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Monadnock Food Co-op Hosts Ice Cream Social Fundraiser To Benefit the Monadnock Localvores KEENE, NH – The Monadnock Food Co-op and Walpole Creamery will host an Ice Cream Social Fundraiser on Saturday, June 22, 2019, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. to benefit the Monadnock Localvores Jeffrey P. Smith Farm Camp Scholarship Program that offers financial […] Slide 23 from Common Ground: The Circle of Life presentation by Cat Buxton. Jessie Haas Soil is mysterious. We have identified only about 5% of soil micro-organisms, which means we have no idea what we’re doing when we garden, farm, or build. But we’re learning. Recently, soil scientist Christine Jones introduced the idea of […] Image: Ben Fulton David Fried Here in the north country of Vermont, winter with its swirls of snow and deep chunks of ice can have us wondering when will life begin again? The trees sway back and forth in the winds, and you can hear them cracking and popping on the coldest nights, cells […] Sheep graze below solar panels. Photo: Merrill Smith, U.S. Department of Energy. George Harvey In April, two reports on the use of solar panels on agricultural land appeared almost simultaneously. One was a press release from Fraunhofer ISE, “Agrophotovoltaics: High Harvesting Yield in Hot Summer of 2018” (Fraunhofer report). The […] Dandelions are an important early food source for bees in the springtime. Image: Jo from Pixabay via Wikimedia Commons. George Harvey When I was about four years old, I visited my grandfather’s house in Kansas. One of the various things I remember about that trip was watching as he did yard work. […] An article at BBC News said there is three times more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere, but that carbon is being released by deforestation and poor farming. This is both fueling climate change and reducing our ability to feed the growing population. Problems include soils being eroded, compacted by machinery, […] Image: newswise.com Jessie Haas When UVM agronomic and soils specialist Heather Darby initiated a study of twenty grass-fed dairy farms three years ago, there were 130 of them nationwide. This year she is heading a study of all grass-fed dairies, and there are now 500. The effort is funded by a $1 million grant […] Image drawn by Ben Fulton – Enhanced by N.R. Mallery David Fried The way it sits there. The way they all work together as one. Fluttering and relaxing to produce energy from the sun. How does a leaf open? I don’t really know. I want someone to […] Image: pixabay.com Evan Lawrence In Vermont, a program that pays farmers to generate electricity from cow manure provides enough power for 3,200 homes. In New York, farmers are discouraged by low power prices that make it difficult for the expensive manure-powered systems to break even. Fourteen of Vermont’s roughly 800 dairy farms […] |
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