This guide can be used to assist trainers who want to make good farm recordkeeping practices accessible to farmers with limited English and/or low literacy skills.
Tag: Crop Planning
Recordkeeping 1: Crop Planning and Planting Records for FSMA Compliance
This guide can be used to assist trainers who want to make good farm record keeping practices accessible to farmers with limited English or low-literacy skills.
Planting Calendar Tool
This tool aids gardeners in working with a calendar and knowing the planting dates for various crops.
Micro-producer Academy: Growing for Market 2, Planning for Planting
This is module 4 in a series of 8 modules in the New Roots Micro-producer academy. Understanding the difference between personal and commercial production. Growing techniques (as well as farm rules) to maximize production and timing production based around the markets they hope to sell at.
Micro-producer Academy: Growing for Market 1, Choosing Crops
This is module 3 in a series of 8 modules in the New Roots Micro-producer academy. This is an introduction to the concept of market gardening or farming, and to selecting crops that fit the market channel that producers anticipate using.
Crop Production Manual
This is a resource designed to provide farmers with readily accessible, technical information and cultural practices for organic vegetable production without relying on advanced English literacy skills.
Crop Planning Series
This series of six workshops covers a range of topics related to crop planning. Farmers will be introduced to the concepts of harvest windows, succession planting, and days to maturity.
Crop Planning Module
This guide covers essential components of crop planning. Participants will learn how to fill out and complete a production plan, determine transplants needed, complete a seed order using the seed calculator tool, and weigh and bag direct-planted or direct-seeded crops.
Cover Crops 1: Which Cover Crops Will You Use?
This guide can be used by trainers who want to assist pre-literate and/or English- as a second language-speaking farmers with including cover crops in vegetable production and other crop rotation schedules.
Bed Planning Tool
This Bed Planning tool is used to assist farmers in knowing which crops to plant in each bed and when to plant them.
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