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Lessons Learned in Local Greenhouse Management with Rupert Jannasch
Season Extension
Links to digital soils maps
Links to some useful digital resources on soils in Atlantic Canada.
Soil & Compost
Year: 2023
Living Off the Land: Producing All the Food We Consume
Robin and Rebecca LeBlanc presented at the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Moncton.
Food Skills, Getting Started With Organic Farming, Infrastructure & Equipment, Season Extension, Urban Farming & Gardening
Year: 2016
Locally grown insect protein - and soil amendment
Oberland Agriscience, Halifax, NS, rears black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) which are used as a nutrient-rich, high quality protein ingredient for pet food, aquaculture and agricultural feed. The insect frass can be used as a soil amendment.
Soil & Compost
Year: 2022
Love, Money and Your Small Farm Dream Strategies for Getting Started with Roxanne Beavers and Jamey Coughlin
Business & Marketing
Maintaining Integrity in a Time of Rapid Growth
Getting Started With Organic Farming
Making Organic Society's Norm with Marjorie Willison
Business & Marketing, Food Skills
Making the Most of Your Machinery
Daniel Haartman presents at the 2016 ACORN Conference.
View the accompanying slideshow presentation here
ACORN Conference, Infrastructure & Equipment
Year: 2016
Managing Novel Green manures and Nutrient Sources in Organic Field Crop Systems
Dr. Derek Lynch, P.Ag (Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture) at the 2015 ACORN Conference PEI
ACORN Conference, Horticulture, Soil & Compost
Managing Nutrients and Soil Health in Organic Field Crop Systems
Dr. Derek Lynch and Rosalie Madden (Dalhousie University) present at the 2014 ACORN Conference.
ACORN Conference, Soil & Compost
Managing Pests and Disease in Organic Vegetables
In this presentation from the 2013 ACORN Conference in Moncton, Tim Livingstone talks about some of the common pest and disease problems they have encountered on their farm over the years, and how to deal with them organically.
ACORN Conference, Pests, Disease & Weeds
Managing the Spotted Wing Drosophlia
This workshop from the 2013 ACORN Conference in Moncton discusses on-going research on the Spotted Wing Drosophila – a fairly recent invasive pest in the Atlantic Region. Early detection and identification, damage mitigation and prevention, and organic treatment options are the main points of discussion.
ACORN Conference, Fruit & Berry, Pests, Disease & Weeds
Maritime Heritage Livestock Breeders - Directory 2009
Livestock
Maritime Heritage Livestock Breeders Directory
Find heritage breeds of livestock in the Maritimes by searching this complete directory prepared by Cheryl Williams of Shani's Farm in Nova Scotia.
Livestock
Maritime Organic Field Crops Market Study 2011
Business & Marketing
Maritime Organic Grains Network (MOGN) Newsletter Volume 2; Issue 1 Summer 2014
This newsletter includes articles about the revival of the MOGN, with guest articles about: Global Organic Grain Market by Tom Manley; Small-scale variety trials in Albert County, NB (quinoa, hulless oats and hulless barley) by Janet Wallace; The Potential for Malt Barley in the Maritimes by Aaron Mills; A Realistic View of Cash Grain Production On the Organic Farm by Jack Lazor; as well as an update from Speerville Flour Mill; and an article about Participatory Plant Breeding by ACORN's Regional Seed Program Coordinator, Steph Hughes.
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network (MOGN) Newsletter Volume 2; Issue 2 Winter 2015
This newsletter includes contributions from:
- Jason Freeman writing about Saskatchewan's wildly successful Farmer Direct Co-op, a fair-trade organic field crop and livestock marketing co-operative
- Dr. Martin Entz about his Maritime visit to organic participatory plant breeding sites in PEI and NB
- Farmer Alan Stewart and his initiative to start a Nova Scotia-based Organic Malting Facility
- Dr. Heather Darby and her latest findings about growing organic flax in northern climates
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue Five Spring 2009
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue Four Winter 2009
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue One Summer 2007
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue Six Winter 2009
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue Three Spring 2008
Grain & Field Crops
Maritime Organic Grains Network Newsletter - Issue Two January 2008
Grain & Field Crops