Posts tagged with: soil health

From Beekeeping to Business Planning: Register Now for Block Four Courses

By Kacey Deamer / January 16, 2019

Register now to learn about business management, soil health, specialty mushrooms, beekeeping, business plans, high tunnels, and grazing. Courses fill up quickly and registration closes for block four in just…

Handbook Offers How-To and Tools for Reduced Tillage

By Kacey Deamer / October 11, 2018

If you’re interested in improving your farm’s soil health, reduced tillage may be the answer. Reduced tillage practices can minimize soil disturbance by using less intensity, going shallower, and restricting…

Recommended Reading: Week of August 27

By Kelsie Raucher / August 27, 2018

Welcome to our new 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,…

Save the Date for the First New York Soil Health Summit

By Carli Fraccarolli / May 23, 2018

Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Time: TBD Location: Empire State Plaza, Downtown Albany, NY Save the date for the first New York Soil Health Summit. This event, organized by the New York Soil Health project, is for…

Book Review: Mycorrhizal Planet by Michael Phillips

By Tara Hammonds / January 8, 2018

One of the great mysteries of the soil are the mycorrhizal fungi, which live by forming beneficial relationships to plants. “Myco” means mushroom, and “rhizal” root, and these truly unique…

Reducing Tillage at Goranson Farm

By Ryan Maher / October 5, 2015

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…