Serious Grower
Join Anna (a stone-cold nerd) and her co-hosts to find out how science can help all the serious growers out there! Expect some expert visitors to drop in and get into the weeds, both literally and metaphorically. Please reach out if you are interested in being a co-host or if you have a question that needs some serious attention!
Episodes
Kira is a regular lady from the Seacoast of New Hampshire who loves fresh, local produce and wants to get into varsity level growing, backyard tomatoes. We discuss low light levels in the home that are great for house plants but not quite enough for starting vegetable transplants, we try a de-goatified goat cheese, and develop a sensory panel activity to determine if farmers' market attendees can tell the difference between tomatoe...
A summary of what vegetable pest experts are talking about this week (the last field report for the season)...including risk of late blight infections in tomato, first report of spotted lanternfly in New Hampshire, emerging diseases, and reports of early maturing pumpkins.
More information about late blight
https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/tomato/tomato-late-blight/
Dr. Chris Hernandez is a geneticist and crop breeder at the University of New Hampshire. Steve Geddes is record-breaking giant pumpkin grower living and growing in New Hampshire. As far as Serious Growers go...you can't get much more serious than this! Elite level growing and fierce competition, overseen across the globe by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth.
Join Anna (an entomologist) as she embeds within a giant pumpkin growing proj...
A summary of what vegetable pest experts are talking about this week…its mostly diseases impacting cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes!
Seasonal reporting on CDM
https://extension.psu.edu/2026-cucurbit-downy-mildew-updates
more information on fungicide selection for major cucurbit diseases, including cucurbit downy mildew
A quick summary of what the experts are talking about when it comes to managing late summer pests, diseases, and other vegetable crop maladies.
More about clubroot management in brassicas
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/extd8/files/documents/em9148.pdf
More about bottom rot in lettuce
https://sites.udel.edu/weeklycropupdate/?p=18469
More about boron deficiencies and toxicities
Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. In this wide ranging discussion, we discuss garlic irrigation strategies, right to repair laws, and all the technologies that are showing up on the farm thanks to space exploration, including UV-C for water purification and disease management.
Music: With the Homies - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; All the Freedom You Need - Terin Ector; Mechakucha - Sugoi; Snakes and Fir...
More information about alternaria leaf spot of brassicas
More information about pepper maggot:
More information about tomato pith necrosis
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/tomato-pith-necrosis
More information about tomato timber rot
The 2026 Cornell IPM Organic Production and IPM Guide for Vegetables is out and available online now!
More information about southern blight in tomatoes
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/southern-blight-of-vegetable-crops
More information about managing leek moth in storage onions
https://www.uvm.edu/d10-files/documents/2025-02/2020-Leek-Moth-Research-Brief-FINAL.pdf
https://youtu.be/OVaMkw6UmIU?si=qQ4_PL2NXJ4iD1DQ
More inform...
Chuck is a commercial farmer in New Hampshire and an expert in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for fruit and vegetable crops.
This episode touches on how the scientific community is seeking alternatives tools & tactics to replace neonicotinoid pesticides in vegetable pest management and how science and policy influence the nitty gritty business of growing food.
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
For more information about fall armyworm
https://extension.psu.edu/fall-armyworm-as-a-pest-of-field-corn
For more information about corn rusts
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/common-rust-of-sweet-corn/
For more information about yellow vine decline
https://plantpathology.mgcafe.uky.edu/yellow-vine-decline-cucurbits-ppfs-vg-12
Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. In this wide ranging discussion, we touch on microbes, nitrogen amendments for growing flowers, invasive species, comfrey tea, "chop and drop" mulching, using compost tea as a liquid fertilizer and as a pesticide... and why Anna needs to get off r/permaculture.
More information about how to interpret your soil tests from Vermont and Montana's extension services and The...
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
Jason wants to turn his lawn into an edible landscape and an amazing place for his family in Oregon. We’ll drop in throughout the year to hear how things are progressing.
This conversation includes fitting tree fruit into small spaces, how to trap earwigs and why they are both good and bad, and why mail order pollinators could be causing more problems than its solving.
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
Do you want to know more about where your tomatoes come from and the experts who are supporting our vegetable farmers to grow us the freshest, tastiest tomatoes possible, using the most economically & environmentally sustainable practices?
This discussion includes discussions of how growing tomato crops under cover can solve one problem (fungal diseases) but might create new problems in need of solutions.
More on pest man...
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. We celebrate Birdhouse Day, discuss the ins and outs of cover cropping for a squash crop and for weed management, and the difference between "doing science" and "doing a science." Anna has an existential crisis over some very charismatic tomato plants.
Tarping in the Northeast: A Guide for Small Farms
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Pat...
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states.
Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hoo...
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