Tag: Farm

  • Registration opens Monday for MOSES organic conference

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    Registration for the 25th MOSES Organic Farming Conference at the La Crosse Center opens Monday. The conference, sponsored by the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Services in Spring Valley, Wis., will take place from Feb. 27 through March 1. The event has grown from a meeting of about 90 people 25 years ago to the…

  • Action Alert

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    Big Rules Spell Bad News for Small Farms Love your local farms, farmers markets, and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)? They could be in trouble thanks to heavy-handed new rules proposed under the Food Safety & Modernization Act (FSMA). Unless the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) agrees to some key changes in the FSMA, your local farmer…

  • State Confers Award to Navara Eco Farm for Saving Rare Rice Variety

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    Mr. Narayanan Unny and his Navara Eco farm are featured in N.J. Prabu’s article in The Hindu. “Navara is a medicinal rice variety and its cultivation is almost extinct. Many reasons such as non-availability of pure seeds, low yield and high production cost are attributed for this. The speciality is that this is the only…

  • Love What You Do

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    Harvey Mackay emphasizes the importance of loving what you do — no matter what your age:  Donna Frantz’s greatest skill isn’t the organic farming that has dominated her life for the last 16 years. It’s the passion for living her dream and working tirelessly with energy and dedication. At age 81, she is not about…

  • Farm Workers Get Help To Be Their Own Boss

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    Kirk Siegler featured a piece on ALBA Organics on Morning Edition at NPR.  You can go here for the broadcast.  Although ALBA concedes that not everyone will make it, this still gives migrant farm workers an opportunity to become their own boss.  Here’s an excerpt from the story: Northern California’s Salinas Valley is often dubbed…

  • Eco-farm Tourism Helps Local Economy

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    From an article by Claire Luke in the Nicaragua Dispatch: As Nicaragua continues to make a name for itself as an international travel destination, the country’s old and new economies are joining forces in the mountains of Matagalpa for a unique brand of coffee-farm ecotourism. Many fincas that were once dedicated exclusively to coffee production…

  • Community Supported Agriculture

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    If you haven’t done so already, you might want to consider joining a CSA if you want to have fresh produce from a local farm this spring and summer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other…