Danone Puts Local Last: The Fight to save Organic Dairy Farms in the Northeast
By ED MALTBY In August 2021, Danone North America, which owns the organic dairy brand Horizon Organic, notified 89 organic dairy farm...
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Maddie Kempner
- Mar 28
- 3 min
Opinion: Pay Farmers to Promote Biodiversity, Our Food and Our Future Depend on it
By Maddie Kempner, NOFA-VT Policy Director Vermont is on the cusp of becoming one of the first states in the nation to compensate farmers...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
- Mar 28
- 6 min
NOFA’s Efforts with Justice, Equity, and Anti-racism
TNF is committed to bringing attention to and generating an increased awareness of issues of race and inequality and how these have...
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PETRA PAGE-MANN
- Mar 28
- 7 min
Don’t Judge a Carrot by its Cover
The story of a carrot & how our imaginations seed the world By Petra Page-Mann Don’t judge a book by its cover… …as the proverb reminds...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
- Mar 28
- 8 min
Interview with Anita Ashok Adalja, Not Our Farm & Ashokra Farm
by Elizabeth Gabriel TNF: Tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the work you do now Anita: I’ve been farming for 12 years,...
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JOSEPH R. HECKMAN
- Mar 28
- 3 min
Golden Fertilizer for Greener Grass
By JOSEPH R. HECKMAN, Ph.D. Fertilizers are expensive and the current supply is limited. Farmers interested in sustainability are...
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Steve Gilman
- Mar 28
- 3 min
Remembering Samuel Kaymen
by Steve Gilman As a coda to the obituary for Samuel Kaymen, I feel so grateful that our Founder was with us for last year’s 50th...
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Kevin Cody
- Mar 28
- 8 min
Beginning Farmers and Land Access: A Case Study of the New Entry Incubator Program
By Kevin Cody “I probably would have started my own farm business without New Entry, but certainly not when I did. And I certainly...
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Chris Brown
- Mar 28
- 5 min
El Futuro of Farming
By Chris Brown, Development Director at ALBA, chris@albafarmers.org Since 1950, more than a quarter-billion acres of farmland were lost...
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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
- Mar 26
- 8 min
A Real Organic Dairy Farm
Interview with Chuck Blood by Elizabeth Henderson Q. Tell us a little about your farming Chuck: My partner Mary and I moved to Rocky Tops...
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Chris Hartman
- Mar 1
- 4 min
Building a Food Hub for Economies of Collaboration
By CHRIS HARTMAN Economies of collaboration can compete with economies of scale. That theme, first introduced to me at a National Good...
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CHRISTINE MANUCK
- Mar 1
- 7 min
Evaluating Reduced and No-Till:
Findings from a Three-Year Study of Northeast Farmers Utilizing Alternative Tillage Systems BY CHRISTINE MANUCK In 2019, the NOFA...
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j.p Muhly
- Mar 1
- 9 min
Finding Common Grounds
By j.p. MUHLY "According to traditional thought, if we fail to organize all aspects of our lives, including our work to make positive or...
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EMILY REISS
- Mar 1
- 4 min
Farmer Ground Flour - Growing a Local Grain Ecosystem
BY EMILY REISS Farmer Ground Flour (FGF) is an organic, regional, flour mill in Trumansburg, New York. Its power is more than just...
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PETRA PAGE-MANN
- Mar 1
- 10 min
Inheriting Genetic Resilience in Tomatoes & Ourselves
BY PETRA PAGE-MANN (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert, Matthew Goldfarb among many other curious humxns) In my...
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LINCOLN FISHMAN
- Feb 28
- 9 min
Growing Vegetables in a Perennial Clover Living Mulch: Sawyer Farm’s Tillage Reduction Journey
BY LINCOLN FISHMAN Sawyer Farm is in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. We've been farming here since 2010. In the early years, an...
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STEPHEN LESLIE
- Dec 27, 2022
- 5 min
Save Our Trees to Save Ourselves
BY STEPHEN LESLIE For any generation, it can be difficult to imagine that the world of the past was so radically different than the...
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MARIA MERLINO
- Dec 27, 2022
- 3 min
Lessons From the Land: Resilience
BY MARIA MERLINO A Mother’s Love Farming has helped me heal and I’m so grateful for it, so I thought I’d share some words about it. I...
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SHOSHANAH INWOOD, ANDREA RISSING, AND FLORENCE BECOT
- Dec 27, 2022
- 4 min
Young Farmers Struggle with Child Care and Health Insurance
and that can threaten the future of family farms BY SHOSHANAH INWOOD, ANDREA RISSING, AND FLORENCE BECOT Kat Becker feeds hundreds of...
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ELIZABETH GABRIEL
- Dec 27, 2022
- 8 min
Farming & Parenting
BY ELIZABETH GABRIEL Kelli and Mike Roberts started Roots Farm in 2009 in Tiverton RI, a certified organic diversified vegetable farm...
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