Second-year apprentice Jessica Matthews shares her journey into dairy grazing. This is the first of three blog posts. I had four day-old chicks nestled under a warm lamp in the spare room. This was my first small foray into animal husbandry, and I hadn’t realized before I brought them home that I’d need straw for […]

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry approved our Diversified Vegetable Apprenticeship on March 14th, making it the first formal apprenticeship program for farmers in the state. We developed Diversified Vegetable Apprenticeship to provide a guided pathway for training aspiring vegetable farmers to manage or start a farm while also meeting the employment needs of […]

Thanks to all who attended and supported our 28th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, making it one for the record books. Nearly 1,900 farmers, food system professionals, and sustainable agriculture supporters gathered to learn, share, and connect at our new venue in Lancaster, PA. While many of you have attended our annual conferences for more than […]

By Hannah Smith-Brubaker, Executive Director On February 14th, at a dairy farm in Dauphin County, I had the great pleasure of attending Governor Tom Wolf’s release of the first-of-its kind Pennsylvania Farm Bill. Gov. Wolf’s plan aims to “invest more than $24 million in Pennsylvania’s agriculture industry to grow opportunities and resources, remove barriers to […]