Growers Live

Sep 16 2021 19 ep. 81 mins 99
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A bimonthly live show with professional ecological vegetable and flower growers, soil scientists, and small-farm centered companies from all over the world. Hosted by Josh Sattin.

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Q&A w/ Andrew Mans of Mans Organics

Sep 16 2021 66 mins  
Josh Q&As w/ Andrew Mans of Mans Organics in Alberta, Canada. Mans growers in an acre of protected culture and 100 acres of field production. And if you're in Canada, check out Grow Hoops for Canadian-built caterpillar tunnels. This is Josh's LAST GROWERS LIVE... for a while. He's taking a break after more than a year of Grower's Live to focus on some other projects for both No-Til

Q&A w/ Beau & Paul of Mountain Roots Farm

Sep 01 2021 77 mins  
Josh Q&As with Beau & Paul of Mountain Roots Farm in Eastern Tennessee about their shared history in brewing, farming in partnership, beginning again on a new farm (i.e. set it up right!), growing mostly under protected culture, EARTHWORK, leveraging carbon through their tree service, and As to listener Qs. Mentioned in the show... Farmers Friend Caterpillar Tunnels The Neversink F

Q&A w/ Stephen Ciancioso of Buena Vista Gardens

Aug 18 2021 66 mins  
Aloha, y'all! Josh Q&As with Stephen Ciancioso of Buena Vista Gardens in Hawaii about simple, low-tech, high-production, veg farming in a tropical climate. Stephen is a fantastic grower in a unique context, even despite the challenges and limitations of growing on a rural island farm. A LOT of good technical insight, some challenging topics, and common sense in this one! New episod

Q&A w/ Farmer Jesse of The Living Soil Handbook

Aug 04 2021 81 mins  
Josh Q&As with Jesse Frost, author of The Living Soil Handbook (finally, out now). Get it from No-Till Growers and more of your hard-earned $s will go toward making more podcasts and videos free for growers everywhere. New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram and visit notillgrowers.com/s

Q&A w/ Howard Allen of Faithfull Farms

Jul 21 2021 93 mins  
Josh Q&As w/ Howard Allen of Faithfull Farms in Chapel Hill, North Carolina about faith, family, and farming, growing mostly under tunnels, educating up-and-coming farmers, having an abundence mentality in the local marketplace, the KIS mindset and SOPs, making decisions with a long view of small-scale agriculture, and so SO much more. Howard is a great guest, grower, and guy. Scor

Q&A w/ Terrance Layhew of The Intellectual Agrarian

Jul 07 2021 68 mins  
Josh Q&As w/ Terrance Layhew, an organic inspector and the host of The Intellectual Agrarian podcast. He goes deep on organic certification from the other side of the clipboard (which is fascinating), how to be an important part of agriculture without being a farmer, answers some live organic certQs, & talks about his great agricultural philosophy podcast. Follow him on the Grams

Q&A w/ Evan Perkins of Small Axe Farm

Jun 23 2021 75 mins  
Josh Q&As w/ Evan Perkins of Small Axe Farm about building a homestead and market gardening, off-grid, on-slope, at a high elivation in Vermont. Follow Small Axe Farm on Instagram and check out their super rad Farmers Friend Good Life Farm Tour! New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by YOU, our patrons and supporters. Follow No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin on Instagram a

Q&A w/ Erich Schultz of Steadfast Farm

Jun 09 2021 81 mins  
Josh Q&As with Erich Shultz of Steadfast Farm about how his current operation better reflects his quality of life goals, farming with a systems-based mindset, details on his honor-system farmstand, being practical -and- clean, hiring and labor processes, growing in the Southwest, agrihoods, and of course soil managment. Erich is truly a leader in the small farm space for good reaso

Q&A w/ Jayne Merner Senecal of Earth Care Farm

May 26 2021 67 mins  
Josh Q&As with Jayne Merner Senecal of Earth Care Farm, a professional high-quality compost operation AND farm, about the composting business, considerations when starting one, fostering microbiology in the composting process, some compost philosophy, persistent herbicides, and a ton of listener composting Qs. New episodes of Growers Live are brought to you by Farmers Friend. Order

Q&A w/ Jesse Frost of Rough Draft Farmstead & No-Till Growers

May 12 2021 86 mins  
Josh Q&As with Jesse Frost of Rough Draft Farmstead and No-Tiill Growers about living pathways, dealing with poor drainage, experimentation, biodynamics and his history with wine, getting the most from tasks on the farm you love to do, the stress of early season CSA managment, being honest with your farmer self, and having a no-dogma approach to no-till. New episodes of Growers Liv