MICRO FARMING HOW-TO: Wrens are extremely territorial during blueberry ripening season, but they only eat insects, and chase off fruit eating birds. So, here’s how to protect blueberries from birds, with birds!
Attract these birds early in spring when the male wren shows up first looking for appropriate territory. Call your local Audubon Society to [...]
MARKETING — AGRITOURISM: If your farm uses any form of agritourism for sales or promotion, (on-farm store, u-pick, farmstand, CSA, farm tours, harvest festivals, B&B, workshops and classes on the farm, etc.), follow these steps as soon as you can:
1. USA farmers, find your local cooperative extension agent here, and contact them about any [...]
MICRO FARMING HOW-TO: Access to live greens will give your laying hens or chicken flock health benefits that nothing else can, not even flaxseed. Live greens can change the pH of farm animals’ systems to optimal conditions where disease finds it harder to proliferate, and more Omega 3s are created in the eggs and [...]
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MARKETING: High end restaurant chefs have always been a good source for marketing local produce. Along with chefs, when seeking chefs to sell your garden or micro farm produce, flowers or value-added food products to, consider also local personal chefs, bed and breakfasts, smaller inns that offer dining, food cart businesses that are going [...]
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MICRO FARMING HOW-TO: The native American pawpaw fruit stands to become a popular rediscovered “New World” locally produced crop. Its sweet custard fruit is very delicate once ripened, so fresh pawpaw needs to be grown and delivered in the area it’s consumed. Yet it lends itself to local artisan value-added products – from pawpaw [...]