ZEA2™: Changing the Way We Grow Food
I’m an architect working with a team of scientists and engineers to develop a type of Controlled Environment Agriculture that we are calling ZEA2™. The name might look like an…
Read MoreRaised Bed Gardening… With a Little Help from my Friends
By Megan Rosko, Age 18, Outsiders 4-H Club I have been completing garden projects for about ten years and will be taking my gardening skills to a higher level this…
Read MoreBrothers Have Fun Raising Rabbits
By Brandon Knoll, Age 14, and Blaine Knoll, Age 12, Country Bunch 4-H Club We are brothers and we raise, breed, and show rabbits in 4-H and ARBA (American Rabbit…
Read MoreWhat 4-H Means To Me
By Jenna Brokaw, Age 16, Loon Lake Raiders 4-H Club I grew up on a small horse and dog farm in Steuben County named Hazel View Farm. My grandparents own…
Read MoreWhy Consider Off-Farm Dairy Processing?
The purpose of this article is to help dairies that are interested in having their milk processed into salable dairy products. Off-farm processing will alleviate the considerable time, effort, and…
Read MoreThe Wonder of Life
This will be the fifth and last in a series of essays penned by Bill Duesing and edited by Suzanne Duesing from the book Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays…
Read MoreStarting a Farm Incubator
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…
Read MoreLate Blight of Tomato and Potato in 2011: Watch for It and Participate in the New National Reporting System
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…
Read MoreIn Defense of Specialization
The case has often been made that a diverse farm is less vulnerable if the market for one product, say pork, collapses. The other products produced on the farm will…
Read MoreHeritage Breeds: Ort’s Barnyard Menagerie
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…
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