The American Farmland Trust has released the New York state fact sheet summarizing results from its Non-Operating Landowners, or NOLs, Survey which surveyed individually or partnership owned lands in New York, not institutions or trusts.
The most recent Practical Soil health Specialist Training was held in the Hudson Valley. New York Soil Health project members, Cornell Soil Health Lab, and Cornell Cooperative Extension all participated in delivering presentations at the workshop.
If you are interested in where art, science and soil meet, here are some fascinating collaborations and an upcoming art exhibit.
The Cornell Small Farms Program is offering a series of workshops on tarping for reduced tillage in Maine and New York this fall. Please also take their tarping survey.
Graduate students and faculty from Alabama A&M, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Delaware State and Navajo Technical University came to Cornell for an intensive 2 day workshop on soil health.