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 ...

Over the last three growing seasons, Purdue Extension established demonstration plots of cover crops and reduced tillage in vegetables at Purdue’s Agricultural Centers (PACs). Extension collaborated ...

The small farm isn’t a panacea, but what a politics geared around it can offer—what, perhaps, at least some of the visitors who come to our farm can glimpse in outline—is the possibility of ...

Around the Farm Table Celebrates Small Farms. Special | 1h 34m 49s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Host Inga Witscher takes a journey around the state to visit small farms and specialty makers who ...

As a result, smaller farms are disappearing. From 2012 to 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased by almost 10 percent, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, while the average ...

In Boulder, Colo., the county is investing in sustainable farming and helping people buy local produce. It's been called "a triple win" – for customers, farmers and the economy.

Vegetable farming For farmers who live near urban centres, vegetable farming can be a good source of money. It is possible to produce valuable amounts of vegetables on a small piece of land.

In 2020, Jennifer Grayson stumbled upon Mahonia Gardens in Sisters, Ore., via a farming internship. Her experience on the 1-acre vegetable farm spawned an investigative journey of a new generation ...