While gardening can be much more leisurely, vegetable farming requires intensive cultivation in order to meet wholesale quotas.

Grow your own produce easily in your backyard ...

If you want healthy food, experts say to eat what's local, organic and in-season. Those foods benefit the planet too, because they are less taxing on the soil and they don't travel as far. It doesn't ...

If you’ve ever planted a vegetable garden, you know the kind of work it takes. From preparing the soil, to planting the seeds, watering the plants and harvesting the crops, a lot of effort goes into ...

Penn State Extension is pleased to continue providing quality education via various webinars and recordings. If you have […] ...

This Snohomish farm proves that one acre is all you need to build a thriving — and sustainable — business. SNOHOMISH — Carrots, sugar snap peas, rainbow Swiss chard, mint, microgreens, garlic scapes: ...

It all started with a single homegrown radish. "There were six kids in this apartment next door to us, and they always hung out in the backyard all the time," said Catherine Mardosa '03, who founded ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, last month, launched the National Inclusive Growth project that will see one million households in all 47 counties get simple kits to set up kitchen gardens. Aimed at ...

How much food can you grow on a quarter acre? A lot more than you might think, as newbie farmer Jess Herlein discovered this summer. After five years of tending her backyard garden in Lancaster city, ...