Young Farmer Profiles
Introducing Let’s Go Farm in Santa Rosa, CA
Joey Smith started Let’s Go Farm in 2011 on the land...
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Introducing Truck Farm Omaha – an edible education project
While traveling across the country for their documentary...
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World-Renowned Soil Biologist will be answering YOUR questions on the Farmer Forum!
The NYFC Farmer Forum is the place to go for answers to all your farm-related questions. We are pleased to announce that next week, June 24-28th, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Rodale Institute’s chief scientist, will log on to the forum each day to answer your questions in the “Soil and Fertility” section of the Farmer Forum. [...]
Resource Spotlight – Kiva Zip Helps Connect Supporting Communities with Entrepreneurs
Beginning farmers know that one of the biggest obstacles we face is access to capital and credit as we build our farms. While there are a lot of commercial and governmental loan programs for farmers out there, many don’t have the flexibility or reach to assist those just starting their businesses. We are lucky, however, [...]
Final Review of the Senate Farm Bill and How It Affects You
Before we switch our focus over to the House, we need to do a quick run-through of the Farm Bill that made its way through the Senate over the past few weeks. With such a huge piece of legislation, it’s difficult to fully wrap one’s head around it; we are lucky to have the hotshots [...]
Get Your Pitchfork On! Book Review – A Useful Guide to Country Living
Need some summer reading? A new book by Kristy Athens offers an amusing and useful guide to rural living for those whose dreams of farm ownership have not yet coalesced. Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living is a great guide for every aspect of planning for a rural life, from [...]
Farm Hack
Infragram: A cheap infrared camera for monitoring plant health
The folks over at Public Laboratory initially developed the Infragram camera, a near-infrared camera that assesses photosynthetic activity in plants, to empower citizen science monitoring of wetlands health in the Gulf after the BP oil spill. It turned out so great that they want to share it with others! Through their current Kickstarter campaign, [...]
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Report back from Farm Hack BUILD @ Northland Sheep Dairy
Excerpted from the Two Spruce Farm blog, written by Northland apprentices Daniel Grover and Scott Hoffman. Read the whole post here. The past two days, we’ve been working on the poetic project of converting an antique tractor into a piece of horse drawn, ground driven machinery. We bought a 1941 Case VC from a retired [...]
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