Acres-USA: A Voice for Eco-Agriculture.
Website: www.acresusa.com
Type: Newspaper tabloid format, hard copy, about 50 pages
Frequency: Monthly
Order Info: At website or by phone: 1-800-355-5313
Description: The only national magazine that offers a comprehensive guide to sustainable agriculture. Based on the work of scientists and farmers, Acres USA is filled with the latest practical techniques for growing high value crops and livestock to meet the growing demand for fresh, clean, healthy food - for small and “larger” farmers alike. Website has an excellent list of resources, books, and back-articles.
The Community Farm: A Voice for Community Supported Agriculture.
Phone: (231)-889-3216, email: csafarm@jackpine.com
Website: www.tcf.itgo.com
Type: Newsletter, either hard copy or as text attachment to email.
Frequency: Quarterly
Order Info: At website: http://tcf.itgo.com/contact.htm; by phone: 1-800-355-5313.
Description: A quarterly journal for CSA's and small farm advocates out of Michigan. Provides a forum for growers, CSA farm members and prospective CSA farmers to explore ideas, techniques and situations specifically related to CSA interests. Recent articles include advice for forming a core group, holistic management, and drip irrigation. Essays from CSA farmers, ag professionals or farm members are featured as well as tips and techniques that have worked for CSA farmers. Reports on research, reviews of books, advice on Plowing the Web (the World Wide one, that is) are regular features.
CreamLine: a new voice for little dairies
Vicki Dunaway, P.O. Box 186, Willis, VA 24380
Phone/Fax (540) 789-7877, ladybug@swva.net,
Website: www.smalldairy.com
Type: 20-24 page newsletter
Frequency: Quarterly
Order Info: CreamLine, P.O. Box 186-W, Willis, VA 24380; or fax credit orders to (540) 789-7877. You can also pay on-line with PayPal. Sample issues available online.
Description: Information on making and selling value-added cow, goat, and sheep dairy products. Published by Vicki Dunaway of Willis VA, formerly coordinator for the Hometown Creamery Revival (HCR) a SARE-funded project to get local dairy farms established in their own on-farm processing businesses. CreamLine is conceived as a networking and information tool, with topics that cover a wide range of small dairy concerns: from getting started with a new cow, goat or sheep herd, to how forages affect milk quality, to selling value-added products in the fancy foods market.
Graze
Joel and Ruth McNair
Graze, P.O. Box 48 Belleville, WI 53508, email: graze@mhtc.net,
Website: www.grazeonline.com
Type: Tabloid size
Frequency: 10 times a year
Order Info: For a free issue call 608-455-3311. $30 for one year; $54 for two. Make your check or money order out to Graze and send to Graze, P.O. Box 48, Belleville, WI 53508.
Description: Provides practical information that can be employed by grass-based dairy farmers across North America; and provides information that can be used by any management-intensive grass farmer in the northern U.S. and Canada. Serving graziers with production information on dairy, sheep, hogs, and poultry. ‘By graziers, for graziers’.
Grit! Newsletter of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association (APPPA).
APPPA, P.O. Box 1024 Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Email: grit@apppa.org
Website: apppa.org
Type:: 20-page newsletter
Frequency: Six times a year
Order Info: Included with APPA membership To join APPPA, visit the website. For a free sample of GRIT!, please email APPPA at grit@apppa.org, call 715-667-5501 or send a note to the APPPA office at PO Box 1024, Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
Description: GRIT! contains up-to-date information on current activities in the pastured poultry industry. APPPA is a clearinghouse for innovations and refinements to the pastured poultry model. It offers the opportunity for people to learn and exchange information about raising poultry on pasture.
Growing For Market
Growing for Market
P.O. Box 3747, Lawrence, Kansas 66046
Phone: 800-307-8949 email: growing4market@earthlink.net
Website: www.growingformarket.com/gfm.html
Type: 16-page newsletter
Frequency: Monthly
Order Info: 1 year is $30; 2 years $55. subscribe online, or print out subscription form at website and mail
Description: Monthly magazine for direct market farmers who grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, plants, or flowers. It’s filled with practical advice for the small market/CSA farmer and beginning farmers interested in growing for farmers’ markets, on-farm markets, Community Supported Agriculture, or local supermarkets and florists.
