Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...
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 ...
SOUTHOLD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- They thought they'd feel the pinch of losing the restaurant market, but instead lettuce and veggie gardens -- especially organic -- are flourishing. Munching sweet fresh ...
Rachel Woolf / Rachel Woolf for NPR In a chilly storeroom piled high with fall produce, Jimena Cordero is chopping up vegetables and fanning them out onto trays. Cordero is the farm manager at Ollin ...
15. How to Sun Dry Fruit in Bulk Increase the value of otherwise unsellable produce by drying them for small package or bulk sale. Blossom Bluff Orchards shares how they've been harnessing the… It’s ...
On Tuesday, October 1, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue made a grave statement about the lifespan of the country’s small dairy farms. “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out,” ...
I’ll take the opportunity in this agriculture focused edition of the Sonoma Gazette to share my recent experiences starting a small produce vegetable farm in the county. Introducing Family and Friends ...
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, ...