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  • Grubby Hands on Your Lettuce? Efficient and Safe Food Handling for Small-Scale Vegetable Producers

    Annie Bass

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    Welcome to the Northeast SARE Spotlight! SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) offers grants to farmers, educators, universities and communities that are working to make agriculture more sustainable – economically, environmentally, and socially. Learn about whether a SARE grant would be a good fit for you. Since the bout of food safety scandals over the…

  • Cornell Small Farms Update- Winter 2011

    Violet Stone

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    Message from the Managing Editor Happy New Year!  As I sit in my toasty office organizing content for this first issue of 2011, snow is softly falling outside the window.  We have some new and exciting columns to introduce that will appear regularly throughout 2011.  The first, ‘Technology on the Farm”, will focus on the…

  • Brussels Sprouts: the Tasty, Tiny Morsels on the Stalk

    Ron MacLean

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    Brussels Sprouts with Bacon Ingredients: 1/2 lb. Prosciutto or bacon, diced 1 Tablespoon olive oil 1 Tablespoon butter 1clove garlic, minced 1 small onion, minced ½ cup of Balsamic vinegar 2 cups of chicken stock 1 ½ lbs. Brussels Sprouts Salt and pepper to taste   Instructions: Fry bacon (or Prosciutto) in a large deep…

  • My Life on the Farm

    Rachel Whiteheart

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    By Nathan DuMond, The Kids & Kritters 4-H club My name is Nathan DuMond. I am eleven years old and I live on a farm named “Golden Gait Farm” in Masonville, New York. I really enjoy horses. I stay very busy on the farm as we are currently raising nine horses, 2 of which I own.…

  • Your first line of defense for greenhouse pest control? Keep it clean

    Elizabeth Lamb

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    Much of using greenhouse sanitation for managing disease, insect and weed pests is common sense.  Finding a way to fit it into your production system is sometimes the hard part – making it such a part of how you grow plants that you don’t even have to think about it.  As Dr. P. Allen Hammer…

  • Traveling Biodiesel Processor Boosts Self-Sufficiency of Organic Valley Farms

    Jake Wedeberg

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    Organic Valley is committed to utilizing responsible and renewable energy. They have worked within their business to implement solar and wind projects to provide clean energy to their headquarters. But they haven’t stopped at simply replacing electricity with a more responsible source of power; they are also working within the cooperative to further the use…

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine in North America: Opportunities for Small Farms?

    Jean Gibletee

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    Since 1970 when former President Nixon went to China, many Americans have become familiar with acupuncture and Oriental medicine, having either visited a practitioner or knowing someone who has. Especially since 1994, when our small mid-Hudson Valley farm was founded to grow Asian medicinal plants, the word-of-mouth popularity of this modality has increased considerably.  High…

  • Top Ten iPhone Applications for Small Farmers

    Michelle Podolec

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    Welcome to the new ‘Technology on the Farm’ column! We at the Cornell Small Farms Program thought it was about time that we start sharing the latest technology farmers are using, be it newest innovations in farm equipment, record keeping software, or social networking and communication tools such as facebook and twitter. Have your own…

  • Tips for Marketing Local Meat

    Matt LeRoux

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    Local foods are enjoying strong demand, however, until recently the buy local movement has been largely concentrated on fresh seasonal produce. Many livestock farmers are now aware that the “buy local” movement is strong and that there is demand for their products in local markets. However, tapping into those markets may be intimidating to farmers…

  • The Tale of the Taste the Region Gift Box

    Alison Clarke

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    In an effort to help farmers and other small scale processors market their value- added products, “Taste the Regions”, a specialty food gift box was launched in 2009.  In these especially difficult days of financial support for not-for-profit organizations, it was also thought to be a small step towards raising funds for two not-for-profit organizations:…

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