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Stronger Together

April 27, 2020 – 12:45 pm

The work of staying healthy in community Food crops get viruses also, as well as bacterial and fungal infections. Often insect pressures on plants piggy back on such stressors, along with nutritional imbalances. Chemical agriculture attempts to cheat these forces with fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Their positive impacts are short lived and myriad negative […]

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Carbon Farming!

February 28, 2019 – 2:46 pm

National CSA Day celebrated last week how important the Community Supported Agriculture model is for many farms, ours included.  Our farmstand and retail shoppers are important. Our committed year-round members are real, live symbiotes! (check out our Free-Choice Farmshares) It turns out the relationships we cultivate within our human farm community mimic the relational magic of our […]

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Clean Food

December 6, 2017 – 8:32 pm

We returned home from the BioNutrient Food Association’s Soil and Nutrition Conference spinning with ideas and very optimistic. As if to egg us on, Laura clicked on a NYT op ed by Jacques Leslie entitled Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Clean Planet. Quoting Dr. Rattan Lal, it read “Putting carbon back in the […]

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Food as Medicine

August 29, 2012 – 10:07 pm

Between mega batches of salsa and pickles and large harvests Lauren and Mari slipped away for a wonderfully geeky workshop. Jack and Anne Lazor have been operating Butterworks Farm, a dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom since 1979, and proudly opened their farm for roughly 250 farmers seeking to learn more about forage crops, nutrient-dense […]

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