Are holistic orcharding tips helpful? Or will fruit tree pests and pathogens laugh in your face?!?! For several years I've been absorbing holistic orcharding tips and gardening wisdom from Michael Phillips. I no longer recall how I came across the "pied piper" of organic, … [Read more...] about Holistic Orcharding Tips
Orchards
Organic Orcharding
For the last few years I've made brazen claims about holistic, organic orcharding and gardening. No pesticides. No way; no how. Period. No exceptions. I've refused to spray our fruit trees to inoculate them against all of the baddies that lurk in an orchard's tender places. I've … [Read more...] about Organic Orcharding
Food from the Farm (Valley News)
Last weekend’s Food from the Farm event in Plattsburgh drew over 400 visitors seeking to learn more about buying food produced in their neighborhoods. Amy Ivy, the official with Cornell Cooperative Extension who organized the festival, surveyed a room packed with producers … [Read more...] about Food from the Farm (Valley News)