Newsletter: February 2012

Information for free!

You are busy folks. It’s likely you have limited time to spend searching for information, so we'd like to highlight some resources that you might find useful.

Webinars
Get useful information without leaving your home! (Requires high speed internet connection.)

eOrganic offers a slew of free webinars on range of topics. Coming up are:Hairy Vetch, Photo by Dawn Endico
      March 6: Role of Cover Crops
      March 13: Fire Blight Control in Pome Fruit
      March 20: Cover Crops for Disease Suppression
Click here to register for future webinars, or listen to previous ones.

Practical Farmers of Iowa provides free ‘farminars’ with info useful to farmers in other states too. Don’t miss:
      March 6: Determine Whether Your Produce Farm Will Flourish or Wilt
      March 13: Fertility Management with Livestock and Long Rotations
Click here to register for upcoming farminars & listen to old ones.

No high-speed internet?
There are still many resources available online that cover the same topics, but these don’t require the bandwidth. Print them off and have hard copies that last. 

Cover Crops
Cornell Extension: Intro to cover crop species
SARE: Managing cover crops profitably (3rd ed)
eXtension: Buying & sourcing cover crop seed

Fire Blight
West Virginia Univ: Biology & epidemiology of fire blight
Washington State Univ: Alternative fire blight control

Business Planning
SARE: Building a Sustainable Business
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture: Pricing and invoicing for restaurants and institutions

Fertility Management
SARE: Building soils for better crops (3rd ed)

Newsletter Archive
Don't miss our past newsletters!
            November: Potlucks and farm tours
            December: Organizing get-togethers to discuss varieties and breeds.
            January: The skinny on seeds and transplants

Visit our Newsletter Archive to check them out.

Photo courtesy of Ron and Kate Kohlsa Photo courtesy of Dan L. Perlman
(Left, Kate Khosla demos an electric tractor for a group of growers. Photo courtesy of Ron Khosla. Right, five varieties of peppers. Photo by Dan L. Perlman)

 

Welcome to our some of our newest members!

Arrowhead Farms
(Centerville, TN)

Beebe Lane Honey Co.
(Eugene, OR)

Butchies Organic Farm, LLC
(Cochecton, NY)

Care of the Earth Community Farm
(Corryton, TN)

Cherry Hill Farm Natural Food
(Sheridan, OR)

Christy's Sanctuary
(Jacksonville, FL)

D and M Farm
(Ethridge, TN)

Flying Dog Farm
(Ball Ground, GA)

Foster-Brady Farm
(Monroe, GA)

GregN'Nic Gardens
(Douglasville, GA)

Growing Green Farms LLC
(Maysville, GA)

Peterson's Country Gardens
(Birch Run, MI)

Pickle Creek Farms
(Marathon, TX)

Prairie Lavender Farm
(Bennington, KS)

Rainbow Earth Gardens
(Lawrenceville, GA)

Shady Grove Gardens
(Jonesborough, TN)

Shore Farms Organics
(Yadkinville, NC)

Snowshoe Hollow Farm
(Homer, AK)

SunnysideLOCAL Produce and Nursery
(Redlands, CA)

Thread Creek Farm
(Gradn Blanc, MI)

WillowHill Springs Farm
(Willow Hill, PA)