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When the opportunity to expand operations opened up for East Fork Cultivars, the family-owned organic hemp farm in southern Oregon turned to Steward for help. Steward, a new online crowdfunding platform, works with small sustainable farms that are typically unable to get the types of loans to which industrial-scale commodity farmers have access. “Almost all agricultural funding is driven by government policies—either direct government loans or banks through government progr

Until recently, if you said “the farmer,” you’d be wrong. The reason E. coli, salmonella, toxoplasmosis, and other bacteria sicken 48 million Americans a year is because they can be anywhere at any time. Some foodborne illnesses come in contact with our food while it grows in the ground, others through handling and packing. Unless there’s a full-fledged outbreak, it’s difficult to tell whether your food poisoning came from the grocery store or the fi

I’m sure there are folks who would feel that this is a factory farm, but I don’t think so. To me, having a factory farm means you’ll need to hire several people. It’s not just going to be a family running it, like we’ve pretty much done with our farm. I do have one man who works for me full-time, but he’s almost family. He’s been here for quite a few years. My wife and I purchased this particular farm in 1979. Her grandparents lived

If At First You Don’t Succeed After two years of disappointment determining that catfish could not survive in the clean, cool waters of Java, Lamprecht discovered Tilapia. This white fish had become endemic throughout the tropical world as a food staple but was still largely unknown as a commercial fish in the United States. Here, Lamprecht found that tilapia thrived in the clean waters and began developing floating cages in the deep lakes. The Perfect Strategy While finding a natural fit in