I planted Elephant garlic this Spring after growing leeks the previous year. They grew beautifully and might have produced except... I forgot what they were and thought they were leeks and pulled them as soon as they sent up a scape. So sad. They didn't make good minced garlic. They were too mild.

Your accent sounds like classic midwesterner.

Jessie with the waste on the farm you could just feed/supplement chickens first before compost same process but through chicken and sell over supply of eggs at market whilst there anyways, yes some feed will be required.😊

Can you do an episode on the Tariffs and what to expect and plan for? I know my flower farm is worried.

I love ALL No-Till Growers videos!

A good rooster can help herd the hens.

You are 100% correct. Chickens are the absolute best and worst farm animal. I would be a bit sad without my chicken compost and eggs.

As a good capitalist you should keep two sets of books ;)

glad I never fell for the no till myths

No one in my family eats eggs except as an ingredient. At this point the poop is more valuable to me than the eggs, but I enjoy having them and having a good way to use scraps.

Show me any system with livestock, that is a net positive energy producer. Everyone I know feeds they're animals more calories (of mostly human-grade foods) then they even need to grow for themselves. I'm just over here thinking black beans and potatoes, are pretty dang easy... (and cheap)

Consider geese as an inbetween of chickens and sheep?

I have grown my share of garlic with it's inherent sucand failures. When I grew elephant garlic for the first time this season everything above ground was beautiful but there was no segmentation below, just a bulging about on par with a shallot. Anyone else experienced this?

Our chickens live in a mobile coop (Amish/aluminum) that I can wheel around. I can keep them nearby for convenience in the Winter, and farther away for fresh air in warmer months (most of the year here in zone 7a). It’s my kind of lazy!

Yes if you're producing crops you're a farmer

Square services are expensive!

I don't remember where I ran across it but easy cheap chicken feed: pinto beans (which you can grow with your corn and "gourds" [3 sisters] [I do pumpkin]) and pasta or rice (all cooked together) along with the scraps not composted.

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Bunnies are great fertilizer

I basically have the exact same piece of property and I've done, more or less, the exact same stuff on it. I bring in dump truck loads of free wood chips from the city and till them into the terraces (once flat) and let the soil heal at least a season or two. Everything wants to grow along the edge of each terrace, naturally. I've considered putting in a pond. That would either have to be at the bottom where the nursery/greenhouse won't shade things (except my neighbors) Or at the top and, trickle down into the terraces. I also left a few wildlife corridors To add biodiversity to the entire site And my entire location from a thousand feet up is not only north facing steep hill It's also a valley- High desert Arizona It works out GREAT Even in Rocky clay soil 5' of growth my first year in the orchard!

theres alot of info , and with all that info there is alot of mis-information , wich is why critical thinking is important , look at multiple sources and decide on that wich suits your style or property the best as for slugs and snails , i live in a place where skinks are common and when i find thier burrows i LEAVE THEM ALONE , they eat alot of the larger pest insects like slugs , snails , earwigs , crickets and armyworms and probbaly alot more that i cannot mention without writing an essay , now i get that not everyone has the luxury of having natural predators so i cant exactly comment on how to keep them controlled via other means because i simply never needed to use other methods

Thank you for bringing up insect decline. I remember traveling across the US as a child during the 70s and my dad stopping often to clean the sticky yellow green insect innards from the windshield. Also travelled the same route in 2000 and 2019, and noticed the lack of bugs increasing over time. Since 90% of insect species are specialists (meaning they can only eat or reproduce on one plant species), and because we as humans have introduced mainly non-native plants wherever we’ve gone, which often displace native plant communities, this helps explain the crashing insect populations. They simply don’t have the plants they need. Most of the land in the US is privately owned, so we need to restore native plants and the biodiversity they support on these lands. I’d recommend everyone read Doug Tallamy’s “The Nature of Oaks” and “Nature’s Best Hope.” Also EO Wilson’s “Half Earth.” They both explain this so well, and give a path forward for individuals that can inspire some hope in the face of all this terrible news.

I started seeing you content popping up on TT platform and at first I thought it was you posing it but then I looked and seen about a dozen rip-off accounts. I imagine your aware of it already but if not here I am telling you, you might have someone pretending to be you. If you have an official TT account I'd love to follow it, for now I have unfollowed the one that look like an imposter to me.

Great question! 🌿 Thanks for your thoughts.

the channel logo would make a good tat

Try the book “Plant Partners”. Science-based with research papers referenced.

this was awesome, thanks

Rick grimes life before the collapse

I love going to the farmer's market as a vendor. It may not be the best for sales, but it's the highlight of my week. Talking to folks about plants, food, and all manner of subjects!

Eastern Kentucky is Appalachia

Hi. Im into market gardening in spain this year and im very thankfull for your book and videos man. Every podcast is even better and so interesting. Keep on.

I grew up in the Midwest and live in New Jersey currently. I definitely find a small jersey accent creeping in when ordering from the local pizzeria or talking to someone else who has a very strong accent.

Where do I get the yard signs? Done got the tattoo...

Could i leave the shade clothe on??

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Spent my life in Kentucky and Ohio and Iowa love them voices of the Kentucky Ladies the most! You should hear Iowa folk singers trying Bluegrass with no accent " Ha ha haw ha haw 😂

Curious specifically how ducks are a food safety nightmare? I had great success with them last year for pest protection, but you raise a good point about contaminating food. Love this content, your books a staple, you’re an inspiration thanks!

Any recommendations for what to plant with asparagus? (Not strawberries…that’s all I see online) I just moved most of our plants and so have some space and loose soil to work with. A perennial ground cover would be swell.

thanks for sharing

I use build a soil mustard meel to kill root knot nematodes. I have had success even with a single application. I water it all in after mixing it in really nice and deep with dehydrated sea water or sea90 is the one I use and microbes. I use fermented plant extracts and also rootwise. I've used LABS by itself and also another company called urb natural. I've had mad success

Happy to hear the truth behind farmers markets. So many make it out to be sunshine and roses. Thank you for the honesty and reality.

Don't forget about the huge value of beetles! Dale Strickland talks about this a lot. I saw an interview with Joshua Sparkes just today on this topic too! Here ya go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYOZo3ajbbWXjrcsi=yUjG7R_ok0c0wT7D

0:51 I see my comment! I win! Lol

I hope Jennifer survives🤣

At this point I feel very strongly that interplanting is way more possible on a 4 foot width production bed as opposed to the standard 30in bed. 30in just feels so tight to try and squeeze crop and beneficial in, while the 4ft beds seem to create just enough room for more interplanting options.

There are far more companion planting myths than there are factual evidence based successes, that's maybe the problem. You've highlighted two, but there are entire books written on the subject, most of which had no scientific basis at all.

Could you cover the best way to wash lettuce on a small scale?

Getting the tattoo done at the weekend ;)

No-Till logo ......NECK TATS LETS GO !!!! i hear ladies are gettin it as a back stamp...lol

So what tatt would be appropriate to promote the show?