The EarthWorks Podcast
The EarthWorks Podcast is a series of interviews and conversations hosted by many of the EarthWorks agronomists, featuring friends from the turf industry. Interviews include noted golf course superintendents, industry experts, agronomists and business people. These conversations are designed to inform and entertain. EarthWorks has been a leader in the discussion of Biological Soil Management and has been producing professional grade carbon based fertilizers for over 30 years. Each year over 15,000 soil tests are performed by the companies agronomists and all of this builds the focus of The EarthWorks Podcast. Please enjoy.
Episodes
May 16, 2024 • 61 mins
When building a new golf course or spots field you have one shot at getting it right and that is when you have open soil and can amend that soil to the fullest. Since 1988, EarthWorks has been building amendment packages for new construction projects and have worked with thousands of golf course superintendents and sports turf managers. In fact, if you scroll through the archives of the EarthWorks Podcasts you will find dozens of i...
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May 9, 2024 • 73 mins
The industry is getting more technologically advanced and many superintendents are learning how to embrace these changes. Matt Sumpter, Golf Course Superintendent at Columbia Country Club outside of Washington DC, knows a little about embracing new technologies. Formerly the Blue Course Superintendent at Congressional Country Club, he led a team through the new construction project. Matt talks about new software programs and GPS te...
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May 2, 2024 • 50 mins
Steve Dickinson was an innovator in the turf distribution business throughout his entire career. He was the founder of a very successful distribution company, Supreme Turf, in St. Louis Missouri that focused on the agronomic success of their clients. Steve earned the title of "Soils Doctor" from many of his client friends and helped many superintendents understand the value of balancing soil chemistry. Steve had the opportunity to ...
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April 25, 2024 • 42 mins
Tom knew the right setting for this conversation, a one hundred year old speakeasy lounge in the basement of the clubhouse at Jumping Brook. The golf course celebrates its centennial next year and Tom discusses the major transformation the golf course has seen in the last two years in preparation for next year and beyond. Enjoy this deep dive into Jumping Brook, a classic Tillinghast test of golf and the efforts made to preserve it...
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April 18, 2024 • 65 mins
Thrilled to bring back our friend and chemist, Lawrence Mayhew. As always, we run through a gamut of topics including humic substances, biological activity in the soil, the humification process and the life of soil microbes. Lawrence is always informative and entertaining and has become one of our most anticipated guests. In this conversation we talked about a new procedure for testing soil nitrogen known as the ACE (Autoclaved Ci...
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April 11, 2024 • 69 mins
On this week’s podcast, we catch up with Benton Hodges, owner of Mountain West Turf Technologies. Benton was formerly the assistant superintendent at 3 Creek Ranch GC, but recently broke out on his own after seeing the opportunity to represent the many technology advancements in the turf industry. We talked about everything from the current state of robotic mowing, GPS sprayers, and even Artificial Intelligence and how we can use i...
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April 4, 2024 • 59 mins
Jack Higgins has been the Northeast Agronomist with EarthWorks since 2009. In 2020, when Covid first hit, we were concerned about staying in touch with clients and it was Jack who suggested the idea of starting the EarthWorks Podcast. Today, the podcast team of Jack, Kevin Hicks and Joel Simmons has recorded over 200 podcasts and reached thousands of turf managers and friends. In this podcast we hear Jack’s story and learn about hi...
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March 28, 2024 • 83 mins
We are very excited to announce that the EarthWorks Podcast has reached its 200th Episode! This project was started in 2020, at the beginning of COVID, when we weren’t sure how we were going to be able to stay in touch with clients and friends. Jack Higgins, one of our hosts on the EW Podcast, came up with the idea and we never looked back. As we celebrate our 200th episode, we have close to 1000 listens every week, and our archive...
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March 21, 2024 • 55 mins
We welcome back Josh Saunders from Lancaster Country Club to talk about everything US Women’s Open 2024. The LCC crew is 70 days from the tournament and we discuss his agronomic plan for between now and the Open. We have a lot of fun in this podcast. There’s a lot of anticipation here. We also discussed plans for setting up a studio to record EW podcasts with a variety of guests from LCC and volunteers from around the country durin...
