When Ashley was 14, her family moved from a large city in Missouri to a rural town in Vermont. Ashley had no previous experience with farms or agriculture, but at the end of the school year in Vermont, she felt the land calling to her. She contacted farms listed in the yellow pages until she found a dairy farm that invited her to intern for the summer. She fell in love with farm life, and from then on, she knew some day she would own land and be a farmer.
It’s time to get those seed catalogs out and start thinking about ordering seeds for the coming season! This is the time of year when hope springs eternal and all of us farmers get to dream about the bountiful harvest to come. While you’ve got seeds on your mind we wanted to write a post to mention some considerations before you place that seed order.
Lucy has a heart for the Marshallese community in northwest Arkansas. She also has fresh organic vegetables for them. Lucy is farming a plot of land in Fayetteville and donating much of her abundance. She helps her Marshallese community adapt their traditional diets with local produce
Picking Arkansas strawberries on a balmy spring day is a beautiful thing. It reaffirms that life is indeed good. Appel Farms has 10 acres in production, offering both strawberries and pumpkins for the picking. The old family home is now a commercial kitchen with a small dining space and a little produce shop. Appel Farms has a lot going on for a tiny little farm in the heart of a thriving, growing
The drive to Dripping Springs Garden takes you through truly stunning views of the Ozarks. Once you arrive, the peace of the farm settles over you. On a recent visit, the fog of a cool spring morning nestled into the lush dark greens of the foliage. The farm is host to CAFF apprentices where Mark and Michael train a new generation of
Growing up on a farm in Minnesota, Mark Den Herder was uncomfortable with the confinement style of raising pigs. He thought to himself, “I’ll never do that.” And, he hasn’t. The pigs at his dH Farm in West Fork look pretty dang happy. As do the sheep, the dogs, the plants, the chickens, and the kids. As a summer morning settles in, we get a peek at life on a small organic farm in the hills Arkansas.
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