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Tips for Using Food Trends in Marketing Your Small Farm
Food trends can be used for small farm marketing if you just know how.
Grow and Sell Pollinator Plants on the Small Farm
Growing and selling pollinator plants can be a great small farm business -- learn how to market these crucial plants.
Hosting Weddings and Other Events on the Small Farm
Hosting weddings, banquets, and farm-to-fork dinners on your small farm can be a profitable and fun venture -- learn how!
Grow Ginger on the Small Farm
Growing ginger can be a profitable and fun venture for a small farmer.
Start a Cooperative CSA With Other Small Farms
Starting a cooperative CSA with other small farms near you can be a great way to pool resources and increase your sales and profit.
Grow and Sell Gorgeous Ornamental Cut Flowers
Cut flowers are an increasingly popular small farm product. Learn how to grow and sell your own flowers.
Fun and Profitable Ideas for Your Small Farm
From heritage meat to cooperative CSAs, these small farm trends will provide ideas and inspirations for the farmer looking to retool his or her business plan.
Grow These Trendy Crops on Your Small Farm
These trendy vegetables and plants will lure customers to your small farm and increase your sales.
Get a Free High Tunnel for Your Small Farm
High tunnels or hoophouses are great ways to extend the season and grow crops on a small farm into fall and winter. A USDA grant program provides them for free.
Keep Your Chickens Cool in Summer Heat
Laying hens can get easily overheated in hot weather. These tips will help you keep your birds calm, cool and collected.
Farming in Community
Connecting with other farmers in your community can be a great way to build relationship and glean unexpected benefits.
Using Pigs to Weed on the Small Farm
Pigs are nature's weeders and tillers, and they fertilize as they go. Learn how to use pigs to clear and till land on your small farm.
How to Grow Yacon on the Small Farm
Yacon is an easy to grow South American tuber that is a tasty, yummy crop for the small farm that is good for your health, too.
Herbs to Grow on the Small Farm
Growing herbs on a small farm can be an easy and profitable venture. Learn about how to grow some common herbs for market.
Berries -- A Great Crop Choice for the Small Farm
So many different types of berries -- strawberries, blackberries, and even elderberries -- can be grown as crops on the small farm.
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