There are a lot of reasons to love Manchester, Vermont. It’s got four seasons of outdoor adventure opportunities, fun shops, fantastic restaurants, plus several great museums and historical ...

The Indiana Small Farm Conference serves as the annual educational and farmer-to-farmer networking event for the Indiana small and diversified farm community. The conference was developed in response ...

The Dream: Living above a small-town indie bookstore. Kathreen Francis grew up in the Upper Peninsula, ... We Bought a Flower Farm with No Experience (And Love It) Dive Deeper with AI!

Small Farm Today. Published bimonthly, each issue of Small Farm Today has a focus on one or two topics, including livestock; wool and fiber, marketing; and equipment, herbs, and greenhouses.

ROOTS IN THE EARTH—P. Alston Waring and Walter Magnes Teller—Harper ($2.50). This small (202-page) book is big news because it combats a hard-plugged notion that U.S. farms are going to be ...

During the 1980s, supermarkets stopped purchasing peaches from Mas Masumoto’s 80-acre organic fruit farm in Fresno, California. His heirloom peaches were deemed “too small,” they said. He ...

The farm has been in the Norton family since the mid-1700s. According to the business website , “Judson and Donald, along with their father, former Cheshire first selectman, Birdsey B. Norton ...

For example, many small farms lack reliable access to capital. At USDA, we are reforming the Farm Service Agency loan program to streamline delivery and increase program efficiency.

I grew up on a small farm in central Pennsylvania with a small herd of cattle, pigs and chickens, but my folks weren’t real farmers. My father was an insurance agent and my mother a homemaker.

A number of small Black-owned farms in the Gulf South are growing crops with the climate in mind. Hilery Gobert is among them. He owns a 65-acre farm in Iowa, La., that he started farming in 2020.

Across the United States, small farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms declined by about 140,000, a 7% drop, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of ...

With farm stops, retail consumers have better access to local food, and farmers can spend more time farming. It’s a small but expanding niche. At least six farm stops operate in the Midwest, and many ...