The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day proved that dedicated growers won’t let summer temperatures dampen their enthusiasm for learning. Despite the hot weather, 63 attendees gathered at the Purdue ...
Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...
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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 ...
FARIBAULT, Minn. — A grassroots effort of a handful of volunteers showing up to lend a hand to farmers has now grown into a network of more than 300 people supporting small-scale farms across ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as it turns out, could have been a happy allotment gardener. "Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures," he wrote, "and a smaller one still to rest beneath." ...
A powerful story of resilience, purpose and generational legacy is unfolding on Bethel Estate, a farm in rural KwaZulu-Natal ...
The newly-formed Western Arid Grower Network aims to help small-scale vegetable farmers by collecting research and holding educational events. Co-founder Nella Mae Parks said there are plenty of books ...
A pilot programme at Afrika Tikkun’s Green Acres Farm trains 20 young people - including 19 women and one young man with a disability - to run revenue-generating hydroponic micro-farms, combining ...