Fall 2023: Scaling Up & Back

Cover Story: Scaling Back - For Me, the Family and the Beets

Ryan Demarest

Jan 57 min read

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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Lynbreck Croft, Regenerative Wilder Farming

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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Doing Better by Doing Less & Doing Different

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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Cover Section A: Cultivating Curiosity & Cultures of Care: Breeding Turnips Beyond Eugenics

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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NOFA’s Person of the Year - 2023 - Stephanie Harris

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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Farmer Profiles: Jack and Julie from Many Hands Organic Farm, Barre, MA

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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Support Farmers Now for a Climate-Resilient Future

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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The True Cost of Goods - How Much Does Your Food Really Cost?

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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Corporate Control of Food System Governance

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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How the Maya Community is Redefining Farming in Nebraska

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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