A Re-Focus on Food Safety
This piece is re-posted with permission from “Write to Farm” by Brian Snyder, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Click here to read the original. Food Safety Back On the Agenda If you thought we were done with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), you can think again. It has been most of […]
A Homegrown Concert, a Nationally Harvested Message – a reportback from Farm Aid 2013
This article was originally posted at sustainablekentucky.com. Twenty Seven years ago, before I even liked carrots, a serious farm crisis was going down and it was about to take family farms with it. In the seventies, leading up to the crisis, interest rates were low, export commodities were high, and farmers, hoping to become more […]
PASA launches new land leasing program
The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) has just launched the website for their new land leasing program, Farm Lease Connection. The project, which started to take shape in 2009, came out of a perceived need of young, aspiring farmers in southeastern Pennsylvania. They were coming out of internships and apprenticeship experiences and looking for […]