Well-planned farm tours can be mutually beneficial for schoolchildren and the farms they visit. Students gain insight into where their food comes from, and the experience builds a foundational understanding of why farms matter to their communities. Farms are also a great place to reinforce STEM (sci...

Poinsettias may be the poster plant of the holiday season, but behind those brilliant bracts lies a production process packed with potential pitfalls. During her presentation “Poinsettia Pest Pointers” at Cultivate , Janna Beckerman, Ph.D., Green Solutions Team specialist at Envu, walked growers thr...

Location is everything. Greenwood Tree Farm is just 25 miles from Boston. Families return every year as a Christmas tradition to choose and cut their Christmas tree or choose a pre-cut tree. Glenn Card of Greenwood Tree Farm in Billerica, MA, is a second-generation Christmas tree farmer. His parents...

Emily Meacham and Doug Morin have established a destination farm, the core mission of which is to create a low-spray, U-pick apple orchard along with other agricultural specialty products in Whitefield, NH. The pair, in their mid-thirties in 2019, bought the property from Tanya and David Tellman who...

“Better eat that peach on the kitchen counter before it draws fruit flies.” Nearly everyone has either heard or said that. Although common fruit flies are easy to manage in the kitchen, genetically similar spotted wing drosophila (SWD) adults are close to the same size and also seek fresh, ripe frui...

Two research teams are tackling one of the trickiest puzzles in apple production. In the presentations “EverCrisp, but not everlasting: Addressing internal browning issues in ‘EverCrisp’ apples” and “‘Honeycrisp’ internal browning: Chilling or CO2 injury?” Özge Horzum (Ankara University), Nobuko Sug...

What if summer-like temperatures in April brought a flurry of fruit tree blossoms, followed by a temperature drop to the 20s that resulted in a hard freeze that not even the best frost protection could mitigate? Growers in several states, including Maryland, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Virgini...

State of the Industry keynote tackles tough topics at Cultivate‘26 Once again, the place to be the morning of Monday, July 13 in Columbus, Ohio, was the State of the Industry keynote session at AmericanHort’s annual Cultivate . A standing-room-only crowd was introduced to the organization’s new pres...

Rhianna Zadravec and Alex Libenson, who spent four years farming together on leased property in Lisbon, NH, are very happy they were able to buy a 68-acre farm in Lunenburg, VT, that’s only 100 yards from the Connecticut River. The pair spoke informally, one-on-one, for 30 minutes at the Colonial, a...