The MOSES Organic Farming Conference is almost upon us and I am excited! This is the 26th year of this annual conference held in La […]

Hello all, I am delighted to announce that we have a new voice joining us on the blog. Erin Schneider, M.ED, is a farmer, educator, and […]

Since I am a little busy today, I will be updating the blog tomorrow with some pictures of seedlings from TPS (true potato seed) and […]

Hi all, Just a quick post today – I want to share the yield results from the potato variety trial run at West Madison Agricultural […]

A truly sustainable food system uses locally adapted crop varieties and can produce seed for the next crop. In working towards sustainable organic potato production, […]

Happy New Year, all! I hope the first few days of 2015 have been enjoyable for you, and that the gradually increasing daylength is proving […]

Culling harvested produce (sorting it into marketable and unmarketable lots) can be a process with the simple criterion “would my customers buy/eat this vegetable?” During […]

Last week, a couple of people contacted me about harvesting their potato variety trial plots, and that seemed like a good topic for this week. […]

Those of you who are participating in our variety trials will know that we had some problems this year with a batch of certified seed […]

The wet weather we’ve had in the Midwest through the spring and early summer has made it difficult to time field operations, letting the weeds […]