Year: 2013
by Andrea Brendalen and John M. Thursgood Full Moon Farm is a NOFA-Certified Organic farm run by husband and wife, David Zuckerman and Rachel Nevitt. The farm started in 1999…
Welcome to our new feature column on the topic of seeds! As local and organic become mainstream, the seed sowing our food has largely been left out of the conversation.…
The John Gordon Demonstration Nut Grove near Trumansburg, NY is just one of the possible stops on the evolving New York State Nut Tree Trail. John Gordon was a well-known…
Finding someone to shear your sheep is becoming more difficult and expensive every year, and more and more farmers are looking to shear their own. Producers interested in learning…
Learn how the pending rules could impact your farm and speak up! Comments will be accepted through May 16th, 2013. by Jason Foscolo, Esq Recent regulations from the Food and…
Photo by Shona B. Ort One of the first vegetables to arrive, nothing says spring like the crisp, fresh taste of peas. Our photo feature this issue comes to us…
An earlier version of this article was written in October 2011 for our farm blog. October 2012 marked our second year of life at Rod and Staff Farm. As I…
I spent most of 2011 working and living in Brooklyn, NY with my boyfriend. I manned phones and servers in the semi-glamorous world of mail-order meat, while he managed…
Though the internet has the potential to help grow a business, many farmers have trouble finding the most effective ways to utilize their time and energy online in order to…
by Kim Mills, Sue Rau, Jason Evans, and Jim Ochterski In this article, we draw on our experiences with two local food markets operating with Local Food Market Software to…
