Post your farm-made tool on Instagram or Facebook with #toolsforgrowingformarket. If author Josh Volk picks your tool, you win a $50 tool gift certificate and a Full Access subscription to GFM. Back on January 6, Muddy Fingers Farm posted some photos of their plans for the upcoming season saying, “One of our favorite #ToolsForGrowingForMarket is […]
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How the agricultural guestworker program has worked on our farm. H-2A is a guestworker program of the US government that allows farmers to hire workers from other countries on temporary work permits. This is our fourth year using the program, and I wanted to share our successes with the program in case other farmers would
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Farming is a whole lot more than just growing crops. In fact, I would argue that oftentimes seed to harvest is the easiest part. Washing, storage, transport, and marketing can make or break our growing efforts. A farmer once told me, “The pack shed is the bottleneck of the farm.” After managing pack sheds on
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