246 - Creating Living Soil with No-Till Market Farmer Jesse Frost
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Join me today as I speak with Jesse Frost of the No Till Growers podcast. He will be speaking to us about living soil.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I hope you're having a great spring so far. Today I've got a special guest. This is Jesse Frost from |
| 0:06.2 | No-Till Growers and he's also the author of the Living Soil Handbook. I again like Dr. Elaine Ingham |
| 0:13.2 | actually got in touch with him because I had watched his presentation on the Back to Eden |
| 0:18.4 | Gardening Summit and I was so impressed by everything he was talking |
| 0:22.1 | about regarding building healthy soil. And for those of us who are wanting to do this more on our |
| 0:28.0 | site and not have to buy as much fertilizer or things off of our site, he's got some great |
| 0:34.6 | information for us. We're going to be talking about what is living soil. |
| 0:38.3 | How do we adjust the general recommendations of how to grow in our gardens to our context? |
| 0:44.1 | He's talking about some things that I've really never heard people talk about before, but it's so good. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll also talk about covering the soil, whether we use mulch or even cover crops or living pathways. And then we'll |
| 0:56.3 | talk about compost and how not all compost is alike. Many of you have asked me, how do you know |
| 1:03.0 | if the source you're buying compost from, if you can't make all of it yourself, is a good source. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, he breaks all that down for you today. And so I'm super excited to share |
| 1:11.7 | this conversation with you. It's going to be full of information. I hope you enjoy. Hi, I'm Jill. |
| 1:18.4 | And almost 10 years ago, I started my first garden as a new stay-at-home mom trying to cut our |
| 1:23.3 | grocery bill. Over the years, I stumbled my way into becoming a gardener, and I never looked back. |
| 1:28.9 | On this podcast, you'll hear gardening, how-toes, and inspiration, both from me and from guests. |
| 1:34.0 | And whether you're a new gardener like I was or still learning, like we all are, my hope is |
| 1:38.8 | that gardening changes your life like it has mine, and this podcast will help you along the way. |
| 1:47.4 | Hi, Jesse. It's great to have you on the podcast today. For those who are just meeting |
| 1:51.5 | you for the first time, tell us a little bit about yourself. Thanks, Jill. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:56.8 | My name is Jesse Frost. I often go by farmer Jesse. |
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