Ben Burkett awakes at5:30 in the morning to tend the land his family has farmed since the 1880s. In partnership with his daughter, he grows spinach, kale, mustards, peas, watermelon, squash, eggplant, sweet corn, okra and mixed organic culinary herbs on 150 acres, and pine timber on 80 of his 255-acre southern Mississippi farm. Ben […]
Apple Crisp Cooperative
A “Core” Effort Southeast Minnesota is a countryside dotted with picturesque apple orchards, a development led nearly a century ago by the University of Minnesota. Partly due to the Mississippi River and partly due to landscape conditions created in the last glacial age, climate and soil conditions are unique to the area and ideal for […]
Leunen Farms
Intensively Grazing Horses, Goats and Poultry Lancaster, Missouri Economically, ecologically and culturally integrated at the 23 acre Leunen Farms, farming comes naturally. Located about 20 miles from Kirksville, Missouri with a population of 18,000 residents, Leunen Farms’ owners, Debra and John Leunen, don’t need to leave their farm to sell their horses, Boer meat goats […]
Ferrell Secakuku Restores Hopi Orchards
Return of the Peaches They may receive scant and unpredictable rainfall, but the Hopi mesas of northern Arizona support some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. When the Spaniards arrived in the region almost five centuries ago, the Hopi were agriculturalists. They recognized the peaches the Spaniards brought as excellent additions to […]
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