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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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