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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 I love farming…so I hope to [continue] this for a long time.”

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

Daily Yonder

The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification. Whether it’s a farm or an urban park, a community garden, or a tree planted in the sidewalk, we’d do well to cultivate these connections with, and affection for, place. We will have to sacrifice.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.