No-Till Market Garden Podcast
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A podcast series dedicated to multi-owner farms and cooperative farming models hosted by farmer Jackson Rolett.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jackson Rowlett makes cooperative agriculture legible as a business practice built from governance, ownership, financing and operational choices.
The Collaborative Farming Podcast follows the business machinery behind shared agricultural ventures, with Jackson Rowlett asking farmers and cooperative organizers how ownership, governance and daily operations work in practice.
A farm circle sounds cozy until you ask who actually has to carry out the co-op's decisions.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear look at cooperative farming when stewardship has to become structure.
The episode returns to Chris Bodnar of Close to Home Organics and Glen Valley Farm, using cooperative farming to think through stewardship, responsibility, and how decisions get made.
A clear look at how cooperative meat infrastructure becomes a working regional system.
The conversation centers on a cooperative beef-processing plant in eastern Tennessee and keeps its feet on the ground. Lexi Close walks through the project from the first idea to feasibility studies and the capital needed to make it real, then explains how membership and…
A clear case for holding farmland in community while keeping farmers at the table.
This episode treats farmland ownership as a practical question: how to keep land in community, give farmers real autonomy, and make that security last.
A grounded look at how a farm stop adapts a cooperative retail model in Bloomington.
Rose Hill Farm Stop reads as a practical look at how the Argus Farm Stop model was adapted for Bloomington, Indiana, and turned into a producer co-op in a more rural setting.
A practical look at what it takes to make shared farm work hold together.
The episode keeps co-op farming grounded in the messy parts: who does the work, who keeps things coordinated, what training and compliance actually cost, and how a group pays for the labor of organizing itself.
A grounded talk about farms as systems for food, land, labor, and ownership.
Sarah Mock treats farms as working systems first: places built to feed people, use land well, and keep the environmental math honest. The talk stays grounded in that frame, and it works better for it.
Farmers turn cooperation into logistics as they try to match harvest timing, transport, and buyer demand.
Emma Busby's segment looks at how small-scale farmers coordinate crop planning to build a rougher but fairer version of a food system. The detail is in the moving parts: spreadsheets, harvest timing, aggregation, and the simple problem of getting baby greens, tomatoes, and other…
A practical field-day tour of cover crops, garlic bed prep, and the work behind a market garden.
This field-day recording is more operations than inspiration, with Jackson Rowlett guiding a couple of dozen farmers and farm professionals through the church gardens and using the walk to show how a market garden gets ready for planting.
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.
Jackson Rowlett gathers four guests at the Tennessee Local Food Summit for a roundtable on how cooperative business models actually get started.
Host Jackson Rolett interviews author Sarah K.
Jackson Rowlett opens Collab Farm with Kelly Maynard, a cooperative development specialist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperative Development.
Jackson Rowlett brings back the very first Collaborative Farming Podcast conversation.
Jackson Rowlett takes Collab Farm out to an OAK field day at the church gardens.
Emma Busby starts with the hard part.
Lexi Close joins the show to talk about building cooperative beef-processing infrastructure in eastern Tennessee.
Host Jackson Rolett interviews Mike Record and Armanda Riggs of Rose Hill Farm Stop, a producer cooperative in Bloomington, Indiana that adapts the Argus Farm Stop model to a rural, lower-income area.
Host Jackson Rowlett interviews Ian and Christina from The Farmers Land Trust about their innovative Farmland Commons model, which uses nonprofit structures to decommodify farmland and provide long-term, affordable leases to farmers.
Andrew comes on to talk about Full Circle Community Farm in Wisconsin.