Modern Farmer

Small-Scale Farming Shouldn’t Just Be a Hobby. So Why Is It So Hard to Make a Living?

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...

Small Space Vegetable Gardening Tips Everyone Should Know

While spacious outdoor gardens produce larger harvests, you don't need a sizable garden bed to grow healthy vegetables in a ...
extension.purdue.edu

Focus on Small-Scale Vegetable Farming: Field Demonstrations Build Capacity for Use of Cover Crops, Reduced Tillage

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...
The Daily Illini

Small farm certificate program celebrates inaugural year

The Department of Crop Sciences’ Small Farm Certificate Program is celebrating its inaugural year and first graduate, Lia Basden.
Cowboy State Daily

USDA Reports 15,000 Small Farms Closed or Consolidated Last Year In The U.S.

The U.S. lost 15,000 small farms in 2025 due to being sold or consolidated. Although Wyoming has avoided major losses, Farm ...
KVUE

'This is the real deal' | What it takes to be a small-scale farmer

LOCKHART, Texas — Texas has more farms than any other state in the country, and most of those farms are small, family-owned businesses. KVUE’s Conner Board took a trip to Emadi Acres Farm in Lockhart, ...
AgWeb

4 Strategies One Oklahoma Family Farm Uses to Thrive

Claudia and Ricky Crow, owners of Crows Vegetable Farm in Shawnee, Oklahoma share how conservation programs and diversification can foster ecological and economic resilience on small, ...