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Now, the pair is continuing to branch out in educational opportunities by starting an incubator farm program. After 10 years, the course has reached more than 200 beginning farmers and gardeners.

Recently the farm applied to become a goat-share farm, meaning that this spring, they'll be able to legally share their milk and dairy products with their goat-share membership. Every morning the family starts their breakfast with this popular recipe:...

Weathervane CSA Farm Guidestone also leases plots of land to businesses and individuals interested in CSA and organic farming. Internship Programs Guidestone's long-standing internship program continues to offer opportunities for college students and...

“We live in a dry area so we have to purchase almost every bite of food for our animals,” Swift says. Tags goat's milk Alethea Swift Raising goats or any animals in the desert is tough, as it's void of pastureland.

Ridge to Reef Although it's really an out-of-the-box experience for most, we regularly hear from our visitors afterwards in how it made a difference in their lives. We offer tours and on-farm dinners out of our food truck, and group farm retreats.

We source compost , chicken feed and straw bales for mulch from off-farm. We also have a few tools that are made from recycled bike parts, like a wheel hoe, rotary dibbler and a garden cart.

When Valerie Samutin and her husband, George, decided to recreate their wedding feast—lamb marinated in pomegranate juice, garlic and herbs, roasted on an open fire by the groom himself —they found that they couldn't find the lamb they were looking...

Southern Arizona's Sleeping Frog Farms got its start on less than an acre of land northwestern Tuscon, where four friends had big dreams of feeding people in a most-literal food desert.

Contracting With Prudence As an farm-business entrepreneur, you're raising a product with the hope of profit. My home state of Virginia, for example, encourages its residents to raise shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay area to both revitalize the seafood...

This is also the spot of a great swimming hole on the Alsea River. Then 40 miles west from Alsea is the Pacific Ocean; the highway drops you right into Alsea Bay, home to Dungeness crab.

“You can have a few good years, then a bad year, then another good year.” Lili DeBarbeiri The farm has been a learning lab for the local community on organic agriculture. You can hear a train in the distance.

Schwennesen and his wife, Jean, are no armchair ranchers, even though between them they hold two bachelors and three master's degrees. But this way of life—and the communities based on it—is dying out fast.

Specialty: Year-round organic vegetable and pastured-egg CSA; specialty greens If sunny California seems like the perfect backdrop for growing a gastronomic spread of organic vegetables and eggs from pastured chickens, Bryan Kaminsky would surely agree.

Los Poblanos proudly grows Grosso lavender. Use It as Medicine Lavender can be a mainstay of your medicine cabinet , too. Driving through the entrance to the farm, you'll take in line of tall, majestic cottonwoods and then rows of lavender crops , lily...

Soil is simply the holder of the nutrients, a place where the plant roots traditionally live and a base of support for the plant structure. In a hydroponic solution, you provide the exact nutrients your plants need in precisely the correct ratios.

You won't be able to predict the best time for visitors, so be flexible. Sugarbush was named “Best Cheese and Maple Syrup Stop in Vermont” by Yankee Magazine , and Luce received “Travel Person of the Year” award by Vermont's tourism department.

Most species require hot dry summers and relatively short winters, but don't despair if you live in a colder clime: Check with your local nursery to for Ukrainian varieties that tend to be hardier to cool temperatures.

In many rural and even suburban areas, you can lease land from your neighbors for a song. “We are able, via platforms like Facebook, Instagram and my blog, to relay to our customers how we raise our animals and what we have for sale,” MacLean notes.

Cyn Cady “They love human affection, and they can become like dogs if you put the time in,” Audrey says. Despite the intimidating size of the animals and their threatening-looking horns, she is armed only with a small curry-type brush, tucked into...

Located in small-town Cochise, Ariz., RichCrest Farms is a beautiful oasis in the desert with an intangibly good vibe. Dumas doesn't feel the need to control “pests.” Predators keep the insect population under control.

Like many small-scale farmers, Welty Mandarins isn't yet at the point that James can quit his full-time job and farm exclusively, but they hope that within the next five to seven years, their farm will continue to thrive and expand, and James will be...

The laying hens now consist of red and black sex-link chickens, chosen for their excellent laying abilities as well as their ability to be sexed at hatching, making sure the farm is putting resources only into laying females.

Tags desert , Lists “People can utilize the facility for things they are interested in. So she started a pathway that eventually expanded into an outdoor gallery and sculpture path where various artists have contributed installations or site-specific...

Trimmed a hoof? The timing was perfect for David and Kathryn Heininger to make their rural dream a reality. Communicate and Work with the Authorities From the beginning, the Heiningers worked with the appropriate authorities at all levels of government...

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Existing businesses like Apple Annie's show no signs of slowing down, and they are happily welcoming the next generation of customers. Annie's son, Matt, runs the already quite popular vegetable business and says, “For sure, the customers' favorite...

“I would like to create safe places for families and their children and envision that as one of our on-going projects on the farm.” The return of the self-serve farm stand, collaboration with other small farmers, bringing people to the farm to collect...