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Updated: July 28, 2026

Cultivating Conservation for Maryland and Delaware’s Historically Underserved Farmers (EM-2025-0752)

Authors: Sarah Hirsh - Shannon Dill - Caroline Kuchta - Neith Little - Kelly Nichols - Margaret Todd

This guidebook aims to increase knowledge of conservation practices and resources available to help farmers and land managers plan for and incorporate conservation onto their land. The guidebook discusses how conservation can fit into whole farm planning, conservation plans, the Web Soil Survey resource, an overview of agencies and conservation programs, and Natural Resource Conservation Service program eligibility and contract requirements. Authors: Sarah Hirsh, Shannon Dill, Caroline Kuchta, Neith Little, Kelly Nichols, and Margaret Todd; Title: Cultivating Conservation for Maryland and Delaware’s Historically Underserved Farmers (EM-2025-0752).
Updated: June 11, 2026

Using Augmentative Biological Control for Managing Thrips and Mites in Maryland High Tunnels (FS-2025-0749)

Authors: Veronica (Johnson) Yurchak

This guide equips high tunnel growers to manage thrips and mites using biological control. Learn to select effective natural enemies, optimize environmental conditions, and successfully integrate these tactics with your existing pest management plan. Author: Veronica Yurchak; Title: Using Augmentative Biological Control for Managing Thrips and Mites in Maryland High Tunnels (FS-2025-0749).
Updated: June 10, 2026

Women In Agriculture Webinar Series on Risk Management: Production

This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.
Updated: April 22, 2026

Rainwater Harvesting on Urban Farms: Adding Gutters to Collect Rainwater from a High Tunnel (FS-2025-0765)

Authors: Emily M. H. Woerner - Neith Little - Donald Murphy - Richard Francis - Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein

Interested in harvesting rainwater on your urban farm? Harvesting rainwater could provide a supplemental source of irrigation water. Learn about collecting rainwater on urban farms by adding gutters to high tunnels. Authors: Emily M. H. Woerner, Neith Little, Donald Murphy, Richard Francis & Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein; Title: Rainwater Harvesting on Urban Farms: Adding Gutters to Collect Rainwater from a High Tunnel (FS-2025-0765).
Updated: February 16, 2026

Ornamental Horticulture Meetings

A list of meetings for Ornamental Horticulture Producers
Commercial Cut Flower Educational Summer Session July 28, 2020
Updated: October 22, 2024

Viruses turning up in high tunnel tomatoes

In the last week or so high tunnel tomato plants have been reported that look a bit squirrely. I thought it was possibly herbicide or virus or nutrient problems. After eliminating the first and third possibilities we had the plants tested for a battery of vi-ruses. There were 3 viruses found.
infected tomato plants
Updated: March 3, 2023

Chapter 1: Urban production systems

Chapter 1: Urban production systems is part of the online publication "From Surviving to Thriving: Strategies for Urban Farm Success. In agricultural contexts, the word production is used as shorthand to refer to all the activities involved in physically growing, raising, or making the products (vegetables, flowers, meat, eggs, hot sauce, an agritourism experience, etc.) that will eventually be sold. Important non-production agricultural activities include financial planning, marketing, complying with legal responsibilities, and managing human resources (see the other chapters of this guidebook)
Puzzle pieces laying over a city building.
Updated: March 3, 2023

Introduction

This introduction is part of the online publication "From Surviving to Thriving: Strategies for Urban Farm Sucess. It’s been raining for weeks, the weeds are strangling your crops, it seems like there are fewer customers at the farmers market every week, your landlord just called to say your rent is going up, your summer helpers decided they would rather work indoors, and on top of it all that unrealistic Extension Agent keeps bugging you to write a business plan.
Puzzle pieces laying over a city building.
Updated: October 29, 2021

High tunnel best management practices

High tunnels (or hoop houses) extend the growing season for specialty crops. This article will help growers learn how to get the most out of their high tunnel by adopting best management practices for temperature management, soil and growing media monitoring, safety considerations, pest management, and crop selection.
High tunnel
Updated: September 15, 2021

Grafting Heirloom Tomatoes for Increased Yields and Quality

Tomatoes are grafted by joining the top of one plant (the scion) to the root system of another (the rootstock). The subsequent plant is more vigorous and productive. Several studies have been done over the last 10 years that show the benefits of using grafting for soil disease control in tomato production, but there is not much research that examines the influence of rootstocks when there is no disease in a tomato high tunnel production system.
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