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Last month, I attended a workshop on cover crops for fruit and vegetable farms, hosted by Iowa State University [...]
Morgan Hoenig is a beginning vegetable farmer from Mount Pleasant in PFI’s Savings Incentive Program. She wrote this summary of [...]
Dec 1 2012 Fairfield, IA After a Friday evening “teaser” lecture by Darren Doherty of HeenanDoherty land planning and [...]
Nov 30 2012 Fairfield, IA No one in agriculture has been immune to this summer’s drought. Crop yields have [...]
A couple weekends ago, I had the chance to attend the Small Farms Conference and Tradeshow in Columbia, MO. It [...]
Hand weeding with a wire weeder, push hoe, diamond hoe, wheel hoe, shovel/stirrup hoe, and a hoe “You can never spend too much money on [...]
On Friday, July 20, twenty people gathered at Rainbow Ridge Farm in Waverly for a tour of farmer Jason Gomes’ [...]
Over 100 people attended a recent PFI Field Day at Rock Spring Farm near Decorah, IA on July 15 to [...]
80 people participated in the recent Practical Farmers of Iowa Field Day Planning production for a 9-month CSA at ZJ [...]
Practical Farmers of Iowa hosted a two-day high tunnel construction workshop at TableTop Farm in rural Nevada, IA April 23-34. Thirty [...]
PFI member, Iowa organic farmer and WFAN co-founder Denise O’Brien recently returned from a year-long assignment in Afghanistan working on [...]
About 20 enthusiastic farmers/gardeners gathered together last Friday to learn how to successfully graft tomatoes. At the beginning of the [...]
On Dec-27, 2011 77 folks from across the midwest tuned into the PFI Farminar led by Adam Montri and Ann [...]
Eric and Ann Franzenburg opened their farm up to 60 friends Sunday, September 18. They discussed how they have diversified [...]
On August 3 approximately 80 people visited Sean and Becki Sullivan’s business near Cumming to learn their secrets to expanding [...]
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