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Spring Planting and Soil Compaction: 5 Management Tips

Regardless of what you’re growing, spring is an exciting time of year. But it doesn’t come without challenges. Compaction can lead to wet soil that makes it difficult to get in your fields on time for planting and for small plants to get a healthy start.If you’re dealing with spring soil compaction this year, learning how to prevent and manage this issue will help you grow healthier crops in the current and future seasons.What Is Soil Compaction?Compaction limits water flow and stunts root devel

Vertical Farming: How to Produce More Food on Less Land

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how and where they grow produce. Vertical farms take advantage of old buildings and state-of-the-art greenhouses to produce food in a small amount of space.Despite what many think, these farms aren’t necessarily filling skyscrapers. Instead, they’re taking shape in greenhouses located in dense urban ar

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This Gardener Gets Tomato Harvests Year-Round With This Unique Growing Strategy

full_linkWhen you think of picking ripe vine tomatoes from the vine, long, hot summer days may come to mind. But what if you could grow tomatoes year-round? One gardener has figured out how to push the boundaries of tomato growing and harvest fresh fruits throughout the year.Jacques doesn’t use a heated greenhouse or even a high tunnel…but he does live in San Diego. When he starts with a climate that lacks a true freeze and adds in intentional variety selection and planting dates, he’s abl

Repurposing Urban Spaces for Farming: 7 Creative Ideas

While many people think of rural landscapes as agricultural hubs, more and more people are realizing the benefits of growing food, flowers, and fiber in urban spaces. Urban cores and peri-urban spaces are closer to large population centers and bustling markets, lessening the need to produce your product in one place, then drive it elsewhere to market.However, urban farming doesn’t come without its challenges. Small spaces, contaminated soils, high water costs, and tight regulations can make grow

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This Apprenticeship Helps Spanish Speakers Get Grazing

Note: Due to political concerns around immigration, some apprentices spoke with Modern Farmer on condition of anonymity. Diego (not his real name) was no stranger to cows when he first came to the United States. He’d grown up on his family’s farm in Veracruz, Mexico, helping to tend the dairy herd and other animals.But after moving to America a little over three years ago, Diego realized he still had lots to learn. He’d started working at a Wisconsin farm owned by Joe Tomandl III, who practices

How Native Water Protectors Champion Water Quality

Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.  “Wild rice is culturally significant to Aniishinabe people here in Minnesota. It’s our connection to the land, water and our ancestors…I had a friend say that Aniishinabeg people, if we were to lose this plant, we would lose a huge chunk of ourselves,” Goose says. “My sister and I this past fall were finishing our rice, and I had so much respect for my ancestors and how hard that work is —t

How to Care for Your Garden in Unpredictable Weather

Tulips sprouting a month early after a warm spell. Drought-resilient plants soaked after weeks of rain. Cherry blossom buds freezing after a cold snap. It’s tough to be a gardener these days. Fueled by climate change, the weather is more unpredictable than normal. “A resilient garden is one that’s ready to adapt and recover, no matter what comes its way,” says Manny Barra, a master gardener at TeachMe.To and the community garden coordinator for the City of Oakland in California.Photography

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In Hawai‘i, American Farmers Believe They Do Cacao Better

On the rainy side of Hawai‘i Island, Daeus Bencomo steps through fresh mud in his cowboy boots, rows of leafy cacao trees on either side of him. He grips a bright orange pod and slices it neatly at the stem before bending a knee to cut the fruit open. Daeus Bencomo. Photography by Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton.The pod’s dense and waxy exterior gives way to seeds coated in white pulp – sweet, bitter and nutty to the taste. They are destined for greatness in the form of chocolate bars, dried beans and t

Spotlight On an Urban Farm Helping Refugees and Immigrants Build Community

In a green oasis, set amid the freeways and malls of San Diego’s Mission Valley, a garden grows. Produce grown here fills subscription CSA boxes, as well as plates at the project’s cafe a few miles west. But MAKE Projects isn’t just a farm or cafe. It’s a community-supported agriculture program that furthers a larger purpose: it’s a training ground for refugee and immigrant women.Photography by San Diego State University.According to the American Immigration Council, women slightly o

On the Ground with Organizations Uplifting BIPOC Farmers

Leslie Woodward was in a real pickle. She’d temporarily closed Edenesque, her nearly decade-old self manufactured plant-based dairy company, to transition to a co-manufactured enterprise with a production partner, and urgently needed capital to scale up.  A Black woman and Le Cordon Bleu grad who cooked in prestigious restaurants, Woodward watched as peers in the industry obtained funding because they had a network to tap into. Individual investors dismissed her as not being ambitious or co

What Do Fish, Butterflies, and Bats Have to Do With Booze?

On January 9th, the Instagram account @anytimespritz posted a declaration: “2025 is the year of organic cocktails. Drinking is an Agricultural Act.”  The latter statement is inspired by the words of the farmer and writer, Wendell Berry – specifically, his essay “The Pleasures of Eating,” published in 1989, in which he famously wrote that “eating is an agricultural act.” In the following decades, the farm-to-table movement has championed and codified this understanding of our food systems th

How to Choose the Right Backyard Bird

In recent years, the desire to grow or produce one’s own food has become increasingly popular, and with good reason.. After living through a pandemic and struggling with ongoing high grocery prices (particularly rising costs for poultry and eggs), many people are ready to make a change for themselves.  Despite the ongoing threat of bird flu, many homesteaders consider poultry a great place to start when raising your own livestock. There’s many things to love – poultry require less spa

A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

It’s a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The farmer, Brett Aiello of Reconnecting Roots Farm, wants to suppress the weeds around some newly planted fruit trees without disturbing the soil, and he’s enlisted some help. The people in the field work together to sheet mulch the patch of land — some lay sections of clean cardboard, others cart wheelbarrows of bark chips across the field, carefully layering the chips onto the old boxe

Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistroACRU was a bit different than what one would typically expect from a Greenwich Village restaurant. The meat came from a dairy cow. “It’s a premium product,” says executive chef and partner Daniel Garwood. “The cow has gone through its whole life. There’s a lot of natural marbling. It has an interesting flavor and texture.”Short ribs from a dairy cow at ACRU. Photography submitted by ACR

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. You want to make planting and harvesting choices according to the moon? Stuff yarrow into a deer bladder to create a tea that you’ll spritz on your crops? Um, okaaaay. You do you. Photography submitted by Gerard Bertrand.But over the past 25 years, peer-reviewed scientific studies show that biodynamic farming en

On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other people must be frustrated by it as well. “I could have continued to be one of those people who complained, wishing that ‘they’–companies–would do something about it, or I could do something about it,” she says. In 2019, she openedRoots Zero Waste Market and Café in Garden City, Idaho. The market is Rainey’s small solution to a problem that has overwhelmed North America.Photograp