Pictures, Stories, and Video
Video vault
Watch videos about Northeast SARE projects and topics.
The important committee that never meets
The Technical Committee is a grassroots entity that helps SARE with grant-making decisions.
Season extension
Consumer interest in locally raised foods lets farmers add an important income stream through high tunnels.
News from the states
Two new webinars on farm energy and cover crops have been archived on line.
Hubs and chains: Understanding the impacts of food distribution
The demand for local food continues to rise, but access to local products can be complicated, decentralized, and inconvenient. Planning helps.
The Organic Seed Grower
“Seed is the vital link to our agricultural past”—this is the first line on the first page of The Organic Seed Grower, a new book that is the result of a three-way partnership among author John Navazio, Chelsea Green Publishing, and Northeast SARE.
The Baltimore Alliance
Driving through the northern section of Baltimore, it’s hard not to notice the empty lots and vacant buildings, but an urban farm alliance is bringing new vitality to neighborhoods and families.
Review, rejection, renewal
While Santa’s elves were busy building toys and making lists for the boss to ponder, Northeast SARE reviewers were toiling over grant applications and making their own lists for the Administrative Council’s consideration.
Supported, empowered, inspired
Regional Coordinator Vern Grubinger looks at some recent survey results and hears an aspirational melody.
The Food Compass
An update to an interactive website on local and regional food.
Fellows & Search for Excellence Programs
SARE-sponsored professional development programs.
A Brooklyn farm finds profit in diversity
It was a Friday afternoon in late July, and the half-acre farm was buzzing with youth picking and washing vegetables on an outdoor table in preparation for the Saturday farmers market.
Barefoot Gardens dynamic frame system
Video: Eric Vander Hyde of Barefoot Gardens in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, develops a scale-appropriate three-point attachment tool system that can help small- to mid-sized operations to be more efficient and flexible.
Getting your milk goat
A new guide from Farmer Grant Specialist Carol Delaney: A Guide to Starting a Commercial Goat Dairy.
Investing in the future: Grants for graduate students
The old saying “what goes around comes around” would be an appropriate slogan for SARE’s Graduate Student Grant program, for several reasons.
Feeling the burn: Alternative weed control for cranberries
Dewberry is a serious weed in commercial cranberry bogs—it spreads quickly, crowds out the cranberry vines, and is hard to get rid of. Katherine Ghantous at the University of Massachusetts is using a $14,992 Graduate Student Grant to see if flame cultivation will control dewberry.
It takes a region: 20 years of NESAWG
The NESAWG conference has been rescheduled for February 10, 11, and 12, 2013.
Shiitake Mushrooms and Forest Farming
A new 12-page guide that covers tree selection, inoculation, and accounting for environmental factors like shade, humidity, and waxing the logs to keep out other kinds of fungi.
Delayed gratification
Is the sustainable agriculture glass half full or half empty? Regional Coordinator Vern Grubinger tackles the answers to hard questions.
Consider the beetle: Evidence of toxins moving up the food chain
No-till farming has important benefits, but its sustainability is compromised by a reliance on pesticides for insect and weed control; for instance, many field crop seeds are treated with neonicotinoid insecticides like thiamethoxam.
Farmland ConneCTions
A guide to farmland lease arrangements. Written for Connecticut, it has material that will be useful across the Northeast.
Four acres or less: New weed-control tools for smaller farms
Equipment trials specific to small vegetable farms.
Ginger: An ancient crop in the New World
An idle greenhouse sparks a new idea.
Kriemhild Dairy Farms
Grass fed, local, and value-added.
Media Contact
The regional media contact is Helen Husher.
