April 1, 2023

Learning to farm vegetables for market requires balancing: you want to follow successful models and stick to a plan, but also be flexible as you respond to your unique conditions. There are wonderful books that share specific, well-defined systems of machinery, spacings, crops and their sequences, soil management, and marketing. Clear models from experienced farmers […]

We are probably the least qualified growers to discuss financial metrics. Over our 40-year career we have always been more interested in farming as a way of life than a business. Our financial goals for the farm have been very modest, earning just enough to cover our minimalist lifestyle and farm improvements.  Other than the

Last summer I joined four other farms in Oregon’s high desert to do field research on irrigation management in no/low-till vegetable production. The project lead, Katie Swanson of Sweet Union Farm in Klamath Falls, Oregon, invited farms to measure plant-available water differences over one growing season between beds with no- or low-till preparation and beds

Growing cut flowers in central New Jersey, we have a great climate, an excellent customer base, and fierce competition. New Jersey is second in cut flower farm sales after California. Not only are there dozens of farms nearby our Moonshot Farm in East Windsor focusing on cut flowers, but nearly every vegetable farm and farm

Paths have always been a conundrum for me as a vegetable grower. They make up almost one of our three cultivated veggie acres, and we’ve spent hundreds of hours over the years scraping them of weeds. Yet, they produce nothing. For most of my 12 years at Adamah, an educational and organic production farm in