Grant Recipient: Bruce Vanicek, The Rhode Island Nurseries, Middletown RI
Grant ID Number: FNE09-675
Farmer Grant Examples: 2009
Compost windrow as a greenhouse heat source
Pasturing hogs on field peas and barley
Grant Recipient: Hanne Tierney, Cornerstone Farm, Palmyra ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-674
The effect of biochar applications on soil fertility and crop production on a small vegetable farm in the Northeast
Grant Recipient: Sue Straubing, Morgan Bay Farm, Surry ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-673
A middle entrance for beehives, phase 2
Using chickens and a cover crop barrier for weed control in organic asparagus
Grant Recipient: Marilyn Stanley, Chick Farm, Wells ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-671
Assessments of the benefits of raising calves with their mothers in an intensive grazing system
Grant Recipient: Steffen Schneider, Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-670
Mushroom cultivation using off-season vegetable growth chamber
Grant Recipient: Noah Radliff, School Hill Farm, Cobleskill NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-669
Testing new dwarfing apple rootstocks for the northern grower
Grant Recipient: John O’Meara, O’Meara Family Farm, New Sweden ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-668
Planting small-seeded vegetable crops into a high-residue, reduced-tillage environment
Grant Recipient: Neil Myerov, Myerov Family Farm, Perkasie PA
Grant ID Number: FNE09-667
Using pigs as seed drills: Interplanting small grains into a white clover living mulch
Grant Recipient: Brad Marshall, The Piggery, Trumansberg NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-666
A comparison of honeybee colony strength and survivability between nucleus and package started colonies
Grant Recipient: Erin MacGregor-Forbes, Overland Apiaries, Portland ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-665
Spore exclusion: A new approach to downy mildew prevention in cucurbits
Grant Recipient: Louis Lego, Elderberry Pond Farm, Auburn NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-664
Exploring husbandry and equipment solutions to infestations of Polydora sp. on a Maine oyster farm
Grant Recipient: Jesse Leach, Bagaduce River Oyster Company, Penobscot ME
Grant ID Number: FNE09-663
Better wine grape quality using combined vine training and canopy management
Grant Recipient: Richard Lamoy, Lamoy’s Produce, Morrisonville NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-662
Goodbye hobby garden, hello money garden: Building commercial relationships between CSA farmers and local gardeners for mutual benefit
Grant Recipient: Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht, Garden of Eve Organic Farm, Aquebogue NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-661
Preparing the ground for local fair trade: Helping farmers and their buyers improve labor and pricing practices
Grant Recipient: Elizabeth Henderson, Peacework Farm, Newark NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-660
Perimeter and internal trap cropping in organic winter squash
Grant Recipient: Nancy Hanson, Hampshire College Farm Center, Amherst MA
Grant ID Number: FNE09-659
An economic comparison of grafted tomato transplant production and use in multi-bay high tunnels
Grant Recipient: Steve Groff, Cedar Meadow Farm, Holtwood PA
Grant ID Number: FNE09-658
Grafting heirloom tomatoes for field production
Grant Recipient: Peter Garnham, East End Community Organic Farm, Amagansett NY
Grant ID Number: FNE09-657
Pressing spent brewers' grains to improve its use as an alternative feed: A study of its effect on dairy sheep and meat lambs
Sustainable cropping systems for processing baby lima bean production
Grant Recipient: Don Clifton, Clifton Farms , Milford DE
Grant ID Number: FNE09-655
Northeast zone tillage project
Grant Recipient: Paul Boivin, Vermont Golden Harvest Biofuels, Addison VT
Grant ID Number: FNE09-654
Introducing rice as a commercial crop to the Northeast, phase 2
Grant Recipient: Linda Akaogi, Akaogi Farm, Putney VT
Grant ID Number: FNE09-653
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