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Is This A Viable Farm Model + A Kid-Shaped Farm

Release Date: 05/28/2025

What’s the Deal With the Jumping Worms? + Dirty Produce

Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 168 of Growers Daily! We cover: dirty produce, jumping worms, and it’s feed back friday. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: 2024 Jumping worms research good primer on jumping worms: Ecological impacts of jumping worms (with good identifcation chart): Podcast rec with Mimi and Dr Lee Frelich: MUSIC from this episode: Feels Like That by Victor Lundburg via Support our work (👊) at or Show...

What is Actually Happening in a Compost Pile + Basics of Soil Amending

Growers Daily

Welcome to episode 167 of Growers Daily! We cover: trellising pole beans in a tunnel, what is actually going on inside of a compost pile, and cover some of the basics of soil amending. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Great Science of compost breakdown: OrganiCalc: Logan Labs: MUSIC from this episode: Projections by Daniel Gunnarsson via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: Peaceful Heritage Nursery: Farmhand: ...

The Current State of Birds + What Market Gardeners Can Do (with Becca Rodomski-Bish of Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

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Welcome to episode 166 of Growers Daily! We cover: Becca Rodomsky-Bish with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology joins us to talk birds, bird ID apps, and what we can do, as farmers and growers, to help declining bird populations. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Great Backyard Bird Count: Article on Migrating Landbirds: Merlin Bird ID App: MUSIC from this episode: Whatever Will Become of You and I by Roy Williams via Support our work...

Farming Solo + The Tools That Make it Easier (With Erin Worrall of Cedar Chest Farm)

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Welcome to episode 165 of Growers Daily! We cover: Erin Worrall from The Cedar Chest Farm joins us to talk about farming solo, farming and motherhood, and the tools that make solo farming easier. Follow Erin on IG: We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Follow Erin on IG: MUSIC from this episode: Way Past Taken by Kylie Dailey via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: Precip: Farmhand: Farmraise: Peaceful Heritage: MY...

Why Plants “Stall Out” + Pests are The Future of Ag

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Welcome to episode 164 of Growers Daily! We cover: the month of June, why pests are likely only going to become more and more of a problem, and what causes plants to just stop We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Rising Peach and Almond pests: How a changing climate leads to more pests: MUSIC from this episode: West Side Story by Roy Edwin Williams Wildflowers by Northside via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: Peaceful Heritage...

No Dig is Not for Every Garden + Do the (Garden) Work

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Welcome to episode 163 of Growers Daily! We cover: some hard truths about deep compost mulching slash no dig systems, some hard truths about hard work, and some hard truths about this week’s topics because IT’s feedback friday We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Paperpot video: Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: MUSIC from this episode: All the Little Things by The Eastern Plain via Support our work (👊) at or Show...

Can Woodchips be Contaminated? + Pests You Cannot Exclude

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Welcome to episode 162 of Growers Daily! We cover: if woodchips can be contaminated (like compost can), pests that refuse to be kept out, and buying the right broadfork. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Slug video: Gulland Broadforks: Meadow Creature Broadforks: Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: MUSIC from this episode: Witchcraft by Thyra 7 Years to Life by Pastis via Support our work (👊) at or Show...

Is This A Viable Farm Model + A Kid-Shaped Farm

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Welcome to episode 161 of Growers Daily! We cover: my latest random farm model idea to critique, shaping the farm around kids , and does a tractor always lead to soil compaction? We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: The episode about three farms in one: Teenage Depression: Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: MUSIC from this episode: I'll Be Alright by Roy Williams via Support our work (👊) at or Show...

My Biggest High Tunnel Mistakes + Crops that Think They’re Cover Crops?

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Welcome to episode 160 of Growers Daily! We cover: green garlic (and others) as a cover crop, the magic of sunn hemp, and making mistakes so I can share them with you. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Sunnhemp cover crop: Sunnhemp guide: Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: MUSIC from this episode: Telling Stories by Gabriel Kelley Standing on Your Own by Paper Twins via Support our work (👊) at or Show...

What it’s Like to Leave a City to Farm + Planting into Cover Crop Mulch

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Welcome to episode 159 of Growers Daily! We cover: planting into cover crop residue, thirstwaves (like heat waves but thirsty), and what it was like to leave the city all those years ago and start farming. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Thirstwaves article in Phys: Thirstwaves Research: Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: MUSIC from this episode: Hall Light by Victor Lundburg O'Connor's Jig by Roy Edwin Williams Flowers at the Market by Blood Red Sun...

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Welcome to episode 161 of Growers Daily!

We cover: my latest random farm model idea to critique, shaping the farm around kids , and does a tractor always lead to soil compaction?

We are a Non-Profit! 👇

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Links for today:

The episode about three farms in one: https://youtu.be/BDrs-6XJsJ8

Teenage Depression: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8868033/#:~:text=A%20total%20of%20167%2C783%20adolescents,2005%20to%202014(3).

Podcast with Kelpie from Ring of Fire on biochar: https://youtu.be/a1U1zYrQrRs?si=3SmZPWXNlovvFqIb

MUSIC from this episode:

I'll Be Alright by Roy Williams