…xamples that help illuminate and what associated “ah-ha” moments have you had? The Union of Concerned Scientists infographic provides a fun visual of agro-ecological farming to help stimulate clarity on healthy farming to focus concerns and interests vis-à-vis practices….
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Struggle, Forgiveness, Hope…Your Help!
December 11, 2013 – 4:11 pm
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Kickstarting Compost
September 20, 2012 – 7:47 am
…ed in sustainability in the food system, clean air and water, sequestering carbon, making our communities more resilient, and enabling our foods to be as nutritious and even medicinal as they can be, to view this informative video and participate in this Kickstarter campaign. Help build better compost, more compost, lots of compost! Help kickstart the healthy chickens and gardens of future years… It all starts with compost… Or does it all end with…
Clean Food
December 6, 2017 – 8:32 pm
…The Dirty Way to a Clean Planet. Quoting Dr. Rattan Lal, it read “Putting carbon back in the soil is not only mitigating climate change, but also improving human health, productivity, food security, nutrition, water quality, air quality — everything.” In addition to catching up with regenerative farming friends, we were thrilled to attend sessions by heroes like Elaine Ingham (the soil food web is her gift to science) and many others as well as n…
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Apprenticeships & Seasonal Work Available
July 16, 2012 – 9:31 am
…nd responsibilities do you seek? What are your small business development, farming, gardening, and/or tourism goals? How does this fit with your other life aspirations? Tell us about your wiring. Share vignettes on conditions when you perform at your best, what are your best times of day and types of work? Which typically recharges you more flying solo with tasks or working with others? How much physical and mental challenge you seek? Do you tend…
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Techqua Ikachi: Blending with the Land and Celebrating Life
June 12, 2013 – 8:35 am
…ving at times like pogo sticks. Papa once told me: “They shouldn’t call it farming, they should call it weeding.” Farmers may be maligned for stubborn contrariness, but they can always be counted on for keeping it short, blunt and to the point. A weed is technically any plant (even a volunteer tomato plant growing up in the hoop house where one of last year’s cherry tomatoes happened to fall) growing anywhere the farmer doesn’t want it to grow. In…
Warming Up and Sharing Warmth
December 18, 2013 – 8:21 pm
…ed lettuce and farmers alike, and perhaps drove the goats to drink! Though farming in the winter cold is not for the faint of heart, the farm is a great place to be when it’s cold outside. Salsa, omelets and frittatas, hot and hearty stew or roasted anything can always be just around the corner to chase away the chill. It’s a great time to take home a roasting chicken or a large cut of meat and some roots for the slow cooker or woodstove or grab s…
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What Matters to You?
February 19, 2014 – 1:13 pm
…rs. We hope you will tell us more about what matters to you about food and farming… And if you have a few minutes, enjoy watching Organic Matters More stimulating short food and farming films will be shown the next few months on PBS. The California based team behind the rich web and film based “Lexicon ofSustainability” project was also at the conference. So much is packed into their short videos. This few minute film sorting out the…
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A=RKLSCP and Other Farm Products
March 5, 2014 – 2:55 pm
…up and go time and we had better be ready. One of the biggest things about farming that most people don’t see is how much careful planning and calculation goes into a season. People see weeding and harvesting and processing but they don’t see our crop plan excel sheet with its 65 columns per planting and its small army of pivot tables. Farming is a game of inches and that means there isn’t much room for error. The difference between success and fa…
Uncle!
March 25, 2015 – 9:54 pm
…ermont’s water quality but proposed new fees and increased restrictions on farming practices truly threaten many of the already precarious small farms. Our hearts break for the stress that past and present small farmers face, due to substantial subsidies for industrial scale agriculture and their habitual outsourcing of environmental and social costs. None-the-less, we believe there should be no exemptions for individuals or land use types when it…
Farmstand Opens May 31st!
May 25, 2023 – 1:36 pm
…g from all the local farms, helping each get through this latest hurdle of farming in an era of climate chaos. Consumer choices have an incredible impact on local food and climate resilience. While farms and agroecological farming are only one piece of the climate solution, how farmers farm and how eaters eat matters. So thank you! The Farmstand will re-open for Self-Serve Shopping May 31st! Shop self-serve from the Farmstand Wednesdays, Thursdays…
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