Small Organic Farms Links

Organic Growers School rolls out its fourth annual True Nature Country Fair this month

Where can you learn how to train goats and stage a natural, do-it-yourself burial under one roof? The Organic Growers School presents its fourth annual True Nature Country Fair this month. There, attendees can learn about a wide array of funky and useful topics at nearly 50 workshops covering facets of sustainable living from raising cows to Ayurvedic healing. There will be a silent auction of ...

Organic farm a model for beginning farmers

COLO -- One agricultural myth says it is impossible to start farming unless your parents already farm and can help you. Wende Elliott doesn’t believe it.

Small farms, big results: Richland ag expo to demonstrate possibilities all around us

DECATUR - The staff at Richland Community College wants to showpeople what the possibilities are when it comes to locally producedfood and alternative energy.

Another Spin: Rethinking food shopping after egg scare

My family recently bought a dozen Land-O-Lakes eggs from Hannaford Supermarket on Walpole Street in Norwood. Luckily, that brand was not included in the mind-boggling recall of half a billion eggs that could be infected with salmonella from two Iowa factory-farms (I would rather call them factories than farms).

Latino ‘agripreneurs’ go from workers to owners

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Early in the day at a small farm justoutside town, Maria Sosa approaches several dozen rows of blackbean plants that cover about two acres.