Selling charm

As Rendleman Orchards prepares to celebrate its 150th year in business, the family behind the farm is continually dreaming up new ways to entice new guests to visit the farm. The farm was started in 1873 when first generation farmers John and Isabelle Rendleman moved from North Carolina to establish a farm on 88 acres in

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Grazing enjoyment at Snug Valley Farm

by Laura Rodley

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Ben Nottermann of Snug Valley Farm in East Hardwick, VT, raises and sells grass-fed beef, meat from Duroc pigs and lamb, supplying local restaurants, ...

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New and improved manure

by Sally Colby

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If a liquid manure system eliminated agitation, saved fuel, increased manure value and created safer working conditions by eliminating deadly gases, w...

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Dairy cropping for soil health & farm success

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Is your farm just surviving or thriving? Chris Wilson, business manager at Wilson Family Organic Farms , pondered that question when he began working ...

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What the organic grain inspector wants to see

by Sonja Heyck-Merlin

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Benjamin Clark, a former employee on a large Montana organic grain farm, now an organic farm inspector, provided perspective on organic grain certific...