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A wheel hoe in dirt next to bright green field cropswww.sare.org resources choosing-the-right-tools-for-your-farm

Choosing the Right Tools For Your Farm

A manual created by Ain Chike and Georgia Organics outlines hand tools, small engines, their utility descriptions and where to source them for growers in the Southeast. It allows readers...

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Guide to Honey Bee Queen Banking

This guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of establishing and maintaining a queen bank. The guide starts with the basics and walks the reader through each step to...

Farm Education for the Deaf Community Introduction Video cover showing a factor and a fieldwww.sare.org resources farm-education-for-the-deaf-community-introduction-american-sign-language

Farm Education for the Deaf Community—Introduction (American Sign Language)

In this video, Monu introduces the video series created to provide farm education to the deaf community. The series is available in both in American Sign Language and Nepali Sign...

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Pollinator-Friendly Cover Cropping for Vegetable Producers in the Upper Midwest

Growers are increasingly interested in adding cover crops to rotations to improve soil health, break disease cycles, and provide ecosystem services. In addition to these benefits, cover crops present an...

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Farming Matters Video Series

In 2022, NCR-SARE launched a storytelling video series, “Farming Matters,” featuring SARE grantees. Join NCR-SARE staff members Erin Schneider and Marie Flanagan as they learn more about what inspires and...

The Art of Climate Dialogue podcast cover image of flowers, earth, and cloudsnorthcentral.sare.org resources the-art-of-climate-dialogue-stories-from-iowa

"The Art of Climate Dialogue" Podcast Series

The cover art for the "Art of Climate Dialogue" podcast was created by podcast interviewee Moselle Nita Singh. "The Art of Climate Dialogue" podcast series features thirteen conversations with farmers,...

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What is Sustainable Agriculture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iloAQmroRK0&list=PLWlltQ6Oy0zpgxVhd2vZqTDvVXpPhSVd0 Episode 1 of our video series What is Sustainable Agriculture? takes a look at the whole farm approach to sustainability and illustrates how cover crops, conservation tillage, ecological pest...

Meat Processing Guide Covernorthcentral.sare.org resources guide-to-building-a-meat-processing-facility

Guide to Building a Meat Processing Facility

A new decision tool is now available for those interested in the meat industry. With support from a $39,863 NCR-SARE Partnership grant, South Dakota State University (SDSU) meat scientists teamed...

America's Heartland logo over glowing corn fieldwww.sare.org resources leaders-in-sustainable-agriculture

Leaders in Sustainable Agriculture Featured on America's Heartland

SARE partnered with PBS KVIE to produce an episode of RFD-TV's America's Heartland that features four farmers describing their commitment to sustainability, how they plan to meet farming challenges of...

Cover of Farming with Soil Life book featuring boots on the ground, showing soil and a few insect images.www.sare.org resources farming-with-soil-life

Farming with Soil Life

This handbook, created by The Xerces Society, dives into soil biology. It provides a connection between healthy soils and healthy invertebrates found in temperate agricultural soils. Farming with Soil Life...

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Lessons to Go for Youth by KC Farm School

KC Farm School at Gibbs Road is a nonprofit organization on a 14-acre urban farm in Kansas City, Kansas. With support from a $4,000 NCR-SARE Youth Educator grant, KC Farm...

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Resilient Farmers, Ranchers and Communities: Social Sustainability in Agriculture

When Nfamara Badjie, Dawn Hoyte and other family members started Ever-Growing Family Farm in Upstate New York in 2014, they had an improbable vision: that they could grow rice well...

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Exploring Hydroponics with Youth

Hydroponic crop systems can be a sustainable alternative for some farmers because they can support year-round production, have higher yields per area, be well-suited for urban agriculture, and be profitable....

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Manage Weeds on Your Farm Video Series

Learn more with the book Manage Weeds on Your Farm. In this series, experienced farmers from around the country talk about how they have found success controlling weeds by following...

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Transitioning to Organic Production

Farmers and ranchers decide to pursue organic certification for many personal, financial and environmental reasons. This publication introduces you to the requirements of the USDA National Organic Program and outlines...

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Managing Stress

Farming and ranching are stressful businesses. One key metric of a farm's sustainability is its capacity to provide a quality of life that meets one of our most basic human...

Cover of Scaling Up print publication, featuring an image of a man and a woman and another image of a woman walking through a field of radishes.www.sare.org resources scaling-up-your-vegetable-farm-for-wholesale-markets

Scaling Up Your Vegetable Farm for Wholesale Markets

For direct market farmers, expanding your operation to capture local and regional wholesale markets can represent an opportunity. But such a shift brings with it many changes to how you...

Cover of Cultivos de Cobertura para Rotaciones de Cultivos showing brassicas, forage radish and sunn hemp plants.www.sare.org resources cultivos-de-cobertura-para-rotaciones-de-cultivossustentables

Cultivos de Cobertura para Rotaciones de Cultivos Sustentables

Cultivos de Cobertura para Rotaciones de Cultivos Sustentables is an abbreviated, Spanish language translation of SARE's Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations topic brief. It is also available in English...

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Manure Composting Video Series

Many farms, especially organic farms, use compost to build better soil. Composting involves managing organic waste so microbes can break down the material, turning it into compost. Most organic materials,...

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CSA Starts Here: Video Series

CSA Starts Here is an educational video series for aspiring and beginning CSA farmers from the CSA Innovation Network. These twelve free videos will help you evaluate whether or not...

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