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| RobWood | | Nestled in the rolling landscape of York County, PA close to the Maryland line are Spoutwood Farm's 26 acres, only 45 minutes north of Baltimore. There is a sense of abundant life here amidst the variety of rolling hills, fertile bottomland, steep wooded ... Read more. | Tags: CSA, Farmer, Organic, Pennsylvania, Spiritual, SpoutwoodFarm, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.spoutwood.com/about.html
| | DarrellFrey | | Since 1989 Three Sisters Farm has been growing and marketing organic produce from our bioshelter ( solar greenhouse ) and gardens. Principles of Permaculture Design are used to guide farm development as an ecological system Read more. | Tags: Composting, Education, Farmer, Greenhouse, Organic, Pennsylvania, Permaculture, ThreeSistersFarm, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.bioshelter.com/
| | DaleDuff | | Blackberry Meadows is a certified organic vegetable farm. We also raise pastured poultry, Barbados Blackbelly sheep and free-range eggs. Read more. | Tags: BlackberryMeadows, CSA, Eggs, Farmer, GrassFed, Organic, Pasture, Pennsylvania, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.blackberrymeadows.com/
| | AnnaSalafsky | | Anna, co-owner of Helsing Junction Farm, has been farming for 16 years. Anna is a graduate of The Evergreen State College, where she studied ecological agriculture. She lives near the farm with her husband Tom and twin daughters Tess and Daisy. She is or... Read more. | Tags: Farmer, Fruits, Herbs, Naturalacres, Organic, Pennsylvania, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.helsingfarmcsa.com/farmers.html
| | SusanKilpatrick | | Farm History: Ivan W. Martin, the founder and owner of Natural Acres, has a strong background in farming. One of 15 children raised on his parents' Lancaster County farm he learned early the value of hard work and how some soil grows things better than ot... Read more. | Tags: AddedValue, Beef, Bread, Cheese, Chickens, Cows, Farmer, Milk, Naturalacres, Organic, Pennsylvania
Urls: http://www.naturalacres.com/pages/history.html
| | SusanKilpatrick | | Sue Kilpatrick grew up on a 40-acre farm in Nazareth, PA raising chickens, ducks and horses and growing vegetables. As a long-time organic gardener, Sue has been interested and curious about food and its effects on the body Read more. | Tags: CSA, Charlestowncooperativefarm, Farmer, Heirloom, Organic, Pennsylvania, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.charlestowncooperativefarm.org/The Farmers.html
| | KimTait | | It was the summer of 1986 and a bumper crop of raspberries was ripening on the canes, waiting for the pick-your-own folks to come out. In a typical summer, there were never enough berries to satisfy the hungry pickers, but this fateful season brought a we... Read more. | Tags: AddedValue, Farmer, Innovation, Pennsylvania, Raspberry, Shrub, SlowFoodUSA
Urls: http://www.slowfoodusa.org/events/terra_delegate_5.html
| | PeteComly | | We believe that our mission as farmers is to provide the highest quality farm products possible while being good stewards of the land. We use only farming practices that we believe will improve the land. Another important aspect of our farm is the humane... Read more. | Tags: Beef, Chicken, Eggs, GrassFed, Organic, Pasture, Pennsylvania, Pork, Turkey
Urls: http://www.clodhopperfarm.com/
| | KimSeeley | | Community concern and commitment to growing safe, healthy food are high on Kim Seeley's list of priorities. Kim and his wife Ann run Milky Way Dairy in Bradford County in northeastern Pennsylvania. Read more. | Tags: Dairy, FarmAid, Farming, Local, Milk, Organic, Pennsylvania
Urls: http://www.farmaid.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5685&news_iv_ctrl=1121
| | BrianFuthey | | Brian Futhey of Stone Meadow Farm in Woodward, Pennsylvania was raised a conventional dairyman. In the 90's, Futhey was having a tough time making ends meet. He explains, "It was a real squeeze. Milk prices were low, there was a drought and it was very dr... Read more. | Tags: Cheese, FarmAid, Farming, Milk, Organic, Pennsylvania
Urls: http://www.farmaid.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7077&news_iv_ctrl=1121
