By Andrew Mefferd The security of our public spaces has unfortunately been in the news a lot lately. Large public gatherings- including farmers markets- are considered “soft targets.” I got in touch with the Farmers Market Coalition (FMC) to get some ideas for best practices for ensuring public safety at markets. FMC has long worked […]
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By Andrew Mefferd In the first part of this article in the August GFM I shared how we came to plant a quarter acre of hemp this spring after getting a contract with a local processor. They want to make it into salves, tinctures and other products. Since we haven’t grown hemp before, we planted
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Growing and transitioning through nearly 50 years of farming By Ellen Polishuk There are a few market farms in the Washington, D.C., region that have been at it from the beginning—the early 1970’s. I was lucky enough to work on and then get adopted by one of them—Potomac Vegetable Farms (see the article about the
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Here’s a system to track all those details By Doug Trott A year ago, in the August 2018 issue of GFM I wrote about how we decide what to grow in protected culture, with an emphasis on understanding the financial impacts. With this article I’d like to get more into the nuts and bolts of
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