I wanted to let you know that the Farm Store at the Kingsbury Farm is opening today. The Store will be open Wednesday through Saturday noon to 7pm. The farm is being run by Aaron Locker with the help of his brother John Locker and wife Suzanne Slomin – it is a true family farm. Suzanne is also running the farm store where you will be able to buy fresh produce including Suzanne’s amazing salad mix, farm-made soups, a variety of cheeses, simple sandwiches and tarts and Suzanne’s fabulous naturally leavened breads and pizza shells. Suzanne is a
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Kingsbury Market Garden Farm Store Opens TODAY!
Cool Summer Cooking Opportunity at Center for Whole Communities!
Whole Foods Chef Position Knoll Farm Waitsfield, Vermont We offer a fantastic opportunity for one or two experienced chefs to produce creative meals, using all locally grown, organic foods, for educational gatherings of leaders of environmental and social change organizations. Center for Whole Communities in a nonprofit educational organization which convenes retreats throughout the summer for environmental and social change leaders. We are based at Knoll Farm, a 400-acre organic farm in the Mad River Valley of central Vermont. Each week-long retreat includes 25 adults, and serving locally grown, whole foods is a major element of what we teach. Continue reading Cool Summer Cooking Opportunity at Center for Whole Communities! 2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!
Originally appeared in the Valley Reporter, December 23, 2009 Despite the devastating late blight disease that wiped out just about every tomato plant in the Valley this summer, Localvores should be feeling pleasantly satiated with the increasing availability of locally grown food that 2009 brought to the Mad River Valley. This year, the Mad River Valley Localvore Project released the first edition of their Foodshed Map featuring 25 agricultural enterprises ranging from cheesemaking to vegetable farms to fledgling vineyards. The Localvores plan to produce a new edition of the map for 2010 because several new Continue reading 2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley! Special funding Available for Hoop Houses!
Thanks Caitrin Noel for sending this info to us to pass along to our farmers friends! AVAILABILITY OF LOCALLY GROWN FOODS
3-Year Project To Verify Effectiveness Of High Tunnels In Natural Resource Conservation
COLCHESTER, VT, Dec 18, 2009 – On December 16, 2009 Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a new pilot project under the ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food’ initiative for farmers to establish high tunnels – also known as hoop houses – to increase the availability of locally grown produce in a conservation-friendly way. Merrigan and other Obama Continue reading Special funding Available for Hoop Houses! Organic Home Gardeners and Farmers – please participate in this survey on late blight
A TRUE Agricultural Economy
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
A few weeks ago there was a beautiful 15 minute piece on Dan Rather Reports about Hardwick and the Center for an Agricultural Economy.
Even if you think that you know what is going on in the Hardwick area, I suggest that you invest a few minutes to watch this story. I believe that it can serve as a model for what we could do here in the valley in terms of agriculture, but we are a long way from what they are doing in the Northeast Kingdom.
Watch
Continue reading A TRUE Agricultural Economy MRV Thanksgiving Farmers’ Market – This SUNDAY
Don’t miss the Annual Mad River Valley Thanksgiving Market! This Sunday from 9am to 1pm at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield. 2009 VENDORS Continue reading MRV Thanksgiving Farmers’ Market – This SUNDAY Got Late Blight? Guidance for Gardeners Report Released by NOFA Vermont
PRESS RELEASE For more information: Wendy Sue Harper, Ph.D., Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA Vermont) 802-434-4122 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2009 Got Late Blight? Guidance for Gardeners Report Released by NOFA Vermont Richmond – The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA Vermont) released a report today to help gardeners clean up plants infected with the late blight disease that struck many of Vermont’s gardens and farms this year. The report, entitled Got Late Blight? Guidance for Gardeners also includes suggestions for avoiding late blight next year. Late Blight, the disease that led Continue reading Got Late Blight? Guidance for Gardeners Report Released by NOFA Vermont Great Deal on Potatoes!
The Gaylord farm had a great potato year and we are the lucky beneficiaries! If you buy 50 pounds or more of potatoes from the Gaylord Farm. you will get them for just $1 a pound. To give you some perspective, 50 pounds is roughly a bushel. Call the farm at 496-5054 for more information. ~Robin McDermott Maybe you don’t have late blight?
Here is a good comparison between early blight, late blight and leaf spot: |
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