Biodynamic Source What is Biodynamics? by Ken Michael and Erika Eschholz

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And we're back! It's the premiere of Season 2 of No-Till Flowers!!

Host Jennie Love talks again with fan favorite, Tony Gaetz of Bare Mountain Farm about making and using natural farm inputs for fertility and biology a la Korean Natural Farming and JADAM practices. The running theme is that a little goes a long way.

Tony was on Season 1 of the podcast so be sure to check out that episode if you haven't already.

Tony and his wife Denise have an outstanding YouTube channel full of videos about Korean Natural Farming, JADAM, biochar, bokashi, no-till techniques, tools, and much more.

This show is brought to you by the Regenerative Flower Farmers Network (RFFN). Your membership in RFFN will go to support the making of more podcasts here on No-Till Flowers. Join RFFN today to read dozens of great articles on regenerative practices as they specifically relate to flower farming. On RFFN, you'll find written recipes for making several of the natural inputs Tony and Jennie talk about during this show.

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Surprise! Welcome to the third of No-Till Flowers spontaneous seasonal series...

To build on our last No-Till Flowers Summer short about improving meh compost with Ellen Polishuk, Jennie and Optimus... I mean, Jesse Frost (a hilarious, but unfortunate recording error), author of The Living Soil Handbook and host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast, break down the four types of compost, how small-scale farmers can make their own without heavy equipment, they get real nerdy about worm bins, and lessons learned managing no-till on clay soils.

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John Kempf's Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

The Food Lab Earth Podcast

The Worm Farmers Handbook

Uncle Jim's Worm Farm

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Surprise! Welcome to the second of No-Till Flowers spontaneous seasonal series...

It may be a Summer short, but Jennie Love of Love N Fresh Flowers and Ellen Polishuk of Plant to Profit have a powerful conversation about what to do with less-than-awesome compost, modifying our approaches to soil health over time, and an important piece of advice for farm resilience in the wake of a changing climate... and ain't just to increase your organic matter!

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Surprise! Welcome to the first of No-Till Flowers spontaneous seasonal series...

Jennie Love of Love N Fresh Flowers talks with Dave Dowling of Ball Colorlink about everything TULIPS! Because, you know, that's probably what you're doing right now. They cover a lot of ground, from considerations when ordering bulbs, to no-till planting, harvesting, storing, designing, profitability, favorite varieties, and resources.

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Legendary flower grower Joe Schmitt joins the show to talk ornamental grains and grasses, efficient tools for reducing wear on the body, and a bunch else from his lifetime in flower farming.

Links:

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/transplanters/paperpot-transplanter-7601.html

https://www.pendragonfabrication.com/specialty-machinery/drangen-lay-down-work-cart/

https://www.nativeseeds.org/pages/sonoran-panic-grass

https://territorialseed.com/products/quinoa-brightest-brilliant-rainbow?variant=12786106433635

https://www.wildgardenseed.com/index.php?cPath=39

https://www.victoryseeds.com/sorghum_white-popping.html

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Erin McMullen joins host Jennie Love to talk restoring soil, wholesale flowers, farming with kids, being a female farmer.

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