Browse by Topic: Planning

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.

This short guide for Land Trusts gives a starting point to help design and implement adaptation actions in your work, with a special eye toward stewardship activities.

NOFA-VT’s Farmer Services Team offers flexible, responsive services to support farmers in assessing their level of climate risk and identifying adaptation strategies to increase their resilience.

This foundational resource helps agricultural producers and service providers in the Northeast and Midwest regions integrate climate change considerations and make action-oriented decisions.

This research paper presents, demonstrates and illustrates a method - adoption pathways analysis – as an approach to better represent and analyse the dynamics and diversity of adoption.

A GIS-based computer program for precision design of vegetative filter strips around agricultural fields.

Bar and pie-graphs representing GHG emissions by state, broken down by sector.

Production, business, and funding resources from the University of Vermont.

Air quality current and forecasted data by location. Also includes historical archives, fire information, and the option to sign up for alerts.

Learn how to use available UNIX-based scripts to automate access to free weather data from NOAA/NWS databases, as well as examples of how such data can be translated into weather-based farm management decisions by automated analysis.

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.

Participants will become aware of the social, ecological and economic drivers and implications of certain management practices that may reduce farm-scale risks producers in the northeast face because of climate change.

A comprehensive guide to business planning for farmers, pulling from all available resources, including farmers and other business experts.

This guide helps find federal programs to foster sustainable and innovative initiatives associated with agriculture and forestry. It describes program resources ranging from grants and loans to technical assistance and information resources.

The Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Fellowship planning tool can be used across any farming system to assess risk and identify adaptation strategies based on your own ideas and specific your farm system, location, microclimate, markets, etc.

John Oliver humorously explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, and how they might be making climate change even worse.

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.

Every farm business needs to understand the markets they want to sell into when considering the resilience of farm enterprises. Claritas provides relatively detailed information by ZIP code, providing valuable insights to consider when evaluating farm business resilience.

This worksheet is designed to help farmers go through the 5 step climate adaptation planning process and have a word document to produce a complete plan.

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.

This tool provides near real-time analysis of monthly temperature and precipitation for the globe and is intended for the study of climate variability. Data can be filtered by region and mapped by parameter.

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.

The Capacity Discovery project is a 2015 survey documenting the capacity of land-grant universities in the Northeast to address climate change research and Extension work in agriculture, natural resources, and forestry.

A still-relevant summary from 2015 of the observed past and projected future climate changes in the region that are relevant to wildlife and ecosystems.