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Opinion: Let's Talk: Land Access for Beginning Farmers
By Sarah Greenberg In a speech delivered in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the distortion our government imposes when asking...
Sarah Greenberg
Oct 3, 20235 min read
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Opinion: Farmworker Housing
By Ernest (Buster) Caswell As I continue to advocate for housing for agricultural workers across the State of Vermont, multiple parties...
Ernest (Buster) Caswell
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Hatching the Great Chicken Rescue
By Casey Merkle When I was 9 years old, I wanted to save all the chickens. I wanted to rescue all the eggs from going sunny-side up on...
Casey Merkle
Sep 26, 202311 min read
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Changing the World—One Chicken at a Time
by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin The chicks have arrived! A 6 a.m. phone call from the Northfield, Minnesota, post office alerted Eric...
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Sep 26, 202314 min read
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TNF NOFA FARMER PROFILE: Elizabeth Henderson of Peacework CSA
Interviewed by Holli Cederholm, TNF Advisory Committee Member People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and...
Holli Cederholm
Sep 26, 20238 min read
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Letter from the Editor - Summer 2023
By Elizabeth Gabriel After a first look at the hazy skies before heading out on the farm today, I excitedly thought some rain might...
Liza Gabriel
Sep 26, 20233 min read
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Why Do I Farm?
By Elizabeth Gabriel Farming is so damn hard. I’ve just walked inside after inspecting the fruitlets on our apple trees and very few, if...
Liza Gabriel
Sep 26, 20237 min read
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Working with Water at Wellspring Forest Farm
by Steve Gabriel From the moment we stepped onto the land that became our farm and livelihood, water was a central element. We found...
Steve Gabriel
Aug 7, 202310 min read
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Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World:
How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate Written by Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledge Reviewed by Jason Detzel The...
Jason Detzel
Aug 7, 20235 min read
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Hoofprints on the Land
Reviewed by Bec Sloane Written by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson “Documenting traditional knowledge does not really preserve it - it needs to be...
Bec Sloan
Aug 7, 20234 min read
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Water and Earthworks
By Ben Falk A resilient homesteader and designer must be a water process facilitator. Through an awareness of how water affects living...
Ben Falk
Aug 7, 202313 min read
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I Love my Drip Irrigation. My Plants do Too.
By Richard Robinson There are three major reasons I love to use drip irrigation in the garden: It puts water where it does the most good,...
Richard Robinson
Aug 7, 20233 min read
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Farming with Less Clean Water
By Dan Pavich 20+ years in the agriculture industry and mostly in the regenerative ag sector, you see some stories and are occasionally...
Dan Pavich
Aug 7, 20236 min read
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How to Minimize Irrigation Even in the Hottest of Summers
By Christine R. Nelson Photo credit: Many Hands Organic Farm The height of the 2022 growing season will be remembered for the undesirable...
Christine R. Nelson
Jul 27, 20232 min read
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Water Management For Every Permaculture Farm
By William Horvath When I was a kid, my brother and I used to enjoy the winter weather at my grandparent’s farm in the mountains. In a...
William Horvath
Jul 26, 202312 min read
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A Land Back Moment for the Onondaga Nation
The Onondaga Nation, in Unprecedented Land Back Moment, Regains 1023 Acres of the Land Stolen by New York State The Onondaga Nation will...
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Jul 20, 20234 min read
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Where Has All the Water Gone
By Stephen Leslie 2022 was a hot dry summer across the region, and in fact, across the Northern Hemisphere. Concerns about water...
STEPHEN LESLIE
Jul 18, 20235 min read
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Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World
A book excerpt from Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World: How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate By...
Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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Vermont's Universal Recycling Law & Growing Plastic Pollution
Growing plastic pollution and profits for multinational corporations was not the intention of Vermont's Universal Recycling Law By Grace...
Grace Oedel
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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Positive Vibrations and Love Aided in Healing Trees
By Obiora Embry Obiora Embry and his siblings were born to Afrocentric, artistic/creative, intelligent, forward-thinking, family- and...
Obiora Embry
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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