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Another Tool for your Disease Management Toolbox: Disease Resistant Varieties
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Last summer’s tomato late blight epidemic may have been the first time many people heard about using resistant varieties to control disease. But what is disease resistance and how can it help small vegetable farmers and home gardeners? What is disease resistance? Disease resistance is a plant’s genetic ability to prevent a disease causing pathogen…
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Aeroponics: a piece of the urban farming jigsaw puzzle?
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Ed Harwood is willing to concede that many folks think of urban farming as raised beds on vacant lots. But he also thinks there’s another way to grow vegetables in cities that’s just as promising, and it uses a new stackable, modular hydroponics technology called aeroponics, that his company AeroFarms has refined and now offers…
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2010 Cornell Small Farms Program Publications
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As we at the Cornell Small Farms Program look back upon 2010, we are proud of how many new Small Farm resources we published this year. In case you missed some of them, the following summarizes the 2010 publications available from our office. Resource Guide to Direct Marketing Livestock and Poultry The revised edition of…
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Pasture Bloat in Sheep
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For a sustainable grazing system, one should have legumes in the pasture. Legumes have the capability of fixating nitrogen from the air and thus reduce or even eliminate the need for nitrogen fertilizer. To accomplish this, the pasture must contain at least 30 percent of legumes. I prefer 50 and up to 70 percent…
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October Harvest
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The following excerpt, “Harvest, October 9 & 10, 1992,” is the second of a series of essays written by Bill Duesing from the book Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays for a Sustainable and Joyful Future. I encourage you to take in the crisp air of fall, kick up your feet with a hot cup…
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Learning to Read Whole Farm Systems
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Lessons from a “Reading the Farm” Workshop in Chambersburg, PA In mid-August I had the opportunity to attend a two-day workshop in Chambersburg, PA on reading the farm, hosted by Penn state with support from a SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) Grant. Reading the Farm is an on-farm training workshop on whole farm system…
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Kevatta Farms Dairy
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By Debra Welch and Nancy Glazier Kevetta Farms, in the hills of Dansville NY, is owned and operated by Kevin and Annetta Herrington with children Jessica and Tyler. Their high-producing registered herd consists of predominantly Holsteins and Jerseysthat are grazed on 65 acres. Youngstock are grazed on 15 acres of dedicated pasture. Kevin has worked closely…
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Increasing Local Food Consumption in the Catskill Mountains
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An overview of Pure Catskills, an economic initiative of the Watershed Agricultural Council For the past seven years, the Pure Catskills campaign, an economic initiative of the Watershed Agricultural Council, has been helping to educate our community about local foods of the Catskills region. Components of the program include print and online guides to local farm…
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Exploring the Small Farm Dream
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4-H teens learn about the hard work and creativity needed to run a successful small farm during Career Exploration Days at the Cornell University campus This summer, hundreds of 4-H teens from all over New York arrived at Cornell University to explore careers in everything from Astronomy to Veterinary Science. We at the Cornell Small…
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Harvesting Water is a Breeze
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When Jonathan Barter and his family arrived from Pennsylvania in 2006 to take over a fallowed, 210 acre farm in Yates County overlooking Kueka Lake, little did they know how lucky it was to live on a breezy knoll in wine country. “We had a vision of turning the goldenrod into lush green pastures with…
October 2010
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