Finely Tuned to the Market Hebron, Maryland Erroll Mattox grew up in Maryland feeding chickens and working mules on his grandfather’s subsistence farm. He reviled it — got out of dodge as soon as he could. But after 15 years in the city, an epiphany on the virtue of organic farming called Erroll back to […]
Dancing Winds Farm
A Tale of Two Goats Mary Doerr did not intend to be a goat farmer. When she purchased Dancing Winds Farm, which lies on 20 acres in Kenyon, Minnesota, in 1985, her plan was to grow organic produce. She carried through with her organic produce, but only for a short while. Then, along came Ida […]
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, […]
Fieldfarms
Where creative ideas bloom Dexter, MI More than plants germinate in Janna Field’s greenhouses: creative Fieldfarms business ideas grow as well. With a foundation in growing flowers since 1994, Janna keeps things fresh and her own enthusiasm level high by adding new products and income diversification to the Fieldfarms mix, always focusing on things she […]
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