The No-Till Growers Podcast Network

By Farmer Jesse

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What's The No-Till Growers Podcast Network about?

The No-Till Growers Podcast Network (formerly known as The No-Till Market Garden Podcast) is a nuts and bolts (and earthworms and microbes) look at how to run a productive, profitable no-till market garden for small and mid-sized farmers. It's also where you can hear everything else No-Till Growers produces.

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Thirty Years of Composting ...

09.18.2023

Today, I'm in Austria, joined by Dr. Martin Wellacher. Martin is uber committed to the environment, as most of us in this industry are eco-conscious, but he is next-level. He doesn't even own a car. So, he needed to plan ...

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09.18.2023 Thirty Years of Composting Innovation in Austria with Dr. Martin Wellacher Today, I'm in Austria, joined by Dr. Martin Wellacher. Martin is uber committed to the environment, as most of us in this industry are eco-conscious, but he is next-level. He doesn't even own a car. So, he needed to plan ...
09.11.2023 The Great Aussie Composting Road Show with Robert Rynk & Matthew Cotton of The Composting Handbook Robert Rynk and Matthew Cotton, who you may recognize as the authors of The Composting Handbook, just came back from a tour giving composting workshops to Australian farmers. They had an intensive nine workshops over twelve days, about 1,600 miles ...
09.04.2023 Water Management on the Compost Farm with Steven Wisbaum of Champlain Valley Compost Steven Wisbaum, of Champlain Valley Compost Co & CV Compost, has been growing organic food and making compost for over 30 years. Today, we talk about water management on the compost farm. He provides custom composting services to farms and ...
08.28.2023 The Composting for Community Initiative with Brenda Platt of The Institute for Local Self-Reliance Brenda Platt is the director and life-force behind the Composting for Community Initiative of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. ILSR has a vision of thriving, diverse, equitable communities. To reach this vision, they build local power to fight corporate control. ...
08.21.2023 Building Community through Community Composting with Michael Martinez of LA Compost Michael Martinez is the founder and executive director of LA Compost. He has chosen compost as a way to show his care for humanity and build a healthy community. His work has been incredibly impactful. LA Compost now has a ...
08.20.2023 The Composter, Season Two, Begins Tomorrow Hey Composters and compost lovers, it’s Jayne Merner of Earth Care Farm! Episode one of season two of The Composter will air Monday, August 21st, and continue with a new episode every Monday for ten weeks. We have an awesome ...
08.14.2023 Seasoned Winter Growers & Farming for the Long Haul with Paul & Sandy Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm Paul and Sandy Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm in upstate NY are seasoned expert winter growers. They have been involved with winter growing since they first purchased their 60-acre property 35 years ago. With three large RIMOL high-tunnels, numerous caterpillar ...
08.07.2023 Overwinter Flowers with Joy Longfellow of Johnny’s Selected Seeds Joy Longfellow is a flowers trial technician on the flowers team at Johnny’s research farm. I invited Joy to speak about their overwinter flower trials and the info they have gathered over the past few years. The Johnny’s research farm ...
07.31.2023 Adapting Crops to Climatic Conditions through Seed Work with Brian Campbell of Uprising Seeds Located in the Pacific Northwest, Brian and his partner Chrystine first started as a fresh market farm is 2004, producing their first seed catalog in 2007, and then transitioned entirely to seed production in 2011. Uprising Seeds is WA fist ...
07.24.2023 From Winter-only to Year-round Production with Erin & Sam of Long Season Farm Erin and Sam started Long Season Farm in Ulster County, NY, in 2014 as a winter-only operation, but have since expanded to year-round production and market the majority of their produce at two year-round farmers markets. With seven acres in ...
