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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Small farmers fit within no simple definition. Each category has pitfalls—whether by acres, income, employees or head of cattle. Yet the definition is crucial, since it dictates state and federal ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. A number of small Black-owned farms ...

At a greenhouse in Mesa, Arizona, nine-foot towers of tomatoes and cucumbers and other assorted vegetables reach skyward, bathed in diffused natural light. “We can grow 10 times the food using 90 to ...

The Indiana Small Farm Conference serves as the annual educational and farmer-to-farmer networking event for the Indiana small and diversified farm community. This conference includes keynote ...

Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...

Apr. 4—Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program that allowed ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) — Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm, the Iowa Capital Dispatch ...