Tag: farmers

Urban farms are changing Canada’s food supply in new and interesting ways. If you live in Montreal, for example, and are looking for somewhere to buy pesticide-free arugula, you might choose to order some online via a direct-to-consumer marketplace. And, depending on who you order from, you mi...

This fall, five farmers in northeast Mower County enrolled nearly 80 acres of cropland to convert to native prairie strips that, unlike other set-aside programs, they can turn around on and cross with farm machinery. With each getting up to $300 per acre annually from the federal government, they...

Hundreds of UK farmers, landowners and volunteers are helping to give the gift of hope for Turtle Doves, working with Operation Turtle Dove to provide better nesting and feeding habitat for the rare birds across southern and eastern England, according to the RSPB. This year, the pr...

Hope you are all doing well. So, ’tis be the season to be thankful. For a few times this year, while the owner was either doing another market or on a business trip, I was asked to help out 2 different small businesses at the same time by doing a few Sundays at a different farmers’ marke...

Indian Himalayas, India — Torn between a widespread tradition and an internationally imposed prohibition, thousands of villages scattered on the Indian Himalayas survive on the production of charas, hashish produced in India. In India, the use of cannabis dates back to the sa...