Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm was one of thousands benefiting from a ...

Rachel Woolf / Rachel Woolf for NPR In a chilly storeroom piled high with fall produce, Jimena Cordero is chopping up vegetables and fanning them out onto trays. Cordero is the farm manager at Ollin ...

Local food banks are about to lose a key source of fresh, local produce after the Department of Agriculture ended the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program or LFPA. The program ...

When people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

Between 2017 and 2022, the United States experienced a reduction of 142,000 farms, a decline attributed to escalating input ...

Small farms have a pretty big advantage. They don’t need to ascribe to industrial means of growing. That means less tilling and fewer pesticides. The ability to have a regenerative operation is much ...

Inga visits small farms and makers finding new ways to preserve traditional practices. Host Inga Witscher takes a journey around the state to visit small farms and specialty makers who are finding new ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Casselton, North Dakota, The Tharaldson Ethanol plant, the seventh-largest such plant in the ...

Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant program that allowed schools and ...

Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm was one of thousands benefiting from a local food program recently cut by the Trump administration. (Photo by ...