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Farmers Markets compromise almost every Saturday of the year for our family at The Reynolds Barn. Friday night before the market consists of usual milking chores and farm duties, plus goat milk soap and cheese making, and checking off the list for the morning. Once the trucks are loaded and the sun rises Saturday morning,…
Read MoreI guess it was back in ’96, things were going pretty well. I was driving the milk truck and Fred was running the farm. Calves weren’t worth anything though, and Fred asked if he could keep some of the bulls and raise them, as we weren’t having many heifers. About the time he began keeping…
Read MorePilot Program Increases Farmer’s Business and Employee Wellness. Despite an abundance of farmers’ markets and farm stands, consumers still purchase produce at grocery stores. Let’s face it – people go to the grocery store because it’s easy. So how can we make purchasing locally grown produce easier? In early winter of 2012, Cornell Cooperative Extension…
Read MoreOne year about 1944 or ‘45 it was time to cut the second cutting of hay, more commonly called rowen back then. The farmer who lived across the road from where I live now, whose name was Dan, mowed down seven or eight acres of beautiful rowen on a field between where I live…
Read MoreThere is so much in a seed. Each seed tells the story of its entire life history, millions of years in the making. A few seeds, in a single generation, may travel the globe. Most will stay within their watershed and most likely, their microclimate. In this way, seeds become profoundly adapted to place. The…
Read MoreMessage from the Managing Editor Happy Summer! Here on the agriculture quad, students have left for summer internships, faculty and technicians are in the fields doing research, and the campus gardens are the most lively place to be! This Spring we hosted a writing workshop for farmers and agriculture educators called “Telling Better Stories.” Over…
Read MorePhoto by Chandler Briggs Our summer photo feature comes to us all the way from Welcome Table Farm in Walla Walla, Washington. Welcome Table Farm offers a full diet of foods including vegetables, grains, eggs, perennial fruits and nuts, and pasture raised meats and cut flowers. The farmers of Welcome Table Farm strive to make healthy,…
Read MoreOur little family farm is tucked away in a remote corner of Tug Hill in the Adirondack region of upstate NY. As a child I lived on a small family farm, where I learned to have a strong work ethic and an even stronger understanding of our family values. As I grew up, went to…
Read MoreHow to calm down, observe nature, and supercharge your results! When I started grazing cattle nine years ago I had no clue about what I was doing, how things would turn out, and how much nature takes care of things on her own. As the years went by I found that relaxing, observing and letting…
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Vermont’s Farm to Plate Network offers farmer and producer examples of navigating the regional supply food chain to serve ‘local’ at institutions. School, hospitals, colleges, government agencies, and corporations are demanding food grown and produced in New England. Farmers interested in selling to hospitals, schools, and other organizations are following the food supply chain…
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