We have become a nation quite adept at uploading, downloading, creating and sharing photos, videos and even mini-movies. Visual images are powerful advertising and promotional tools when used to create customer buzz, share your farm story or document a product’s journey from seed to sale. As we have...

The secrets for success for Red Fire Farm, which grows certified organic vegetables on two farms in Montague and Granby, MA, is perseverance and cultivating great workers — as well as great vegetables. Farm owners Ryan and Sarah Voiland grow vegetables for four summer and five winter farmer’s market...

LEXINGTON PARK, MD — Most winters, the fields at Even’ Star Farm are a riot of different shades of green, full as they are with the winter crops Brett Grohsgal grows for his CSA and wholesale customers. This year was a different story. Southern Maryland’s coldest winter in 30 years — following a coo...

The 265-acre farm Jeff and Nonie Morris purchased in 2004 included about 40 acres of well-established blueberry bushes, but the Morrises, who had no previous experience growing blueberries, decided to start from scratch. “It took a lot of work,” said Nonie, explaining that Jeff cleared the existing ...

Apex Orchards in Shelburne, MA is known for the distinctively tasty quality of their apples. Owner Tim Smith credits climate and high magnesium in the soil for the taste of his apples that he wholesale to valley stores, farmers and PYO. 18,000 bushels worth. “[The soil] produces great quality apples...

“Charge them and they will come” was the provocative message delivered by Kurt Alstede, owner of Alstede Farms in Chester, NJ, to growers at the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Conference at Hershey, PA. Alstede Farms has about 300 acres of tree fruits, small fruits and vegetables, which they sell ...

The general consensus among many east coast migratory pollinators is that as long as they stay in business, there should be enough bees for east coast pollination. The beekeepers will do what’s necessary to make up the previous year’s hive losses (averaging 50 percent plus last year,) by making spli...

Jim Gilbert, of One Green World Nursery in Portland, OR, has devoted 35 years of his life to tracking down, studying, and working with unusual, very cold-hardy fruits. He has traveled to Siberia, China, northern Japan, Germany, and the Ukraine, among other countries, to find promising cultivars and ...

Families who operate successful farm businesses often hope that their children or other family members will be interested in continuing the farm. However, the process by which the transition occurs isn’t easy, and can be awkward and difficult. Communication throughout the transition process is criti...