Sustainable Agriculture

Participants will gain experience with permaculture by developing designs for emerging urban garden projects, installing a demonstration garden and visiting established systems [...]

Talking Chicken offers Kelly’s valuable insight into heritage breed selection, chick raising, breeding and marketing...Deer and gardening rarely co-exist peacefully without some form of strong fence or major deterrent. [...]

Vermont-native Cole Ward casually wields a 10-inch scimitar as most people wield a butter knife, grazing through meat as if it were a melting slab of butter. His passion for butchering is not only remarkable to watch, it is contagious and as such, Ward is helping to reignite this dying culinary art... [...]

Many specialty food stores are selling them for over $10 per pound! They are wonderful tasting and easy to harvest. When they are young you can eat the leaves as well as the shoots (just like a scallion). [...]

"So, how many eggs does it take to lay in the nest before the rooster will come along and fertilize them? and how does the sperm actually penetrate the hard shell?" [...]

Washtenaw Community College has welcomed Permaculture into the halls of higher education. [...]

By having an open call for proposals and welcoming all applicants including farmers and ranchers, OFRF’s grants have long been responsive to emerging issues of concern to the organic community. [...]

The NOSB is responsible for developing and recommending to the Secretary a proposed National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances and advising the Secretary on other aspects of the organic regulations. [...]

Join UConn's Dairy and Livestock Extension Educator Rich Meinert and NRCS's District Conservationist James Hyde for a learning walk through the farm's fields to evaluate them for their hay potential and hear suggested management strategies for improved quality and production. [...]

This program supports projects that connect Wisconsin farmers with lucrative markets, while increasing consumer access to local agricultural products. [...]