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Special Event
Wed Feb 1, 7:30 pm
Extending Your Gardening Season with Jenn McCracken
Wed Feb 1, 7:30 pm
Extending Your Gardening Season with Jenn McCracken
The Bucks County Foodshed Alliance will host a program on "Extending Your Gardening Season" with Jenn McCracken of The Turnip Truck Organic Gardens. [More]
Additional Information
We're making available for loan a variety of CDs and tapes from the recent PASA and NOFA conferences. Check out this listing of what's available.
BCFA News
Jenn McCracken to Speak on Feb 1The Bucks County Foodshed Alliance will host a program on "Extending Your Gardening Season" with Jenn McCracken of The Turnip Truck Organic Gardens. [More]
Wrightstown and New Hope to hold winter marketsDont' fret! You'll be able to buy from your favorite farmers market vendors at two winter markets - Wrightstown and New Hope. [More]
Fresh and Local
Spring courses, workshops for new and aspiring farmersAre you a new or aspiring farmer? Penn State Extension offers classes, workshops, demonstrations and information for: Farm Dreamers, New Farmers and Diversifying Farmers. [More]
Hope of the Harvest: Hunger No LongerAn interactive forum featuring speakers, breakout sessions and a keynote presentation by Russell Redding, Dean of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at Delaware Valley College. [More]
New online resource for apple growersWith the arrival of apple-harvest season, researchers and extension educators in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have teamed with counterparts from across the country to establish a new online resource about growing apples and apple production. [More]
Stories You May Have Missed...
Obstacles for Beginning FarmersYoung and beginning farmers need capital, land and health insurance. [More]
NOSB reviews recommendationsRodale Institute farm director Jeff Moyer highlights the top decisions taken at the latest National Organic Standards Board Meeting in Savannah, Georgia this winter. Click here to see the decisions.
Who’s serving the food in your child’s school cafeteria?An increasingly cozy alliance between companies that manufacture processed foods and companies that serve the meals is making students fat and sick... [More]
Beginning Farmer Land Contract Program to launch in JanuaryThe program, run by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, reduces the financial risk for retiring farmers who sell their farm land to a beginning or socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher... [More]
The Farm Bill SimplifiedLearn more about the Farm Bill with this simple and powerful presentation. [More]
'Locally Grown' Food a $4.8 Billion BusinessA new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of "local foods," whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008. That's a number several times greater than earlier estimates, and the department predicts locally grown foods will generate $7 billion in sales this year. Read the full article here... [More]