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Hello. It’s here: The New Farm Locator, an easy-to-use online tool that will allow you to build a personalized web-page for your farm in minutes. Then New Farm readers will be able to search for your farm by product, marketing method, state, county and more. What does it do for you? It puts your farm on the map for families, chefs, food brokers, other farmers and farmers market operators ... anyone who wants to be your customer. Try out this incredible free tool right NOW. The more farms we have in the locator, the more useful it will be.
Also new this week for farmers in the Mid-Atlantic region: The Mid-Atlantic Marketing Page, a prototype for what we hope will eventually be a collection of regional marketing pages designed to support farmers in a given region with success stories, resource guides, how-to articles, focused regional discussion forums and more. Check out the marketing page, including our exhaustive calendar of events in the region: field days, workshops, farm tours, conferences and more.
Finally, thanks to all those who responded
to our invitation to help us report on prices at producer-only
farmer's markets around the country. We asked for 20 local pricing sleuths
and got more than we asked for. Thanks! We’ll keep you informed
on the progress of this initiative, which many of you have been asking
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New Farm JAPAN goes LIVE! |
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| Supplying good food to local
people in a busy world Don and Becky Kretschmann, in western PA, share the insights they've gained over 32 years of farming--including the secret to running a successful CSA. Includes a slide show! |
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poll There’s a new poll in town: “If you had to choose, which of the following would you say best describes what you like most about farming?” Here’s your chance to register what keeps you going, and find out if other farmers have similar motives. Go to the home page of the web site to take the poll. |
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Organic & sustainable in South Jersey Beginning in 1999, Bob Muth started transitioning acres to organic.
He now has nine of his 80 acres certified organic . . . and is wondering
if he should go all the way organic with his CSA, farm stand and
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& Bolts and Dreams: A beginner’s guide to farming The A to Z Greenhouse Growing Guide, Part II Continuing his series on greenhouse added-value production, Don Devault talks about how to grow tomatoes, peppers and eggplants in your hoophouse without them going to riot and rot. |
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HIGH VALUE FARMING His farm isn’t quite an acre . . . but this ‘small farmer’ makes it work After investing a whole lot of elbow grease and making his fair share of mistakes, Scott Kuntzer does more with less and makes a decent living. He sells direct to restaurants in the upscale New Hope, PA, a historic tourist town on the Delaware River. |
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One Farm to Another Jeff adds two new tools to his weed-eating arsenal ... . . . and starts work on a better toilet--one that takes advantage of its own privately constructed wetlands. |
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Jason’s
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ACTION ALERT Attention residents of New York, Missouri, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Virginia, California, Utah, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Idaho and West Virginia Respond by June 18 to preserve funding for the Conservation Security Program The Conservation Security Program (CSP) is in danger of loosing its strength and it needs congressional support NOW! Congress will be meeting next week to vote on agricultural spending priorities. If you live in one of the above states please help save CSP use our simple 3 step process to urge your congress person to support this innovative new program. |
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TALK DISCUSSION FORUMS New on the New Farm Forums Join in any of the discussion forums by clicking here. Below are some of the more recent entries:
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