Sustainable Farming on the Urban Fringe
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station | Rutgers Cooperative Extension
These newsletters provide practical insights for farmers, communities, and policy makers looking to maintain thriving, healthy, durable farms in New Jersey's densely packed urban fringe.
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This month in Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe – How to Know if You Have Enough Native Pollinator Habitat Serving Your Farm, we look at whether the global call to set aside cropland for native pollinator habitat applies to New Jersey farms.If NJ urban fringe farmers manage or set aside land for native pollinator habitat, are they likely to gain any yield benefits?
For over a year we’ve been talking about creating a program that would help Ag in the Middle farms better cope with the special problems of farming on the urban fringe. What’s the rub?
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