The USDA defines small farms as generating less than $350,000 in annual gross receipts and on which the owner works. In Washington state, 35,269 farms — or 90 percent of the total — are ...

The homesteading movement of the 1960s started gaining popularity again in the early 2000s. Even if being a full-time farmer isn't for you, running a small farm is a great way to provide the best ...

Tilling the Soil of Tomorrow How one design firm is tackling technology gaps to build the farm of the future By Nora Ankrum, Fri., March 11, 2016. Tweet. print.

Small farms are dying. This plow-free plan could help save them. ... No-till farming keeps those organisms together, where tilling would disturb the soil and break them up.

We also recently saw one of our 2023 publications, "Farm Boots," be awarded the GOLD Benjamin Franklin Award, one of the highest national honors in independent publishing. In addition to these great ...

Not only does it kill everything in the soil it ruins the soil structure causing a shift in the aggregate that does not allow for proper water absorption and risks runoff, and limits the space for ...

Seiler cites two individuals who have been important mentors to him – David Brandt, an Ohio farmer who was a pioneer in the ...

A number of small Black-owned farms in the Gulf South are growing crops with the climate in mind. Hilery Gobert is among them. He owns a 65-acre farm in Iowa, La., that he started farming in 2020.

Even small changes can make a big difference. #Ecosystem. by Shea Swenson · September 11, 2022. No-till farmland. by Bjorn Beheydt, Shutterstock. No-till farming, a technique long known to save ...

“No-till reduces soil erosion 80-90%,” DeLong said. Water health can be helped by edge-of-the-field practices such as ...

Chris Hench is one of Centre County’s newest farmers. He and his wife, Amber, own Blackbranch Farm in Julian. However, Chris’s background is far from agriculture. After art school, he traveled the ...