Let the Cattle do the Work!
I’ve been studying human behavior and personal development for over ten years now. We as humans have the amazing ability to think. No other creature known to man has…
Read MoreFour Reasons to Take a Farm Business Class
As the outdoor growing season winds down, the notices about upcoming classes, courses, workshops and conferences for farmers start filling email inboxes. Sometimes it’s easy to see the value…
Read MoreFarmer-Professor Finds Fulfillment in Grass-fed Sheep
by Tracy Frisch Jennifer Phillips’ love affair with grazing animals, and her subsequent farming career, began when she acquired a few lambs to mow her then two-acre yard. In 2001,…
Read MoreFarm Hack: A Community for Farm Innovation
Started in 2011 by a team of farmers and engineers from the Northeast, Farm Hack is a project of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition in partnership with the Greenhorns.…
Read MoreDoubling Local Food in Vermont
Vermont Farm to Plate (F2P) Network unifies business, government & non-profits to scale up local food production & consumption by 2020 The Vermont Farm to Plate (F2P) Network is relocalizing…
Read MoreDoes Red Clover Cause Infertility in Sheep?
Various legumes and clovers, especially the red clover, are said to cause temporary infertility in female sheep when grazed during breeding season. If grazed for a prolonged period of…
Read MoreCornell Small Farms Program Update
Message from the Managing Editor Happy New Year! I hope many of you are getting some rest and enjoying looking through seed catalogues or planning for new infrastructure. With so…
Read MoreAroostook Hops: SARE Grant Results in Increased Yield
By implementing drip irrigation and mulching, a Maine hops farm significantly improves yields and net revenue. Welcome to the Northeast SARE Spotlight! SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) offers…
Read MoreA Long Row and A Good Day
I met my wife, Kerry, planting garlic. It was an unseasonably warm October day during a crew exchange between the farm I worked for and the farm she worked…
Read MoreA Four Dollar Grazing Chart
My farm teetered between a D1 and D2 (Moderate to severe) on the U. S. drought monitor scale most of last summer which tested my 26 years of grazing…
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