Home Pickins McKee, Kentucky Growing tobacco was insurance for Beth and Doug Tillery on their 300 acre, 120-head dairy farm in eastern Kentucky. In years when milk prices sunk below the cost of production, the tobacco check would come in and balance the books. Fragile, but it worked for nearly two decades. Then one year […]
Crones’ Cradle Conserve
Combining farming, community and conservation Citra, Florida “I think right now we’re juggling about eight different businesses here at Crones’ Cradle Conserve,” Jeri Baldwin says with a smile. From workshops to market gardening, from retreat facilities to value-added products, Jeri’s vision as owner and manager of the Conserve is to be an on-going “demonstration project,” […]
Willow Lake Farm
Learning to See Tony Thompson has lived on his family’s Willow Lake Farm near Windom, Minnesota all of his life. Although he holds a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and has nearly completed his Master’s degree in Plant Community Ecology from the University of Montana, at Bozeman, he never really left home for school. “I went […]
Pine Tree Strawberries
Experimenting with Strawberries Strawberries are a relatively new addition to the crop mix at the nearly 100 year old Pine Tree Apple Orchard on the shores of Pine Tree Lake near White Bear Lake in Washington County. And although the approximately 16 acres of strawberries make up only a small portion of the 150 acre […]
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