Tag: farmers

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...

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...

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...