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The Importance of Planting Cover Crops

If you want to improve your soil, one of the most important things you can do is to plant cover crops. But they need to be selected with a purpose.

Un-Coop Your Poop: Everything You Need to Know About Chicken Tractors

If you keep your laying hens in a stationary coop, you’re missing out on their incredible soil building talents. Un-coop that chicken poop by putting your flock in…

The Cost of Manufactured Food: Land & Energy

It’s no secret that overly manufactured food isn’t good for our health. The production of these foods is also extremely harmful for agriculture and the environment. The…

A Long-Term Plan: Regenerative Farming

Small farms are being held back. It’s time for a new vision. It’s time for bold new regenerative farming policies that restore both ecosystems and rural communities.…

A Brief History of Agriculture: The Science Behind Farming

What do you think of when you think of the history of agriculture? Plants, vegetables, maybe some livestock? The basis of farming is actually much more complicated…

The Soil Of A Nation: How To Save Our Soil

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all.” —Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace Humans, animals, and plants all rely…

Say Goodbye to Mowing! Turn Your Lawn Into a Meadow

Living sustainably and ecologically requires less work than you may think; in fact, it may involve less work than you’re currently doing. Saying goodbye to your lawn…

How to Pick Land: Good Enough is Perfect

There is a lot to consider when getting ready to pick land for farming— location, size, price, soil quality, water access, etc. When considering such factors, it…

Open-Source Agriculture: “Hacking” the Farming Industry

Whether we like it or not, technology is quickly evolving and continues to be an integral part of our everyday lives. This leaves us with a choice:…

Open-Source Systems: How Communities Can Help Promote Regenerative Agriculture

The Great Regeneration, by farmer-technologist Dorn Cox and author-activist Courtney White, explores unique and groundbreaking research aimed at reclaiming the space where science & agriculture meet as…

Feeding the World: Why Regenerative Grazing Is So Important

How can we learn from our mistakes and pave a way for sustainable, nutritious, local meat? In Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, Lynne Pledger and Ridge Shinn take readers on…

Draft Power: The Life-Affirming Alternative to “Big Ag”

Farmers young and old are seeking new ways to shrink their carbon footprint and promote more ecologically friendly ways of getting chores done. So, what’s a modern…

Presenting the Four-Season Harvest

For most gardeners, a typical season begins with planting in the spring and ends with a big harvest in the fall – one that the frugal home-gardener…

Inheriting the Earth

Farmland covers 38 percent of the land area of the Earth and is a major contributor to climate change. But it doesn’t have to be this way.…

Ten Facts About the Water We Use

Most people have a basic understanding of the importance of water conservation. We’re taught to turn the faucet off while brushing our teeth and not to try…

A Short History of Agricultural Seed

Seeds are the foundation of agriculture. As John Navazio describes in this excerpt from his new book, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed…

The Energy Consumption Crisis

At the rate humanity is currently burning fossil fuels, we will create an uninhabitable earth long before we run out. So if the pressure of a finite…

How Loving Labor Leads to a Brighter Future: Sourcing a Solution

Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how…

The Lean Farm Guide: CSA Boxes

CSA boxes are becoming popular as the idea of buying local continues to become more appealing. As a farmer, offering a CSA box to your community is…

Homesteading: Highlighting Our Need For Each Other

Homesteading isn’t meant to be a solitary adventure, done in isolation. Building and living on your land takes at least one partner, if not several. That’s why…

Save Your Soil the Power of Pee

It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get down into the dirt – but you may want to grab a bucket, especially first thing in the…

Earth Day Reading: 13 Essential Books

This year, people all around the world are celebrating a milestone—the 50th anniversary of this international day of action for our environment. Why not celebrate Earth Day…