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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Steve Mann doesn’t look like an outlaw as he cheerfully harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend’s garden in Kansas City, North.
The scene looked more like a summer morning than a darkening autumn evening. As the sun went down the Friday before Thanksgiving, customers were crowding into downtown’s Bad Seed Market to peruse bunches of fresh greens, piles of recently dug potatoes and heaps of ruby-red beets. All were grown in and around Kansas City.
Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Bees on the roof. Goats by the bedroom. Chickens in the backyard. All around Santa Fe, people are raising animals that provide honey, eggs, wool and, if one isn’t overly attached, meat.
Restaurateurs who defy the odds and launch an eatery that survives its first few years face a new challenge: How do you keep an aging business feeling fresh?
Due to considerable crop losses for Connecticut farmers in six counties, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that low-interest federal loans are available. Rell requested a disaster declaration for the counties of Hartford, Fairfield, Litchfield, New London and Windham because of heavy rainfall, hail and flooding between May 12 to June 4.
Several inches of snow are expected to fall in Eau Claire this week at about the same time that a major winter storm is expected to move through the region.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- A passive populace obsessed with easy answers has led to an economy that is destroying America's land, author Wendell Berry told a packed-in crowd at the University of Virginia on Thursday evening.
By SYLVIA LIM, Correspondent Fran Tiner reaches into a white coop he built for his chickens and gently grabs one of the two chicks he recently obtained. These are new, he explains, to replace the ones he had earlier.
What's Your Reaction? Bill Maher and The Humane Society have banded together to create this video urging IHOP to follow the lead of other fast food chains by switching to cage-free eggs.
A growing number of local initiatives — classes, workshops and hands-on apprenticeship programs — are aimed at helping farmers scale up. Of particular note is the Growing Growers program, a national model for training new farmers.
Although housing subdivisions have overtaken much of the surrounding area, there's still a stretch of land along the Farmington River stretching from Avon into Farmington that evokes Connecticut's agrarian past.
A group of musicians including Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp got together in St. Louis, Missouri recently and held a benefit concert to raise money for small farmers.
Associated Press - December 6, 2009 11:05 AM ET EAU CLAIRE, Wis. Wis. (AP) - Urban farmer Will Allen will be the keynote speaker at an annual Wisconsin food conference.
The city has received nearly $1 million in grants to develop community gardens and upgrade Howard Playstead, according to the mayor's office.
COOS BAY — For grandparents raising their grandkids, it’s a lot like gardening in some ways. It requires nurture, cultivation and devotion until the plant, or in this case child, eventually sprouts into a mature adult.
Members of the Wyoming community and sisters from St. Clare's convent came together this year for the first Centennial Garden, which generated about 2,700 pounds of produce for local food banks.
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