07.17.2023 Growing through Extreme Lows in the South with Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farm Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms in Atlanta, GA, is a first generation daughter to Caribbean parents whose history is rooted in agriculture. After a career in environmental engineering, she founded Patchwork City Farms in 2010, an acre+ urban farm ...
07.10.2023 Rapid Growth from Small to Mid-scale Diversified Production with Amy & Jacob of Boldly Grown Farm In 2015, Amy Frye and Jacob Slosberg of Boldly Grown Farm in Bow, WA, started a one-acre farm at an incubator farm shortly after meeting and working on their university farm. Now, in their ninth season, they’ve purchased their own ...
07.05.2023 Helen Atthowe of Woodleaf Farm & Author of The Ecological Farm Order The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture by Helen Atthowe Hey, Farmer Jesse here, and we've got a special treat for you today. We are re-releasing the interview I did with Helen Atthowe ...
07.03.2023 Winter-Only Sales & Collaborative CSA Relationships with Jillian & Ross of Open Door Farm Jillian and Ross Mickens of Open Door Farm in Cedar Grove, NC, work collaboratively with previous podcast guests Vera and Gordon of Ten Mother Farm to fill CSA boxes with many of the land intensive crops like potatoes and winter ...
06.26.2023 Geothermal Greenhouse Heating & Winter Flower Production with Rebecca Kutzer Rice of Moonshot Farm Rebecca and her husband, Mark, started Moonshot Farm in East Windsor, NJ, in 2019 after relocating from New York City to begin their dream of growing year-round cut flowers in a northern climate. In just four short years, they have ...
06.19.2023 Efficient Heating/Lighting for Winter Growing & Mindfully Leveraging Loans with John Dindia of Lakeview Hill Farm Today my guest is John Dindia of Lakeview Hill Farm in Traverse City, MI. John and his partner Bailey designed and built their farm from the ground up beginning in 2017 on a 58-acre property with 10 acres of available ...
06.12.2023 Year-round Gardening in a Northern Climate with Niki Jabbour Two quick things: first, we are welcoming back another exciting season of the Winter Growers Podcast with Clara Coleman--super cool--and second, you are going to notice there is a lot more activity on this feed than usual and the reason ...
06.05.2023 Fertilizer from Urine & Sustainable Farms with Tatiana Schreiber of the Rich Earth Institute Hi again, it's Natalie, and this is my last episode, THE last episode, of the fifth season of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast! I want to thank Farmer Jesse and the whole crew of the podcast for giving me the ...
05.29.2023 Growing in an Agrihood, Cardboard Mulch for Bindweed Control, & Appropriate Scale Technology with Jonah Sloven of Sweet Hollow Organic Farm On today’s episode of the podcast I, Alex Ball of Old City Acres, sit down with Jonah Sloven of Sweet Hollow Organic Farm in Victor, Idaho, a small valley town of only 2,000 people with a thriving local food scene. ...
05.22.2023 Holistic Business/Economic Models, The Award-Winning Farm Podcast Farmerama Radio & Simple Regenerative Apps with Abby Rose of Vidacycle Today I, Mimi, am speaking with my good good friend Abby Rose of Vidacycle, a farmer, physicist, and soil health advocate. She is the co-founder of Vidacycle Tech which makes easy to use web applications that support farmers on their ...
05.15.2023 Nitrogen, Organic Matter, MAOM & POM with Assistant Professor of Soil Chemistry Andrea Jilling Buckle up for another NERDY episode of the podcast. For this one, I--Natalie--spoke with Andrea Jilling, an assistant professor of environmental soil chemistry at Oklahoma State University. It's just coincidence that this one follows so soon after Mimi's interview with ...
05.08.2023 Innovative Greenhouse Design, Heritage Livestock, and Honest Small Farm Talk with Jim Schultz of Red Shirt Farm Hey football fans, it's Mimi. And lest you be confused, today we're speaking with Jim Schultz of Red Shirt Farm--get it?--a 13 acre livestock + no-till veg farm in western Mass. He's been farming for more than a decade and ...
