by Jade Greene The 2022 BCFA Summer Farm Tour series concluded with a bang on 8/3 with a tour at Barefoot Botanicals (soon to be named Bluestem Botanicals) in Doylestown. Each summer, BCFA coordinates with three local farms for a farmer-led tour of their farm,...
Wrightstown Farmers Market volunteer, Jill Waldbieser wrote this wonderful piece, The Reality and Future of Farming in Pennsylvania,: Faces Behind Our Food, which was published in Edible Philly June 2022. The article follows three Bucks County farms (First Fruits...
Written by Joni Garcia Regenerative agriculture has a many benefits to the environment, but what about the nutrition of food crops? What is Regenerative Agriculture? In general, regenerative agriculture is a way of farming that focuses on restoring the soil to its...
It is 16 degrees outside, continuing into February what was a brutally cold January for southeastern Pennsylvania. The ground is frozen solid. Historically, the only local foods available this time of year were root and storage vegetables. Oh, how the times they...
On August 4th we enjoyed a tranquil and informative evening with Adam Dusen of Hundred Fruit Farm in Buckingham. With the help of one very friendly duck named Gerald, Adam led us throughout his permaculture orchard where sheep graze among a variety of nut and fruit...
Article by BCFA Board members Lisa White and Susan Pierson Cow Farts! It has been all over the news that methane from cows is contributing to our changing climate. In industrial agriculture and confined animal operations, we agree that is true. Yet regenerative,...
Article by Lisa Braud The saying goes, “know your farmer, know your food” and on July 7th, we had the pleasure of meeting the team behind Spring Creek Farm and learning more about their farm, products, and practices. The weather was perfect and we had a huge...
“Knee high by the fourth of July” is what we expect… but Trauger’s farm in Kintnersville had local corn for us at the Doylestown Farmers Market already on July 3rd! How do they achieve that miracle of modern agriculture? Generations of farming, continual...
Free Range labels are regulated by the USDA only for poultry produced for meat. The requirements are very high: poultry can use the label if the chicken had any access to the outdoors each day for some unspecified period of time; it could be just a few minutes, and...
Farmer Stephanie Spock writes... As farmers, John and I consider ourselves lucky. We farm in a spot that is protected on all sides by trees. We have a half-acre pond to irrigate from, which means we have water even in the middle of a drought. Our soil is pretty...
