Newsletter
Oregon Small Farm News is a free online newsletter that concentrates on both commercial small farm entrepreneurs as well as non-commercial small acreage landowners. Our focus embraces organic/biological and conventional farming systems and emphasizes three areas:
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Small Acreage Stewardship - Addressing enterprises, land management and soil and water quality for non-commercial small acreage's.
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Commercial Small Farms - Entrepreneurial Agriculture Addressing high value horticulture, livestock and poultry, and alternative crop production emphasizing organic and pasture-based systems and specialty and niche production.
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Community Food Systems - Address alternative and specialty marketing through creation and enhancement of local and regional food systems and farm direct marketing channels.
Vol. VII No. 2 Spring 2012
Featuring
- OSU Small Farms Program Staffing Reductions & Increases
- Local Meat Producer Takes on Retail Meat Cutting
- The 2012 OSU Small Farms Retrospective
- The Small Farms Conference
- Ladies in the Fields
- Oregon’s 1000 Bird Exemption: Rules & Best Practices
- Building Community Through Food & Partnerships: Gathering Together Farm, Part 1
- Meat Measles
- Elizabeth Murphy Joins the Small Farms Program in Southern Oregon
- Expanding Niche Livestock Ranching in Oregon through Risk Management Education
- Ponding, Plugging, & Pugging: How to Care for Wet Spring Soils
- Calendar
Fiddlehead Farm: A New Take on the Multi-generational Family Farm
Farmers, Chefs, & Local Charcuterie
Food Safety for Fresh Market Growers: Manure Management & Irrigation Water
Small Farms Program & the New Generation of Farmers
Oregon DEQ Adopts New Rules to Allow Expanded Use of Greywater
Young Farmer Brings New Life to Family Farm
Using Heat Units to Schedule Vegetable Plantings, Predict Harvest Dates and Manage Crops
Rogue Farm Corps Trains Future Farmers
Farm Profile: Fort Vannoy, Grants Pass
Johne’s Disease: Don’t Bring Home More Than You Bargained For
Agritourism Turned into Agri-education: One farmer’s calling to teach kids about local food
Grafting Vegetables - Is it worth the trouble? Many growers say yes.
New Poultry Processing Options in Oregon
Growing Agripreneurs: A Farmer Incubator Program & Partnership
Big Farms Are Becoming More Dominant
Protecting Water Quality at Agricultural Composting Facilities
Small Farms Oregon Legislative Update
Permaculture Opportunities for Small Farmers in the Willamette Valley
Farm Profile: The Road From GateWay Farms to Little Farms, LLC
Buying Whole Animals: Not Only Tasty but Thrifty?
Pinning Maps Protect Vegetable Seed Quality in the Willamette Valley
Living on a Few Acres Conference Grows
Organic Vegetable Growers Share Tricks of the Trade at 9th Annual NW Farmer to Farmer Exchange
Crop Planning - One Farmer’s Approach
Pacific Northwest Researchers and Farmers Collaborate on Organic Breeding Efforts
New OSU Dairy Foods Facility Open
Pioneering a Local Food System in Central Oregon
Aminopyralid Residues in Compost
Archive of 2006 to 2008 editions