Serious Grower

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!
 
More information on alium leafminer
https://extension.psu.edu/allium-leaf-miner-on-track-to-emerge-in-early-april 
 
More information on identifying brassica pests
https://lgpress.clemson.edu/publication/identification-of-common-insect-pests-of-brassica-crops/ 
 
More information on scouting onions for thrips
https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll 
https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf 
 
Interactive Air Quality Map
https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?monitors=ozonepm&contours=ozone&xmin=-9064742.346057506&xmax=-7186225.938921513&ymin=4781064.352722573&ymax=5627375.12989582 
 
More information about ozone damage on vegetable crops
https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=92
https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/cucurbits/ozone-injury-in-cucurbit-crops/ 

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. We discuss the potential for growing figs in northern climates and are joined by organic crop specialist, Caleb Goossen, who holds us by the hand and gently explains soil chemistry as we "Monday morning quarterback" a hugelkulture venture that went wrong. 
Dr. Becky Sideman's Research Report on Figs for Northern Climates
 
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Mt. Fiji, Ryan James Carr; I Don't Wanna Be You, Park Lane; In a Minute, John Runefelt
 

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!
 
More information on alium leafminer
https://extension.psu.edu/allium-leaf-miner-on-track-to-emerge-in-early-april 
 
More information on identifying brassica pests
https://lgpress.clemson.edu/publication/identification-of-common-insect-pests-of-brassica-crops/ 
 
More information on beet leafminer
https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/beet-spinach-leafminer 
 
Jonathan Ebba's Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association webinar on Improving High Tunnel Ventilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAJX51TBZL4&list=PLszfvPfJBpgwzTlvLlnQlojedJnj0zoe3&index=11 
 
More from the UNH Greenhouse Team
https://media.unh.edu/channel/Greenhouse%2BProduction%2BWebinars%2Bby%2BUNH%2BCooperative%2BExtension/383388602 
 

Susan is a professor of agriculture at the University of New Hampshire... but just like the rest of us she has many interests, including knitting! In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how to avoid bringing pests into our home when we are repurposing second hand items, as well as an instagram reel from @rachelisknitting.
 
Please reach out to your local extension office if you think you have a bed bug infestation! Sometimes its something else but - if it is bed bugs - you want to act sooner than later and knowledge is power!
Check out this Review Paper, as well as some interesting papers about remediation and IPM programs for public housing. 
 
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Beginning to Dream, Ryan James Carr; Overture, Dozeoff; Summertime Madness; Matt Large; Whiskey Saved My Soil, Daniel Fridell

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!
 
Andy Wyenandt's post on Recognizing cold injury in spring crops
https://plant-pest-advisory.rutgers.edu/cold-injury-in-cucumber-2/
 
More information about weeds from the morning glory family
https://extension.psu.edu/the-noxious-persistent-invasive-and-perennial-bindweeds
 
More information about wireworm damage in rootcrops
https://www.uvm.edu/d10-files/documents/2026-03/Lewins_Wireworm_Research.pdf 
 
Webinar from eOrganic on using High Glucosinolate Mustard as an Organic Biofumigant in Vegetable Crops
https://youtu.be/yHilDyTmxTo?si=q1eGP1RJIPSHp9zj 
 
 

Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. In this wide ranging conversation we discuss what it takes to live on the cutting edge of art and science, how we adopt new ideas, and how we develop our own systems for doing things.
This one is mostly heart and very little science.
 
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; AAH!, TAGE; Lock Stock, The Big Let Down

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!
 
US Drought Monitor Northeast Report
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast 
 
Prediction model for cabbage maggot
https://newa.cornell.edu/cabbage-maggot/ 
 
More information about asparagus beetle
https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/5/3/B1/2194056 
 
More information about leek moth
https://www.uvm.edu/extension/leek-moth-information-center 
 
More information about allium leafminer
https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/allium-leafminer 
 
Video from Cornell’s Veg Team’s Stop the Rot Project identifying foliar symptoms of bacterial diseases of onion and how to distinguish bacterial diseases from other non-bacterial lookalikes.
https://youtu.be/pTYmdIwjbao?si=Mf0GfKlioUIxSlE7 
 
From Christy Hoepting (CCE Cornell Vegetable Program): Cornell Onion (Dry Bulb) Fungicide “Cheat Sheet” for Control of Leaf Diseases in New York, 2025
https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1216.pdf 
 
Onion disease risk prediction tool that can help you track your risk to Botrytis leaf blight, onion downy mildew, and purple blotch
https://newa.cornell.edu/onion-diseases/ 
 
 
 

Seth is a commercial grower in mid-coast Maine and he is getting serious about managing cabbage aphid infesting his organic Brussels sprouts.
We discuss the challenges and opportunities of chemigating with overhead irrigation to apply insectical soaps with the frequency required for good control, as well as the potential non-target effects on biocontrol agents living on the farm.
 
Check out all the great stuff from The Brassica Pest Collaborative for more on managing brassica pests in the northeast. 
 
Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Libertailia, Arc De Soleil; Brighter, Stonekeepers

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