Sustainable agriculture
Building Perennial Raised Beds
Participants arrived to the Building Permanent Raised Beds workshop, at the Incubator Farm and taught by Sean Dembroski of Edible Acres, from as close as Ecovillage and as far as…
Read MoreGroundswell Story: Main Street Farms
Allan and Bob Cat, owners of Main Street Farms in Homer NY, are graduates of Groundswell Center programs who now operate a small diversified vegetable farm that does CSA and…
Read MoreHelp advocate for young farmers: Take the National Young Farmer Survey
Take the National Young Farmer Survey and let Congress know that #FarmersCount! The survey is conducted every five years by the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) in order to understand…
Read MoreCornell Small Farms Announces Support For Shiitake Viability Development
The Cornell Small Farms Program announces a new two-year project funded through the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant to support the development of a new niche crop in New…
Read MoreQ&A with Groundswell Board Member Mary Kate Wheeler: Climate Change, Water Access and Farming in Peru
Cornell graduate student and Groundswell Board Member Mary Kate Wheeler spent 6 months in 2015 working in Peru collaborating with a local nonprofit, CARE Perú, to conduct surveys with 500 households…
Read MoreFarmer Interview : Evangeline Sarat talks Living Wages
Sweetland Farm, in Trumansburg, NY has been in operation for 10 years. In 2015 owner/farmer Evangeline Sarat decided to start paying her employees a living wage. Groundswell Director Elizabeth Gabriel sat…
Read MoreFrom the Director April 2016: Living Wages & Sustainable Outcomes
Greetings Groundswell friends, farmers and supporters, The minimum wage increase signed into law this week by Governor Cuomo is big news for all New York State businesses and employees –…
Read MoreFrom the Director
Just a couple Saturdays ago, I had the huge pleasure of hanging out with some of the area’s most amazing farmers, foodies, visionaries, activists and dreamers…. and LOTS of energetic…
Read MoreThe Quintessential Black Farmer: Sista Sophia and Lady Buggs Farm
Sophia Buggs and Lady Buggs Farm, a farm and spiritual center. by Kirtrina Baxter When this interview started out it was not your conventional conversation. Sophia Buggs is a magikal…
Read MoreGroundswell Goes to Kentucky, Finds Friends in the Local & Just Foods Movement
Wendell Berry greets the crowd at the SAEA conference. By Sam Bosco, Groundswell CRAFT Coordinator It may be strange to see Groundswell, Lexington, Kentucky (over 650 miles away), and the…
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