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, environmentally, and socially. Learn about whether a SARE grant would be a good fit for you. Since the bout of food safety scandals over the…
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 at the time since it meant giving up on the customers who bought breeding stock from me, and since I also didn’t know how well…
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 simple issue, the acquiring and maintaining of land. As property taxes have increased, shipping costs and gas have increased and unfortunately income derived from growing…
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. We have some new and exciting columns to introduce that will appear regularly throughout 2011. The first, ‘Technology on the Farm”, will focus on the…
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 2 cups of chicken stock 1 ½ lbs. Brussels Sprouts Salt and pepper to taste Instructions: Fry bacon (or Prosciutto) in a large deep…
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, New York. I really enjoy horses. I stay very busy on the farm as we are currently raising nine horses, 2 of which I own.…
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 a Sustainable and Joyful Future. During these short days of winter, enjoy the rays of sun beaming into the south windows of your home, fix…
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 – making it such a part of how you grow plants that you don’t even have to think about it. As Dr. P. Allen Hammer…
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 creativity and entrepreneurial spirit enabled her to keep her Broadway, Virginia, farm, Tralfamadore Farms, until it passes to her son. The farm is home to…
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 ingredient recipe: “1. Same [outfit] as Paul Bunyan but replace the ax with a shovel; 2. Carry a tote bag filled with fresh veggies. and…
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