Just before you picked up this issue of Growing for Market, you likely were at your desk or computer planning out the growing season: What you will plant and where, and what supplies you’ll need to prepare for the growing season. Maybe you just charged a bunch of purchases to your credit card or scheduled […]
Cash flow budgeting for farmers Read More »
#toolsforgrowingformarket Scrolling back through all of the photos tagged #toolsforgrowingformarket on Instagram I found a post of some long gauntlet gloves hanging in a packing shed that was posted by Kat Johnson when she was manager of @fieldsedgefarm back in 2020 (I also wrote up Kat’s pocket magnet knife holder in this column a
Getting a handle on glove selections for winter work Read More »
Lessons from our year of botrytis Last year on our farm, Moonshot Farm in East Windsor, New Jersey, we experienced a devastating year for a relatively common cut flower disease, botrytis (aka gray mold). The disease first appeared on ranunculus and freesia in our winter greenhouses, and later a different strain took hold of
Managing gray mold in cut flowers Read More »
Exploring our love/hate relationship with caterpillar tunnels It’s January 2022. We’ve just returned from our annual winter vacation. No one has set foot on Ferme des Quatre-Temps farm for three consecutive weeks. The first thing we see when we arrive at the site is the row of ten caterpillar tunnels. I’m expecting to see
Crops, advantages and timing for caterpillar tunnels vs greenhouses Read More »
We go deep on greenhouse control and automation in this second conversation with Guillaume Lambert. The first time we talked it took us a whole episode to cover the basics, but season extension is so important to market farmers, we decided to have him back to make sure and get to advanced greenhouse
Advanced greenhouse control and automation with Guillaume Lambert of Orisha Read More »
