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The Ag Engineering podcast is a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. In this episode, we visit with Evan Perkins and Heidi Choate of Small Axe Farm (https://smallaxefarm.com/) to talk about how they implement no-till production on their farm.

1:56 How do you define no-till on your farm?

3:55 How are you renovating a bed?

6:37 How do you make new beds?

7:54 Farming on a hillside

13:39 Microclimates on a south-facing slope in Zone 4

17:18 No-till and fundamental environmental practices

19:52 Erosion and season extension 

22:19 Advantages to hillside growing

26:17 Hoop houses on a hillside

28:06 The Tillie

33:17 Pathway residue compost system

Website: https://smallaxefarm.com/

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