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, ...

Farming isn’t just work, it’s a full-time lifestyle. But, for many small family farms across the U.S., that lifestyle is getting harder to sustain. Somewhere between half and 85% of small farms now ...

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining ...

FARIBAULT, Minn. — A grassroots effort of a handful of volunteers showing up to lend a hand to farmers has now grown into a network of more than 300 people supporting small-scale farms across ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Purdue Agricultural Communications posted a photo story highlighting students in the Small Farms Experience course as they helped harvest produce at the Purdue Student Farm. The ...

Precision agriculture tools promise to ‘empower’ farmers with AI, but they may be signing away their rights to share the ...

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I answer the question, can small-scale farming feed the world? Specifically, I look at how industrial farming and the green revolution have led ...