The Essentials

The Northeast Beginning Farmer Project took the New Beginning Farmer website live Feb. 15. The site offers expanded tools and new resources to support aspiring, new and diversifying Northeast farmers. Also on the site: video of farmers and their production techniques in action; interviews with farmers sharing advice on profitability, choosing an enterprise, evaluating land [...]

The Cornell Small Farms Program offers the online course Starting a Small-Scale Vegetable Farm Jan. 5 – Feb. 23. The course incorporates optional face-to-face meetings at the Northeast Organic Farming Association conference Jan. 22-23 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The course covers site selection, enterprise budgets, cultivation, equipment, cover crops and more. $150.