Farmers: Coming to an Office Near You
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and has been a great way for smaller, local farms to ensure a steady income stream while giving consumers easier access to fresh and locally grown food....
View ArticleUrban Farming Goes Multi-Locational
One of the critical hurdles that farmers in urban areas face is access to affordable land for growing food. The concept of a multi-locational or decentralized farm is an elegant solution to growing...
View ArticleOpen Source Farming
Open source is a 21st century buzzword, but not one usually associated with the age old practice of farming. Groups like Farm Hack and others, who understand the power of DIY maker culture to kick...
View ArticleFood Waste For Fresh Produce
Let’s consider a productive food waste cycle: Instead of throwing away organic food waste, it can be turned into compost using a variety of methods – worm bins, bokashi bins, traditional compost, etc....
View ArticleWill Insects Save Our Food Supply?
Ever heard of entomophagy? It’s the fancy, scientific word for eating insects, and some people believe it could be the wave of the future. Many cultures around the world have happily eaten insects for...
View ArticleWhat Is Hugelkultur?
Practiced for centuries in Eastern Europe and Germany, hugelkultur is the process of making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood. The result is a low-maintenance garden that doesn’t require...
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Lemon Trees for All in San Francisco
A project called Just One Tree has a singular but ambitious goal: to make sure San Francisco can grow all the lemons it consumes. To do this, the community will need to produce 461 tons of lemons...
View ArticleWhat Is Agroforestry?
If you’ve ever sipped a cup of shade-grown coffee, you’ve savored the fruits of agroforestry, the subject of a new USDA report about an age-old practice now used by growers in developing nations to...
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Hungry in Stamford? New CSA Available at Our Office
Beginning today, our Stamford office will become a CSA distribution point for Chubby Bunny Farm, a small family farm in Litchfield County, Conn., committed to sustainable farming practices. CSA pickups...
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A New Fix for the Nitrogen Problem
Even though farmers don’t blindly follow outmoded aphorisms of the trade, like measuring corn “knee-high by the Fourth of July”, many do still abide by old habits. Some apply manure annually in...
View ArticleHow Fertilizer Made from Food Waste Can Help Drought-Stricken Farms
Using compost and other organic matter to augment the soil is an age-old practice. However, over the last several decades, the U.S. industrial farming system has largely left it behind in favor of...
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Believe it or not, it may be illegal to grow your own food
The city and town names may change, but the stories are strikingly similar. Every year, new tales of urban gardeners who are cited for “illegally” growing food in their yards or on vacant lots bubble...
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