For four years now (2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023), representatives from the universities of Maine (UMaine), New Hampshire (UNH) and Vermont (UVM) have hosted the High Tunnel Production Conference for high tunnel growers in New England and the Northeast at large to attend. The 2023 conference at the beg...

Commercial growers just might want to take a good look at saffron. Kaitlin Aasen, a greenhouse grower for Cornell’s Agricultural Experiment Station, said that the potential for profit makes the spice a spectacular prospect. Saffron is from the plant Crocus sativus , an autumn-blooming crocus. It is ...

REIDSVILLE, NC – Bill Cline is North Carolina’s blueberry Extension horticulturalist as well as an NC Extension plant pathologist who specializes in the diseases of small fruit crops. Recently, Cline discussed blueberry diseases found in North Carolina. Exobasidium – This is a fungus which causes bl...

Most farmers want their land to stay in agriculture, but very few have plans in place that dictate how the land, business and other assets will be divided among their heirs. Over 30% of farmers in New England have reached retirement age. The majority of this population has not named a successor. Wit...

When it comes to growing produce, food safety must be considered when making any decision in the process. At the Northeast Greenhouse Conference in November, Shirley Micallef from the University of Maryland led an educational session titled “Food Safety Issues When Growing Greenhouse/CEA Leafy Green...

How can we preserve biodiversity while meeting consumer demand for natural products? That’s a question many growers ruminate on, including those who raise and sell herbs. Tackling that topic is Susan Leopold, Ph.D., executive director of United Plant Savers . United Plant Savers is a nonprofit that ...

At a presentation this autumn at midwestGREEN in Columbus, Ohio, Jared Woodend, owner and COO at Redwood Operational Solutions, laid out key measurables and expectations to help building successful field leadership. Woodend’s main focus is implementing operational improvements with green industry an...

We have certainly cultivated a lot of thoughts over the previous three years and now we find ourselves ushering in 2024 – a new year and a new beginning. It seems like only yesterday when the entire globe was in an uproar that the world was going to end when we went from 1999 into 2000. Well, that d...

A nursery in the Adams County, PA, fruit belt that started in the early 1900s is now seeing the fifth generation take the lead. Founder W.W. Boyer first worked on the farm, then later purchased the original 110-acre property. The farm was originally home to cattle and an orchard, but Boyer’s primary...