Nearly two decades of cooperative farming lessons “Oh, I remember when I was young and I wanted to start a farm co-op with my friends, too!” This was the common refrain my friends and I heard back in 2004 when we’d tell established farmers about the farm co-op we were starting. Our group met studying agriculture […]
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#ToolsForGrowingForMarket To hoop or not to hoop? This is a question I’ve gone back and forth on with floating row cover and insect netting for decades now. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages both ways and as with most things in farming over time I’ve come to believe there’s not one right answer in all
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Working toward measurements of ecological health Many of our readers already support and encourage biodiversity on their farms. They notice insects and other wildlife as they move around tackling farm work. Many already have adopted biodiversity enhancing practices that we’ve written about in GFM: no (or reduced) tillage, hedgerows, alley cropping, cover crops, along with
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Crops and timing to hit the biggest sales days of the year Timing cut flowers to hit major holidays has been a huge boost to our bottom line here on our flower farm, Moonshot Farm, in New Jersey. On floral holidays, we often sell three to four times more in a single day than we
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