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Seed to Supper Sows Confidence while Addressing Food Insecurity
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A program from Cornell Garden Based Learning, administered through local Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations, Seed to Supper is focused on growing food for home use. Over 2.9 million New Yorkers across the state — a third of whom are children — rely on food assistance programs. Even temporary food insecurity can be discouraging and disempowering for…
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Recommended Reading: Week of August 6
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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…
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SPIN Farming in New England: A New Approach for Market Gardening Operations
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Now, for the first time, the beginning farmer can succeed with a market garden business and achieve business profitability in a reasonable time frame and with minimal investment capital. When most people think of farming they envision vast expanses of land with neat rows of stalks of corn or wheat, as far as the eye…
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Rhubarb or Bust: Farming Notes from Interior Alaska
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A rancher’s hope for more farms and food security in a land of extremes While reading all about Cornell University’s Small Farms Program in the Small Farms Quarterly, I decided that I should make a trip to learn more about the program. So, that’s just what I did. The trip gave me many new ideas,…
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The Reasons to Garden
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The following excerpt, “The Reasons to Garden,” is the fourth of a series of essays written by Bill Duesing from the book Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays for a Sustainable and Joyful Future. As the days get longer and the soil begins to warm — thoughts of spring and the promise of a new…
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