Farm Blog
Fellow Mike Dupee Helping Increase Food Security among Coffee Growers
Coffee farming family, Central America. From video “After the Harvest,” produced by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
Today, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times featured an article by Fellow Mike Dupee, Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, in the Dot Earth section of the paper: “A Coffee Seller Seeks to Cut
Land stewardship and sustainable agriculture in Montana: Ways you can get involved
Anna in rye field
In addition to her full time job in Helena, Montana coordinating national-level sustainable operations for the US Forest Service, Fellow Anna Jones-Crabtree and her husband Doug Crabtree farm. They are deep into their fourth season, working weekends far to the north near the Canadian border from March through November. Neither a small-scale
Partnering Kids with Horses
Maeve on Horse-Drawn Plow
Stephen Leslie originally published this article in the 2011 Fall edition of the Small Farmer’s Journal. Reprinted with permission. Stephen runs our Farmers Apprenticeship.
At Cedar Mountain Farm, we have been hosting school groups for more than a decade. In recent years many of these visits have been under the auspices of the Farm
For the Love of Horses
Stephen Leslie originally published this article on the Cedar Mountain Farm Blog on June 16, 2010.* Reprinted with permission. Stephen runs our Farmers’ Apprenticeship.
I have always favored a broad brimmed hat over a ball cap, especially so after working on the land out west. Without a proper cover on your head the mid-summer sun will crisp
Cobb Hill Harvest Celebration: Keynote Address
By Stephen Leslie. Speech given at Cobb Hill Harvest Celebration, October 19, 2011.
Introduction
I was not born into the farming life. A child of suburbia, I came into agriculture by a circuitous route and did not start farming fulltime until I was 31 years old. As a young adult I attended art school and then soon after
