March Policy Updates
By Mark Schonbeck, VABF Policy Liason The Freeze Continues – and Our Response is Having…
Mark Schonbeck MarkMarch 28, 2025
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
By Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the author of The Timber Press Guide to…
Ira WallaceMarch 28, 2025
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
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) has created a new award to highlight and honor…
Brent WillsFebruary 27, 2025
February 2025 Policy Updates
By Mark Schonbeck, VABF Policy Liason Hard Times – and We’re Fighting Back! I imagine…
Mark Schonbeck MarkFebruary 27, 2025
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
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
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
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
Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative partners are incentivizing the adoption of two different best management practices…
VABF AdminOctober 29, 2024
Regenerate Virginia Healthy Soils Grant
https://farmland.org/healthy-soils-grant/
VABF AdminOctober 29, 2024
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
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
 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
Fall is here and we are enjoying an increasing array of tender Collards and sweet…
Ira WallaceOctober 28, 2024
