AtlanticFarmer

AtlanticFarmer is an online news service that publishes original content and gleans the best information from the web, so we can offer our readers access to a wide variety of articles from one easy source.

Our goal is to provide the one site on the Internet where farmers in Atlantic Canada (and those who work with them) begin their day. Atlantic Farmer is where it all starts - where the plow meets the web.

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. . . THINKFARM HAS A NEW LOOK ONLINE . . . RECORD BEEF PRICES MAY LEAD GRILLERS TO CHEAPER CUTS . . . REVIVING A LOST TRADITION IN THE NORTHEAST. . . SLOW LIVING SUMMIT 2014

THINKFARM HAS A NEW LOOK ONLINE
Source: ThinkFarm
Our website has been reformatted to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for. We’ve also added new content on the farm purchase process, including two video case studies of Misty Hills Farm, a dairy farm in Antigonish county, and Broadfork Farm, a market garden in Cumberland county. (read more)

RECORD BEEF PRICES MAY LEAD GRILLERS TO CHEAPER CUTS
According to federal government figures, beef prices are at their highest levels in almost 30 years. The average price of choice-grade beef in February was $5.28. Numbers aren’t out yet for March or April, but they’ll be high as well. “We're in record territory actually,” says David Anderson, a professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University. (read more)

REVIVING A LOST TRADITION IN THE NORTHEAST
Source: Modern Farmer
Jonathan Stevens wants to know the farmers who grow his food. So when he and his partner, Cheryl Maffie, opened Hungry Ghost Bread, an unassuming bakery in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2004, they decided to source many of their ingredients locally. This included most of the fruits and vegetables used in their pastries and also their staple ingredient, the foundation of every loaf of whole-grain bread to emerge from their wood-fired oven: the flour. (read more)

SLOW LIVING SUMMIT 2014
Source: StrollingoftheHeifers.com
Registration is now open for the 2014 Slow Living Summit, taking place June 4-6 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The Summit is a unique intergenerational conversation about life, health, happiness, money, community, soil, soul, food, arts, and story. (read more)