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Book Review Beyond the Root Cellar: The Market Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetables for Off-Season Sales and Food Security Book Reviews

Book Review Beyond the Root Cellar: The Market Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetables for Off-Season Sales and Food Security

Book Review by Pam Dawling, Author of Sustainable Market Farming: Intensive Vegetable Production on a…

Pam DawlingMarch 28, 2025

March Vegetable Gardening Tips  Garden Tips

March Vegetable Gardening Tips 

By Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the author of The Timber Press Guide to…

Ira WallaceMarch 28, 2025

VABF Stickers VABF News

VABF Stickers

Show your support! VABF Decals and Organic Cotton Tote Bags

VABF AdminMarch 4, 2025

February Vegetable Gardening Tips  Garden TipsVABF News

February Vegetable Gardening Tips 

By Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the author of The Timber Press Guide to…

VABF AdminFebruary 27, 2025

Mark Schonbeck honored with inaugural Perennial Advocate Award PolicyVABF News

Mark Schonbeck honored with inaugural Perennial Advocate Award

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) has created a new award to highlight and honor…

Brent WillsFebruary 27, 2025

February 2025 Policy Updates Policy

February 2025 Policy Updates

By Mark Schonbeck, VABF Policy Liason Hard Times – and We’re Fighting Back! I imagine…

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 27, 2025

Email Templates – Federal Funding Freeze – For farmers, organizations and supporters PolicySurveys and Action ItemsVABF News

Email Templates – Federal Funding Freeze – For farmers, organizations and supporters

Email Templates

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 27, 2025

Sample Phone Call Scripts – Federal Funding Freeze – for farmers and farm supporters PolicySurveys and Action ItemsVABF News

Sample Phone Call Scripts – Federal Funding Freeze – for farmers and farm supporters

Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 27, 2025

Funding Freeze Sample Script Policy

Funding Freeze Sample Script

SAMPLE SCRIPT: Hello, My name is __________. I am a farmer/rancher/regenerative agriculture supporter, and a…

VABF AdminFebruary 24, 2025

Urgent Message and Request Regarding Federal Funding Freeze PolicySurveys and Action ItemsVABF News

Urgent Message and Request Regarding Federal Funding Freeze

Dear All, During the recent National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition meetings in Washington, DC, we (Brent…

VABF AdminFebruary 20, 2025

2024 VABF Board of Directors Nominations VABF News

2024 VABF Board of Directors Nominations

NOW TAKING NOMINATIONS for the VABF Board of Directors  VABF relies on a volunteer Board…

VABF AdminNovember 27, 2024

SSARE Producer Grants & On-Farm Research Grants Grants and ScholarshipsVABF News

SSARE Producer Grants & On-Farm Research Grants

Southern SARE Producer Grants Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) is now accepting proposals…

VABF AdminOctober 29, 2024

Save Grassland Birds and get funding Grants and ScholarshipsVABF News

Save Grassland Birds and get funding

Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative partners are incentivizing the adoption of two different best management practices…

VABF AdminOctober 29, 2024

Regenerate Virginia Healthy Soils Grant Grants and ScholarshipsVABF News

Regenerate Virginia Healthy Soils Grant

https://farmland.org/healthy-soils-grant/

VABF AdminOctober 29, 2024

Demystifying Organic Workshops & Farm Tours VABF News

Demystifying Organic Workshops & Farm Tours

Over the past month, we were fortunate to work with our partners and two Virginia…

Brent WillsOctober 29, 2024

October 2024 Policy Updates by Mark Schonbeck Policy

October 2024 Policy Updates by Mark Schonbeck

Farm Bill Updates Urge Congress to protect Organic Certification Cost Share With the election close…

Mark Schonbeck MarkOctober 29, 2024

Book Review: Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost and Community Help Us Understand Rudolph Steiner’s Agriculture Course, by Jeff Poppen Book Reviews

Book Review: Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost and Community Help Us Understand Rudolph Steiner’s Agriculture Course, by Jeff Poppen

 Chelsea Green Publishers, 2024, 194 pages, $21.95 This book is not about farming without shoes!…

Pam DawlingOctober 29, 2024

October 2024 Garden Tips by Ira Wallace Garden Tips

October 2024 Garden Tips by Ira Wallace

Fall is here and we are enjoying an increasing array of tender Collards and sweet…

Ira WallaceOctober 28, 2024

USDA Offers Resources, Adds Flexibilities to Disaster Assistance Programs to Help Hurricane Helene-Impacted Farmers, Foresters and Communities VABF News

USDA Offers Resources, Adds Flexibilities to Disaster Assistance Programs to Help Hurricane Helene-Impacted Farmers, Foresters and Communities

News Release 1400 Independence Ave. SW Washington, DC 20250 FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov USDA Offers Resources, Adds Flexibilities…

VABF AdminOctober 28, 2024

2025 Keynote Bios VABF News

2025 Keynote Bios

Jon Jackson Jon Jackson is a distinguished U.S. Army Airborne Ranger and the current Executive…

Eryn AllowayOctober 24, 2024