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Hey everyone, it’s Alex Ball with another episode of the No-Till Market Garden Podcast! I’m really excited to share a conversation with you all from Adam of Country Valley Farm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the interview we get into building new no-till beds with deep woodchips, animal pressure on the farm, the realities of farming with a full-time job, and producing garlic for the wholesale market.
A big thanks to Adam for sitting down to share all the work he and his family are doing at CVF. He has such a love for not only ecological farming, but for feeding his community and sharing the positivity that comes with being in touch with the land. I was really impressed by his deep wood chip compost method for building organic matter and I think i’m going to trial his technique on my own farm. If you want to learn more about their farm or are just looking for organic seed garlic, check out their website and their social media for more information. Thanks so much for listening!
Mentioned in the show...
Dairy Doo compost & fertilizer pellets from Morgan Composting
No-Till Growers will be at the '23 OAK Conference!
Folks who make the show possible...
RIMOL Greenhouses quality greenhouses and high-tunnels.
Tilth Soil amazing compost-based living potting soils and soil blends.
Orisha for wireless greenhouse+ automation, get 15% off with code "No Till Grower"
Real Organic Project for a whole farm certification program to distinguish crops grown in health soils.
... and, as always, our work is powered by the folks who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers, you can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat (yep, back in stock and shipping now), and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our brand new forum at notillgrowers.community.chat
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Helen Atthowe of Woodleaf Farm & Author of The Ecological Farm
Winter-Only Sales & Collaborative CSA Relationships with Jillian & Ross of Open Door Farm
Geothermal Greenhouse Heating & Winter Flower Production with Rebecca Kutzer Rice of Moonshot Farm
Efficient Heating/Lighting for Winter Growing & Mindfully Leveraging Loans with John Dindia of Lakeview Hill Farm
Year-round Gardening in a Northern Climate with Niki Jabbour
Fertilizer from Urine & Sustainable Farms with Tatiana Schreiber of the Rich Earth Institute
Growing in an Agrihood, Cardboard Mulch for Bindweed Control, & Appropriate Scale Technology with Jonah Sloven of Sweet Hollow Organic Farm
Holistic Business/Economic Models, The Award-Winning Farm Podcast Farmerama Radio & Simple Regenerative Apps with Abby Rose of Vidacycle
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Innovative Greenhouse Design, Heritage Livestock, and Honest Small Farm Talk with Jim Schultz of Red Shirt Farm
High-Elevation Crop Production & Aggregation/Distribution of Multi-Farm Produce with Mathew & Nina Ladegaard
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The Microbial Efficiency Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) Framework with Ecologist Dr. Francesca Cotrufo
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Terry Bell, Microbial Ecologist from The Microbiome Manipulation Lab
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