Letter Five from Northern Blossom Farms: In his fifth instalment from Northern Blossom Farms, Gary Martens 
reflects on the value a garden brings to a farmer’s life
The view from Northern Blossom Farms
In this third letter from Northern Blossom Farms, Gary Martens 
discusses ways to keep trees on the landscape.
In my first letter I advocated integrating livestock and crops for the synergistic benefits of both components to the farming system. In the next letter, I discussed my crop rotation which includes perennials but is still based mainly on annual crops. In this letter, I want to propose the integration of trees as a beneficialThe view from Northern Blossom Farms - Part 2
A university instructor is turning his nano farm into a living laboratory for sustainable farming systems
I spoke to a number of young farmers recently and learned that they are questioning the business decision that every farmer makes every year: Hold $2 million in assets, invest another $250,000 cash in a crop in order to get $60,000 profit. And that is if everything goes right, which it typically doesn’t. What is
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