05.01.2023 High-Elevation Crop Production & Aggregation/Distribution of Multi-Farm Produce with Mathew & Nina Ladegaard Hey everyone, Alex Ball of Old City Acres, and today we sit down with Mat & Nina Ladegaard of Ground Stone Farm and Squash Blossom Local Food, respectively. Mat is a highly skilled high-elevation vegetable grower. Ground Stone Farm is ...
04.24.2023 Making Connections with Soil Health Indicators with Christine Sprunger of MSU Christine Sprunger is a soil scientist and head of the Soil Health and Ecosystem Ecology Lab at Michigan State University. With a deep-rooted passion for soil science, Christine's research doesn't shy away from the complexity of soil health and what ...
04.17.2023 The Microbial Efficiency Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) Framework with Ecologist Dr. Francesca Cotrufo Deeply inspired by her work in ecology, Dr. Francesca Cotrufo defied the traditional view on litter decomposition and soil organic matter dynamics. An internationally recognized ecologist, she has made great strides in understanding soil organic matter and its underlying processes. ...
04.10.2023 Simple No-Till Bed Prep & Retail Sales with Lindsay Steele of Garden Fort Despite the risk of pivoting their business, Lindsay Steele of Garden Fort in Dexter, Michigan (outside of Ann arbor), chose to switch from farmers markets to direct-to-retail sales and ended up reaping unexpected rewards - from more time with his ...
04.03.2023 Revolutionizing Plant Nurseries with Kurstin Barta of Purple Springs Nursery We all know how important it is to start with a quality plant. With a degree and experience in applied industrial ecology, Kurstin of Purple Springs Nursery discusses the transition from IPM to regenerative agriculture in the nursery space. Her ...
03.27.2023 Terry Bell, Microbial Ecologist from The Microbiome Manipulation Lab Hi everyone, it's Natalie again, and I am putting the ecologists back-to-back here on the podcast. This time with microbial ecologist Terry Bell of the Microbiome Manipulation Lab at the University of Toronto. He came highly recommended and did not ...
03.20.2023 Bill Brinkerhoff & Kathy Sample of Argus Farm Stop Hey everyone, it's Alex Ball, and today we sit down with Bill and Kathy of Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We dig deep into running a consignment-only grocery store, working with farmers in the community, and building food ...
03.13.2023 Mycologist & Professor Dr. Michael Beug Hey fellow passengers, it's Mimi. My most sincere hope is that, by now, I'm growing on you, not unlike a fungus. You know what they say, falling in love is like eating mushrooms, ‘you never know if it's the real ...
03.06.2023 Sonja Birthisel, Agroecologist & PhD from the University of Maine Hi everyone, it's Natalie. It's hard to believe this is my sixth episode for The No-Till Market Garden Podcast. It felt super intimidating to commit to finding and interviewing ten people, but it turns out to have been a lot ...
03.02.2023 Liana Glass of City Beet Farm Hey everyone, it's Alex Ball, and on today’s episode of the podcast we talk to Liana Glass who, along with her partner Duncan, run City Beet Farm on leased yards and lots in urban Vancouver. These first generation farmers are ...
02.24.2023 SEED GROWERS// You Can Grow Seed on Your Farm You can grow seed on your farm. And it’s easier than you think... Subscribe to The Seed Growers Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. This is the first of 5 mini-episodes to get ready for the ...
02.20.2023 David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé, Authors of What Your Food Ate Oh hey, it's Mimi again. Gotcha two for the price of one today, because we're speaking with David Montgomery and Anne Biklé. I'm sure they don't need an introduction, because I know at least some of you all will have ...
02.13.2023 Ryan Fitzbeauchamp of Evening Song Farm Hi everyone, it's Natalie, and for this episode I talked with Ryan Fitzbeauchamp of Evening Song Farm in Vermont. Ryan and his wife Kara have an incredible story to get where they are today with a thriving year-round CSA (yes, ...
