Editor's note: Katie Pinke will be checking up with Thomas Shephard throughout the growing season as part of our Follow a Farmer series. CRYSTAL, N.D. — After a slow start this spring, things are ...

CRYSTAL, N.D. – On a hazy, cool mid-September morning, Samantha and Thomas Shephard stand side by side, their gloved hands pitching dirt clumps out of the potato-covered conveyor belt that is moving ...

Planting potatoes in the fall gives you a second harvest and fresher food as the weather cools. Fall planting is most effective in mild winter regions, where short-season varieties mature before frost ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Farmer Mark Cannella (rear) and volunteer ...

This is a unique harvest and "how to" of brake light potatoes grown in a raised bed garden. We check out the harvest and go ...

The farmers whose crops were left unharvested were waiting for rain to soften the dirt lumps so they wouldn’t bruise the potatoes, then temperatures dipped into the low double digits and froze them.

Farmers of the Saint John River Valley get busy with Thanksgiving just around the corner – and make plans for an ...

On Oct. 9, members of Yale Hospitality took a field trip to Cecarelli Farms in Northford for a unique culinary experience. Trading in aprons for overalls, the staff unearthed the first harvest of ...

Nyandarua County is home of Irish potatoes and so it makes perfect sense when there is some revolution, it starts here. This week, farmers sampled the power of mechanisation. Growers of the tubers ...