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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 ...
Civil Eats

Farm Stops Create New Markets for Small Farms

At Argus Farm Stop, the shelves are full of locally raised vegetables and fruit, herbs, beef, chicken, fish, and more. Beets from one local farm snuggle up against sunchokes from another, across eggs ...
The Daily Illini

Small farm certificate program celebrates inaugural year

The Department of Crop Sciences’ Small Farm Certificate Program is celebrating its inaugural year and first graduate, Lia Basden.
Indy Week

A Big Name in Small-Scale Farming

This article originally published at The Assembly. At Ten Mothers Farm in Cedar Grove, just north of Hillsborough in Orange County, Gordon Jenkins and Vera Fabian produce 50 to 60 varieties of ...
Hattiesburg American

Don't have time to grow your own veggies? Try one of these u-pick farms

Growing a vegetable garden is an easy way to get a little fresh air, exercise and good food, but it's not an option for some people. Or, if you have a vegetable garden, you may not have everything ...
Purdue University

Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day Draws 63 Attendees Despite Summer Heat

The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day proved that dedicated growers won’t let summer temperatures dampen their enthusiasm for learning. Despite the hot weather, 63 attendees gathered at the Purdue ...