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418 - What Market Farmers Know That Backyard Gardeners Don't (Yet!) with Pam Dawling

·40 min·3 clips
Pam Dolling reveals how she cooked diseased plants in black plastic bags on her driveway.
Market farmer Pam Dolling shares practical organic gardening techniques from decades of experience, covering disease management through sanitation and seed-saving, weed control with mulching and flame weeding, and pest prevention using netting and crop timing. She also discusses adapting large-scale practices like crop rotation for small spaces and debunks common gardening myths.

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Market-farming experience turns common garden problems into practical advice.

Market farming is the frame here, and it makes ordinary garden headaches feel more immediate. Disease pressure, weeds, pests, crop rotation, and the compromises of small-space planning all land as lived-in problems, not theory.

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