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  • Recommended Reading: Week of August 6

    Welcome to our second installment of Small Farms’ Recommended Reading! Here you’ll find a variety of articles handpicked each week by the Small Farms team. These include resources, educational articles, and tips — all in one location for a quick browse of news in addition to our bimonthly newsletter. This week we’re reading about daylilies…

  • CCE Helps Farmer Veterans Grow Their Dream

    Peter and John Lehning grew up farming as young boys, but it wasn’t until after retiring from the military that they decided to return to their agricultural roots. With guidance from Nancy Glazier, a Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Specialist and member of the NWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Team, the brothers embarked on a…

  • The Art of Silvopasturing: A Regional Conference

    The practice of Silvopasturing is causing quite a buzz these days. It was a fairly new concept to me until a year and a half ago, a concept that brings together forestry management and grazing management into one single system of sustainable woodland grazing. It can diversify income by tapping into products of trees, tree…

  • God Save the Beef: Trials of Sustainable Farming in the UK

    It’s 10am on a Friday morning and I am surrounded by the smell of raw fish, smoked bacon, roasted almonds, fresh-picked tulips, the River Thames and wet pavement. This is the lively feast for the senses that is London’s Borough Market, a popular weekend farmer’s market located in central London. I visited this famed bazaar…

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