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March 14, 2024 • 61 mins
Edward Olsen, is the Parks and Forestry Supervisor for the Town of Needham, Massachusetts. We have known Ed for over 20 years and followed him through his golf course career as a superintendent, to his current position in the Town of Needham. The contrast in the two careers is very interesting and he loves his role in public service. It is not uncommon for golf course superintendents to take jobs in the public sector. There are man...
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March 7, 2024 • 58 mins
Dr. Claire Phillips is a Research Soil Scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. As part of the Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research Unit she discusses her work on carbon sequestration on golf courses and turf management. I first heard Dr. Phillips at a superintendent association meeting and knew it would be of interest to a wider audience to hear about her very positive findings within the turf industry. Carb...
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February 29, 2024 • 58 mins
Since 2015 Clint Steele has managed the sports fields at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, UMBC, mostly by himself! When he arrived at this Division 1 school there was an assistant on his staff but that didn’t last long and ever since he has been on his own to manage nine fields, eight of which are natural grass. Years before he worked at George Mason University where he was introduced to the concepts of Biological Soil ...
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February 22, 2024 • 58 mins
Please join us in welcoming Marshall Evans to our team of Agronomists. He lives in Florida and will be working throughout the state helping superintendents discover the value of Biological Soil Management. Marshall comes to us from Precision Laboratories where he spent his time talking to clients about water management - something that fits in nicely with the soils work he will be doing with his EarthWorks clients. Marshall started...
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February 15, 2024 • 65 mins
“If we’re not talking about drainage, then we’re not having the right conversation.” This has been the mantra for our guest, Pat Quinlan, as he’s developed the long range plan with the members at Fairmount Country Club. Fairmount borders the Great Swamp National Refuge in northern New Jersey, and as you can imagine, managing soil moisture is the key to success at this golf course. Pat is a great conversationalist. Beyond telling ma...
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February 8, 2024 • 47 mins
The 2024 GIS Trade Show and Conference was one of the most successful and enjoyable shows in many years. The buzz was steady for two days, we had the pleasure of seeing old friends and meeting new friends, and the EarthWorks floor party was the event of the season! Once again, the EarthWorks Podcast team of Kevin Hicks, Jack Higgins and Joel Simmons had the opportunity to do a live podcast from the floor of the show and this year’s...
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January 31, 2024 • 67 mins
We met Cory Blair in the late 1990’s when he was a superintendent, today he is the Business Development Manager for Capillary Flow. His company is best known for their bunker program known as Capillary Concrete. The Capillary Concrete process for bunkers is a hardscape system where the concrete is applied over a drainage system and then sand is laid over the top of this porous material. This allows the bunkers to drain and hold the...
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January 24, 2024 • 58 mins
Ever wonder what it would be like to manage an NFL and MLB facility at the same time? Ryan Bjorn does both in New England for the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution soccer team. He manages 6 grass practice fields, 3 for each team, and the Gillette Stadium artificial field. Days after the Patriots finished their last game in early January the Revolution started practicing and the fields had to be ready...
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January 18, 2024 • 67 mins
On this week’s podcast, we talked with Greg Baer, principal of The Baer Design Group, irrigation design firm that primarily serves the Pacific Northwest. We discussed the latest in irrigation design and irrigation technology and how it’s changed over the years. Greg weighed in on the pitfalls and steps to success when considering an irrigation renovation. We also discussed the steps a turf manager can take to fine tune an existing ...
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January 11, 2024 • 56 mins
When Vincent started a small microgreens farm in Hawaii he was not sure of how to be a farmer! Fortunately he discovered the ACRES USA publication and traveled halfway across the country to participate in the ACRES conference where he had the chance to meet the founding partner of EarthWorks, Jerry Brunetti. Vincent tells many great Jerry stories and talks about how he discovered how a soil really works. He was growing organic prod...
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January 4, 2024 • 45 mins
A constant curiosity and deep love for plants seem to be at the root of Blooming Beds’ success. However, in talking with the owner and entrepreneur Wayne Jackson, it is evident that his intelligence and business acumen that are the engine driving the success. Wayne uses the phrase, “extract the full ornamental value from the plant.” That is something that is easy to say, and in merely thinking about the subject, one might assume th...
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