Ready to try value-added? Start here.
Sometimes, farm profitability is just one value-added step away. Lots of farmers have the great...
A small farm revolution?
For the title of this blog, I borrowed a chapter title from John Ikerd's book Small Farms are Real...
The Appalachia Region Gets it!
At the Appalachia Grows Conference last weekend, I sensed a resolve to make the local food system...
Saving family farms in Maryland – level access to markets
This blog is the last in a series on saving family farms in Maryland. In the first blog, I...
Saving family farms in Maryland – the right regulatory environment
This blog is one of a series on saving family farms in Maryland. In my last post, I covered some...
Saving family farms in Maryland – Infrastructure solutions
This blog is one of a series on saving family farms in Maryland. In my last post, I noted that...
Saving family farms in Maryland – access to land
In my last post, I noted that we do not have enough young and beginning farmers to replace those...
Saving family farms in Maryland
Farming in the U.S. has gone through an incredible transformation in the last century, from highly...
Are you on the right side of farming trends?
As we live our busy lives, we tend to miss the signals that markets are changing. Of course, we...