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From Variety Trials to Seed Saving: Lettuce Production in the Northeast

From Variety Trials to Seed Saving: Lettuce Production in the Northeast

Learn all about on-farm variety trialing, selecting, isolating, and cleaning lettuce seed from three knowledgeable farmers.

EFAO’s Organic No-Till Vegetable Trials

EFAO’s Organic No-Till Vegetable Trials

Living Lab, Living Lab-Horticulture, No-Till

Ken Laing of Orchard Hill Farm is working in cooperation with EFAO to trial a wide variety of no-till methods for organic vegetable production. We will be documenting the work in a series of blogs.

Management sensitivity, repeatability, and consistency of interpretation of soil health indicators on organic farms in southwestern Ontario

Quick turnaround cover crops before brassicas

Part of a multi-farm trial on 5 farms asking the Research Question: Do spring planted cover crops benefit the production of late season brassica cash crops? Kevinâ€™s Specific Question: Does a cover crop cocktail differ from buckwheat monoculture with respect...

Pasture-raised chicken breed comparison

Summary â— The Nova Free Ranger, a new meat chicken from Nova Scotia bred for free range living, may better integrate into ecological farms and produce nutritionally-superior meat compared to the industrial White Rock â€“ Cornish Cross. â— Given the fast growth...