In our four years of growing cut flowers, we have realized that making bouquets is the most profitable and satisfying way for us to market them. Virtually all of our flowers now are made into bouquets and sold at farmers’ market. In order to have an adequate number of flowers to make bouquets all season […]
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By Art Biggert I have been farming using organic methods for 10 years. Compost has always been the right arm of my soil fertility program. Cover cropping is the other arm. I usually add 7 tons of finished compost per acre as either a soil conditioner or as mulch for weed control. These soil fertility
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Jim and Megan Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, grow l6 varieties of organic potatoes, which they sell mail-order for both seed and for tablestock. Many of their varieties are unusual ones, including several heirloom varieties. The Gerritsens have chosen their varieties with care. “We’ve grown over a hundred varieties,” Jim Gerritsen pointed
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