Every year I trial a half-dozen or more new kinds of flowers and I have to say that most aren’t great hits. But every year there is at least one plant that gives me a thrill, a new discovery in the never-ending quest to grow the beautiful and unusual for my cut flower business. One […]
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Birds can become a serious problem on vegetable and fruit farms, plucking corn seedlings from the soil and feeding on ripening fruit. Because of the steep financial losses caused by their feeding, farmers have employed a wide range of tactics to repel and frighten birds. They range from low-tech strings to expensive booming cannons and
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A CSA farmer in New York has started an alternative certification program for growers who don’t want to be certified under the new USDA National Organic Program. Ron Khosla of Huguenot Street Farm in New Paltz, NY, has created Certified Naturally Grown, a certification program loosely based on organic crop production standards. Certified Naturally Grown
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When customers flock to markets in search of sweet corn, they want it to be of the highest quality – sweet, fresh and worm-free. Yet in ecological or organic production of sweet corm, achieving worm-free corn is one of the most difficult challenges. Three major caterpillar pests – corn earworm, European corn borer, and fall
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