Ecstatic is how Sherry Hull describes her five-year-old guests as they pick up a still-warm egg from under a hen, scamper around with a litter of kittens in the hay, or hold a bottle of milk for a slurping calf. If children come to Hull-O Farm Family Farm Vacations already smitten with four-legged creatures, they […]
Uniontown Youth in Agriculture
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 […]
Grow Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]
Mid-Missouri’s Poultry Processing Plant
Karen Machetta fell in love with agriculture in college when she learned to milk a cow in a dairy production course. She was a city girl who had spent summers on her grandma’s farm and still lovingly remembers every detail of the arrangement of nesting boxes in the hen house. Karen started her own farm […]
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