I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...
Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...
First-generation farmers in upstate New York develop frozen soup line using their organic produce and ingredients from ...
This article originally published at The Assembly. At Ten Mothers Farm in Cedar Grove, just north of Hillsborough in Orange County, Gordon Jenkins and Vera Fabian produce 50 to 60 varieties of ...
Decades of urbanization and improvements in transportation have reduced the role of farming in the Northeast Ohio economy. But farming is the region's oldest industry, and it continues to touch ...
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Inga visits small farms and makers finding new ways to preserve traditional practices. Host Inga Witscher takes a journey around the state to visit small farms and specialty makers who are finding new ...
Claudia and Ricky Crow, owners of Crows Vegetable Farm in Shawnee, Oklahoma share how conservation programs and diversification can foster ecological and economic resilience on small, ...
How much food can you grow on a quarter acre? A lot more than you might think, as newbie farmer Jess Herlein discovered this summer. After five years of tending her backyard garden in Lancaster city, ...