How to time plantings for regular harvests through the season The following is an excerpt from the new second edition of Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres (New Society Publishers April 2025) and is printed with permission from the publisher. Many vegetable crops can be planted several times during the […]
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Office work is critical but rarely a priority For the first few years at Moonshot Farm in East Windsor, New Jersey, our hiring efforts were focused on physical labor, which translated to more revenue. Tasks like planting and harvesting were a priority for our growing team as they meant more flowers to sell. Administrative tasks
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Two sometimes misunderstood farm essentials There are few farm tools as iconic as the pitchfork and yet when most people come to my farm they don’t actually know how to use one, or even that there is a difference between a pitchfork and a digging fork. It’s small wonder as even just doing a quick
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Over the past couple of decades, winter-grown greens have increased dramatically in popularity, and subsequently in ubiquity. We are miles beyond the era of my grandmother’s northern Vermont childhood, where the hungry period set in during the end of winter and the beginning of spring, as the supply of stored food in the root cellar
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