By Renee Ciulla Across the nation, locavores can now celebrate what is inside their glasses in addition to what is on their plates. The ever-rising local food movement has expanded its reach into the spirits community. Whether in the form … Continued
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10 questions to ask before hiring a web designer
by Karen Kanakanui, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association member and copywriter If you’re taking the first steps to getting your farm on the web, there are a few basic questions you need to keep in mind. The good news is, creating … Continued
Made in the USA: Organic cotton
By Victoria Bouloubasis With chickens grazing by his feet, Eric Henry, president of TS Designs, lifts a branch of organic cotton just plucked from the backyard garden of his T-shirt printing business. As if picked from the sky, the puffs … Continued
Small-scale oilseed production
By Renee Ciulla Customers of New Hampshire (NH) farmers’ markets are regularly greeted by voluptuous eggplants, hearty wheat berries, verdant leafy vegetables, raw milk cheddar and numerous local meats. But locavores who want to use cooking oils rather than butter … Continued
Baby ginger: Easy and extraordinary niche crop
By Khyla Flores With ever-growing competition in the marketplace, standing out to consumers with farm-fresh, local produce is becoming increasingly challenging. Offering a “niche” crop that separates you from the competition and stands out visually and in culinary excellence will … Continued
Lost and found orcharding
By Renee Ciulla Every region in New Hampshire and throughout the world has their noted heirloom apple varieties. These are the fruits that thrived relatively well in a given location providing consistent yields, tolerance of pests and disease and, most … Continued
Community Pizza
By guest blogger Marguerite Viola In February of 2011, my husband Andrew and I got on a plane headed across the ocean to begin a three-month culinary and farming adventure. The goal: Learn how to make cheese and salami by … Continued
Organic Valley and Rodale Institute Partner to Make Good Organic Neighbors
Farmer-owned cooperative and PA-based nonprofit help neighboring dairy farm transition to organic La Farge, Wis., and Kutztown, Pa., (July 19, 2012) – Organic Valley, the nation’s largest cooperative of organic farmers, and Rodale Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic … Continued
Free speech—for you to use—to promote fresh, local, organic food
By Greg Bowman Originally posted on September 14, 2006 Word of mouth is still the most effective promotion—even for changing big, complex things like food systems. If you can help lead one person into the richly textured web of local, … Continued
Small is beautiful…and profitable
By Dan Sullivan Originally posted on June 8, 2006 In the shadows of towering twin 5-million-gallon checkerboard-painted water tanks supplying the modest northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of Somerton, a miracle is taking place. Here lies Somerton Tanks Farm, an experiment in … Continued