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Ecological Christmas Tree Farming Guide
A guide sharing research about ecological Christmas tree farming including case studies of a few farms. This guide looks at the history of Christmas tree farming, current conventional practices and ecological practices including coppice culture tree farming.
Pest Management on Urban Farms
Cornell Cooperative Extension teamed up with urban farms across New York to find better ways to sustainably handle pests. Together, we found that farmers can protect their crops and prevent crop losses by using methods like protective netting, changing when they plant, choosing hardy plant varieties, and using "natural enemies" (beneficial insects) to keep pests […]
Using Mycelium in Aquaculture Farming
Building on the successes of previous experiments using MycoRafts for marshland restoration and mycelium buoys for oyster farming, project leader Sue Van Hook of Greenhorns in Maine, researched a number of approaches to creating lobster buoys from mushroom mycelium – the fibrous tissue from which mushroom fruiting bodies emerge.
Expanding Aquaculture by Farming Scallops Alongside Oysters
A recent Northeast SARE aquaculture project demonstrated how Maine seafarms can farm multiple crops in the same space by raising scallops in lantern nets arranged below oyster cages. In Northeast SARE Farmer Grant FNE23-052, Growing Bay Scallops on a Maine Oyster Farm as a Strategy to Diversify Crops and Adapt to a Warming Gulf, Winnegance […]
Exploring the Potential for Fig Production in the Northeast
The vast majority of domestic fig production in the United States is concentrated in California, because the cost of overwintering fig trees in colder climates is a barrier to the expansion of commercial production. But on one farm in Yardley, Penn., Craig Boyer is exploring a new method of overwintering figs with the aim of […]