Jennie Love of Love N Fresh Flowers has graced us with her conversations—and infectious laugh—with some of the best flower growers around. We couldn’t be more grateful. Also, check out her seven simple steps to bed prep.
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After nearly 20 years in prison, Alfred Melbourne decided he did not want to see other youth go down the same road, so he started 3 Sisters Gardens to offer a real and grounding alternative. Amazing story. Amazing work. Support it HERE.
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Jennie talks with legendary flower grower Joe Schmitt about epic bucket runs, lean growing, ornamental grains/grasses, reducing wear on the body, his family flower legacy, and some sage advice from a retired grower.
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Jesse talks with Ann & Bob of Hexhamshire Organics across the pond in UK about their profit-driven market garden they started after successful careers in other industries and how to lessen the work load mentally and physically.
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Josh Q&As with Jodi of Roebuck Farm in New Zealand about designing efficiencies for a better quality of life, how he has reinvested the found time into furthering his farm education, and—of course—answers some listener questions.
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Jennie talks with Erin McMullen of Raindrop Farm about restoring soil, wholesaling flowers, employee management. farming with kids, being a brave female farmer, and treating your work as the legitimate business it really is.
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Jesse talks with The Rodale Institute farm manager Dan Kemper about the many trials they are doing with no-till production, roller-crimp cover crops, integrating animals into the garden, and comparisons between mulches.
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We’re releasing Growers Live in podcast form wherever you get your Podcast fix every Thursday morning, new interviews coming out the week they’re recorded interspersed (interplanted?) with older interviews you and I may have missed.
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Jennie talks with Brenda and Andrew of Good Hope Blooms in New South Wales about biodynamic flower farming through a multi-year drought, going from no-till to low-till techniques, seed starting, and get real philosophical.
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Josh Q&As with Micheal & Shannon from Hillview Farms for a real and real fun conversation. Check out their farmsite, follow them on Instagram, and listen to them on the No-Till Market Garden Podcast.
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Jesse talks with Todd Ulizio of Two Bear Farm in Montana about growing on 13 acres of permanent beds, dealing with the ever-present threat of frost, spreading compost at-scale, adapting intensive no-till techniques to extensive outdoor production, and he shares a good bear story.
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A bonus to this week's Dahlia episode, a conversation between Jennie and LeeAnn Huber of Coseytown Flowers all about one of the most challenging aspects of growing dahlias… pest management!
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Here’s a conference announcement you may have missed from podcast guest Helen Atthowe of Veganic Agriculture. If you’re new ‘round here, you can check out her episode here and this primer we posted about her amazing work.
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Jennie talks with LeeAnn Huber of Coseytown Flowers about DAHLIAS: growing, fertility, traits, varieties, what makes a 10, breeding, storage, over-wintering, and achieving a better work-family balance by focusing on just dahlias.
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Jesse talks with Jayne Merner Senecal of Earth Care Farm about inter-generational at-scale compost production, input sources, municipal compost -vs- compost with a purpose, persistent herbicides, and our favorite crop GARLIC!
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Jennie talks with Molly and Asher of On the Mountain Farm about starting a flower farm, and starting a flower farm again, and rebuilding greenhouses, again, and they go in the deep end on biodynamic flower production. #glow
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Josh and Jesse talk about the forthcoming book—The Living Soil Handbook—on preorder from No-Till Growers RIGHT NOW (ships mid-July) and take questions about when to till, hay mulch, and soil amendments/nutrition.
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[Most] farming books focus on one farm. The Living Soil Handbook [is]… a choose-your-own farm adventure… not, “this is how things work on my farm,” but rather “this is how soil works, and how to make it work for you on your farm.”
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