609: Growing Cover Crops for Multiple Benefits
Gardening tips, tricks, and advice in short, bite-size episodes – Marlene Simon from Flower Power Garden Hour Podcast returns to reveal the many ways that cover crops can be used in the garden to add nitrogen, shade, moisture, and more. Marlene explains the process of…
575: Josh Krenz on Farming Sensors and Data
Examining the science of farming Imagine if farmers could predict annual weather patterns to determine water use, soil moisture, and avoid crop failures, yet this seems far from possible. However, Josh Krenz works with a company that creates devices to collect farming data and essentially facilitates farmers’ ability to…
The Six Week Greenhouse
By Guest Blogger: Joel Karsten – For northern gardeners, starting vegetable plants as early as possible is key to a productive and successful food garden, since sometimes it seems we only have about a three-week growing season! That might be a slight exaggeration, but certainly gardening in the north is challenging. One of the key advantages of the Straw Bale Gardening method is…
407: Steve Szudera on Nutrient Rich Soil
407: Steve Szudera on Nutrient Rich Soil. Becoming a steward of the soil. Steve is a third-generation farmer from western North Dakota with over 35 years of no-till farming experience […]
