Posts tagged with: mushroom cultivation

Shiitake Mushroom Cultivation Workshop

By Olivia Young / July 2, 2025

The Cornell Small Farms Program is pleased to invite small-scale farmers, earth tenders and earth workers to a Shiitake mushroom cultivation workshop at Hawk Meadow Farm in Trumansburg, NY.  We…

Blue Oyster Cultivation

By Patricia Brhel / January 14, 2014

Producing mushrooms is not easy, but with the right growing conditions, a harvest can be both profitable and beautiful. Mushroom farming, like any other agricultural enterprise, requires study, experience, controlling…

New Uses for Old Barns: Reframing the Venerable Red Vermont Landmark

By Martha Herbert Izzi / June 27, 2012

Vermont’s red barn, once the hallmark of the small family dairy farm, is now the centerpiece of a changing agricultural landscape. It is being reframed and reformed for new, often…

Save the Unicorns and Farm the Forest

By Bryan Sobel / January 9, 2012

Through forest farming, I can help to save the Unicorns (Aletrisfarinosa) and you can too. Forest farming is the cultivation of high value specialty crops under the forest canopy.  For…