This excerpt from the new book, The Winter Market Gardener, is reproduced with permission of New Society Publishers. All subscribers can get 20% off The Winter Market Gardener and all the books sold at growingformarket.com/. While the cold is certainly one factor limiting winter growing, it is not the only one nor is it the […]
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No one has the same farm as you. This article is an overview of our annual planning process. It will help you create a customized Field Manual to consult when anything is unclear during the hot days of a busy season. Planning is circular, just like farming itself. For new farmers this can be daunting,
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Diverse materials, color contrast, the simple and sublime Time spent arranging dried flower bouquets can be enjoyable and rewarding as you create with materials you labored all season to produce. Or it can be like pulling teeth. If you simply don’t like arranging flowers, yes, you should adjust your business model. But if you are
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Jenny Jack Farm is located in the small community of Pine Mountain, Georgia. The day I visited, Chris Jackson met me in the driveway of their home across a quiet road from their farm. He invited me in and offered me a drink, but I declined, too excited to see their place and the work
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Entries accepted until November 15! Farmers are great innovators and for a lot of us the challenge of finding or creating better tools and methods is part of the fun of farming. It’s probably obvious to anyone who has been reading my articles and books that I’m someone who both loves the tinkering, seeing what
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Opportunities, lessons, and challenges Last month we shared our formal Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Farmer Grant results around late season brassica disease management. Even after spending months gearing up for our project, we still found challenges to the reality of implementing scientifically sound field trials on a working farm during a pandemic, runaway
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