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No-Till Organic Relay Cropping in Kentucky
Ryan Maher
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Salamander Springs Farm uses powerful cover crop sequences to produce crops, forage and seed. Susana Lein is ahead of the curve. She has put together so many practices at Salamander Springs Farm near Berea, Kentucky that we can only scratch the surface in this article. Permaculture principles are at work in all aspects of the…
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Efficient Use of Cover Crops at the Food Farm
Tara Hammonds
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by Brian Caldwell and Ryan Maher Janaki Fisher-Merritt grew up on a pioneering organic vegetable farm. Janaki’s parents, John and Jane Fisher-Merritt, started The Food Farm in northern Minnesota in 1975. They moved to their current location in 1988, became certified organic in 1990, and started the first CSA in the Duluth area in 1994. …
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Small Scale No-Till Vegetables at Seeds of Solidarity Farm
Claire Cekander
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by Brian Caldwell and Ryan Maher Mulches and tarps combine to build active soils and suppress weeds. In 1996, Ricky Baruc and Deb Habib moved to 30 acres of forested land in Orange, MA. Roughly 5 acres of woods over uneven, rocky soil were logged and cleared in preparation for a house, farm and teaching center. …
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A Vegetable Farm Covered in Green
Claire Cekander
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by Brian Caldwell Blue Heron Farm uses grass strips and cover crops to improve soils, increase productivity The arrangement of vegetable fields into a bed layout with permanent growing areas and separate wheeltracks (alleys) has several advantages. In contrast to systems in which beds are re-formed every year, compaction from tractor tires is confined to…
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Creating a Permanent Bed System for Diversified, Organic Vegetables
Tara Hammonds
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by Brian Caldwell and Ryan Maher Laughing Stock Farm designs farm and equipment to improve soil drainage, reduce labor. Lisa and Ralph Turner started growing vegetables for sale in 1997 near Freeport, Maine on 1/5 acre. The farm is now up to 15 certified organic acres. They have summer and winter CSAs and deliver to…
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No Till, Permanent Beds for Organic Vegetables
Tara Hammonds
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by Brian Caldwell & Ryan Maher Four Winds Farm mulches with compost to suppress weeds and improve their soil. Jay and Polly Armour bought a rundown farm in 1988, with the idea of growing organic vegetables for sale. Their first production garden was an old horse paddock, which had been trodden down for many years. …
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Reducing Tillage at Goranson Farm
Ryan Maher
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by Brian Caldwell & Ryan Maher Case study of a farm reducing tillage to improve soils. Rob Johanson and Jan Goranson had a good-sized tractor, a 100” rototiller and a potato farm with 35 acres of sandy soil in coastal Maine. It was the mid 1980’s and they had just purchased the farm from Jan’s mother. …
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A Memoir: The Milk Must Get Through
Ron MacLean
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One morning when I was about 9 years old, I woke to a snowstorm that crept in during the night. When that happened, in the Central New York winter months, during the late 1940’s, the first thing families did was to turn the radio on to hear if school was cancelled. Yes, this day…
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