Today’s Marketing Objective: Communicate your expectations
Employees, family members and partners quizzed about business complications often offer up the same phrase: “We didn’t fully understand what was expected of us!”
(more…)The plasma alarm clock
By the time you read this, winter will be heading toward its end, either by crawling along slowly or by happily retreating so that the sun can finally make its triumphant return. That means it is almost time for another planting season – but for now, we are still often constrained by waiting for the seasons to change.
(more…)High tunnel production: Warm-season crops
by Tamara Scully
Amy Ivy of Cornell Cooperative Extension, Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture, and Mike Davis, manager of the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm, have been conducting high tunnel research to help growers determine which warm season plants do best in high tunnel conditions compared to field-grown counterparts and how best to grow those crops to capture their market value.
(more…)Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo 2018
by Michael Wren
BOXBOROUGH, MA — Wednesday, Nov. 7 began the first day of the 2018 Northeast Greenhouse Conference and Expo at the Boxborough, MA Regency Hotel. The two-day event is the Northeast’s premier trade show for the horticulture industry. Since the first conference in 1972 in Lynnfield, MA the conference has continued to grow considerably and now accommodates over 1,000 attendees and almost 100 vendors.
(more…)Building a connection
by Sally Colby
Matt Chandler has made some major decisions over the past year, including a plan to return full-time to his family’s farm in Fillmore, IN.
(more…)Planting the seeds to Grow Appalachia
by Courtney Llewellyn
Berea, KY, population 15,000, sits right in the middle of the Bluegrass State. It is home to both an organization called Fahe and Grow Appalachia, a program run through Berea College. The two groups have similar missions because they are fighting the same fight – they are trying to rebuild one of the poorest regions of America.
(more…)Different by design
by Sally Colby
When Ben and Amy Lindner started growing vegetables and plants in an area already populated with numerous greenhouses, they knew they had to distinguish themselves in order to be successful. The couple established Tender Shoots Gardens and Greenhouse on Ben’s parents’ former dairy farm in Greenwood, WI.
(more…)Groth’s Gardens serves a niche market
by Greg Hitchcock
Step along the streets of Winterset, Iowa, and many people will notice the beautiful hanging baskets of pink petunias along the sidewalks coloring the haze of a bright spring day. The hanging baskets are the product of Groth’s Gardens and Greenhouses, a Winterset gardening business owned by the Groths.
(more…)Pelloni’s Farm Market
by Laura Rodley
HINSDALE, NH – The days might be getting colder, but there’s still wood to be cut to get ready for next spring’s maple sugaring season at Pelloni’s Farm Market. (more…)
Cultivating creativity
by Sally Colby
Sneed’s Nursery is a whimsical, magical place to visit year-round, but for the holiday season, the Sneed’s team transforms the Richmond, VA, business into a wonderland for the senses. (more…)
Quality over quantity
by Sally Colby
Healthy, generational farms evolve over the years, and that’s the case with Witte’s Vegetable Farm. Scott Witte, fourth generation farmer on the Cedarburg, WI, farm, recalls the farm’s early days. (more…)
Little Leaf Farms: Greens for all seasons
by Tamara Scully
Food grown as close to home as possible, by local farmers, is a lot easier during the growing season than during the harsh winters found in the Northeast. (more…)
