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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. The 800-square-foot basement and garage provide ample space for germination, cultivation and packaging, he says, with the vertical shelf configuration leaving plenty of room to grow. “I Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. We also raised burley tobacco until I was a junior in high school.

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