Tag Archive for: Specialty Crops

Medicinal Plants at Blue Ridge Eco Fair: Introduction

Maya and Ed Skopal, the owners of I-TAL Acres, a medicinal plant…

Medicinal Plants at Blue Ridge Eco Fair: Dosages for Teas and Decoctions

Maya and Ed Skopal, the owners of I-TAL Acres, a medicinal plant…

Equipment and Infrastructure Upgrading with Ellen Polishuk: When Will it Pay Off?

Scaling up a few crops and adding a wholesale channel can often…

Episode 163. Farming Medicinal Plants

In this episode, Devona Bell, NCAT’s Director of Sustainable…
orchard

Episode 154: Using Cover Crops in an Organic Walnut Orchard

In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT's Rex Dufour interviews…
winecap mushrooms

Establishing a Wine Cap Mushroom Bed

Wine cap mushrooms can be grown in layers of straw and wood chips…
winecap mushrooms

Wine Cap Mushroom Production: Getting Started

By Nina Prater, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Last…
Andy Pressman, NCAT

Improving Seed Viability and Germination

Vegetable growers are hustling to start seeds in order to have transplants ready to go in to the ground once the soil has warmed up and dried out.
By Andy Pressman
NCAT Northeast Regional Director
pepper plants

Using Raised Beds to Increase Your Harvest

When I am faced with a less than ideal growing situation, rather than fight with Nature, I'll build a raised bed. I've built many of them over the years to suit different purposes.
By Justin C. Duncan
NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist

Episode 144. A Flower Farm Blossoms

In this episode of Voices from the Field, Tammy Howard, an agriculture…