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.
