The Power of Pulse Watering: Effective Irrigation and Better Plant Health with Emma Horswill from Earthenry Farm

The No-Till Flowers Podcast - A podcast by Jennie Love

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Welcome to Season 3 of the No-Till Flowers podcast!  Emma Horswill from Earthenry Farm in Tasmania joins host, Jennie Love, for a lovely chat that hits on several important regenerative farming practices.  The primary focus of this episode is irrigation, particularly an approach to it called "pulse watering".  Other topics include cover cropping, fertigation, quickly imporving poor compacted soil using regenerative methods, creating a flower farm that's very asethetically pleasing for a you-pick operation, and converting a horse farm to a flower farm.   Links mentioned in this episode are as follows:  Earthenry Farm on Instagram Dahlias in Australia: The Winkie Way (the book Emma used to originally learn about pulse watering)  The Regenerative Flower Farmers Network where members can download Emma's fact sheet on pulse watering.   Steve Solomon's "Complete Organic Fertilizer" recipe.  Daniel May's book The No-Till Organic Vegatable Farm ARC Centre for Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture (Australian think tank for future proofing our farms)   Teeming with Bacteria by Jeff Lowenfels     Please rate and leave a review for this podcast as it helps us tailor the podcast even more to your needs and helps other listeners find it.   Follow @notillflowers on Instagram for more content and conversations.  And become a member of the Regenerative Flower Farmers Network to access additional detailed resources and live Q&A events as mentioned throughout the podcast.