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Growers Daily (formerly known as The No-Till Market Garden Podcast) is a nuts and bolts (and earthworms and microbes) look at how to run a productive, profitable no-till market garden for small and mid-sized farmers.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Growers Daily connects soil stewardship to the labor, market, and production decisions that determine whether a farm can keep operating.
Growers Daily follows the decisions that turn ecological farming into a working business. Farmer Jesse moves between practical explainers, interviews with growers and researchers, and talks drawn from agricultural conferences, keeping soil management tied to labor, crop choice,…
Wet clay becomes a warning label for your next garden bed with Farmer Jesse at the mic.
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A practical Friday check-in on potato handling, disease risk, and grower judgment.
The episode keeps its attention on potato handling under real farm constraints. A listener asks about planting spare white potatoes in spring, and the discussion centers on the risk of carrying a certain potato disease through tubers.
A useful spinach episode that treats grants as work, not windfall.
Jesse frames spinach as a doorway into a practical talk about grants for market gardeners, and the point lands because he treats grant money as work rather than a windfall.
Practical advice on pricing and selling produce through early communication, backup plans, and storage-crop flexibility.
This episode stays focused on the basics of selling produce. It favors early communication, backup sourcing, and storage crops when a harvest comes up short.
Grounded talk on water filtration and farm sustainability, with a loose Friday pace.
Farmer Chassie spends this Friday episode on two practical concerns: municipal water filtration and the idea of a farm that can keep going on its own.
A practical look at farm gear that treats buying tools like a business decision, not a hobby purchase.
This episode treats tool buying as a business decision, not a shopping list. The discussion circles back to scythes and hand scythes, then moves into which tools come first, what belongs in a weeding kit, and how enterprise budgets change the picture.
Farm resiliency here means planning for weather extremes as part of ordinary farm decisions.
The piece treats farm resiliency as plain planning, not a slogan. Soil organic matter can help a field release extra water when it is wet and hold on to moisture when it is dry.
Practical soil advice shaped by real field constraints.
This South Carolina conference talk stays on practical ground. It moves from soil biology to the everyday choices that shape a field: where wood chips help, where they do not, why living pathways matter on a hill, and how added nitrogen can speed decomposition when new beds are…
Practical seed-starting talk, with a steady skepticism about AI crop advice.
Growers Daily spends Friday on the practical side of farming: getting seedlings off to a good start, sorting out when soil blocks are not the right tool, and checking where AI advice starts to wobble.
Practical sustainability talk for working agriculture.
Practical stories from working farm life.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Growers Daily’s March 12 compilation centers on high tunnels, starting with Jesse’s own construction mistakes: uneven grading, weak drainage planning, and doors built below ground.
This episode discusses the challenges of future farming, including farmland consolidation and loss of arable land to development, while touching on ecological practices and personal gardening updates.
February 27th, 2026, and Farmer Jesse sounds squeaky.
Host Farmer Jesse answers three Patreon questions, covering the value of gaining hands-on experience by working on a farm before starting your own, the science and practical cautions of using plants like sunflowers to bioremediate contaminated soil, and resources for mid-sized farms transitioning to ecological practices.
Host Farmer Jesse gets excited for the upcoming foraging season, reflecting on lessons learned from the previous farming year, and delivers an in-depth, practical guide to the different types of rakes and their essential roles in a market garden.
Farmer Jesse combines a passionate rant about air pollution's global health impacts with practical gardening advice, answering a listener's question about speeding up potato harvests and explaining how flail mowers work for sustainable farming.
Farmer Jesse opens with a tool-day check-in and lands on the practical question that is never really simple: whether scythes and hand scythes are worth it.
Farmer Jesse opens with a Wednesday check-in, says his onions finally got planted, and talks about practical ways to sell and price produce.
Farmer Jesse opens Friday’s show with a warm, slightly tender voice, a bit of Olympics chatter, and a listener shoutout before settling into Feedback Friday.
Coffee is the subject.
Farmer Jesse brings a conference talk from Columbia, South Carolina.
Jesse opens with a rough voice and a quick apology.
Farmer Jesse checks back in with Mikey and Kez from Five Tails Farm in Australia.
Farmer Jesse opens with a Monday check-in and a spinach-centered plan for the day.
Farmer Chassie opens on Friday, February 6, 2026, with a Friday check-in and quickly shifts to water filtration for municipal water and the question of a self-sustaining farm.
Farmer Jesse opens with spring on his mind and a practical question: how do you improve soil without making it worse?
Farmer Jesse opens with a harvest-day celebration.
Growers Daily uses “Carrot Production Deep Dive” to argue that carrots can perform well in clay, not just sandy soil, if the bed is broad-forked, mulched, and kept moist.
Grower's Daily on March 17, 2026 opens with Farmer Jesse returning in a hybrid format and spending the first segment on potting up tomatoes and peppers.
Growers Daily opens with Jesse announcing the death of Dr.
Growers Daily on February 26, 2026 opens with Farmer Jesse talking about spring field prep, grafted cucumbers, and a “nightmare straw scenario” before taking Patreon questions.
Growers Daily on February 5, 2026, opens with Farmer Jesse answering a new market gardener who wants to build a customer base, and he answers with a factory analogy, a master budget, and the warning that market gardening is a business, not a hobby.
Grower's Daily returns on Friday, March 13, 2026 with a “total pest breakdown show” built from older segments while Farmer Jesse says his voice is still recovering.
Growers Daily on February 10, 2026 centers on Jesse’s answer to Patreon member Martin Cameroon, who argues that growers often undervalue labor and confuse hard work with profit.
Growers Daily on March 16, 2026 focuses on starting tomatoes from seed, grafting cherry tomatoes, and a later segment on letting high tunnel tomatoes grow wild.
Growers Daily’s February 23, 2026 episode covers two practical farming topics: selling green tomatoes and composting abattoir fats.
Growers Daily opens on spring broccoli, with Jesse comparing fast spring varieties to slower fall types and breaking down why a single head often has to gross about $7 to $10 to make the crop pencil out.
Farmer Jesse opens with a Friday weather swing that feels a little absurd, then uses it to frame the show’s first two segments around farm resiliency.
Farmer Jesse discusses April tasks on his no-till market garden, including tomato grafting lessons and cover crop management, then answers Patreon questions on damping off treatments and seed germination techniques using tarps.
Farmer Jesse discusses living fences, farm updates, and invites listener feedback on establishing a new country.
Daily podcast offering practical advice and updates on no-till market gardening, including greenhouse management, cover crops, and biostimulants.
Farmer Jesse interviews Lucio Usubiaga about the Chinampas floating gardens and local agriculture in Mexico City.
Farmer Jesse discusses the premise of Rutger Bregman's book 'Humankind' about human goodness, while also covering farm updates and listener engagement.
The host discusses the warm start to the growing season and begins a series on less talked about crops, starting with Swiss chard.
Farmer Jesse discusses medieval agriculture, answers crop planning and seeding questions, and shares updates on his farm's spring harvest.
Farmer Jesse discusses potato planting techniques as a follow-up to a video, including pre-filling trays and growing under spruces and pines.
Farmer Jesse interviews Australian farmers about summer growing, holiday season impacts, and agritourism.
Farmer Jesse interviews Mikey and Kez of Five Tails Farm about early season cash flow challenges, low-fi tomato grafting, and farm team dynamics in their spring season.
Farmer Jesse discusses no-till farming techniques, including planting spinach and carrots in tunnels, and introduces a segment on hay.