Innovation plays an important role in production at our farm whether it be for harvesting, weeding or monitoring the greenhouses. In the 2020 growing season our production team adopted a few technologies that are providing new ways to farm.
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A training program for beginner farmers led by GrowNYC and hosted by the Farm Hub, adapts to changing times. Despite COVID-19, La Nueva Siembra business planning course and the three farmer participants who launched their businesses this year.
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The Akwesasne Seed Rematriation Garden marked its fifth anniversary with several milestones, including a new name and new partnerships.
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The autumn season has included a wide variety of projects and initiatives for staff at the Hudson Valley Farm Hub. These include hosting a two-day in-person tractor intensive for women, partnering with the Kingston YMCA Farm Project on the third annual winter market, and marking organic certification for fields crops from NOFA-NY (Northeast Farming Association of New York).
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A drone-driven photo essay by Oceans 8 that captures the Farm Hub landscape as it shifts from summer to fall.
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Growing crops successfully in an organic farming system requires special attention to soil quality and nutrient management. We want to harness the soil’s abilities to provide natural nutrients such as nitrogen and trace elements to the fullest extent possible without outside inputs of nutrients and without depleting the soil.
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The Farm Hub’s Jay Goldmark and Andrew Casner provide a window into growing organic food-grade grains at the farm using micronutrient foliar applications.
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Anne Bloomfield, Applied Farmscape Ecology Program Manager, writes about her experience working with a farmer to create American Kestrel nesting habitat in a hop yard.
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Language Justice is more than interpretation and translation. It is a culture and a way of seeing the world. At the Farm Hub, the Language Justice team has increased efforts to share skills and the culture with the community in Kingston and beyond.
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Growers experiment with minimum to no-till to enhance soil health “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because […]
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