Posts by Tara Hammonds
by Sarah Nechamen East New York is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York that is home to 180,000 people yet for many years only four or five grocery stores. Many…
Read Moreby Petra Page-Mann We are surrounded by brilliant innovations, some old and some new. Electricity, weaving, combustion, language: each one began as an unthinkable notion. Each had passionate people who…
Read MoreBy Devon Kenny Five Roses Farm is not your average farming operation. Leading the charge on this charming homestead are five girls who give everything they have, and a little…
Read Moreby Miriah Reynolds Often it’s the label that sells a product the first time; it’s the product that sells it the second. Font, color, and specific words might be enough…
Read Moreby Rich B. Taber This is the third installment in a series on locating, selecting, and maintaining used tractors for the small farm. In the first installment (Fall 2014), we…
Read MoreA new book offers perspective of mushrooms as food, medicine, and healers of toxic landscapes. Meeting Tradd at a workshop or conference makes one thing clear; he is completely obsessed with…
Read Moreby John M. Thurgood Imagine a world with healthy and abundant food, thriving farmers, and clean lakes and streams. Is this an unrealistic vision? It seems with our abundant resources…
Read Moreby Sam Anderson If you have raised sheep or goats on pasture for at least a couple of years, or have been to a few sheep or goat workshops, or…
Read Moreby Elizabeth Burrichter One of the most common questions I have been asked at market: “Is this organic?” I wonder what customers are really getting at with this question. Are…
Read Moreby Ken Mudge Forest cultivation of shiitake mushrooms has become one of the most important non- timber forest crops in the Northeast. Well-established methods of cultivation, along with strong market…
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