Sustainable Farming

Learning about sustainable food and farming is a fun and worthy, if at times challenging, endeavor to embrace. As with all big-thought topics, it can be hard to know where to begin, especially if [...]

  We’re always thrilled to highlight our amazing grantees, including one of this year’s winners, 47 Daisies, a small agricultural nonprofit in Vassalboro, ME. They grow vegetables, fruit, [...]

In our last post we discussed making the most of fall’s cool weather by adding perennials to your garden. Another way to enjoy fall in the garden is to build a cold frame to help extend [...]

Spring may be the busiest planting season, but fall is also a wonderful time to add to your garden. Some perennials thrive when planted in fall. The soil is still warm, there’s less disease and [...]

When you picture farming, plastic probably isn’t on your mind. However, plastic has become a huge part of modern agriculture. It’s part of the entire farming process, from the plastic trays [...]

Heirloom crops are those varieties of vegetables, fruit, and livestock that existed before commercial varieties. They were the crops passed down from one generation to the next, saved each year [...]

Sustainable farming encompasses more than food, and fiber farmers are one group that’s often overlooked. Although cheaply made synthetics dominate the textile market these days, there are still [...]

Despite being central to our everyday survival, food is something that’s often missing from our history books. The gathering, domestication, and cultivation of foods has played a large role in [...]

At The FruitGuys Community Fund we look to fund ecologically sustainable projects. One of the projects that we’ve been proud to support is the transition to no-till agriculture. No-till [...]

Starting your own plants from seed can be one of the most satisfying parts of gardening. It’s amazing to watch something that was once just a speck turn into pounds of food under your care. [...]