What Makes Vermont’s Award-Winning Cheese Engine Run?
Vermont holds the brass ring as the premier state hosting the most artisan and farmstead cheese makers per capita in the country. Not bad for a little place with…
Read MoreCucurbit Downy Mildew on Cucumber: New Strains, New Varieties
Cucurbit downy mildew (CDM) (Pseudoperonosporacubensis), is a serious disease of cucurbits worldwide that attacks all cultivated cucurbits. Symptoms progress from yellow, angular lesions on the upper leaf surfaces restricted by…
Read MoreChrysanthemum White Rust: Good Management Prevents Major Losses
by Elizabeth Lamb, Margery Daughtrey, Margaret Kelly Chrysanthemum white rust (CWR) is a fungal disease of chrysanthemums caused by Pucciniahoriana that can cause severe damage, including complete crop loss due…
Read MoreCompost Power!
Is it really possible to extract heat from compost to warm your barn, greenhouse or home? A grassroots research network is finding out. Any farmer is well aware that a…
Read MoreVegetable Equipment Considerations for New Farmers
by Sara Runkel and Tianna DuPont Equipment is expensive. But often it can pay for itself quickly if you get the right tool for your farm. We would like to…
Read MoreWater Saving Strategies for Your Farm & Garden
It’s been a long, hot summer. July was the hottest month in over a century, and a lot of farmers, from tiny one acre plots to hundreds-of- acre century farms,…
Read MoreThe Cheney Letters
78 year old Vermont farmer shares memoirs with Lindsay Debach, daughter of a Pennsylvania-based butcher, after reading her Small Farm Quarterly piece “Slaughter Daughter”. Introduction In late February of this…
Read MoreLegal Risks of Direct Marketing Your Product
There has never been a better time for New York farmers to sell their products directly to consumers. The number of farmers markets is growing exponentially, and public interest in…
Read MoreThe Business of Growing Green Ideas
Growing the seeds of good ideas into books is akin to farming in some respects. In publishing, like in farming, there are large multinational, multimillion dollar corporations dominant in the…
Read MoreCornell Small Farms Program Update- Fall 2012
Happy Fall! Is your kitchen getting foggy with steam rising from scalding ripe tomatoes? One of my favorite childhood memories of Fall is spending time in the kitchen with my…
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