When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...
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 ...
On Tuesday, October 28, from 6:00–8:00 p.m. ET, Providence Farm Collective’s (PFC) Executive Director and Deputy Director will participate in the Small Farmer, Big Voices Summit. The Summit, which ...
Farming isn’t just work, it’s a full-time lifestyle. But, for many small family farms across the U.S., that lifestyle is getting harder to sustain. Somewhere between half and 85% of small farms now ...
How I grew $85,000 of food with just 7 hand tools… no tractors, no expensive agricultural machinery… just smart systems. In ...
Farmers facing economic headwinds turned out in Cambridge Springs today for the Greenhill Farms Consignment Auction.
Diana Padilla has spent a decade teaching Rio Grande Valley residents how to farm and was set to expand across the rest of ...
What she found on her Maine farm, Casa Portal, was a small herd of sheep and a much older story to step into. The herd is ...
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 ...
An hour's drive north of New York City, the greenhouses at Cropsey Farm are seeing their first leaves of kale, spinach and ...
Modular robotic fleets, like those being tested by Michigan Tech at the Lucky Clover Farm in Gaylord, Michigan, will make floriculture harvests more sustainable. × Lavender fields may soon feature ...
Ben Broughton harvesting carrots in 2021. Students in the Small Farm Start-Up School may decide to pursue a variety of agricultural businesses, including farming crops like carrots. Photo: UF/IFAS, ...