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Why Thinning Matters
BY ED NEUHAUSER In general, in northeastern forests, tree regeneration occurs naturally. While the regeneration may not be of desired or...
ED NEUHAUSER
Dec 27, 20226 min read
The Game of Logging - a Women's Workshop
BY ELIZABETH GABRIEL Game? It’s ironic because the last word I would use to describe anything to do with a chainsaw is “game”. While I am...
ELIZABETH GABRIEL
Dec 27, 20229 min read
Seeing the Forest for the Bees
BY KASS URBAN-MEAD INTRODUCTION There have been many wonderful pieces about pollinators in The Natural Farmer, including a comprehensive...
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Dec 27, 202211 min read
A Forest(er) Farmer’s Journey with Silvopasturing
BY BRET CHEDZOY Over the years, I’ve had many enjoyable opportunities to talk about silvopasturing – mostly in an “official” capacity as...
BRET CHEDZOY
Dec 21, 20225 min read
Community Land Trusts as a Vehicle for Homestead Land Sharing
BY GRACE GERSHUNY Land ownership is often considered to be integral to achieving the “American dream.” At the founding of this country,...
GRACE GERSHUNY
Dec 21, 20226 min read
Accessing Farmland Together: Strategies and Considerations
BY KATHY RUHF AND JIM HABANA HAFNER Many farmers are exploring ways to farm together. The idea of being and sharing with other farmers is...
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Dec 21, 202210 min read
Building the Organic Neighborhood
BY MARY-HOWELL AND KLAAS MARTENS American agriculture has a serious problem. The average American grain farmer is in their 60’s, often...
MARY-HOWELL AND KLAAS MARTENS
Dec 21, 202211 min read
Agrarian Trust and the Agrarian Commons
BY KRISTINA VILLA The Agrarian Trust exists to raise awareness and address the crisis of exceedingly high land prices that puts land...
KRISTINA VILLA
Dec 21, 20225 min read
How One NYS Farmer Found Land by Writing Letters and Making Cold Calls
An interview with Erica Frenay, Co-owner Shelterbelt Farm BY ELIZABETH GABRIEL We know well that finding land is one of the biggest...
ELIZABETH GABRIEL
Dec 21, 20227 min read
We Built a Farm on Public Land…That Was the First Hurdle
BY CAROLINE FANNING Twenty years ago, when my husband and I were apprentices in the Hudson Valley, the world of small-scale farms could...
CAROLINE FANNING
Dec 21, 20224 min read
Expanding Tree Tapping Through Sap Harvesting Tenure Agreements
BY MIKE RECHLIN, PH.D Harvesting sap to produce maple syrup is a historic farming activity in many areas of the Northeast and Appalachia....
MIKE RECHLIN, PH.D
Dec 21, 20224 min read
Escaping Private Property: A Long-Term Alternative to Farmland Ownership
BY ELIZABETH HENDERSON In the US, the ideal for most farmers is to have their own farm and to hold it as private property. With farmland...
ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Dec 21, 202211 min read
Land Justice, Not Speculation
BY DOUG HERTZLER Access to land has become the number one issue for aspiring young farmers in the United States, who come from many...
DOUG HERTZLER
Dec 21, 20225 min read
What Legal Personhood for U.S. Rivers Would Do
BY KAYLA DEVAULT In mid-March of 2017, New Zealand officially recognized the Whanganui River as a living entity with rights. The river,...
KAYLA DEVAULT
Dec 21, 20223 min read
Planting Roots at Providence Farm Collective
BY KYLE SEMMELL Life in Refugee Camps Although Abdullah “Abdi” Sundi’s family had farmed in Somalia for years, Abdi never learned how. In...
KYLE SEMMELL
Dec 21, 20227 min read
Seeds and Their Stories: A Beet Story
A plant-person companionship through research, recovery, and reimagining BY SOLVEIG HANSON This started as an article about beets. During...
SOLVEIG HANSON
Dec 21, 20227 min read
My Back Yard, Equity Concerns, and Land Grant Truth-Telling
BY CHARLES GEISLER I live on land in upstate New York awarded to Revolutionary War veteran, Izaac Doty, for his military service. I also...
CHARLES GEISLER
Dec 21, 202214 min read
Parenting and Farming: Seeding Gratitude, Cultivating Care
BY NIKKI KOLB A cow is crossing the road. It’s mostly white with rusty spots and curvy horns, head high, at once regal and nervous as it...
NIKKI KOLB
Dec 16, 20224 min read
Input from a Small Farmer on the VT Climate Caucus: To Solve the Climate Crisis We Need Healthy Soil
BY STEPHEN LESLIE VT HEALTHY SOIL PROTECTION & RESTORATION ACT To meet the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as established under...
STEPHEN LESLIE
Dec 16, 202211 min read
Pricing Milk
BY JEN MILLER How many mature cows did you have as of January 1, 2020? Did you buy or sell any equipment in 2019? How much milk did you...
JEN MILLER
Dec 16, 20223 min read
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