A Massachusetts dairy farmer once considered selling an awkward, hard-to-farm patch of his property to Walmart.…
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Isabella Rossellini turned a 27-acre New York farmstead into a protected community farm after conserving 20.8 acres; Mama Farm now runs a member CSA and biodiversity programmes for families and children
Isabella Rossellini turned a 27-acre New York farmstead into a protected community farm after conserving 20.8…
Why this Mizoram woman, who turned to farming after teaching, is being honoured by the UN: ‘What was the purpose of my education unless…’
Mizoram farmer Z T Lalrithangi is set to receive a UN honour for her work in…
Meet Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera, the Puerto Rico seventh-grader who turned discarded school-cafeteria plantain peels into biodegradable farm mulch that cut weed growth by up to 53% in tests
Wileidy Feliciano-Rivera, the Puerto Rico seventh-grader who turned discarded school-cafeteria plantain peels into biodegradable farm mulch…
In 2010, a financially ruined couple started farming on leased land; after hitting $100,000 on one-third acre in New York, their farm now pushes nearly $700,000 a year from mostly 2.5 acres
(Source: Aaron Shellow-Lavine/WAMC) A couple who lost their home in 2010 now earns almost $700,000 a…
In 1997, ‘Sweet Diva’ star Marcos Palmeira bought a barren farm; over 29 years, the land was used to restore the native forest there |
A look into Marcos Palmeira’s farmland that he turned into an award-winning nature conservation spot. (Instagram)…
An ancient British farming craft faded after World War II; now 2,500 farmers want to revive 1,300km of mature hedgerows to help wildlife and reduce flooding
It’s seeing a revival and how. The ancient craft of hedge laying is back in trend…
In 2019, a Norfolk farm began giving 500 acres of marginal farmland back to nature; three years later, average plant diversity had doubled and ex-arable plots rose from 7 to 32 species
When Wild Ken Hill, a coastal farm in Norfolk, began transforming 500 acres of poor, marginal…
An Oregon farmer grew tomatoes, potatoes, squash, garlic and beans for 40 years without irrigation; careful soil preparation kept stored moisture in the root zone
He started dry farming in California but moved to a 9.6-acre site near Veneta, Oregon, in…
A Spanish vineyard has gone more than 20 years without irrigation or pesticides; its cover-cropped topsoil now has over twice the organic matter of nearby tilled soil
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than two decades, the soil between rows of grapevines in a…