Sometimes it feels like my flower farm, Moonshot Farm in East Windsor, New Jersey, is an entomologist’s dream and a farmer’s nightmare. Surrounded on all sides by conventionally sprayed farms, our property is an oasis for all kinds of cut flower pests. We grow the majority of our highest value stems under cover — both […]
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Tips for getting it right from the start Does it make any sense for a market vegetable or flower grower to plant an apple orchard? It’s a question I’ve asked myself a fair bit over the last eight years of both growing for a 100-plus member CSA and managing a small, 500-tree certified organic orchard.
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I met Yoko Takemura in the fall of 2019 when I was no-till curious and searching for successful models. For several years, I had been experimenting with no-till methods here and there on our three acres of organic vegetables in northwest Connecticut. I had done some tarping between successions where it was convenient and hand
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#toolsforgrowingformarket The farm I apprenticed on in the 1990’s had two electric utility carts. They were two of the every-day drivers and material movers around the ranch. These were what most people would recognize as a golf cart, but with a small dump truck bed instead of holders for golf clubs. Carts like these versatile
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Tips and techniques for working with the next generation Youth team members aged 12-17 are a valuable and ready supply of labor on our farm. We developed this labor model over the course of eight years as we went from part-time to full-time farmers in 2019. We have fun working together and doing tasks
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