extension.purdue.edu

Focus on Small-Scale Vegetable Farming: Field Demonstrations Build Capacity for Use of Cover Crops, Reduced Tillage

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 ...
Modern Farmer

Small-Scale Farming Shouldn’t Just Be a Hobby. So Why Is It So Hard to Make a Living?

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 ...
LancasterOnline

This Mount Joy farm grows vegetables and future farmers [farm series]

This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series with a focus on small independent farms and creative use of farmland. We hope it serves as a reminder that the food grown and raised in Lancaster ...
ABC 7 Chicago

NorCal farmer connects with Asian roots through growing vegetables

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. -- On a small 3-acre plot of land in West Sonoma County, Leslie Wiser is connecting her ancestral Taiwanese family food traditions to her present-day life as a mother and farmer who ...