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.

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.

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.

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 summary of the effects of climate change on agriculture, agriculture's role, and mitigation; it describes pathways to mitigate climate change, while simultaneously building resilient systems to help farmers and ranchers adapt to unpredictable climate disruptions.

Using this workbook, producers can expect to have a better understanding of vulnerable areas to climate change and strategies to mitigate those risks on their farm; it includes worksheets to aid in assessment, selection, and implementation of strategies.

A one-pager summarizing climate related hazards and vulnerabilities in northeast agriculture, key adaptation and mitigation strategies, and regional priorities.

A case study of Clovercrest Farm, a small-scale dairy farm in Charleston, Maine, including the impacts of climate change on the farm and their adaptation strategies. Clovercrest Farm is pasture-based and milks 95 Jersey cattle on 250 acres.

The Vermont Climate Assessment (VCA) of 2014 paints a vivid picture of a changing climate in Vermont and calls for immediate strategic planning to sustain the social, economic and environmental fabric of the state.

Explores how changing weather patterns affect U.S. agriculture and how farmers can assess climate risks and adopt practices that improve resilience while meeting sustainability goals.

This tool helps dairy producers think through the environmental impacts and business implications when considering implementation of different climate smart practices. Also, highlights different funding avenues for listed practices!

The goals of this publication are to present the principles behind drip irrigation and some practical guidelines for successful and profitable use of drip irrigation.

Learn about small-scale manure digesters, including current research, technologies, costs, benefits, and funding opportunities through the REAP program.

This checklist helps employers identify their job-related risk factors for heat exposure, assess their preparedness, determine where challenges exist, and develop effective ways to control their heat-related risk and make their workplaces safer.