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Grubby Hands on Your Lettuce? Efficient and Safe Food Handling for Small-Scale Vegetable Producers
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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, […]
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Cornell Small Farms Update- Winter 2011
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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. […]
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Brussels Sprouts: the Tasty, Tiny Morsels on the Stalk
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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 […]
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My Life on the Farm
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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, […]
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Your first line of defense for greenhouse pest control? Keep it clean
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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 […]
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Traveling Biodiesel Processor Boosts Self-Sufficiency of Organic Valley Farms
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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 […]
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Traditional Chinese Medicine in North America: Opportunities for Small Farms?
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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 […]
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Top Ten iPhone Applications for Small Farmers
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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 […]
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Tips for Marketing Local Meat
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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 […]
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The Tale of the Taste the Region Gift Box
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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 […]
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