Staying Small to Keep Farming Lauden, Iowa “I’ve been farming for thirty-five years and I saw the writing on the wall when the hog market dropped in 1998 and prices for hogs fell to eight cents a pound,” explains Marlin Mowry , the fourth generation to farm his 350 acre family farm in Lowden, Iowa. […]
Earthrise Farm
A Healthy Beginning After 40 years at the Sisters of Notre Dame convent school, Annette and Kay Fernholz returned to their family home in Louisberg, Minnesota and with the help of the convent established Earthrise Farm in 1996. It was a risky, but hopeful start for the sisters and their first year they had only […]
Hoch Orchard
Creative Farming Nestled deep in the steep, wooded hills and valleys of the Mississippi River is the 30-acre Hoch Orchard, tended by Harry and Jackie Hoch. After leaving the orchard for seven growing seasons, Harry and Jackie decided to return to their apple orchard and raise their family in a rural community. Since 1997, the […]
Indian Springs Farmers Association
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 […]
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