Pam Dawling, Author at Virginia Association for Biological Farming

Book Reviews

Book Review: The New Seed Starters Handbook

Nancy Bubel with Jean Nick, 2018, 452 pages Book Review by Pam Dawling, Author of…

Pam DawlingApril 26, 2024

Book Reviews

The Barefoot Farmer, Volumes I and II

The Barefoot Farmer, Volumes I and II. Jeff Poppen, 2001 and 2021, 233 and 221…

Pam DawlingMarch 26, 2024

Book Reviews

The Lean Micro Farm: How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, and Work Less

The Lean Micro Farm: How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, and Work Less.…

Pam DawlingJanuary 30, 2024

Book Reviews

The Winter Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Year-Round Harvests

The Winter Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Year-Round Harvests, Jean-Martin Fortier and Catherine…

Pam DawlingDecember 27, 2023

Book Reviews

Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community and Building an Organic Movement

This little book is not a how-to-farm book, but a very readable memoir-plus-life-philosophy of two…

Pam DawlingNovember 24, 2023

Book Reviews

The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System of Organic Agriculture

Book Review by Pam Dawling The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer…

Pam DawlingSeptember 25, 2023

VABF Virginia Association for Biological Farming

4 days ago

Action Alert! from the Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance:farmandranchfreedom.org/fight-animal-id-action-alert/ Mandatory electronic Animal ID is expensive, intrusive, and unreliable. The plan benefits two groups: the large meatpacking corporations, and the technology companies that produce electronic tags, readers, and software.We urge you to take immediate action and voice your opposition to electronic animal ID mandates! Senator Rounds has introduced a vital one-sentence bill: “The Secretary of Agriculture shall not implement any rule or regulation requiring the mandatory use of electronic identification ear tags on cattle or bison.”Call both of your U.S. Senators and urge them to sign on to Senator Rounds’ bill! Sample script: “Hi, my name is ___ and I live in [state]. I am calling to ask my Senator to sign on to S.4282 to stop electronic cattle mandates.I am concerned about this issue because [I am a rancher who relies on traditional metal tags; I am a small farmer in an isolated area without good access to tagging equipment; I am a consumer who wants to support local farmers, not international meatpackers … whatever it is, in a sentence or two, let them know why you are calling about this]" ... See MoreSee Less

ACTION ALERT: Protect Small Farmers & Ranchers from Forced Electronic ID! - Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

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Mandatory electronic Animal ID is expensive, intrusive, and unreliable. The plan benefits two groups: the large meatpacking corporations, and the technology companies that produce electronic tags,...

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VABF Virginia Association for Biological Farming

1 week ago

Looking for vegetable growers in the piedmont region of Virginia!Cover cropping in the off-season is a powerful tool for vegetable farmers to help build soil health, cycle carbon and nutrients and successfully maintain a no-till growing system, and advances in simple farm technology can allow farmers to experiment with new ways to capitalize using cover crops. Covers can be planted using a no-till drill in fall, roller-crimpers are used to terminate the cover crop in spring, and plastic mulch can be laid right on the mat of carbon that was rolled-crimped and planted into, achieving multiple benefits for the soil microbiome and spring cash crops alike.We are working directly with the Rodale Institute and partners at Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), Georgia Organics (GO) and several university research teams to quantify the benefit of cover cropping on commercial vegetable fields. From soil health metrics like aggregate stability and soil respiration to potential reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, our research and technical assistance teams will work directly with participating farmers to support the implementation of cover cropping and ensure that farmers are successful not just within the bounds of this project, but to build on their experience and expand the use of cover cropping across all of their farmed acreage.If you are a commercial vegetable farmer in the piedmont region of Virginia and are interested in participating in this project with the Rodale Institute, please contact Brent Wills, Program Manager—VABF, at programs@vabf.org or 540.947.0337. ... See MoreSee Less

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