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Elderberry and Beyond: New Options for River Lands in the Northeast
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Riparian buffer plantings can reap rewards for nature and business. By Liz Brownlee and Connor Stedman Stan Ward springs into his greenhouse full of excitement, eager to show off elderberry cuttings. He’s growing elderberry, Echinacea, and other perennial medicinals on his upland farm in central Vermont, but these elderberries are bound for lower ground. This year,…
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From Recipe to Market: Workshop for New Food Entrepreneurs
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A one-day workshop, “From Recipe to Market” for new food entrepreneurs will take place Monday, July 22, 8:30am-4:30pm at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY. Presented in collaboration with the New York State Food Venture Center. Is your recipe ready to go to market? If your goal is to launch a specialty…
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Anaerobic Digesters
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By Elizabeth Newbold Anaerobic Digesters: an opportunity for farms to use manure for energy production, bedding and fertilizer Anaerobic digestion systems for dairy farms are growing in popularity across the United States. In July 2010, the EPA estimated that 157 digester projects were operating on a commercial scale nationwide. Of those 157 digesters, 22 were…
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Any Help at All Would Have Been Better Than the Help I Have Got
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By Jan Andrews If you are going to have horses and live on a farm, you are going to be harvesting hay. Putting away hay is a thankless job. It is hot, heavy, repetitive work. The hay scratches and, every now and then, a real treat comes your way when you get a bale containing…
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Telling Better Stories Workshop
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The Small Farms Program hosted Telling Better Stories: Journalism Training for Small Farm Educators and Farmer Writers April 11th at the Mann Library. The workshop grew from discussions on how to help people tell stories about small farms and local agriculture. All fifty spots filled quickly, demonstrating the need for this kind of community education.…
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Willow, A New Old Crop
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Do you have marginal land that is too wet for conventional crops or pasture? Would you like to raise a perennial crop that requires minimal care and provides an annual harvest? Then maybe basket willows are in your future! A hardy, adaptable and handsome plant, willow (genus Salix) has many valuable uses. It grows from…
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New York Farm Viability Institute Continues to Help Organic Dairies Achieve Their Goals
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New York’s dairy industry ranks third in the nation with over 600,000 milking cows. Among the large and small 5,150 dairies scattered throughout the state, almost 500 are organic. The New York Farm Viability Institute values the diversity of dairy producers in NY and aims to fund grant projects that will benefit the overall improvement…
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Are you interested in growing grains? Upcoming event: Re-inventing the Hudson Valley Breadbasket
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Join us Monday, June 24, 2013. 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Migliorelli Farm, Red Hook, NY. This special event features: A tour of Cornell’s Hudson Valley regional wheat and barley variety trials Dr. Mark Sorrels will discuss Cornell’s initiative to develop regionally-adapted small grains varieties for local and specialty markets A discussion of small grains…
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Wash Station Grant Available to Orange Cty (NY) Growers
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Greenmarket, a program of GrowNYC, is soliciting proposals from fruit and vegetable producers in Orange County, NY for a funding opportunity to build new or improve existing produce washing stations. The aim of this funding program is to improve labor efficiency, enhance food safety and increase profitability through enhanced on-farm infrastructure. Up to $2,500 in…
June 2013
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