by Jade Greene As fall arrives, now is the time to get your vegetable and native plant gardens ready for the cold months ahead. Here are some tips to prepare your garden: Tips for vegetable gardens: Remove dying...
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...
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...
Many important pollinators are solitary native bees and like to live or rest in already existing holes (ie, they do not damage your property and drill holes). These pollinators are crucial for food crops and native...
Written by Sara Wuerstle Globally, pollinators are in decline. But why should we care about the birds and the bees and the bats? Bats? Yes, bats. We often think of honey bees when we hear the word ‘pollinator.’ But...
article by Kirstyn Gudknecht This fall, we’d like to take one big chore off your to-do list. That’s right, no more raking leaves! Our habit of cleaning up our lawns has proven to be detrimental to our ecosystems in...
Hold off on that fall cleanup of your garden. The seed heads of many of those perennials and wild plants will help sustain our bird friends through the winter so they can help our farmers with the insect pests in...
This holiday season, what can I do to protect the planet? If 90% of lights were LED, 7.8 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by 2050. (Source) Winter is the time of year that many focus more...
