SILVOHORTICULTURE, Integrating Trees into the Market Garden with Ben Raskin & Andy Dibben
Release Date: 03/10/2025
Using Old Manure in the Garden + Which Way to Point the Garden Beds
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Welcome to episode 123 of Growers Daily! We cover: If it matters which way you orient your garden beds, old horse manure, and getting an old pile of manure composting. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Bioassay Episode: Kickstarting Compost Pile Episode: MUSIC from this episode: Be Enough by Kylie Dailey via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil 11th: Rimol Greenhouses: ...
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What the Pros Wear in the Garden + Celery from Seed to Harvest
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Welcome to episode 122 of Growers Daily! We cover: What the pros wear in the garden and get a celery breakdown from seed to harvest. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: sweet potato video: The crocs I wear: Xtratuf boots: Grundens: Trimming Celery study : Good Basic Celery Guide from MSU: MUSIC from this episode: Fire Trails by Staffan Carlen via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: ...
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When You Don’t Have a Mountain of Compost + Asparagus In the Market Garden?
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Welcome to episode 121 of Growers Daily! We cover: Asparagus in the market garden (and why we don’t see that crop a whole lot), navigating the last frost date, and what to do when you don’t have access to epic amounts of good compost for mulching We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Intercropping asparagus study with olives: Dan Brisebois Asapragus Breakdown: Alley cropping asparagus: Cover Crop Playlist: MUSIC from this episode: Lovely Ghost by Binkley via ...
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Heating a Greenhouse with Your Soil + What Farmers Need to Know about Retirement
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Welcome to episode 120 of Growers Daily! We cover: today we’re gonna talk about farming and retiring, Climate Batteries, and updates from here on the farm. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Forest Garden Greenhouse: ThreeFold Farm’s Climate Battery Videos: Threefold’s awesome climate battery breakdown page: A Solid Farmer Retirement Workbook: Gen X retirement woes: MUSIC from this episode: via Support our work (👊)...
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Creative Ways to Start a Compost Business + How AI Could Change Small Farming
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Welcome to episode 119 of Growers Daily! We cover: AI in the gardens, and Unique composting locations, operations, all of it. And it’s feedback Friday, We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Scrooge McDuck breakdown: Our friend Jack’s AI soil management Site: Times article on Are You Smarter than AI March 5th compost episode: MUSIC from this episode: Let's Work TogetherBy , via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on...
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Maximizing Vermicompost + White Shade Cloth Worth it?
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Welcome to episode 118 of Growers Daily! We cover: the fascinating world of shade cloth colors, maximizing vermicompost and what to do about those overwintered carrots. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Worm Farmers Handbook: Shade cloth in horticulture: Adverse effects of shade on lettuce: Shade trials out of the university of delaware. Summer Lettuce Video: benefits of inoculating tree roots: Kalamatta olive study: Biosttmulant effects of vermicompost extract ...
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Encouraging Cucumber Beetle Predators + Windbreaks + Interplanting SAFELY
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Welcome to episode 117 of Growers Daily! We cover: the types of interplanting, increasing predators for cucumber beetles (among other dweebish pests), and windbreaks. We are a Non-Profit! 👇 🙌 DONATE 🙌 Links for today: Managing Cucumber Beetles in Organic Farming Systems paper: Study on spiders and tree diverstiy: Silvohorticulture book: MUSIC from this episode: “I’m So Confused” By feat. via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil...
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The Culinary Herbs Episode + Gardening Where Once Was a Pool?
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Welcome to episode 116 of Growers Daily! We cover: cilantro, basil, dill, and parsley —(ie the main culinary herbs) and garden life after pools (that one will make sense soon). 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: MUSIC from this episode: "Spring Is You" By via Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: FARMHAND Promo on Arpil 11th: code NOTILL Mention Growers Daily Tilth Soil : Info @ Tilth Soil dot Com MY BOOK!...
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Improve Your Soil This Spring + Spring Cover Crops
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Episode Description Welcome to episode 115 of Growers Daily! We cover: how to improve your soil this spring, what the responsibility of farmers is to their local communities, and cover crops for the early part of the season 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: Feb 21st episode about rising food costs: Compost and decreasing soil pathogens: Compost improve soil structurre: How to start gardenin video: Interplanting Video: Mulch video: ...
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Why You Shouldn’t Interplant With Onions + BUT ALSO Polycultures are Still Important
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Welcome to episode 114 of Growers Daily! We cover: why we love polycultures, interplanting with garlic, and it’s feedback friday. 🙌 DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ Links for today: GO CATS (that's it. That's the link) MUSIC from this episode: Sway TogetherBy Danish National Anthem by National Anthem Worx Support our work (👊) at or Show Sponsors: code NOTILL Mention Growers Daily Tilth Soil : Info @ Tilth Soil dot Com ...
info_outlineSquirrels, today we begin with an ending and we will end with a beginning. My guests today, the wonderful and amicable Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin, authors of the new book SilvoHorticulture will be inspiring us to participate in the great art of welcoming trees into our cropping systems. The planting of trees that will continue to bestow generations to come with gifts unnumbered feels like the perfect last episode, doesn't it? Let's get inspired, shall we.
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