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Posted on June 4, 2025
“Just two kids with a dream” is how Deep Roots Produce ’s Liv McDaniels captioned the post. “We started our journey back in 2019 when we converted an old hay barn that sat on my family’s property into an open-air produce market. We quickly were overwhelmed by the support this community showed us and...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on June 4, 2025
For 14 years, Roy Nilson has been hoping that his American Cream Draft horse would finally foal. Fourteen days ago, that finally happened. Maggie, 24 years old, had a foal. The breed is listed as critically rare on the Livestock Conservancy website, livestockconservancy.org . Maggie finally having a...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 4, 2025
During Memorial Day weekend, my wife and I spent a half day with my son Peter’s family in Columbia County. I can’t drive anywhere without looking at other people’s crops. After crossing the Hudson River, I was hoping to see distinctly formed green rows of nicely emerged corn seedlings compared to th...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 4, 2025
Hello, farm family! When I was a kid, we had a couple of old beam balance scales in our barn. A single scale could weigh large pumpkins during our annual Pumpkin Festival and farm kids the rest of the year. When we started growing cabbage and butternut for processing, we would place the two scales f...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on May 28, 2025
What is it? A tick bite can be more than an annoyance. For some people, checking hay for dryness, hand-weeding vegetable crops or taking a hike in the woods is the first step in acquiring a life-changing allergy to meat and any products with mammalian ingredients. The allergy and all that’s associat...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on May 28, 2025
They say “ignorance is bliss,” which essentially describes a state of being carefree because one doesn’t know about something potentially being problematic. It suggests that avoiding knowledge of something can lead to a happier, less stressful life. And I like low stress. But when someone suggests y...
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Hannah Majewski 
Posted on May 28, 2025
The Northeast All Breeds Spring Show (NEABSS) celebrated its fifth anniversary this past April and welcomed 866 head of registered dairy cattle to the infamous Mallary Complex at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA. What started as a grassroots effort to continue hosting dairy catt...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on May 28, 2025
“The Americans with Disabilities Act, or the ADA, is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability,” explained Bonita Croyle, the communications manager at Farm Commons. Croyle and Chloe Johnson, a Farm Commons staff attorney, explained the legal obligations that employers hav...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on May 28, 2025
Before delving into the big four fertilizer macro-nutrients – nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K) and sulfur (S) – I’ll address a trace element that often gets under-publicized: zinc. In his “Eco-farm,” Charles Walters wrote, “Zinc is only now [1996] joining the crowd of elements required fo...
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