Cover Story: Scaling Back - For Me, the Family and the Beets
By Ryan Demarest Since the beginning of my farming career in 2014, I have always sought to scale up. I began on a small half-acre of...
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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Jan 59 min read
Farmer Profile: Fitting the Farm to the Farmer, and Interview with Richard Robinson, Hopestill Farm, MA
By Elizabeth Henderson TNF NOFA FARMER PROFILE: Richard Robinson, Hopestill Farm, Massachusetts, March 2, 2023. People feel connected to...
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Richard Robinson
Jan 56 min read
Scaling Up at Upswing Farm
By Richard Robinson Brittany and Kevin Overshiner run Upswing Farm, a certified organic produce farm in Pepperell, Massachusetts. They...
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Ed Geis
Jan 58 min read
Growing Organic Hemp in New England
By Ed Geis The morning sun peeks over the hills above the bay; soft shafts of golden light filter through the woods that extend back from...
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Bobcat Bonagura
Jan 56 min read
Farmer Profile: Interview with Conner Pangia, Happy Now Farm, Brentwood, NY
Interview by Bobcat Bonagura TNF: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your farm. Conner: I’m Conner Pangia, I’m 28 years old. I run...
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Bill Taylor
Jan 54 min read
Scaling Back can be Scaling Up!
By Bill Taylor When my wife Jaye Alison Moscariello and I moved from California, we left a large property where even the 2 acres we grew...
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Ann Adams
Jan 59 min read
Lynbreck Croft, Regenerative Wilder Farming
By Ann Adams Visit TNF’s website to read the book review of Our Wild Farming Life by Lynbreck Croft in the Winter 2022 issue. Lynn...
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Emily Levenson
Jan 55 min read
Digging Potatoes
By Emily Levenson “Hi, are you Dave?” I asked the only man in the airport waiting area when the plane was unboarded in Watertown. He gave...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Jan 57 min read
Grower Profile: Scaling Sideways -Interview with Carly Dougherty from Food and Ferments, Cortland, NY
By Elizabeth Gabriel Dave and Carly Dougherty, the husband and wife team behind Food and Ferments, fell in love with fermentation soon...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Jan 59 min read
Doing Better by Doing Less & Doing Different
By Elizabeth Gabriel March 16th, 2020, was the first day of New York State’s shutdown because of the Covid pandemic. Also, on this day,...
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Katie Olthoff
Jan 55 min read
Scaling Up through E-commerce
By Katie Olthoff The year 2020 witnessed a boom in local meat sales, and since that time, state and federal government funding has...
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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Jan 55 min read
Farmer Profile: Large-scale Organic - An Interview with Tom Jeffres
By Elizabeth Henderson The NY Agricultural Society chose R.L. Jeffres and Sons, Inc. in Wyoming, NY as Business of the Year for 2022....
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PETRA PAGE-MANN
Jan 511 min read
Cover Section A: Cultivating Curiosity & Cultures of Care: Breeding Turnips Beyond Eugenics
By Petra Page-Mann (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert & Matthew Goldfarb, among many other curious humxns*) When...
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Al Johnson
Jan 52 min read
NOFA’s Person of the Year - 2023 - Stephanie Harris
By Al Johnson The dictionary defines a “stalwart” as “A morally strong and active supporter of an organization or cause.” NOFA-New...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Jan 57 min read
Farmer Profiles: Jack and Julie from Many Hands Organic Farm, Barre, MA
Interviewed by Elizabeth Gabriel TNF: People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and farming and because we’ve...
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Grace Oedel
Jan 54 min read
Support Farmers Now for a Climate-Resilient Future
By Grace Oedel Despite Vermont’s reputation as a climate haven, the climate crisis is here. Increasingly erratic and extreme weather,...
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Kate Bobrowski, et al
Jan 55 min read
The True Cost of Goods - How Much Does Your Food Really Cost?
By Kate Dobrowski, Edith Pucci Couchman Bill Wardwell & NOFA-NH’s Education Committee Members Eten, hrana, 餐饮, מזון, kos, mea ʻai,...
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Molly Anderson
Jan 56 min read
Corporate Control of Food System Governance
By Molly Anderson Troubling developments at the global scale are unfolding, likely affecting us locally sooner or later. Several problems...
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Bec Sloan
Jan 34 min read
Stirrings in the Marketplace
By Bec Sloane Farmers markets are changing the way we scale up. They cast a brighter light on our local producers in communities...
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Noah Wurtz
Jan 35 min read
How the Maya Community is Redefining Farming in Nebraska
By Noah Wurtz In 2019, a bomb cyclone tore across Nebraska, submerging the state under the worst flood it had seen in 50 years. “All of...
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