Workplace CSA’s – Get Your Veggies While You Work
Pilot Program Increases Farmer’s Business and Employee Wellness. Despite an abundance of farmers’ markets and farm stands, consumers still purchase produce at grocery stores. Let’s face it – people go…
Read MoreThe Disappearing Hay
One year about 1944 or ‘45 it was time to cut the second cutting of hay, more commonly called rowen back then. The farmer who lived across the road…
Read MoreThe Case for Regional Seed
There is so much in a seed. Each seed tells the story of its entire life history, millions of years in the making. A few seeds, in a single generation,…
Read MoreHorse Power
Photo by Chandler Briggs Our summer photo feature comes to us all the way from Welcome Table Farm in Walla Walla, Washington. Welcome Table Farm offers a full diet of foods…
Read MoreWhere the Buffalo Roam
Our little family farm is tucked away in a remote corner of Tug Hill in the Adirondack region of upstate NY. As a child I lived on a small family…
Read MoreThe Calves Come Home
How to calm down, observe nature, and supercharge your results! When I started grazing cattle nine years ago I had no clue about what I was doing, how things would…
Read MoreLocally Grown Beans in the College Cafeteria
Vermont’s Farm to Plate Network offers farmer and producer examples of navigating the regional supply food chain to serve ‘local’ at institutions. School, hospitals, colleges, government agencies, and corporations…
Read MorePassing on the Farm
Loyalty to the land is deeply entrenched in the souls of most farm families. To keep keep the farm operating, there is no better time than now to talk about…
Read MoreCounting Our Blessings
Lessons Learned from Raising Heritage Lincoln Longwool Sheep. By Emmaline Long and David Popielinski If you ask which life experiences have had the most profound impact on us, our answer may…
Read MoreMaking it Work: Couple Transforms Fallow Plot into Viable Farm
In 1979, Deb and Tom Decker bought a small plot of land that was stripped of its topsoil when the Taconic Parkway was built. The land might not have been…
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