White Farmers

Big Valley is known for its gravel seams and rich loam soil at the edge of the Kelseyville Bench. We grow Sauvignon Blanc grapes, and only Sauvignon Blanc, at an elevation of 1,385 feet in the Big Valley region of Northern California.

We connect with the customers - that's what we do. Service for Famers works with business partners in Western Europe to get all of these products to market for consumers to enjoy. We also market agricultural brands independent of Service for Farmers in...

“Colorful tablecloths and clear signage go a long way in showcasing your product and increasing sales,” she says 6. “Nothing like a grumpy farmer first thing in the morning to decrease sales,” Strom says with a laugh.

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It was three days of hard work in 90-degree heat—much much too hot for mid-May—but the garden season has officially begun. We started our garden. (Cue jumping and headbanging.) In that sliver of time between when the soil was too wet to work and when...

It's not often that I laugh out loud while reading the books I cover here on “Plowing Through,” but this one made me do so on multiple occasions. The book may be playful and humorous, but that doesn't mean that Myles isn't serious about the art of...

Footer agrees with that sentiment, too: He's not out to badmouth or disparage all other forms of composting while acclaiming the value of the bokashi method; rather, he acknowledges that bokashi composting is not for everybody, and that traditional, windrow...

Perhaps you're OK with sharing your space with that person, and that's great, but at some point, you'll need a little time apart, and you should designate those rules beforehand. What Will They Eat?

There's a tendency among new farmers to attempt to do everything. Your answers will be specific to your situation, but I do have a few pointers to consider as you weigh things. At one point, we'd planned to raise cows, chickens, pigs, rabbits, goats,...

For about 188 Lexington, Ky., students, these unexpected backpack fillers happen to be the tools of their trade as they pursue a diploma at the city's newest high school, Locust Trace AgriScience Farm .

Farmer makes a better brand than Intern . We are of a generation who rush into this farming thing, only to find ourselves rushing to stay afloat. Of course, farming doesn't have the Chopped and Hell's Kitchen-style reality shows that cooking does.

And there's about a week and a half of a lag time in the onset of spring activity , which means while the cherry blossoms were flowering in town, we were still waiting for the last dreary days of winter to come to a close.

But for now, I'm basking in these last moments of rest and rejuvenation, taking in all that our land has to offer. I was halted in my tracks by the emerging song of chirping tree frogs, their music rising in volume as if someone was turning the stereo...

A basic henhouse has a roost, a floor and a couple of nest boxes. Cyn Cady And here's the very best part about the composting/deep-litter method: Cleaning the henhouse only needs to happen two to three times a year.

Tags food system , sustainable agriculture There is a growing body of resilience literature, going back to some of the seminal work of C.S. Holling and now championed by the Resilience Alliance.

Thanks to drought conditions that make it difficult to grow vegetables, there are only 108 farmers' markets and CSAs in the entire state. New Mexico In the Land of Enchantment, farmland averages just $550 per acre, according to the 2013 USDA Land Values...

I may have come home from work the other day, stopping my car every 2 yards up our quarter-mile drive to harvest newly ripened berries. That's life, and unfortunately, Mr. B and I are the ones left to deal with it.

I'm terrible at arguing politics; instead I'd like to share five steps we're taking to try and reduce our carbon footprint on the farm. If we all pitch in and change our habits just a little, maybe we can beat the heat.

Maybe there's a way it can operate continuously so you don't run the risk of the chickens getting dehydrated. “So many tools are available that will empower you to get more tasks completed quicker,” Howard says.

Rachael Dupree While I'm definitely a packrat to some extent—why buy something when you could pull it out of your shed for free?—Mr. B is decidedly not. As a result, we've had to focus on what we can do: spring cleaning.

My life's dream became to one day have my own farm with a pond to raise vegetables, fruit and fish. Beavers try damming the creek, but floods always wash them out. The bass was too big for the otter to get its arms around.

Know each topic well before adding a new one. I started doing this and have the biggest tomato crop I've ever seen.” —Carol Woelfel Thames “ Canning your garden is not as difficult as some may think, and a pressure canner is a great investment.

“Since the aim of [Missouri's Show Me Healthy Women] program is to provide screening services to vulnerable women, it is important to ensure that access to screening services is evenly distributed throughout the state,” she says.

Hopefully, soon enough, we'll crack this case. So the mystery smell continues. The next trail I'll sniff out (quite literally) is the septic system. For starters, we finally tied the knot last week, which was a beautiful time of celebration with our friends...

It becomes a dance. And we'll be off and running until things begin to quiet down again in just a few short months. So here we are, waiting and waiting, and except for a little mulching and weeding of the asparagus patch, we wait some more.

Tags agriculture , burning question , farmers , Lists Then, it's the meat producers who feed grain who will feel the hit. This is true, but those fisheries are part of the problem.

I've learned that you can do a lot with sourdough, so it's not only been nourishing to our family, it's been nourishing to my creative spirit, as well. Rachael Dupree Many of us are drawn to the homesteading life because it gives us a sense of purpose...