The Beginning of Things: Acknowledging the Origins of Common Gardening Techniques
By Christa Núñez Ecological Gardening & Knowledge Sharing Have you ever been out working in your fields or kitchen garden and been...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Oct 117 min read
Aquaculture Letter from the Editor
A flamingo in Suffolk County, brown Pelicans in Long Island, lobsters in New England and northern shrimp nearly depleted in the Gulf of...
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Liz Susman Karp
Oct 36 min read
Cover Article: The Black Farmers Growing Rice
By Liz Susman Karp This was originally published at Ambrook Research on March 29, 2024, a publication about modern agriculture",...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Oct 38 min read
Farmer Profile: Sean Barrett, Montauk Seaweed Supply
People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and farming and because we’ve gotten to know each other over the 50...
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Barry Antonio Costa-Pierce
Oct 311 min read
RESTORATIVE AQUACULTURE FOR PEOPLE, PROFIT AND PLANET
By Barry Antonio Costa-Pierce, reprinted with permission Narratives continue to provide the public and decision-makers with a bleak...
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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Oct 34 min read
Farmer Profile: Dock to Dish - Community Supported Fisheries Interview with K.C. Boyle
Interview by Elizabeth Henderson Pushing against the same downward pressures on prices and markets that make economic viability a...
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Ann Molloy
Oct 33 min read
Turning seafood by-products into organic fertilizer for zero waste and healthy soil and crops
By Ann Molloy Neptune's Harvest Fertilizer's parent company, Ocean Crest Seafoods Inc., in Gloucester, MA, inadvertently ended up in the...
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Natalia de Cuba Romero
Oct 38 min read
The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers Are Healing Our Waterways
By Natalia de Cuba Romero , Photos by Lindsay Morris This article appeared in Low Summer 2023: Issue No. 77 of Edible East End and was...
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Other
Oct 14 min read
Indigenous and Customary Aquaculture
It must be noted that integrated aquaculture systems that provide ecological benefits and sustain ecosystem outcomes are not new. On the...
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Allie Push
Oct 12 min read
Fish of Lake Ontario by Allie Push
“Fish of Lake Ontario” is a collage piece that is a reference to the local, natural ecology of Lake Ontario. Each of the fish in the...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Oct 18 min read
TNF NOFA FARMER PROFILES: Lisa Calvo, Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm
By Elizabeth Gabriel People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and farming and because we’ve gotten to know...
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Brittany Peachey
Oct 16 min read
Hudson Valley Fisheries
By Brittany Peachey Imagine you’ve been tasked with developing a fish farm on a distant planet. The conditions outside your biosphere...
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Cynthia Liepmann
Oct 12 min read
Ode to the Garden
When the world wearies and ceases to satisfy there is always the garden. ~author unknown By Cynthia Liepmann You bring me to my...
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Donn Hewes
Oct 16 min read
Draft Animal Power: Building Healthy Soil & Strong Community
By Donn Hewes Draft animal power will be the theme of The Natural Farmer's Spring 2025 issue , and I want to introduce the topic...
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Ed Geis
Oct 17 min read
Hemp and CBD: Finding Your Market
By Ed Geis Most farmers understand you can grow the most beautiful crops in the world, but unless there’s a market for them, profits are...
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Annie Sholar
Oct 15 min read
Farmer Profile: An Interview with Deb Habib, Seeds of Solidarity
By Annie Sholar Note: all photo credits: Seeds of Solidarity/Deb Habib Seeds of Solidarity began over 25 years ago with a mission to...
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Will Brinton
Oct 17 min read
The Dilemma of Organic Growers Selling Their Soil into Carbon Markets.
By Will Brinton Organic farming is grounded in the principle and reality of a vibrant, living earth supporting healthy plant-animal-human...
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Donald Sutherland
Oct 16 min read
Policy: The Child Toxic Pesticide Health Crisis, the EPA, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
By Donald Sutherland One day, at the farmers market in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, a mother of two boys approached my wife at our farm...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Sep 225 min read
Uprooted: Black New York Herbalist Forced to Move After Racial Harassment
Amanda David is an active community member, healer, grower, mother, teacher and a longtime friend of NOFA. She and Mandana Boushee have...
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Scott Chaskey
Aug 2611 min read
The Remembered Earth
By Scott Chaskey This essay has been adapted from Chapter 9 of Soil and Spirit, published by Milkweed Editions in May 2023 and reprinted...
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