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 hooked up with the right expert in your area!

Leek moth information center

https://www.uvm.edu/extension/leek-moth-information-center

Allium Leafminer Factsheet

https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/allium-leafminer

More information about cabbage maggot

https://newa.cornell.edu/cabbage-maggot/

https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=919

https://extension.umaine.edu/ipm/ipddl/publications/5005e/

More information about damping off

https://extension.umn.edu/solve-problem/how-prevent-seedling-damping#:~:text=Low%20light%2C%20overwatering%2C%20high%20salts%20from%20over,are%20all%20associated%20with%20increased%20damping%20off

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and a Granger!

In this conversation we discuss what it takes to build community, what happens when winters get less wintery, and some insider information about the winter Olympics.

Learn more about the Grange!

Find my conversation with UNH Extension's Jeremy Delisle about what could go wrong when starting and maintaining a home orchard.

Music: With the Homes, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Patina, Ryan James Carr

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 hooked up with the right expert in your area!

Drought map for the northeast

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast

Cabbage maggot temperature model

https://newa.cornell.edu/cabbage-maggot

Leek moth resource

https://www.uvm.edu/extension/leek-moth-information-center

Allium leafminer resource

https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/allium-leafminer

Thrips on tomato

https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/tomato/thrips-and-their-feeding-injury/

Ethylene damage

https://vegcropshotline.org/article/ethylene-damage-on-tomato-2/

Salt injury

https://extension.psu.edu/dealing-with-high-soluble-salt-levels-in-high-tunnels

Vern Grubinger's POTTING MIXES FOR ORGANIC GROWERS

https://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/OrganicPottingMixes.pdf

https://extension.psu.edu/potting-media-and-plant-propagation

Will is an extension educator in northern New Hampshire and he's helping his growers manage a new and unusual pest attacking broccoli. We talk to experts in NH, ME, and VT to understand the state of the art in monitoring and management of swede midge.

Vegetable IPM Reports for New Hampshire

Summary of swede midge review article from Hodgdon et al. 2024

Learn more about swede midge from this NYIPM resource

Learn more about leek moth from the UVM resource

Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstumentalist; Back at It, Mizlo; Patina; Ryan James Carr; Una Noche en Lagos, El Flaco Collective; Libertalia, Arc De Soleil; Snow Glow, John Runefelt

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, and she's been reading about Luther Burbank alongside a pile of seed catalogues. We discuss what makes crops "true to seed".

Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Libertalia, Arc De Soleil; Overture, Dozeoff; Can't Handle It, Ryan James Carr

Susan is a professor of agriculture at the University of New Hampshire. We discuss the ins and outs of growing in unconventional situations and talk spiders.

Learn more about the Farm2You program at UNH

Learn more about the research project Optimizing pest management in high tunnels to increase the resiliency of local food systems

Learn more about pesticide regulation

With the Homies, Sarah the Illstumentalist; Aquatic Flower Dance, Ryan James Carr; Oh Please; Gerhard Feng; Overture, Dozeoff; Talk 2 Me, Ryan James Carr

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, and accidental grasshopper rancher. The ins and outs regarding the rearing and farming of insects is discussed.

One of many popular ant forums can be found on Reddit

Learn more about the Schmidt Pain Index

With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; The Doom and Gloom Choir, Luella Gren; Drinkin' & Jivin', TAGE

Caleb Goossen joins us for a deep dive into the interplay between fertilization and pest severity.

TL;DR Overfertilizing your crops might make some pest infestation worse, but underfertilizing won't solve all your pest problems.

We review data from Laybourne & Aradottir 2022 and Nowak & Komor 2010.

Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Overture, Dozeoff; Riding High, John Runefelt