Episode #67: Jesse Frost
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Frost is the Co-Owner of Rough Draft Farmstead in central Kentucky and host of the No-Till Market Garden Podcast. Jesse's rich background in researching and experimenting with no-till practices lead to his first book, "The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening," which will be published this summer.
Throughout their conversation John and Jesse discuss:
- How Jesse got his start as a farmer and how a mission to uncover regenerative techniques lead to a promising career in market gardening.
- The economic opportunities surrounding market gardening, including the positive impact of collaboration and Jesse's thoughts on land ownership.
- The best way to strategize and implement a direct-to-consumers business model.
- Two management styles that work for no-till growers on a smaller scale: Jesse's thought on the basic cover crop model and the deep compost mulch system
- An overview of the four different types of compost: inoculating compost, fertilizing compost, nutritional compost, and mulching compost.
- The current state of the average farmer's psyche and the power of relationships and community building.
- Jesse's current intercropping practices and how they are implemented for pest and disease control.
Pre-order Jesse's book here: https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook/d9z5gkf1bbnhu0w5xxb3trngiqhwgo
Check out "The No-Till Organic Vegetable Farm: Human-Scale Methods for Intensive Commercial Production and Ecological Health" by Daniel Mays here: https://www.frithfarm.net/book.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, this is John and this is the regenerative agriculture podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back or if you haven't heard it before, welcome here for the first time. |
| 0:09.0 | And this podcast is where we talk about the agronomic science and the cultural management practices |
| 0:16.0 | and the opportunities to regenerate plant health, soil health, and ultimately public health. This conversation, |
| 0:24.1 | I'm delighted to have as my guest, Jesse Frost, from the No-Till Growers podcast. Jesse has |
| 0:30.5 | done some fascinating work in looking at regenerative agriculture practices in the market |
| 0:37.0 | gardening landscape. |
| 0:38.3 | Jesse, I'm delighted to have you here. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you for joining me. |
| 0:41.3 | Can you tell us a little bit about your personal story and context and the scope of the work that you're working on today, |
| 0:46.3 | both in your farming life, as well as in the work that you've been doing with the podcast |
| 0:51.3 | and sharing all the content that you produce? |
| 0:58.1 | Absolutely. John, it's a pleasure to be here. Super excited to chat with you today. |
| 1:05.7 | So my basic story is that I run a farm with my wife in central Kentucky. We are three quarters of an acre on a market garden. We just moved, so we're moving, we're getting the farm back up to |
| 1:09.6 | three quarters of an acre, but that is our general production space. We've been farming since I started my first internship in |
| 1:16.3 | 2010 on a small cart farm in southern Kentucky called Bug Tustle Farm. And this was a biodynamic, they are |
| 1:23.1 | a biodynamic farm, and they're really wonderful people, Just an amazing wealth of knowledge of these two. |
| 1:28.5 | And Sharon, Eric Smith. And we did a lot of different things on that farm. I learned about, |
| 1:33.4 | you know, strategic tillage, proper tillage, you know, when to time it to do the least amount of |
| 1:38.0 | damage. A lot about cover cropping. We did a lot of no-till stuff with cover crops. One of our |
| 1:43.5 | best tomato crops was planted into a vetch and rye that we crempt down |
| 1:48.0 | and then mulched over top of. |
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