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Equipo de Futuro en Ag Concluye Productiva Temporada de Educación para Agricultores
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Read this article in English here. El equipo de Futuro en Ag del Cornell Small Farms Program cerró una temporada intensa y muy productiva. Organizamos cinco días de campo bilingües sobre temas agrícolas, desde el centro de Nueva York hasta Long Island. También ofrecimos una Escuela de Campo mensual para productores en el valle del…
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Futuro en Ag Team Wraps Up Ambitious Season of Farmer Education
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Puede leer este artículo en español aquí. The team led five bilingual Farm Field Days from Central New York to Long Island, hosted a monthly cohort-based Farm Field School in the Hudson Valley, and ran a hybrid course on collaborative agriculture. On a hot August day in the Hudson Valley, farmers and farm employees gathered…
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Agricultural Basic Training for Farmers
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Armed to Farm returns to New York State to again assist veterans explore careers in agriculture. “I’m a veteran, and I want to be a farmer!” This statement comes in emails and voicemails to the Cornell Small Farms Program staff on a frequent basis. In different stages of transition out of military service, each veteran…
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Growing Sweet Potato from Slips
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A trial led by CCE at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub examined the viability of producing sweet potato slips locally from certified rootstocks. This past growing season the Farm Hub hosted a research trial focused on sweet potato slip production. Sweet potato plants are grown using “slips” – or stem cuttings – grown off of…
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African rice farmers test traditions against NY climate
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In 2013, Nfamara Badjie and his wife, Dawn Hoyte, bought a 6-acre farm in Ulster Park, New York, in the Hudson Valley. They soon realized the fields were muddy – almost wetlands – but Badjie didn’t mind. “I said, ‘That’s the one I’m looking for, the wetland is good for the rice,’” Badjie said, flashing an easy smile. “Dawn said, ‘No, you can’t…
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Nuts for Nuts: Seeding a Nut Industry in the Northeast
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In the Spring of 2017, 35 people gathered at Back the Lane Farm in Stephentown, New York, for a workshop with Mark Shepard, author of Restoration Agriculture, to witness the design and implementation of a permaculture inspired chestnut and hazelnut orchard. As the founder of New Forest Farm in Viola, Wisconsin — a commercial scale, perennial agricultural ecosystem that mimics the native…
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