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
Wrightstown Farmers' Market Opens for the Season
The Wrightstown Farmers' Market opens for the season on May 5, 9 am - 1 pm! Come buy your locally produced and grown food this Saturday and every Saturday until Thanksgiving.  [More]
Fresh and Local
Snipes Farm Day Camp This Summer
Farm Day Camp at Snipes Farm & Education Center, starting the week of June 25th.  [More]
Spring courses, workshops for new and aspiring farmers
Are you a new or aspiring farmer? Penn State Extension offers classes, workshops, demonstrations and information for: Farm Dreamers, New Farmers and Diversifying Farmers.  [More]
Stories You May Have Missed...
Vegetable Gardens Go Vertical
by Laura Brandt, Doylestown Patch
Derek Fell, a longtime organic gardener who lives in Pipersville, shared his tips and techniques for creating high production vegetable gardens in small spaces.  [More]
Federal grants aim to bring local food to school tables
Program aims to sustain and grow local food producers while nourishing America’s schools. Proposals are due by June 15.  [More]
Big Corn's Big PR Problem
It’s been a bad week for corn. Less than a month after the Midwest heat wave threw a wrench into this year’s growing season, high-fructose corn syrup has been the subject of several scathing studies on its damage to the environment and human health.  [More]
'Pink slime' distracts from food safety fight
After the product formerly known as "lean finely textured beef" came to be known as "pink slime," it quickly became unwelcome in many grocery stores, school cafeterias and fast-food chains.  [More]
U.S. Tightens Rules on Antibiotics Use for Livestock
Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the tens of thousands of human deaths that result each year from the drugs’ overuse.  [More]
Five States Now Have 'Ag-Gag' Laws on the Books
Criminal codes in Iowa and Utah were used this year to keep secrets on factory farms by threatening jail time for anyone working undercover and taking pictures or video of animals without permission.  [More]
Promoting Local Partnerships
Local Bucks restaurants, farms and companies are partnering in sustainable ways.  [More]