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People vary greatly with regards to their preferences for “wildlife”, usually based on their personal experience and interests. For some people, white-tailed deer personify their interest in wildlife. For others,…
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Seven years ago, Sara and Raymond Luhrman began farming on rented land, serving ten members in a Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA). Two years later, they were up to forty…
Read MoreFrench writer, Antoine Rivarol said, “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” I have seen plenty of this human…
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I recently completed a comparison of raising pregnant dairy replacement heifers in Confinement vs. Management Intensive Grazing (MIG). This study showed the animals raised in MIG had far fewer…
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Last summer’s tomato late blight epidemic may have been the first time many people heard about using resistant varieties to control disease. But what is disease resistance and how can…
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Ed Harwood is willing to concede that many folks think of urban farming as raised beds on vacant lots. But he also thinks there’s another way to grow vegetables in…
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As we at the Cornell Small Farms Program look back upon 2010, we are proud of how many new Small Farm resources we published this year. In case you missed…
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For a sustainable grazing system, one should have legumes in the pasture. Legumes have the capability of fixating nitrogen from the air and thus reduce or even eliminate the…
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The following excerpt, “Harvest, October 9 & 10, 1992,” is the second of a series of essays written by Bill Duesing from the book Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays…
Read MoreLessons from a “Reading the Farm” Workshop in Chambersburg, PA In mid-August I had the opportunity to attend a two-day workshop in Chambersburg, PA on reading the farm, hosted by…
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