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 ...

I recently had the opportunity to join our Stark County master gardener volunteers on a visit to the Ohio State University Wooster campus student greenhouses. Our guide, Dr. Uttara Samarakoon, an ...

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 ...

This week fifth and sixth grade students at a Colorado school are set to eat from a harvest of vegetables that they helped to grow, and they're learning lessons in the process. The students at ...

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 ...

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 ...

In spring, eastern Oregon farmer Patrick Thiel delivers thousands of pounds of organic potatoes to more than 50 farm-to-table restaurants in Portland every week. But Thiel hasn’t made the 350-mile ...

In the near future, students and staff at Fresno, Calif., Unified high schools will be able to harvest their own lettuce, bell peppers and tomatoes from a very non-traditional farm located on their ...