Growing high quality transplants helps get vegetable crops off to a strong start in the field, and it’s essential to customer satisfaction if you are selling transplants. At the recent New England Vegetable and Fruit conference I picked up many of the following tips on transplant production from presentations by Jan van der Heide of …
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High and Dry Growing Vegetables in Northern New England High Tunnels | Spring 2026, Issue 8
Welcome to the eighth issue of High and Dry: Growing Vegetables in Northern New England High Tunnels, a quarterly newsletter linking growers, researchers, and agricultural service providers to enhance protected crop production. (view/download this newsletter as a PDF) The snow has vanished, evenings grow longer, and — even on a chilly day — when the …
Farmers and their Diversified Horticultural Marketing Strategies | 1999
This 49-minute educational video features 14 farmers from 8 farms in the Northeast describing their marketing practices for fresh produce. The farmers explain their approaches to the use of: roadside stand, farmers’ market, large-scale Community Supported Agriculture, multiple markets, internet sales, pick-your-own, restaurant sales, and a wholesale marketing cooperative.
Vegetable Farmers and their Weed Control Machines | 1995
This 75-minute educational video features 9 New England vegetable farmers demonstrating and describing cultivation and flame weeding tools, including: basket, finger, and tine weeders, rotary hoe, rolling cultivator, Bezzerides implements, backpack and tractor-mounted flamers.
Farmers and their Ecological Sweet Corn Production | 2001
This 50-minute educational video features 12 farmers from 5 states in the Northeast describing techniques they use to grow sweet corn while optimizing use of natural resources and minimizing inputs. These include hairy vetch as a cover crop, soil tests, soil heat monitoring, floating row covers, pest scouting and monitoring, mechanical weed control, banded herbicide …
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Farmers and Their Innovative Cover Cropping Techniques | 2005
This 70-minute educational video features 10 vegetable farmers in 5 Northeastern states demonstrating and describing a variety of cover cropping techniques including rye, wheat, oats and/or hairy vetch as winter covers; winter rye for strawberry mulch; field peas as a spring cover; hairy vetch and rye strips grown between crops; soil spader for incorporating cover …
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Vegetable Farmers and their Sustainable Tillage Practices | 2007
This 45-minute video was produced as a tool to educate vegetable farmers about a range of reduced tillage practices that promote soil health. The practices were demonstrated and explained by experienced farmers and researchers on nine farms in five northeastern states. Topics covered included: introduction to sustainable tillage, using a soil spader, a no-till mulch …
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Vermont Farms Growing Vegetable and/or Berries
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Equipment and Suppliers for Veg & Berry Farms
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