Lancaster Farming
PO Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522
phone: 717-394-3047, 717-626-1164
email: farming@lancasterfarming.com
Website: www.lancasterfarming.com
Type: 4+ section newspaper
Frequency: Weekly
Order Info: $39 for year subscription; call (717) 626-1164; or Print out the form at website and mail with payment to PO Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522 or online.
Description: Lancaster Farming is the leading Northeast and Mid-Atlantic farm newspaper. Every Saturday, the newspaper delivers news, market and commodity reports, and agribusiness information to about 50,000 farmers in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
NewFarm.org
Website: www.NewFarm.org
Type: Online magazine, continuously updated
Order Info: Sign up for frequent e-newsletters alerting you to the latest articles and features at the website.
Description: The Rodale Institute’s web site, www.NewFarm.org, is filled with information, links, and resources on the profitable sustainable farming movement. The site is loaded with expert resources for crop and livestock production, direct marketing, local food systems, policy campaigns and community-building collaborations. They now also offer OPX, the Organic Price Index. The Grassroots OPX is a weekly update featuring retail prices for local, sustainably raised, heirloom and organic produce and products from producer-only farmers' markets around the country.
PASA Passages
Type: 24 to 32-page newsletter
Frequency: Quarterly
Order Info: Join PASA at www.pasafarming.org/index.htm or call them (see PASA listing)
Description: Passages is the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. PASSAGES combines hands-on technical information of immediate use to farmers and growers with thought-provoking articles and ideas for rural and urban readers. A calendar of events, classified ads, letters and editorials round out the newsletter
The Natural Farmer
The Natural Farmer, c/o Jack Kittredge
411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005 email: tnf@nofa.org
Type: 40-page newspaper
Frequency: Quarterly
Order Info: Free to NOFA members or $10 a year to other. Send check or money order to The Natural Farmer, c/o Jack Kittredge, 411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005 email: tnf@nofa.org
Description: Quarterly 40-page paper offers practical information on organic farming, organic agriculture news, and farmer classifieds, and more. Publication of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
The New Jersey Farmer
American Farm Publications, Inc.
P.O. Box 2026, Easton, MD 21601-2026
phone: 1-800-634-5021; New Jersey Office 609-268-3555
circulation@americanfarm.com;
Website: www.americanfarm.com
Type: Newspaper format, hard copy, 20-24 pages
Frequency: Twice a month
Order Info: Website or phone.
Description: Bi-monthly newspaper covering all aspects of New Jersey agricultural scene from small farms to agri-business, legislative reports; special seasonal reports, regular columns, livestock/produce reports, classifieds.
The Stockman Grass Farmer: The Grazier’s Edge
Phone: 1-800-748-9808, Fax: (601) 853-8087
email: sgf@stockmangrassfarmer.com
Website: www.stockmangrassfarmer.com
Type: 40-page news weekly-size newspaper
Frequency: Monthly
Order Info: Website or phone; Sample issues available.
Description: The latest in intensive grazing for farmers who raise beef, lamb, or dairy cows. Their website 
also lists books, tapes, articles, links etc.
The Vegetable Growers News
Great American Publishing
75 Applewood Drive Suite A, PO Box 128, Sparta Michigan 49345
phone: 616-887-9008; fax: 616-887-2666
Website:: www.vegetablegrowersnews.com
Type: Tabloid size newspaper published by Great American Publishing
Frequency: Monthly
Order Info: 1 year $12.00 or 3 years $30.00 Order online, or by phone 616-887-9008
Description: A newspaper for commercial vegetable growers and others related to the vegetable industry. For over 35 years, The Vegetable Growers News has covered timely issues affecting growers across the nation, along with featuring top-notch operations and hosting columns from numerous Extension and university specialists. Well rounded publication that covers various of conventional, sustainable, and organic farming.
