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As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit we're committed to ecologically-minded agricultural education. Please share your story about how our work has influenced, inspired or changed what you do and how you do it. We'll be updating our website to highlight your stories. Click below to fill out our form to share your experience, photos, and links to your garden, farm or operation.
No-Till Growers STORIES:
Landon’s Farm
“Not a specific moment. I binged a ton of videos when I found your page, and it really altered the course of my farm as a body of work. The idea that you don’t need a tractor, even at the scale that we are working (a little less than an acre of growing space) made the project affordable and ecologically sound.
I also credit this page with introducing me to no-till gardening which made my farm possible. We could never have afforded a tractor or other heavy machinery, but with these practices we’ve started a successful CSA and keep our family fed on less than an acre of garden space. ”
-Landon Breeson
Chef’s Harvest Farm
Michael Russo attended the Frith Farm Event at Rough Draft Farmstead and immediately went home and implemented everything they learned; specifically the termination of cover crops and using said cover crops as a sheet mulch. Michael watched and listened to the presentation provided over 100 times. Check out the progress of Chef’s Harvest Farm.
Dead Head Produce
My husband found the No-Till Growers YouTube channel once he began obsessing over regenerating the soil health in our yard. We moved into our house in 2022; the yard was overgrown with invasive grasses, there was terrible compaction.. He refused to believe that expensive raised beds and constant external input was the best option for us to begin growing food here and once he found the No-Till page he was hooked. To quote him, “We go to YouTube as gardeners to solve a problem often times, and Jesse quickly became that channel for me.” -Jess Hallman
Gardens at Studio 369
Landon found No-Till Growers via Instagram and found the information on composting, cover crops, and rotations to be helpful and successful. Landon writes: “I also credit [No-Till Growers] with introducing me to no-till gardening which made my farm possible. We could never have afforded a tractor or other heavy machinery, but with these practices we’ve started a successful CSA and keep our family fed on less than an acre of garden space.“
Favorite NTG practices: Cover cropping/termination, soil blocking, native hedge-wedges, pricing, interplanting, relay cropping, composting and vermicompost
“Tarping and solarizing have been so empowering in starting our new farm with very little equipment! And I first learned about these techniques through the podcast.
The interviews with Dr. Nazirahk Amen stand out to me, but it's really been the years of perspectives and tid bits that has been so rich and enjoyable!”
-Rowen Perry
“Wow so many great ones to choose from! The podcast with singing frogs and Daniel Mays were fantastic. The video at Four Wind Farms was awesome too. But I always learn something from everything, really!”
Favorite NTG practices: Cover cropping mixes depending on season, tarping carrots to increase germination, intercropping examples, leaving roots in the ground when flipping a bed
“We started our farm 3.5 years ago inspired by No-Till practices and the YouTubers who were putting out awesome content at the time (Josh Satin, Jesse Frost, etc). We are three farmers who have each desired to farm in an ecologically sustainable way and have come together to build a beautiful farm in an area of the world where agriculture is considered infeasible. We are showing that it is!
We use a deep compost mulch system. Woodchips for pathways. Broad forking (and weeding) are the only soil disturbances we do. The Collab podcast has been a real inspiration!”
We’ve watched so many YouTube videos it’s hard to say which one stands out.
-Nick Riggin
Favorite NTG practices: No till, cover cropping, produce harvesting/washing/packing, tomato trellising
Tay’s Farm
“Honestly the (very first?) episode with Daniel from Frith Farm was so enlightening and hooked me from there. Helen Atthowe is the real deal and that conversation blew my mind!
The first year growing in our cat tunnel- we built them over summer and in sept/oct planting oats and peas in the rows. We tarped the tunnel in later winter and raked the “debris” aka free mulch, into the pathways and it worked super slick. Unsure if that was a practice highlighted by NTG, but I gained inspiration to do it from listening to/ reading NTG.”
-Tay Fatke