Trust the Field

Trust the Field | Trust Your Oats What happens after a pure seed is planted in a clean field—and how is purity protected throughout the growing season? In Episode 3 of Trust Your Oats, Trust the Field, host Dale Tenhulzen steps into the growing season to explore what “Purity Protocol growing” looks like in real life. The episode focuses on the active, hands-on work required to protect gluten-free oats once they’re in the ground. Listeners learn why physical isolation from neighboring wheat, barley, and rye fields is essential, and how buffer zones act as sacrificial barriers to protect the core of a gluten-free crop. The episode explains how wind, dust, water, and nearby activity can introduce risk—and why boundaries matter. The conversation then moves to in-season inspections and roguing: the manual process of walking fields, identifying volunteer gluten-containing plants, and removing them by hand. These repeated inspections form a critical line of defense, ensuring that purity is maintained long before harvest begins. Trust the Field shows how trust is built through vigilance, patience, and overlapping protections—out in the open, where quality cannot be tested in later, but must be protected in real time. Learn more about Trust Your Oats at: 👉 https://daletenhulzen.com/ 👉 https://daletenhulzen.site/