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Starting a Farm Incubator

By Dave Llewellyn / July 4, 2011

Glynwood is a non-profit organization in New York’s Hudson Valley with a mission to save farming by strengthening farm communities and regional food systems.  A crucial part of this mission is to link beginning farmers with experiences and resources to ensure their success, and to provide those opportunities if they do not exist elsewhere.  Many…

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Neighbors Growing Winter Greens

By Rachel Whiteheart / July 4, 2011

Living in the Hudson Valley provides ample opportunities to “eat local.” On any given summer weekend, a visit to the farmers market can provide the makings for an entire meal or meals: produce, meats, breads, eggs, milk and cream, herbs, baked goods, and sometimes even a bottle of wine and flowers for the table. We…

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Late Blight of Tomato and Potato in 2011: Watch for It and Participate in the New National Reporting System

By Meg McGrath / July 4, 2011

Two unexpected finds of late blight on tomato in greenhouses in the northeast during April plus detections in seed potatoes expose an unfortunate but important fact – everyone growing tomatoes and potatoes in 2011 needs to expect and thus prepare for late blight occurrence in their plants. Preparation is critical since late blight is a…

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Heritage Breeds: Ort’s Barnyard Menagerie

By Lindsay Debach / July 4, 2011

Sheep with four horns, ducks with red fleshy heads, and pigs that look like cows? This isn’t a scene from ‘Through the Looking Glass’, but a description of the barnyard menagerie found on the Ort Family Farm near Bradford, NY, home to multi-species of Heritage livestock and poultry. Roger Ort and his wife Maria, along…

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Greenhorns: A Growing Network

By Severine V T Fleming / July 4, 2011

Young Farmers are everywhere. I’m writing this from the South.  I’m on the road with Greenhorns, a documentary I made about young farmers in America– we are screening it at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Appalachian State University in Boone, NC and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Winston Salem, NC. This is the start…

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Ghana: Putting A Face On 7 Billion People

By Fay Benson / July 4, 2011

How to feed the approaching world population of 7 Billion people has been a compelling question for me as I talk to farmers and educators in my work with Cornell Extension. There are many graphs and tables stating where the population is growing and rate that it is growing. Until recently, I assumed the general…

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Farmstock: For Farmers, By Farmers!

By Sonja Hedlund / July 4, 2011

A group of farmers in Sullivan County take a pro-active approach to rural economic development. In spring of 2009, I was one of five farmers in Sullivan County, NY that came together to create an agri tourism program.  We are in WOODSTOCK country, the site of the famous peace and music festival held in 1969,…

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Farm Ponds: Strategies for Multiple Functions

By Ben Falk / July 4, 2011

Ponds have been a part of the working landscape since agriculture emerged.  Since water is the basis of productive biological systems, retaining and distributing this storehouse of fertility and life within a landscape is key to the success of any operation. The climate, topography, soils, and access to machinery and cheap energy (for now) in…

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Farm Profit: Making a Life and a Living from Your Farm

By Erica Frenay / July 4, 2011

My husband and I started Shelterbelt Farm in Caroline, NY last year, joining the ranks of new farmers across the country capitalizing on direct marketing opportunities and the demand for local food. Like most beginning farmers, I’m coming into a farming career from outside the production agriculture sector. I have been working on food and…

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Family Dairy Ventures Back into Cheese

By Patricia Brhel / July 4, 2011

Members of the Snow family have been farming in the Town of Caroline, New York, since 1816, nearly 200 years. The current generation has returned to cheese making, a value added product, to enhance the options for their milk and increase the farm income. Cal Snow says, “We’ve got some cheese making equipment around here,…

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