The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, will award small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $35,643 in 2015 for sustainability …
Farms
Hungry for Farmland
Clear Spring Farm, PA.If you live in an eco-conscious region fighting to preserve its local family farms, chances are you’ve seen bumper stickers such as “Know your farmer, know your food.” “I …
Buy a Box; Save an Apple
Like the snowy owl and the snail darter, foods can be endangered too.If farmers stop growing your favorite variety of tomato because it’s too hard to ship or too prone to pests, we come that much …
Save The Gravenstein
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”—Martin Luther (1483–1546, a German monk and church reformer)In a world awash with Red Delicious …
Durst Organic Growers
Farming with HeartBy Heidi LewisThe main ingredient in good vegetables, says farmer Jim Durst, is soil: “Feed the soil, and the soil will feed the plants." Jim and his wife, Deborah, have been …
Subsidizing Big Ag
Small Farms Left Out of Farm Bill By Charlene OldhamWhen the first “farm bill” was created in the late 1930s to help family farms, horses and hand plows were as common on farms as Model …