02.06.2023 Doug & Kayleigh of Bread Seed Farm Hey everyone, it's Alex Ball, and today I'm excited to talk with Doug Wolcik & Kayleigh Boyle of Bread Seed Farm in rural Vermont. We dig deep into using "no-till" to market your farm, building a farm with community at ...
01.30.2023 Miquel Torres of Familia Torres Truth be told, I always wished to be a Jesuit monk, but kind of missed out on that opportunity on account of not being a dude. I wanted to live in a beautiful place and learn things and grow things ...
01.23.2023 Candice Huber & Jennifer Wilhelm on SARE Farmer Research Grants Natalie here... and for this episode I want to talk farmer research! You may notice that research is a theme for me? SARE is a federally funded program for farmer centered research and innovation. Candice Huber works for SARE and ...
01.16.2023 Adam Mitchel of Country Valley Farm Hey everyone, it’s Alex Ball with another episode of the No-Till Market Garden Podcast! I’m really excited to share a conversation with you all from Adam of Country Valley Farm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the interview we get into ...
01.09.2023 Fred Provenza of Utah State University & BEHAVE You know that feeling when you get to hang out with one of your heroes? Well I do, and you guys are going to get to hang out with us, too. Fred Provenza is a retired professor in rangeland science ...
01.02.2023 Iago Hale of UNH, Nor'east Kiwiberries, & the Hale Lab For this episode, I, Natalie, spoke with Iago Hale about kiwiberries, which I realize is a fruit that a lot of you have probably never heard of, much less tried. In my excitement, I forgot to have him introduce himself! ...
12.26.2022 Jordan Scheibel of Middle Way Farm It's Alex Ball, and I'm excited to bring y'all a conversation with Jordan Scheibel of Middle Way Farm. Jordan and his crew are growing mixed veg for local wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer through a home delivery CSA and online farmers ...
12.19.2022 Wine Maker, Eric Texier Hey rebels, if you listen to this podcast you probably know that I, Mimi, am the lone wine person to date. So, since that's what I do, I thought I would poke some of my favorite people in wine and ...
12.12.2022 Nicolas Enjalbert of SeedLinked & Julie Dawson of UWM Update: The SeedLinked participatory variety trials are LIVE on their website and this year include cherry tomato and colored pepper trials AND a NO-TILL squash trial! Nicolas of SeedLinked and Julie of University of Madison Wisconsin are leaders in participatory ...
12.05.2022 Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm Hey everyone, it's Alex, and I'm beyond excited to bring you all a very interesting conversation with Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm. Brian is one of my favorite farmers in the state of Michigan and I got the ...
11.28.2022 Caleb Goossen, Organic Crop Specialist at MOFGA, & PFAS Natalie here. When Jesse asked me to be a guest-host, I knew I wanted to dedicate an episodeto the subject of PFAS contamination, but I didn't think it would be a good first episode, because it's really not uplifting. It's ...
11.25.2022 Introducing New Host, Natalie Lounsbury It's about to get real nerdy, folks. We at No-Till Growers have always wanted to bring in more of the research and science from someone who really understands it. Natalie Lounsbury, herself, is a no-till and cover crop RESEARCHER at ...
11.21.2022 Andy Cato, Co-Founder of Wildfarmed Tell Dr. Mimi where it hurts, because I've got the cure. Be it bread or beer, it all starts with grain. Today, we get to do all of my favorite things, which is to combine bread, beer, and rock stars. ...
11.14.2022 Josh & Kelsey of Wild Prairie Flower Farm Super excited to have Josh and Kelsey of Wild Prairie Flower Farm on The No-Till Market Garden Podcast! They're two super hard-working urban farmers in Columbus, OH, who grow about a quarter of an acre of cut-flowers and market them ...
11.11.2022 Introducing New Host Alex Ball of Old City Acres Welcome BACK to yet another exciting season of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast. As mentioned at the end of last season, I--Jesse--will not be hosting this year. My role now is more of a producer for the suite of podcasts ...

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