Is your home garden lacking in nutrients, and you’re wondering about the next course of action? Is it becoming too expensive to purchase fertilizers regularly from your local farm store? Then it would ...
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In a world that often seems to imply that we can shop our way to a solution to anything, Eliot Coleman’s message to gardeners and farmers is starkly different, and has been for some 50 years. Coleman, ...
WEST BEND, Iowa (KTIV) - Fields of corn, soybeans and wheat fill the windshield as you drive through northwest Iowa. But there are some that are different than the rest. Thomas Fehr is a 6th ...
Alexandre Ferrari-Roy, founder and CEO of the urban agriculture firm MicroHabitat, isn’t looking to squat on vacant lots or commandeer forgotten patches of land to make more room for urban farming—not ...
The Wedeberg family milks up to 80 cows depending on the time of year. They hope to operate sustainably — being good to the earth and making a living — for another century. Organic Valley — known for ...
A truck is loaded with corn next to a pile of soybeans at Matawan Grain & Feed elevator near New Richland. Credit: REUTERS/Karl Plume WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about how to limit ...