Tag Archive: young farmers

Craigslist for Young Farmers: Canadian Style

Amber

The challenges young farmers face today seem quite the same in any country. Land prices are too high, commodity and large-scale farming monopolize marketplaces, and the average age of a nation’s farmers increases steadily. We see it in all the places Garden Culture Magazine circulates; the UK, US, Australia, and Canada. Someone has fashioned various…

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Sustainable Agriculture Reverses College Enrollment

From liberal arts colleges to land-grant universities, sustainable agriculture is making its mark upon higher education. Not so much for growing organic food on campus, as it’s making an education in agriculture a desirable career pursuit again. Hearing that enrollment in traditional agriculture studies stagnated back in 2008 doesn’t surprise me at all. Kids entering…
February 7, 2018
Callie