Year: 2013
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.…
Rainy day? Watch Sustainable Farm Energy Webinars Online Anytime! Need a break from Spring planting? If you missed any of the lunchtime webinars in the “New Generation Energy: Sustainable Power…
by Kara Lynn Dunn If you’re thinking about starting a farm enterprise focused on growing berries, Elaine and Karl Guppy will tell you to go to back to school at…
by Nancy Glazier SUNY Cobleskill student Jessica Pfiel wanted to learn about calving on a beef operation, she got that and more on her recent internship. SUNY Cobleskill student Jessica…
by Joan Kark-Wren We left the house early on a beautiful spring morning. Allie, our black lab, excited to be going for a ride, jumped in the car with us.…
By Troy Bishopp I took a journalism training course for farmer writers at Cornell University recently. For me, there is always some mystique about visiting the “Big Red” campus and…
Happening Tuesday April 30, 2013, 3 – 4:30pm in Mann Library, Room 102. A panel presentation and discussion exploring soil as a critical foundation for the health and resilience of people, farms,…
Valerie Walthert is more than a farmer; she’s also a manager, marketer and agrarian advocate. “One of our biggest challenges is educating consumers, so now, more than ever, it’s key…
The Wealth Creation in Rural Communities framework is a place-based systems approach to rural development that aims to restore, create and maintain wealth in low wealth areas by simultaneously improving economic, environmental and…
This article was shared by our small dairy educator Fay Benson…..If local dairy farmers are going to benefit from consumers’ growing love affair with yogurt, something’s got to give. With…
