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Seed Keeping at Soul Fire Farm: Interview with Danielle Palaez

Elizabeth Gabriel

Apr 48 min read

Seed Keeping at Soul Fire Farm: Interview with Danielle Palaez

I first visited Soul Fire Farm in 2017 as part of a group of 14 community food activists and youth and adult farmers. We left Ithaca at...

Mary-Howell Martens

Apr 412 min read

YOU MUST USE ORGANIC SEED UNLESS . . .

By Mary-Howell R. Martens When the USDA National Organic Program became law in 2001, organic farmers were faced with a new unwelcome...

Introducing the new, stronger Blue River organic seed

Elia Romano

Apr 43 min read

Introducing the new, stronger Blue River organic seed

By Elia Romano Albert Lea Seed has been in business for 100 years now, and I have been working here for 25 of those. As we wrap up the...

Sarah Gilliatt

Apr 43 min read

A Visit to the Naylor Farm

By Sarah Gilliatt For a couple of days before the Summer NFFC Meeting began, I was very fortunate to have the special opportunity of...

Xochiquetzal Berry

Apr 44 min read

True Cost of Goods

By Xochiquetzal Berry There is a lot of evidence that our environment is suffering. Farming of any type, including certified organic,...

History of the National Family Farm Coalition

Sarah Gilliatt

Apr 43 min read

History of the National Family Farm Coalition

History of the National Family Farm Coalition By Sarah Gilliatt The National Family Farm Coalition was founded in 1987, having grown out...

Cultivemos Wellness Resources for Black and Brown Farmers

Michi Lopez

Apr 44 min read

Cultivemos Wellness Resources for Black and Brown Farmers

By Míchi López Many of us know that farming is a rewarding career and lifestyle, but it’s not without its own challenges. Though they...

Vermont’s Summer of Flooding: Reviewing the Short-Term Impacts and Our Response

Erin Buckwalter

Apr 47 min read

Vermont’s Summer of Flooding: Reviewing the Short-Term Impacts and Our Response

By Erin Buckwalter Rain this summer brought widespread devastation to the state and, in particular, to our farms, many of which had...

Elizabeth Gabriel

Apr 25 min read

Letter from the Editor - Seed Issue

The inspiration for the theme of this issue came last year after reading an article about seed shortages during the pandemic. I was...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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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