Linda Halley, Farm Manager at Gardens of Eagan in Northfield, Minnesota, talks about the logistics and management challenges of growing transplants for other farmers before digging in to the nuts and bolts of how Linda has learned to get real results from her employees, many of whom operate at a high level in the organization.
Show Links
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Gardens of Eagan Transplants
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Wedge Community Co-op
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Co-op Partners Warehouse
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NRCS contract for cover cropping, pollination habitat through the Conservation Stewardship Program. (This link goes to a site by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which has easily-accessible, nationally applicable information about the CSP).
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Veg –Veyer harvest aid
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Linda mentioned a couple of farms that have had a big style influence on other farms around the country: Roxbury Farm (which makes a great deal of their operating information available online) and Harmony Valley Farm.
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