Polk County’s numbers reflect that trend, showing a substantial share of small-acreage operations. About 21% of the county’s ...

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 ...

Let me start this journey with my feet on my farm. When people visit it, I notice three main responses. One is an unbidden enthusiasm for the rural paradise we’ve created, the beauty of the place, and ...

A Creston farmer-turned-advocate is using her hard-won experience to defend B.C.’s small-scale food systems, from butchers to ...

Willie Nelson has been busy signing some very helpful and meaningful checks. Just in case you don't know, Farm Aid was started by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp back in 1985. They ...

Many farming operations will either be passed on to a successor or wound down in the next few years. Here are some tips to ...

The agricultural community of Bells Bend—minutes from downtown Nashville— has fought off urban development. In so doing, it propelled the community to strengthen and create their own vision of what ...