Jacob Waddy, now in his retirement years, could probably get by on just four acres of mixed vegetables. He grows watermelon, cantaloupe, okra, green beans, snap peas, squash, cucumber, peppers and tomatoes to sell at the farmers market in his rural Uniontown, Alabama, and in the neighboring towns of Alberta, Marion and Thomaston. But this […]
Eagle View Family Farm
Time for a Change In Lake City, Minnesota, Dennis and Sue Rabe are taking an alternative approach to farming. After finding that they were working more hours on the farm and getting less for their input, it was time for a change. As Dennis said, “the idea of a family farm had been lost. We […]
Polyface Farm
Diversified Everything Swope, Virginia On one 550-acre farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, there’s not much that isn’t diversified. The nationally-recognized Polyface Farm is owned by Joel and Teresa Salatin, Joel’s mother Lucille, and includes their children, Daniel and Rachel, and two apprentices who have woven an ecological approach to farming that is convincingly more profitable, […]
Lost Cabin Ranch
The Story of Our Intentions “I really believe,” Rebecca Routson says, “that every square foot of this earth requires its own particular attention.” The particular piece of earth Rebecca and her husband Don attend to is an organic farm in the Williamson Valley northwest of Prescott, Arizona. It is a place of unconventional beauty, set […]
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