Ben Broughton harvesting carrots in 2021. Students in the Small Farm Start-Up School may decide to pursue a variety of agricultural businesses, including farming crops like carrots. Photo: UF/IFAS, ...
On a family-owned farm in Rochelle, a tiny unincorporated area in Alachua County southeast of Gainesville on the way to Hawthorne, Keilyn Fuller is learning what it takes to sustain a century-old ...
Do you consider your neighbor’s five-acre property with 12 chickens a farm? No? What about your neighbor with two show pigs? No still? If that’s the case, the folks behind the USDA Census of ...
When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...
Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...
INLAND SPOTS. WHEN I COME BACK, WE’LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE TIMING OF WHEN WE COULD SEE SOME RAINFALL AS WELL. NEW LAWS SEEM TO TAKE EFFECT IN FLORIDA’S DRAWING ATTENTION FOR ITS WIDE RANGING IMPACT ON ...