While gardening can be much more leisurely, vegetable farming requires intensive cultivation in order to meet wholesale quotas.
Whether you're looking to save a few bucks at the grocery store or enjoy connecting with nature, there's nothing better than ...
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 ...
For many growers, profit growth feels harder to achieve than it did just a few years ago. When margins tighten, your focus shifts — less about what’s next and more about what’s already in motion.
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 ...
It's good to get a jumpstart on your gardening, and we have a list of vegetables to start growing that you'll want to dust off your green thumb for.
What's the point of growing the same crops every time? With rising investments and falling market prices, farmers face losses year after year. Farmers used to primarily cultivate crops like cotton, ...
Claudia and Ricky Crow, owners of Crows Vegetable Farm in Shawnee, Oklahoma share how conservation programs and diversification can foster ecological and economic resilience on small, ...