While spacious outdoor gardens produce larger harvests, you don't need a sizable garden bed to grow healthy vegetables in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Having a small backyard can feel very limiting. However, it's a reality for many who live in bustling cities and crowded suburbs. It can sometimes feel impossible to start a thriving, bountiful garden ...
Rachel Woolf / Rachel Woolf for NPR In a chilly storeroom piled high with fall produce, Jimena Cordero is chopping up vegetables and fanning them out onto trays. Cordero is the farm manager at Ollin ...
Inga visits small farms and makers finding new ways to preserve traditional practices. Host Inga Witscher takes a journey around the state to visit small farms and specialty makers who are finding new ...
If a farmer can raise vegetables worth around fifty thousand rupees or more in a year on a small plot of just 1/20th of an acre (approximately 200 square meters), it is great news for everyone ...
The Department of Crop Sciences’ Small Farm Certificate Program is celebrating its inaugural year and first graduate, Lia Basden.