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Sustainable Food Purchasing Guide

This guide was published by the Yale Sustainable Food Project through a Northeast SARE grant to help institutions determine how to source the most sustainable food for their kitchens. It...

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Biodiesel Safety and Best Management Practices for Small-Scale Noncommercial Use and Production

The objective of this Penn State publication, Biodiesel Safety and Best Management Practices for Small-Scale Noncommercial Use and Production, is to review some of the accepted practices associated with small-scale biodiesel...

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Iowa State University's Small Meat Processors' Working Group Produces Consumer Guide to Whole Animal Buying

Created by the Iowa State University’s Small Meat Processors’ Working Group, “Beef and Pork Whole Animal Buying Guide” explains buying whole animals or portions buying pork and beef from local...

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Clean Energy Farming

Across the country, as energy prices climb, farmers are turning more and more to clean energy practices. From energy-saving light bulbs to solar panels to fuels grown and processed on...

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Guide to USDA's NASS End of Season Fruit and Vegetable Inquiry

This plain language guide from New Entry Sustainable Farming Project helps farmers complete the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) End of Season Fruit and Vegetable Survey. The guide explains...

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Financing the Farm: Applying for an FSA Loan

This plain language guide from New Entry Sustainable Farming Project helps farmers apply for a USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) loan. These loans can help producers start, expand or own...

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Harvesting Crops for Market

This plain language guide from New Entry Sustainable Farming Project shares information on when to harvest vegetables, how to prepare produce for harvest, and safe handling of produce after harvest....

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Managing Risks on the Small Farm

This plain language guide from New Entry Sustainable Farming Project introduces farmers to the risks of farming. It explains the five types of risk—production, marketing, worker, legal and financial—and provides...

Virginia Tech information sheetwww.sare.org resources reduced-tillage-and-cover-cropping-systems-for-organic-vegetable-production

Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping Systems for Organic Vegetable Production

Healthy soils comprise the foundation for organic food and fiber production. Sustainable soil management integrates cover cropping, other organic and natural mineral inputs, and judicious tillage practices to obtain high...

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High Tunnels

Table of contents Case Studies-----------------------------2 High Tunnels and Marketing--------23 Site Considerations--------------------26 Selecting Your Structure-----------28 Construction Tips---------------------40 Environmental Management--------47 Soil and Crop Management---------54 Pest Management--------------------60 The manual was written by Ted...

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Dairy Your Way

This publication was created to provide information that will help producers explore the many choices available for today’s dairy farms. This book is not intended to be a how-to dairy...

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GIS Applications in Agriculture: Nutrient Management for Improved Energy Efficiency

GIS Applications in Agriculture:  Nutrient Management for Improved Energy Efficiency provides an outline of how management recommendations are developed and how a ground-based active sensor can be used. It contains...

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Herd Health in Alternative Swine Systems

This herd health guide is a product of The Research Alliance for Farrowing: The Weak Link in Alternative Swine Systems. The need for the Research Alliance for Farrowing (RAF) project was first voiced by farmers...

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Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Edition

Managing Cover Crops Profitably explores how and why cover crops work, and provides all the information needed to build cover crops into any farming operation. Along with detailed management information...

Rangeland.jpgwww.sare.org resources rangeland-management-strategies

Rangeland Management Strategies

Features innovative SARE-funded research on creating and sustaining a healthy range. Throughout, researchers and ranchers share goals and successes in winter and multi-species grazing, managing forage and other vegetation and protecting...

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Caring for the Soil as a Living System

In organic and sustainable cropping systems, the soil life is the engine of soil fertility and crop production, as well as the guardian of long-term soil health. In this information...

https://sare.org/content/download/69539/985555/Cover_crops_for_soil_building.pdf?inlinedownload=1www.sare.org resources cover-cropping-on-farm-solar-powered-soil-building

Cover Cropping: On-Farm, Solar-Powered Soil Building

Sustainable farmers and gardeners know that the soil needs to be “fed” regularly in order to continue yielding good crops. Organic matter (carbon-based materials derived from living organisms) and nitrogen...

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Cover Crops for All Seasons

One of the basic tenets of sustainable agriculture is that greater diversity yields greater agro-ecosystem stability, more beneficial organisms, fewer pests and diseases, more sustained crop yields, and more opportunities...

Virginia Association for Biological Farming information sheetwww.sare.org resources using-manually-operated-seeders-for-precision-cover-crop-plantings-on-the-small-farm

Using Manually Operated Seeders for Precision Cover Crop Plantings on the Small Farm

Growing good cover crops begins with planting the seed uniformly and at the right rate and depth to ensure a good stand. This can be especially challenging for small-scale farms...

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Sustainable Forestry Management for Productive Woodlands

A series of fact sheets from Sustainable Woodlands and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service on opportunities for management of productive woodlands for limited-resource landholders. The fact sheets cover such...

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