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Planning, Adaptation Practices
The New England Adaptation Survey draws upon the experience of 193 fruit and vegetable growers surveyed in 2017 and 2018. It explores emerging adaptive management strategies, perceived climate related risks, and adaptive capacity.
Adaptation Practices
Powerpoints and proceedings from all presentations at the 2024 New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Adaptation Practices
Starting with basic well information, this webinar shows how shallow groundwater from glacial till aquifers can provide a high quality water supply for agricultural and domestic use.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
This foundational resource helps agricultural producers and service providers in the Northeast and Midwest regions integrate climate change considerations and make action-oriented decisions.
Climate Impacts, Adaptation Practices
Learn about how folks at Upinngil Farm in Massachusetts are working to manage climate risks, specifically with crop diversifiication and high tunnel production.
Adaptation Practices
A comprehensive resource on infrastructure considerations when building new or remodeling an existing cow housing facility.
Adaptation Practices
A list of the best cover crops by need, including reducing compaction, weed suppression, increasing soil nitrogen, mycorrhizal fungi association, and more.
Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
This informative document explains the ways in which farmers can adapt to climate change, the potential current and future impacts of climate change on their farm, and how adapting will help them.
Adaptation Practices
This publication addresses basic concepts related to agricultural drainage.
Adaptation Practices
A summary of agricultural IPM methods, with a list of additional resources for tracking and managing pests and learning more about IPM for farms.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
Production, business, and funding resources from the University of Vermont.
Adaptation Practices
Visit Angus Glen Farms, a 300 acre operation located in Watkins Glen, New York using agroforestry practices. The farm has 80 cow-calf pairs of Angus cattle grown for seed-stock and grass-fed beef production.
Adaptation Practices
Concise fact sheets on alley cropping, forest farming, riparian forest buffers, silvopasture, windbreaks, and more, with additional resources provided.
Adaptation Practices
This fact sheet outlines the basic rotations and potential crop choices of the Alternative Continuous-Cover Forage system (ACCF), describes how to implement the system, and provides a summary of its environmental and economic benefits.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
This guide introduces the principles of shiitake cultivation. It combines
insights gathered from professional growers, on-farm trial, and university-
based research all within the northeastern United States.
Adaptation Practices, Funding, Climate Impacts
This beautiful case study profiles Big River Chestnuts, a 75-acre agroforestry operation located in Sunderland, Easthampton, and South Deerfield, MA. The report details the climate impacts experienced by Big River Chestnuts, and how Jogo Niger and his team has addressed them
Adaptation Practices
Building Soils for Better Crops presents a comprehensive view on soil management for farmers including chapters covering organic matter, nutrients, cover crops, conservation, and cropping systems.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
Draws together a wide range of resources for farms in transition to more climate change resilient production, processing, storage and distribution practices. Includes videos, resilience planning, best practices, and resources for underserved farmers.
Adaptation Practices, Funding
Resources on Climate Smart practices, agricultural reports, maps, farmer assistance programs, grants and funding opportunities, networks, news, and events. Focused on the Upper Valley area of Vermont, but applicable to most Vermont farmers.
Adaptation Practices, Planning
These economic tools and resources focus on silvopasture, irrigation and tarping. Resources were designed for small, medium, and beginning farmers in in New England to address challenges in adapting to a changing climate.
Adaptation Practices
A visually-organized represetation of agricultural practices that have been scientifically demonstrated to benefit the climate, with each practice's estimated GHG savings.
Adaptation Practices, Climate Impacts
The emphasis of this webinar will be placed on dairy, beef, small ruminants, and horses and the impacts that extreme heat, cold snaps, weather shifts, droughts, and excessive rain will have on the animal’s health and diet.
Planning, Adaptation Practices
This publication explores climate-related challenges to perennial fruit and nut production, including drought, frost, flooding, and extreme weather events. It discusses steps growers can take to build resilience into their farming operations.
Adaptation Practices
A webinar on collaborative modeling approaches available to assess the impacts of climate change on critical source areas of watershed nutrient pollution (e.g., N,P,TSS), how best management practices will perform under alternative climate trends.
