{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping","title":"Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Approach to No Till","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3805,"description":"In this rebroadcast of the radio show that aired live on July 7th, we talk about soil and no-till practices with market gardener, farm journalist, and podcaster Jesse Frost.\r\nHe’s the host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast (https://www.notillgrowers.com/podcast), and he and his wife are no-till farmers at their Rough Draft Farmstead in Kentucky.\r\nFrost’s new book is The Living Soil Handbook.\r\nChoosing a No-Till Model\r\nFrost says that there is no one-size-fits-all model of no-till growing.\r\nIt depends on the context — things such as soil, rainfall, climate, and the crops being grown.\r\nNo-till is as varied as the growers using it.\r\n3 Principles to Grow By\r\nA successful no-till system goes beyond not tilling.\r\n\r\n\r\nFrost suggests three principles growers and gardeners can use to guide their approach to tillage:\r\n\r\n* \r\nDisturb the soil as little as possible\r\n\r\n* \r\nKeep the soil covered as much as possible\r\n\r\n\r\nKeep the soil planted as much as possible","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_y3e1k24nMlKLGYUZdhBsMgezF6u9k_5w92OUmAhniI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMTFk/NDg3ODQxNjE2MGM1/ZWMwNGVhOTgyZTY1/NmZhOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}