
About this podcast
This podcast is for all the growers and eaters out there who are serious about their food... market farmers and their customers, people who care about how their food is grown, or anyone who is interested in learning about their food system and how science can help serious growers of any kind. Each episode, a real grower brings a real problem (like cabbage aphids in organic Brussels sprouts, voles girdling apple trees, onion thrips that won’t quit) and we dig into what the research actually…
50 episodes · science
Serious Grower
About this podcast
This podcast is for all the growers and eaters out there who are serious about their food... market farmers and their customers, people who care about how their food is grown, or anyone who is interested in learning about their food system and how science can help serious growers of any kind. Each episode, a real grower brings a real problem (like cabbage aphids in organic Brussels sprouts, voles girdling apple trees, onion thrips that won’t quit) and we dig into what the research actually…
Recent episodes
- Giant pumpkin growers, mic-ed up: genetics, vegetative growth stage, and setting fruit31 Aug · 40 min
- Field Report for August 26: cucurbit downy mildew alert!26 Aug · 9 min
- Field Report for August 18: brassica clubroot management, boron issues, and avoiding phytotoxicity.19 Aug · 10 min
- Kasi gets a robot vacuum: garlic irrigation, UV-C and other space technology on the farm17 Aug · 37 min
- Field Report for August 12: alternaria leaf spot, pepper maggot, tomato pith necrosis12 Aug · 9 min
- Field Report for August 5: southern blight, leek moth in storage onions, mustard biofumigation5 Aug · 11 min
- Chuck is enthused about IPM: neonicotinoid alternatives and NH pesticide policy3 Aug · 53 min
- Field Report for July 29: cucurbit downy and powdery mildew, sap beetle in sweet corn29 Jul · 11 min
- Field Report for July 22: fall armyworm, corn rust, yellow vine decline22 Jul · 12 min
- Kasi is staging a death match: invasive species, compost tea, and comfrey chop and drop mulching20 Jul · 42 min