When Irving Fain started Bowery Farms he had a dream; to provide the world with healthy, fresh, pesticide-free greens to consumers via an indoor vertical…
By the time we get through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday, it is easy to become burned out on giving…
Grow Hardy Plants and Preserve the Food Chain with a Seed Library It occurred to me, as I was writing this, that maybe I should…
During the economic recession in the early ‘70s, I was a stay-at-home mom with three children. My husband was a public school teacher, raking in…
Homesteading can be a solitary affair and finding community on the homestead can be difficult. Something about living in tune with the land calls to…
Are you living a prosperous life? Do you consider yourself a success? As the economy continues to struggle, many of us have reexamined our vision…
When we first bought the land that would one day become Ivy Hill Farm it was a desolate February day, complete with gray skies and…
It has been speculated that until recent history, around the 1600-1700s, Western people were not much interested in helping each other. Societies were feudal and…
In the 1960’s TV series Green Acres, the main character “Oliver”, who is from New York, buys a farm in the country. Whenever he wants…