American Farm Bureau Federation

Small Family Farms, The Roots of American Agriculture

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...
Modern Farmer

The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...
KSL

Small local farms face uncertain future amid federal spending freezes, cancellations

WEST VALLEY CITY — Nathaniel Moudoubaye Yalinga walks up and down tilled rows of soil in the late afternoon sun, stopping every couple of feet to cover carrot, onion and pumpkin seeds with earth. Only ...
KQED

Small Farms Fed the Bay Area During COVID. But Now Face Federal Cuts

On a recent Friday morning, surrounded by rows of corn, squash, beans, and colorful hints of sunflowers, zinnias and cosmos, Héktor Calderon-Victoria surveys the land he cultivated for the past three ...
The Business Journals

80 Acres acquires three indoor farms from competitor to expand U.S. footprint

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min 80 Acres Farms, the region’s ...
Civil Eats

Foodshed Cooperative Is Growing San Diego’s Small-Farm Economy

After half their farm’s crops were wiped out by a devastating heat wave in 2018, Ellee Igoe and Hernan Cavazos, co-founders of Solidarity Farm, changed their practices with the explicit goal of adding ...