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Planning, Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
All farms need a plan for managing energy - these 'best practice' guides help farm businesses understand the opportunities they have to implement various energy management strategies on the farm. This improves resiliency and reduces emissions for farms of any scale.
Adaptation Practices
Participants learn how energy-focused farm design and operations improve resilience and long-term viability, with practical strategies for farm energy management.
Adaptation Practices
This fact sheet covers energy efficiency, renewable energy, and nitrogen fertilizer management strategies that reduce costs, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate impacts.
Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
Farmer-Led Innovations for Reduced Tillage (FLI) cultivates co-learning and innovation among organic vegetable farmers in New England. This site features the trials of a small cohort of innovative farmers trialing reduced tillage practices.
Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
Andy Jones of Intervale Community Farm shares strategies for floodplain farming, including water management, soil protection, cover crops, extended wet periods, irrigation, and climate adaptation.
Adaptation Practices, Planning
This fact sheet outlines climate change challenges such as flooding, heat stress, and pest pressure, with practical farm adaptation strategies.
Climate Impacts, Adaptation Practices
This two-page research summary addresses the trade-offs rural communities face when increased flooding damages public and private land, and makes farming more risky. The authors also provide a link for teaching resources on this topic.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
This fact sheet presents an overview of the most common components and options in drip irrigation systems, accompanied by estimated costs.
Adaptation Practices
This guide is intended to summarize our experiences with day-neutral strawberry varieties at the University of New Hampshire and to share data from our trials as a benchmark for day-neutral performance in the region.
Adaptation Practices
Grower experiences highlight how to build and modify high tunnels to withstand extreme weather while protecting crops and extending seasons, from the growers of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association (VVBGA).
Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
This webinar explores reduced tillage practices, equipment, and techniques that improve soil health and save labor at all farm scales. Speakers: Julie Fine, American Farmland Trust; Natalie Lounsbury, University of New Hampshire.
Adaptation Practices
A guide to high tunnel and greenhouse production, covering structure types, fertility management, variety choice, pest and water management, economics, and post-harvest handling.
Adaptation Practices
The Delaware State University (DSU) Outreach & Research Center provides a demonstration of high tunnel designs and best practices for small farmers to protect and improve their operations in a changing climate.
Adaptation Practices
A summary of how a handful of RI vegetable farms used high tunnels to adapt to a changing climate, including season extension, summer shade, and protection from heavy rains.
Adaptation Practices
A review of 351 studies looking at soil carbon sequestration under different long-term tillage management systems, from no-till to full tillage. Results show no-till systems increase soil carbon in upper layers over time, with limited impact on total soil profile carbon.
Climate Impacts, Adaptation Practices
Outlines best management practices to reduce heat stress in dairy cattle, helping maintain milk production, fertility, and animal welfare during hot weather.
Planning, Adaptation Practices, Funding, Climate Impacts
This recording features a talk by Sara Keleman, who shares current data exploring climate trends and projected impacts on agriculture. At minute 1:10:10 Sara reviews several tools available for monitoring weather and implementing adaptive practices.
Adaptation Practices, Planning
A cost benefit analysis of irrigation at Intervale Community Farm in Burlington, VT, calculated using records from 2006 to 2016.
Adaptation Practices, Planning
A case study on how researchers at the University of Delaware's Warrington Irrigation Research Farm are improving irrigation to boost crop yields and manage soil and water resources.
Planning, Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
This series of articles covers key topics for launching a new agroforestry project with a guided step-by-step process to evaluate your goals, assess the opportunities on your site, and get your trees off to the best possible start.
Adaptation Practices
A list of field crops, vegetables, fruits and nuts, horticultural/nursery crops, agroforestry/forestry products, livestock, and other accessible innovations for farmers exploring diversification.
Adaptation Practices
In this article, we highlight four case studies from farms of varying sizes and production goals to showcase the opportunities and challenges of adopting living aisle systems.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
This is a collection of tools, resources, publications, etc that help farmers in Maine adapt to the effects of climate change.
Adaptation Practices
This book explains is one of the best resources to help growers learn how to use cover crops reduce erosion, improve soil health, suppress weeds, manage nutrients, and increase farm profitability over time.
