Livestock can be a wonderful tool for both farm profitability and ecological health of the farm, if only managed correctly.
There is too much going on and we are too close to the conference to be eloquent and wax poetic about the conference and how amazing it is shaping up to be. So, we’ve condensed this newsletter into a bullet list for your reading pleasure.
Here are the top 7 reasons to attend this year’s NOFA Summer Conference:
7. You can spend an entire summer weekend shopping……for delightful, high quality, locally made organic products!
6. We are all soil nerds and soil nerd lovers and we think you are as well.
5. You just may find your lifelong farming family.
“Inch by inch, row by row, I’m going to make this garden grow, all I need is a rake and a hoe…”
Those two tools will indeed get you a long way in the garden or on a small farm, but I doubt I’m alone in having perhaps one hundred more that I use on my farm at some point through the year, from broadcast seeders to harvest knives, from dibbles to spading forks, from flail mower to hay baler. But there are a small handful that I consider so indispensable, and such a pleasure to use, that I look forward to most of the jobs that require them, and they are never far from hand. Here are my five favorite tools:
What a glorious day! Mid 70’s, the sun is shining, there’s a slight breeze- a perfect day to be working in the garden. But alas, here I sit looking out of my screen house at the beauty and lamenting my inability to be doing just that. Two weeks ago I took a tumble off of my very slippery, rain slick deck, a 6-foot drop onto a stone pathway. Ouch! The bruises, contusions, pulled muscles and aches and pains are slowly healing, whereas, it will take longer for my broken wrist and thumb to heal. Maybe, this is another sign from the universe for me to slow down. It surely reinforces our decision to sell our homestead, as it is way too much work as we age, especially for Pru to have to do it all, without my help.
However, a one-armed woman using a voice app. on the computer can still write an article for this newsletter. I thought I would continue the topic of my homesteading journey- part three. (Read Part One and Part Two.)
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NOFA Summer Conference
NOFA Summer Conference with keynote Sandor Katz
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Organic Certification
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Raw Milk Network
Buy fresh, unpasteurized milk from a local farm.
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Soil Carbon Restoration
Read our Soil Carbon Restoration white paper
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Soil Technical Assistance Program
Help with soil balancing