“mortgage lifters” for their ease of raising and profitability, family farms ritually harvested their hogs each year around Thanksgiving. But today the American small holder farm is finding it harder and harder to justify a presence for pigs in their livestock profile. Meet the Meishan Pig. ...
Missouri Poised to Become First U.S. State to Exempt Stock Sale Profits From Income Taxes Missouri is poised to become the first state to repeal a common tax on profits from stocks and real estate sales Associated PressMay 7, 2025
We also took a trip to Beverly Farms, where we spent a summer 50 years ago, at our mother's friend's mansion, while her friend was in Nevada arranging for a divorce. I must have been around thirteen years old that summer, but still have vivid dreams of the house and the moats and...
The impressive performance of urban farms around the country suggests the broad potential for this movement. In On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm, Michael Abelman documents his fifteen-year effort to create an economically viable farm in Goleta, California, a suburb of Santa Barbar...
If the small town is a tourist trap or is located near one, you can make money with a bed and breakfast business. This is where guests show up to your property, which can be your home if you don’t have a second place, and then stay there, and are catered to by you or somebody...
Before land reform, the central business district of Mvurwi was dominated by farm suppliers, while commercial banks provided credit and tractor hire agencies serviced large-scale farms nearby. Mvurwi commercial farmers enjoyed their leisure time at a country club, built in 1946. Mvurwi has long...
Courtesy of Earthbound Farms, via California. Never has produce made me stoop so low. At least I was spared the embarrassment of running into anyone I knew. I tried, but I just couldn’t go cold turkey. I resumed my love of simple, regional cooking, just with the odd addition of a ...
they can enter into ground water sources as well as surface waters for the drinking water sources,posing a threat to aquatic ecosystems.As of 2011,there are about 1,700 small swine farms in the southern region of the Korean Peninsula.The number of swine grown in these farms is over 2 ...
She asked me for updates about my family and friends, and she tells me about hers.I am here for her now as the time to sell her house is near. I bring up boxes from her basement (地下室). We go through every painting a student has given her, every thank-you note a parent has ...
We conclude with common themes that emerge for VBSCs of the future and what it will take to strengthen them within regional food systems. Keywords: specialty foods; values-based supply chains; small scale farms; mid-scale farms; agriculture of the middle; values-based marketing; local foods 1...