The Horan brothers started farming in 1990. Today, they’re happy to see more and more customers wanting to visit their farm and buy locally-grown produce.
Photo courtesy of Waldingfield Farm
by Sally Colby
Acreage that had been farmed continuously
Eric Martin, one of the founders of Bluet, inspecting some of the wild blueberry bushes in Maine.
Photo courtesy of Bluet
by Courtney Llewellyn
It was forward-thinking Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau who first called wild blueberries “bluets.” Now, forward-thinking
While she admitted her first attempts at pruning were less than perfect, Lisa Rettinger learns more each year from both her own experience and spring pruning workshops.
Photo courtesy of Grandview Orchard
by Sally Colby
When Lisa Rettinger decided
To cut down on contact points and lines forming, Lynd Fruit Farm charged visitors on their way in to the sunflower patch rather than on the way out.
Photo courtesy of Lynd Fruit Farm
by Courtney Llewellyn
Wrapping up
To decide what cultivars to use, Charles McGonegal evaluates each year’s regional apple harvest. “I see what’s ‘nifty,’ what speaks to me,” he said. He runs AeppelTreow with his wife, Melissa.
Photo courtesy of AeppelTreow Winery & Distillery
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by Courtney Llewellyn
How do you start a new farming enterprise? Sow seeds, grow plants, harvest. It seems simple enough – except sometimes those plants take years to grow to maturity. Sometimes the potential for a new crop is
John and Lynette Myhre strike a pose near one of their eight-foot wreaths, an incredibly popular attraction at that farm for family photos.
Photo courtesy of Rusty Gate Tree Farm
by Sally Colby
Lynette Myhre said when her husband
The “Developing Topics in Agricultural, Environmental and Food Law” webinar was presented by Kelly Nuckolls, a policy specialist at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
by Enrico Villamaino
For the sixth November since 2015, the University of Maryland’s Agriculture Law
by Deborah Jeanne Sergeant
First introduced in 2011, spotted wing drosophila has been affecting cherry harvests. Cornell researchers studied the impact on tart and sweet cherry crops in New York State and estimated a 2% loss. That estimate jumped
by Sonja Heyck-Merlin
In a recent webinar, Aaron Wightman, maple specialist at Cornell, highlighted emerging value-added opportunities for maple syrup producers. According to Wightman, maple syrup production has increased dramatically in New York in the past 18 years, and
