Grubby Hands on Your Lettuce? Efficient and Safe Food Handling for Small-Scale Vegetable Producers
Welcome to the Northeast SARE Spotlight! SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) offers grants to farmers, educators, universities and communities that are working to make agriculture more sustainable – economically,…
Read MoreDorper Sheep: Truths and Myths
After being in the business of raising wool sheep of various kinds for two decades, I decided in 2005 to start with hair sheep. It was a fairly bold move…
Read MoreCropsey Community Farm
For the small farmer, one of the most basic tenets of our mission – to grow food for ourselves and our community – is becoming increasingly difficult due to one…
Read MoreCornell Small Farms Update- Winter 2011
Message from the Managing Editor Happy New Year! As I sit in my toasty office organizing content for this first issue of 2011, snow is softly falling outside the window. …
Read MoreBrussels Sprouts: the Tasty, Tiny Morsels on the Stalk
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon Ingredients: 1/2 lb. Prosciutto or bacon, diced 1 Tablespoon olive oil 1 Tablespoon butter 1clove garlic, minced 1 small onion, minced ½ cup of Balsamic vinegar…
Read MoreMy Life on the Farm
By Nathan DuMond, The Kids & Kritters 4-H club My name is Nathan DuMond. I am eleven years old and I live on a farm named “Golden Gait Farm” in Masonville,…
Read MoreThe Solstice
The following excerpt, “The Solstice,” December 15, 1990 is the third of a series of essays written by Bill Duesing from the book Living on the Earth. Eclectic Essays for…
Read MoreYour first line of defense for greenhouse pest control? Keep it clean
Much of using greenhouse sanitation for managing disease, insect and weed pests is common sense. Finding a way to fit it into your production system is sometimes the hard part…
Read MoreWhat to Do With the Family Farm
What happens to the family farm when it’s time to retire or to pass it on? The answers are as varied as the farmers who’ve made the transition. Nancy Slye’s…
Read MoreUrban Farmer Backlash: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Recently, urban agriculture seems to have achieved a milestone– being lampooned. The blog Daily Candy featured “DIY Halloween Costumes” in which suggestion No. 4 was “Urban Farmer,” recommending a three…
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