Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 07/07/2015 – 7:53am “How do I get on some land?” It’s probably the question I hear most often from beginning farmers. It’s also among the most daunting. Americans are increasingly looking to farming as a viable career option, but land ownership is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands. Those […]
Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity.
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 06/29/2015 – 3:34pm Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity. The theme for the UVM Food Systems Summit in June, which was hosted by the University of Vermont and Vermont Law School was, The Right to Food: Power, […]
Here’s to a year! Pass the Champaign!
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 06/22/2015 – 10:16pm I’m coming up fast on one year since I first moved down to Champaign to work for The Land Connection. One year ago, I had recently graduated, and didn’t know what path I wanted to take. I had interned for The Land Connection during my undergrad, […]
Diversification in Planting and Business Planning
Submitted by Bob Porter on Mon, 06/15/2015 – 9:35am I was at the Illinois Horticultural Field Day in Granville, Illinois last week. This is a yearly event attended mainly by people working in fruit and vegetable production from all over the state of Illinois. I had a chance to talk about the workshops The Land Connection offers on […]
Adding value to the bushel: why Michael Adsit came to our agritourism workshop
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 06/09/2015 – 9:51am Our tour stop at The Great Pumpkin Patch last summer. Join us for this year’s Agritourism Workshop! Last June, we held a training on agritourism to help farmers understand how to invite the public onto their farms. It was a great three days of speakers, tours, […]
It was the dreariest of Sundays, and the chickens ate all of my salad, all of it.
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 06/01/2015 – 7:45am Although I was late planting my garden this year, it was coming along nicely. A perfect spring for lettuce, and kale, and all things green. I was ready to harvest, and was calculating how long it would last, and the dates I would re-plant (hot weather dependent) […]
