By Tom Parker For Joe and Jay Schwinn, learning how to make farming profitable was so easy, and so successful, that it was like taking candy from a baby. At the time, they were practically babies themselves. Joe was six…
A well-known adage of nature is “diversity lends stability”. Many farmers employ this thinking by adding crops or species, and even enterprises to their operations so that they are not relying on one crop, market or pricing structure to be…
Growing Over Cover: A Kansas Specialty Crop Grower’s Guide to Cover Crops is the latest publication in the Kansas Rural Center’s series of guides for fruit and vegetable growers in Kansas. The guide is now available for download on the…
The Kansas Rural Center is seeking a full-time Field Coordinator for all aspects of its Grassroots Engagement work but primarily for its current Community Food Solutions and Civic Agriculture Project. This position will assist in organizing public meetings and other events that…
The Kansas Rural Center (KRC) will host five specialty crop workshops during March to provide information and education necessary for beginning specialty crop growers to establish a successful specialty crop enterprise in Kansas. The workshops will focus on conservation, production…
