Greenhorns: A Growing Network
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…
Read MoreGhana: Putting A Face On 7 Billion People
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…
Read MoreFarmstock: For Farmers, By Farmers!
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…
Read MoreFarm Ponds: Strategies for Multiple Functions
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…
Read MoreFarm Profit: Making a Life and a Living from Your Farm
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…
Read MoreFamily Dairy Ventures Back into Cheese
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…
Read MoreFabrics of Our Livelihoods
When the United States’ agrarian-based economy evolved into an urban-industrial one in the mid-19th century, the new economic structures greatly altered the way work was managed and performed. Most…
Read MoreChanging the Face of Agricultural Landscape: One Gas Well at a Time
You don’t need to lease your land to feel the impacts of industrialized gas drilling, which is now happening over much of New York and Pennsylvania. Just ask John…
Read MoreAll Dressed Up and No Place to Snow: Filling Soil Health Prescriptions with Targeted Cover Crops
Can you name fifteen uses for cover crops? Thomas Bjorkman, an associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University, can. And he’s using this list of “management goals”—including weed reduction, erosion…
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