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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:

  • Small Acreage Stewardship - Addressing enterprises, land management and soil and water quality for non-commercial small acreage's.

  • 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.

  • Community Food Systems - Address alternative and specialty marketing through creation and enhancement of local and regional food systems and farm direct marketing channels.

Vol. VIII No. 2 Spring 2013

Featuring

  • The 13th OSU Small Farms Conference

  • FSMA & Small Farms: Time to Weight In

  • Session Videos from the 2013 OSU Small Farms Conference Available Online

  • From Poulet to Gullet: Poultry Processing at Standing Stone Brewery  

  • 2013 OSU Small Farms Conference Sources Food from Local Farms

  • You Can, But Should You?                 

  • Finding Support through Farmer to Farmer Networking 

  • Notes from the Northwest Farmer-to-Farmer Exchange

  • MSN.com Slideshow Highlights New Generation of Oregon Farmers   

  • Calendar       

Vol. VIII No. 1 Winter 2013

Growing Farms: Successful Whole Farm Management Workshops

Getting to Yes for Agritourism in Oregon

Strengthening Agriculture’s Infrastructure: Notes from a WSARE Conference in Portland

Pregnant Animal Care NRCS Helps Fund Seasonal High Tunnels

Winter Farmscaping: Enhancing Riparian Vegetation along Ponds & Waterways Registration Opens - Training Program For New Urban Farmers

Headwaters Farm Incubator Program: Cultivating the Next Generation of Farm Stewards 

 

Vol. VII No. 4 Fall 2012

small farm newletter cover - biking farmer

A Glimpse of What We Do and Do Well Growing Farms: Successful Whole Farm Management Grows Farmers Growing Agripreneurs: Training the Next Generation of Farmers Local Meats and Marketing              

Oregon’s Women Farmer Networks: Support for Women, Success for Farms  

Enhancing Organic Agriculture in Oregon Growing Farms Online: Online Education for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Nitrogen Management in Organic Vegetables: Work in Progress

USDA Inspected Meat Processing Comes to NE Oregon 

Blazing a Trail with Whole Carcass  Butchery Boulton & Son Opens in Ashland, Oregon 

Building Community Through Food & Partnerships: Gathering Together Farm, Part 2  Wild Garden Seed &  Avoca Seed

First Annual Small Farm School

Accident at Lonesome Whistle Farm: Beans, Grains and Love 

Vol. VII No. 3 Summer 2012

small farm newletter cover - eggplantOld Mill Feed & Garden
Genetically Modified Organisms Continue to Be a Controversial Topic in Agriculture
The Annual NW Farmer to Farmer Exchange Turned Ten This Winter in the Cascade Mountains Summer Livestock Series
How Secure Is Your Farm?
The Microbiology of Meat Processing: Learning Opportunity
New Study Finds Grass-Fed Beef Reduces Carbon Footprint
Small Acreage Landowners Get Clean Irrigation Water After Dispute Resolution

 

Vol. VII No. 2 Spring 2012

small farm newletter cover - meat processing equipmentLocal Meat Producer Takes on Retail Meat Cutting
The 2012 OSU Small Farms Retrospective
The Small Farms Conference
Oregon’s 1000 Bird Exemption: Rules & Best Practices
Building Community Through Food & Partnerships: Gathering Together Farm, Part 1
Meat Measles
Ponding, Plugging, & Pugging: How to Care for Wet Spring Soils

 

Vol. VII No. 1 Winter 2012

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

 

Vol. VI No. 4 Fall 2011

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    

 

 

Vol. VI No. 3 Summer 2011

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

 

Vol. VI No. 2 Spring 2011

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

 

Vol. VI No. 1 Winter 2011

small farms winter 2011 newsletter cover - man cutting doughFarm Profile: Fields Farm

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

Do You Have Lousy Animals?

 

 

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