Project Overview
Annual Reports
Commodities
- Vegetables: cucurbits, eggplant, greens (leafy), onions, peas (culinary), peppers, tomatoes
Practices
- Crop Production: continuous cropping, double cropping, multiple cropping
- Education and Training: decision support system, demonstration, display, extension, farmer to farmer, focus group, networking, on-farm/ranch research, participatory research
- Farm Business Management: new enterprise development, budgets/cost and returns, community-supported agriculture, marketing management, agricultural finance
- Pest Management: biological control, biorational pesticides, botanical pesticides, cultural control, disease vectors, economic threshold, field monitoring/scouting, physical control, mulching - plastic, sanitation, mulching - vegetative, weather monitoring
- Production Systems: general crop production
- Soil Management: organic matter, soil analysis, soil quality/health
- Sustainable Communities: new business opportunities, analysis of personal/family life, sustainability measures
Proposal abstract:
Performance targets from proposal:
We will increase the number of high tunnels in operation on farms in the Mid Atlantic region to enhance the profitability and sustainability of diversified market farmers.
Over three years, we will disseminate the collected information to 600 farmers through the following venues:
Farmer field days
Cooperative Extension bulletins
The yearly “Farming for Profit and Stewardship Conference” of Future Harvest - Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
Other meetings targeted at farmers in the region (e.g., PASA, MOFFA, etc.)
Participating farmers will increase their profitability and sustainability as a result of this project.
Of the 600 farmers, 40 farmers will put up new high tunnels or add to existing tunnels and will increase their profitability and sustainability.