March 1, 2011

This article originally appeared in the March 2011 issue of Growing for Market, the magazine for market farmers. Please join us; GFM is available by mail or online. Click here for subscription options. This promises to be the year that tomato grafting reaches the mainstream, with the options for rootstocks increasing and some companies selling […]

Harvest Moon Farm, located in southern Indiana, is a small operation.  34 years ago my husband and I bought 5 acres, half of which are wooded.  When we started farming this acreage 24 years ago, it seemed we had all the land we could desire for future expansion.  By our 10th year of market farming,

Brassicas (cole crops) can be reliable and profitable workhorses for organic growers, providing large harvests over long periods. Broccoli is especially popular. Growers scaling up can do so by introducing different varieties, cutting heads and side shoots, extending the season, or introducing new mini sizes of broccoli by reducing the spacing, as well as the

In 2009, our farmers’ market in Tulsa, Oklahoma, found itself facing an exciting but stressful problem: We had entirely outgrown our market space.  The parking lot where we held our activities was filled to the brim with vendors and customers. We had a new vendor waiting list four pages long and no place to accommodate

There are all kinds of factors when selecting a single piece of equipment for a farm. Equipment has to fit into the larger farm systems, even if it’s helping to modify those systems in some way. There are lots of other factors as well, such as local equipment availability, soil types, and simple personal preferences.