| | MarySetonCorboy | | All that began to change in 1997 when Mary Seton Corboy, a pioneering urban farmer, decided to turn the land into a green oasis in the middle of the city, providing fresh food and flowers to the community. Read more. | Tags: CSA, Community, FarmAid, Farming, Flowers, Organic, Pennsylvania, Small, Urban, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.farmaid.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7455&news_iv_ctrl=1121
| | MichaeleenPacholski | | Experienced beekeeper Michaeleen Pacholski stuffs paper andHoneybees pine straw into a wide, plastic cylinder that has a metal, cone-shaped cap. There is a bellows at the base of the container, and Ms. Pacholski shows a group of potential beekeepers how t... Read more. | Tags: Beekeeping, Honey, Pennsylvania, Pollination, Varroa, VoiceOfAmerica
Urls: http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-06/2005-06-28-voa61.cfm
| | ChrisPetersheim | | “We started farming in 1980, and we’ve been farming organically since then. In the beginning, we only had about one third of our farm on organic. We weren’t certified yet, so we started a roadside stand, to sell our product, to get a feel for what people ... Read more. | Tags: Basil, Beans, CollardGreens, Cucumbers, Farimg, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Organic, Pennsylvania, TheNewFarm, WinterSquash
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/depts/midatlantic/Profiles/petersheim.shtml
| | FrankOrner | | By adding value to the non-dairy output of their dairy herd, Orner Farms has increased profitability despite abysmal milk prices. Composting led to vermicomposting which led to compost tea production, expanding potential markets through good relationships... Read more. | Tags: Composting, Cow, Dairy, Diversification, Farming, Milk, Pennsylvania, TheNewFarm, Vermicomposting
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/features/2005/0205/vermicompost/index.shtml
| | KyleHolzhueter | | Nestled in the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania lies an intentional community striving to restore vitality to our land and society. Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is a land-based community of 120 people living in 14 homes as extended families.... Read more. | Tags: Apiary, Biodynamic, Farming, Goat, Milk, Pasture, Pennsylvania, Sheep, Sustainable, TheNewFarm, Therapy
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/features/2005/0605/camphill/index.shtml
| | SteveGroff | | Steve Groff is endlessly curious about new ways to use cover crops to build up his soil. A current interest is how to make forage radishes work in tandem with other cover crops. The main crops on his 175-acre farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are... Read more. | Tags: Corn, Farming, Organic, Pennsylvania, Radishes, Soybean, TheNewFarm, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/features/2005/1105/winterradish/bowman.shtml
| | KirbyReichert | | Farming is Reichert's first love and second career. His father was a farmer, and today Kirby farms his father's land, but in between he spent 24 years working as a maintenance shed supervisor for the US Postal Service. For a number of years, he tried farm... Read more. | Tags: Corn, Farming, No-till, OpenMind, Organic, Pennsylvania, TheNewFarm
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/depts/notill/features/2005/1110/reichert.shtml
| | AimeeGood | | These were among the first words Aimee and I uttered when we came to check out 8 acres of cropland for lease at The Rodale Institute’s research farm near Kutztown, Pennsylvania. We were looking for a new place to operate our CSA and market farm operations... Read more. | Tags: CSA, Farming, Farmingsoil, Organic, Pennsylvania, Start-up, TheNewFarm, Vegetables
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/features/2006/1206/quietcreek/good.shtml
| | EdieGriffiths | | "Do you want to expand the processing side of the business and leave the farm behind?" David asks rhetorically. "That's just not who we are." Or, as Edie puts it, "It's much more fun to have the cows here." Making milk When you enter the barn, you h... Read more. | Tags: AddedValue, Biodynamic, Cheese, Dairy, Farmer, Organic, Pennsylvania, Processing, TheNewFarm, Yogurt
Urls: http://www.newfarm.org/features/0404/seven-stars/index.shtml
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