Youth Pages
This Spring, we are featuring youth stories from 4-H Camp. Summer camps for 4H members exist all across New York. If you are outside New York, contact your state 4H office…
Read MoreUsing Goats for Vegetation Management in the Northeast
The climate of the Northeast is favorable for growing lush vegetation, but sometimes too many of the wrong plants grow in the wrong place. Ignoring the situation will often lead…
Read MoreThe Youth Farmstand: Seeding Success for Youth, Farmers & Communities
Since 2003, the Seeds to Success program has been training New Jersey youth in new job skills, bringing business to farmers, and increasing community access to healthy food. In 2003,…
Read MoreThe Tale of the Tunis – Sheep Once Rare Now in Demand
It is difficult to be objective when you’re in love. And I confess to have fallen in love with the Tunis sheep breed nearly twenty-five years ago. A time when…
Read MoreSummer Vacations to the Farm
During the late 1940’s and early 1950’s my family, like many others, spent vacation time visiting relatives in the summer. The nation had just endured a war and money was…
Read MoreSteps to a Solidarity Economy: Farmer-Farmer and Farmer-Consumer Cooperatives in Community Supported Agriculture
While a few energetic and competent farmers manage to run CSAs by themselves or with only their families and employees, they are missing the opportunities for broader participation and support…
Read MoreThe Reasons to Garden
The following excerpt, “The Reasons to Garden,” is the fourth of a series of essays written by Bill Duesing from the book Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays for a…
Read MorePricing Your Farm Products Honestly
If you are calculating your farm product prices based on what others are charging, you are making assumptions that your farm probably can’t afford. We know it can be tough…
Read MorePeople, Not Tractors: Agricultural Volunteerism Around the Globe
When you’ve got an unconventional idea about farming, rural people (born and raised) are guaranteed to put it through the wringer. These are the shrewdest judges you’ll ever meet, so…
Read MoreLivestock Guardian Dogs
It occurred on a spring morning in the mid 90s in New Jersey. I had lambing season. I drove out to my flock to the pasture I rented from the…
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