Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is booming right now. As COVID-19 puts pressure on the food system, more and more people are turning to local farms for safe, dependable food access. At the same time, farmers who once relied on wholesale accounts are finding themselves scrambling with restaurants closed and those sales channels either paused …
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I learned how to make tomato sauce in college. It was my one specialty (if you could call it that) and I fell in love with sauteing garlic and onions, reducing tomatoes in balsamic vinegar, and sprinkling in fresh basil. One day, my boyfriend and I went to the supermarket only to find they were …
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“Sustainability is an act of love.” These words projected on the screen behind Melody Walker Brook as she spoke of seeds, ceremony, relationship, and reciprocity. I’d gone to the NOFA-VT Winter Conference to speak in three different sessions, but I was most excited to listen. Melody, an Abenaki artist, educator, and activist, was giving the …
We turned our living room into a seed room. This space transforms by the seasons just as the fields do. Tired of the annual spring shuffle of living room to seed room and back again, we decided to make it permanent. You could say the living room and kitchen are a bit crunched together …
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Every winter farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners leave the farm for conference halls. While conferences offer the chance to learn new skills and practices, they can also be overwhelming. How do you decide which workshop to go to when there are 3 you’re interested in scheduled at the same time? Will you really be …
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I took my first farm job in 2009. Over the last 10 years, I’ve learned a ton—here are the most important lessons that have grown my farm (and me as a farmer). Soil is the foundation of life 95% of our food comes from the soil – without it, life on earth wouldn’t exist. I …
