USDA Funding for Expanding School Gardens and Learning
USDA Press Release No. 0420.10 Contact: Office of communications 202-270-4623 USDA Announces Funding to Expand School Community Gardens and Garden-Based Learning [...]
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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Information and Resources
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed as a sustainable, ecologically based solution to pest control founded on comprehensive and current scientific knowledge about [...]
Dealing with Drought: Practices, Resources & Articles
Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. (Library of Congress) This is the time of year when farmers and ranchers in many parts of the country are dealing with the problem of [...]
Fungi’s Role in the Cycle of Life Discovered (ScienceDaily)
“The nitrogen cycle is the natural process that makes nitrogen available to all organisms on earth. Scientists at the University of York have discovered that one of the [...]
Egg Recall Expanded After Salmonella Outbreak (New York Times)
By WILLIAM NEUMAN “An Iowa company on Wednesday broadened a nationwide recall of its eggs to 380 million after some of its facilities were linked to an outbreak of [...]
Article: Export Boom Helps Farms
By LOUIS UCHITELLE, New York Times “Exports are the bright spot this year in an otherwise bleak economy. But the world is not suddenly snapping up made-in-America goods [...]
Nice NYT Article on Joan Dye Gussow
Out of the Loss of a Garden, Another Life Lesson Five months after a storm sent the Hudson surging over the garden of Joan Dye Gussow, the plot reflects changes she had long [...]
Cornell Extension Small Farms Update – Events, Training, Funding
Announcements New Online Courses for Beginning Farmers Coming This Fall Like Writing? Be a Contributor to Small Farm Quarterly Magazine! Power Up at Farm Renewable Energy [...]
Jobs at National Center for Appropriate Technology, Montana
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities Program Manager (Click for More Info) Put your education and experience to work helping American farmers and ranchers. The [...]
USDA wants us to ‘know your farmer,’ FDA wants us to stay home
GRIST ARTICLE by David Gumpert Excerpt: “Customers of Country Hen, a central Massachusetts organic egg producer, found an upsetting announcement in their egg cartons [...]
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