Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]
Agua Linda
A Seasonal Menu of Farm Experiences Amado, AZ Harvest spring lettuce, wander a corn maze, pick pumpkins, flock with the sheep in the petting zoo. Whatever the season, Agua Linda Farm in Amado, Arizona, offers a buffet of reasons to keep coming back to the farm throughout the year. And that’s just how owner Stewart […]
Adams Family Farm
Romancing the Farm Wilmington, Vermont From the bucolic setting on 210 acres of the sixth generation Adams Family Farm in Wilmington, Vermont, one couldn’t imagine more diverse — and integrated — enterprises creatively woven together to sustain the land and the farmers who farm it. Jill and Carl Mancivalano own and manage one of Vermont’s […]
Bayfront Harvest Festival
Lasting Links In 1990 a group of farmers, social justice activists and local church members got together at the first Local Changes for Global Solutions Conference. The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for discussion of environmental, peace, and justice issues while initiating lasting links between urban and rural communities. Out of […]