About

No-Till Flowers is a podcast about growing beautiful flowers, healthier soil, and more resilient farms and gardens.

Hosted by Philadelphia flower farmer Jennie Love, the show digs into no-till and regenerative growing in a way that is practical, curious, and refreshingly honest. While flowers are often at the heart of the conversation, the ideas explored here reach well beyond the flower field. Farmers of all kinds, market gardeners, backyard growers, and anyone fascinated by what’s happening beneath their feet are welcome.

And, truth be told, none of this started with a grand plan. Jennie established her flower farm in 2009. In 2018, Philadelphia experienced record-breaking rainfall throughout the spring and summer. The ground at Love 'n Fresh Flowers stayed so wet that Jennie couldn't get a tractor and tiller into the fields to prepare beds. Crops needed to be planted and the season wasn't going to wait. So, as something of a Hail Mary, she began creating beds without tilling them.

It worked.

But, more importantly, it raised a whole lot of questions. What happens if we stop turning over the soil? What is actually going on down there when we leave it alone? Can we grow abundant commercial crops while improving soil health at the same time? Can we create growing systems that are more resilient in the face of increasingly unpredictable weather? And which of the things growers have always been told they have to do are actually necessary? No-Till Flowers grew out of those questions.

Since that very soggy summer, Jennie's farm has become one big, ongoing experiment. There have been remarkable successes, plenty of failures, unexpected discoveries, and an enormous amount of learning along the way. The podcast is a place to share that process and, most importantly, to learn from other people asking similar questions.

You'll hear conversations with farmers, researchers, breeders, soil scientists, and other wonderfully plant-obsessed people. Topics range from compost, soil biology and homemade microbial inputs to crop planning, pest management, perennials, native plants, farm systems, and the occasional deep dive into a particularly fascinating flower.

Some episodes get pretty nerdy. Others are remarkably practical. Most will probably send you outside wanting to try something. Because regenerative growing isn't a recipe or a set of rules to follow perfectly. It's a process of observing, experimenting, questioning, and learning from what happens next.

Whether you're farming hundreds of acres, growing market crops on a quarter acre, tending a backyard vegetable patch, or trying to coax better blooms from your garden, you don't need to have it all figured out to belong here. None of us do.

Listen. Experiment. Pay attention. Grow better soil. Grow better plants.

About the Host

Jennie Love

In 2008, Jennie launched Love 'n Fresh Flowers, an urban flower farm located in Philadelphia. She grew up on a 5th generation family dairy farm in central Pennsylvania and had trained as a professional horticulturalist at Longwood Gardens, but there were a lot of lessons yet to be learned in the flower fields. She began podcasting in 2020 at the invitation of Jesse Frost of No-Till Growers. Since then she's used the podcast as a way of getting her own burning questions answered and connecting growers and researchers around the globe.

She is the founder of the Regenerative Flower Farmers Network, a community of growers dedicated to healing the earth one stem at a time. She is also a past president of the international Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers.

Jennie has led hundreds of workshops over the years, including regularly sold-out courses at her farm and classes for Longwood Gardens and the Barnes Foundation. She also frequently presents for floriculture and farming conferences, garden clubs, trade associations, and other organizations. A passionate farmer and artist, Jennie found her natural niche as a farmer-florist for wedding and event design for 15 years and became recognized leader of the local flower movement. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Martha Stewart Weddings, among other notable publications.

Jennie is also the founder and leader of the Philadelphia Floral Guild, a wholesale flower collective launched in 2022 serving more than 300 florists in the mid-Atlantic region. Through the Guild she hosts another flower podcast called Floral Guild Radio.