Category Archives: Farming Systems and Approaches

FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS TAKE ROOT

All aim to re-connect school kids with healthy local food.

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Food Safety Bill Status

Bill on its way to President with Tester-Hagan Amendment

Henpecked Compost and U-Mix Potting Soil

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Horsedrawn No-till Garlic

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FOLLOW-UP ON PHOSPHORUS

From Eric & Anne Nordell’s Cultivating Questions

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Beating the Beetles – War & Peace in a Houston Garden

Blooming that is, unless the cucumber beetles arrive first.
And arrive they have … “At first I thought they looked like big, yellow lady bugs.” Paul said, “Then I looked…

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Congo Farm Project – FROM STARVATION TO SUSTAINABILITY

WVI’s Ruzizi Valley Project. Find out for yourself why so many people have found this article to be uplifting, informative, and critically important.

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Birds Useful to the Farmer

SOME COMMON BIRDS USEFUL TO THE FARMER By F. E. L. Beal Farmers’ Bulletin 630, USDA, February 1915 also appearing as a reprint in Vol. 30 No. 2 of Small Farmer’s Journal Whether a bird is beneficial or injurious depends almost entirely upon what it eats. In the case of species which are very abundant, [...]

Weights & Measures

GRAIN AND PRODUCE Per Bushel Apples, Dried 26 Pounds Bran 20 Pounds Barley 48 Pounds Buckwheat 52 Pounds Beans, White 60 Pounds Corn Meal 50 Pounds Corn or Rye 56 Pounds Corn, in ear 70 Pounds Clover Seed 60 Pounds Flax Seed 56 Pounds Millet 56 Pounds Oats 32 Pounds Onions 57 Pounds Peas 60 [...]

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Spring 2012 SFJ is out and about!

Spring issue is out. Swaledale Cheese, Haying with Single Horse, Rice, Homemade Butter churn and more.

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FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS TAKE ROOT

All aim to re-connect school kids with healthy local food.

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/sack-sewing-a-lost-art
Sack Sewing, A Lost Art

91 year old Wayne Ryan of Oregon demonstrated the old way of sack sewing during the 2011 Dufur Threshing Bee

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National Animal ID Wont Go Away

We must not give up the fight to deny federal control of small farm production.

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