Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to episode 350 of Growers Daily!
We cover: today we’re talking coffee! As a coffee drinker and soil nerd myself, I was very excited when I met Patricia Cordero at the OAK conference last month and she told me her area of study was soil conservation in coffee production in Puerto Rico. So, naturally, I asked her to come on and talk a bit about the coffee production and soil there and oh boy is it both very awesome with lots of multispecies plantings among the coffee, and also quite sad with the state of agriculture there and farmers struggling to find the labor they need to keep their farms going. But we talk all things coffee from what makes good coffee beans to the techniques they use for soil conservation and so much more.
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Welcome to episode 350 of Growers Daily!
We cover: today we’re talking coffee! As a coffee drinker and soil nerd myself, I was very excited when I met Patricia Cordero at the OAK conference last month and she told me her area of study was soil conservation in coffee production in Puerto Rico. So, naturally, I asked her to come on and talk a bit about the coffee production and soil there and oh boy is it both very awesome with lots of multispecies plantings among the coffee, and also quite sad with the state of agriculture there and farmers struggling to find the labor they need to keep their farms going. But we talk all things coffee from what makes good coffee beans to the techniques they use for soil conservation and so much more.
We are a Non-Profit! 👇
🙌 DONATE 🙌 paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ALF4MZX26SVSQ
app.candid.org/profile/16047666
Links for today:
UK Sustainable Ag program: https://academics.uky.edu/programs/bachelors/sustainable-agriculture-and-community-food-systems
MUSIC from this episode:
Full Circle by Northside
via epidemicsound.com
Support our work (👊) at notillgrowers.com/support
or Patreon.com/notillgrowers
Show Sponsors:
Tilth Soil!: tilthsoil.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorYMGkYzMqYdJ8KDqTdMFUg5tw3lx_OSMBZPP6phSXpFhBIyUkT
Certified Naturally Grown: naturallygrown.org
Tend: tend.com/?utm_source=No-Till&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=warm_lead&utm_content=free%20trial
MY BOOK!
The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook
French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: amzn.to/4h2bYot
Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html
German Copy: oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374
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5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL)
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ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook
The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook
Hats 🧢 👉 notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook
Forum 💬 👉 https://notillgrowers.community.chat
Music 🎵 👉 via empidemicsound.com
👕 MERCH 👉 notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook
Support our work (👊) at notillgrowers.com/support or Patreon.com/notillgrowers
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