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Summer 2024
Aquaculture & Fishing
The Natural Farmer
Image Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm, NJ

Liza Gabriel
7 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...


Liz Susman Karp
6 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",...


Liza Gabriel
8 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...

Barry Antonio Costa-Pierce
11 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...

ELIZABETH HENDERSON
4 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...


Ann Molloy
3 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...


Natalia de Cuba Romero
8 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...


Other
4 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...


Allie Push
2 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...


Liza Gabriel
8 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...


Brittany Peachey
6 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...


Cynthia Liepmann
2 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...


Donn Hewes
6 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...


Ed Geis
7 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...


Annie Sholar
5 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...


Will Brinton
7 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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