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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 ...
OPB

A big idea for small farms: How to link agriculture, nutrition and public health

Rachel Woolf / Rachel Woolf for NPR In a chilly storeroom piled high with fall produce, Jimena Cordero is chopping up vegetables and fanning them out onto trays. Cordero is the farm manager at Ollin ...
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 ...
Capital Press

‘A Call to Farms’ features a small farm involved in sustainable agriculture

In 2020, Jennifer Grayson stumbled upon Mahonia Gardens in Sisters, Ore., via a farming internship. Her experience on the 1-acre vegetable farm spawned an investigative journey of a new generation of ...
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.
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 ...