A small group of Goulburn residents gathered around kitchen tables in late 2014 to discuss a simple idea: making their own clean electricity. Twelve years later, that discussion became Australia’s fir...
On a 160-acre farm in central Iowa, three tall wind turbines quietly rise above the fields. Each turbine uses less than an acre of land, but together they provide an annual income that has changed the...
Image(s): Shelley E. Huguley Henry Froese was told he couldn’t farm without family ties, couldn’t grow organic crops in Gaines County’s sandy soils, and certainly couldn’t grow...
In 1954, a Maryland family bought 62 acres of tired farmland and chose not to force it back into production. Instead, the property was given time to recover, allowing fields, woods, wetlands and wildl...
The Elsewhere Pod sits on the couple’s Sunshine Coast hinterland property and measures about 6 metres by 2.4 metres, states the online report. Its compact footprint is offset by floor-to-ceiling...
(Source: Aaron Shellow-Lavine/WAMC) A couple who lost their home in 2010 now earns almost $700,000 a year growing vegetables on just two and a half acres in upstate New York. Corinne Hansch and her hu...
For a family that has worked the property for more than 70 years, the arrangement preserves both the land and its role in the valley’s agricultural landscape. For more than seven decades, the Fo...
NRCS Soil Conservationist Jimmy Young with Vermont Dairy Farmers Matt and Guy Choiniere in Highgate Center, Vermont (pictured from left to right). Image Credit: US Department of Agriculture The Choini...
A historic 135-acre Christmas tree farm in Warren County, New Jersey, has been listed for $1.485 million (£1.11 million) after being owned by the same family for 80 years. Located at 21 Frontage Road ...
The Kellogg story is also one of persistence. He began farming at 14 after his father left agriculture to care for his ill wife. By his senior year of high school, Bill was managing 700 acres, much of...