Jennie & Jesse, author of The Living Soil Handbook & host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast, break down the four types of compost, making compost without heavy equipment, worm bins, and lessons learned managing clay soils.
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Jennie of Love N Fresh Flowers & Ellen of Plant to Profit talk about what to do with not-so-awesome compost, modifying approaches to soil health, & important advice for farm resilience... and it ain't just to increase your organic matter!
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Surprise! Jennie Love of Love N Fresh Flowers talks with Dave Dowling of Ball Colorlink about everything TULIPS! Because, you know, that's probably what you're doing right now. They cover a lot of ground, like almost all of it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jennie talks with the charming Bronwyn and Chris of Island Flower Farm about permaculture in a temperate climate, transitioning from veg to flowers, a simple approach to amendments, and an easy way to move compost (see notes).
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Jennie talks with Ellen Polishuk of Plant to Profit about no-till and some of the challenges beginning farmers encounter “going no-till” without proper soil testing and land preparation. Check out her book, START YOUR FARM.
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Jennie talks with Mimo Davis of Urban Buds about urban flower farming, the process of reclaiming city lots, how to kill bindweed!, and how the pandemic lead them to adopt a now beloved delivery model: Porch Petals.
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Jennie talks with Tony Gaetz of Bare Mtn Farm in Oregon about no-till flowers and gets down and dirty about the specifics of applying Korean Natural Farming to growing flowers on a small-farm scale. #letsdothis
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Jennie talks with Laura Beth Resnik about tunnel production, weed challenges in a no-till context, practical employee management tips, and cultivating the special relationship between farmer and florist.
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Jesse talks with Jennie Love about her 3-acre flower farm, no-till out of necessity, lisianthus from seed to harvest, and her NEW UPCOMING PODCAST! #cantwait
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