New Farm

The increase shows strength and commitment to organic values.

On the same day I get word of Senator (formerly Mr. Bush’s Agriculture Secretary) Johanns’ “let’s not get crazy about organic” warning to the National Association of Farm Broadcasters (NAFB) back on April 29, I also get word that this “niche market” (his term) actually grew by 17.1 percent overall in 2008, despite a tough economic environment. And we learn that the USDA restores $50 million for organic conversion via its EQUIP program.

Toward an ecologically sound, greenhouse-gas reducing and socially just foodshed for New York City. Without factoring in farming systems work for the land and for farmers, big cities can’t develop healthy or sustainable regional food supplies.

Demand for sustainable food is strong in Oregon, and regional leaders are working to keep it that way.

Europe's beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than a decade as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and intensive farming.

A list of the best resources for raising and marketing meat goats

How to zap pests, build soil with cover crops in strategic crop rotations Here's a little information to wet your appetite for the many profiles we'll be featuring of farmers around the world who are effectively using cover crops and crop rotations to beat weeds, confuse bugs and keep disease at bay.

Like a cut-rate magician, Philippine farmer and scientist Gil Carandang teaches farmers how to use cheap vodka, generic brown sugar, milk, rice and local soil to harness local microorganisms as invisible workhorses on their farms.

HOOPHOUSE HOW-TO, PART 1: Hoophouse dreams -- building a beginning Anchoring your farming dreams in the bedrock of your own soil

A do-it-yourself guide to building a home-scale vermicompost system