December 31, 2025

Perkins’ Good Earth Farm is a permanent-bed, deep-compost, no-till, and certified organic/Real Organic Project certified farm in De Motte, Indiana. We provide the veggies you need and love for our neighbors and community and a safe and beautiful place for the traveller. My wife, Julie, and I are currently in our 17th year of farming […]

In the first three articles of this series (see the Sept, Oct and Nov/Dec issues), we explored growing wedding flowers; assessing your fit for the wedding world, understanding clients, preparing fields and succession planting for specific dates, and building the logistics and tools to pull off a wedding without dissolving into a puddle of horticultural

A guy from Iowa talking about corn, what do you know?! Here in Iowa sweet corn is the gateway vegetable to unlock the customer’s pocketbook. And the benchmark for sweet corn success is having it early to market, by July 4th. The main newspaper in the state, the Des Moines Register, even publishes on the

Winter is often a quieter time for farmers, but wildlife are still around and active, making the most of food and habitat sources — including overwintered crops and season extension structures. In addition to the frustration of seeing your hard work disappear overnight, and the surprisingly high fire risk caused by mouse nests in greenhouse

Dear plant and soil tenders, in the past few issues of this magazine we looked at managing the soil’s micronutrients and pH. Those topics were micro. Now, our goal for deeper knowledge is macronutrients — those nutrients that plants use the most of. How could one writer possibly share some helpful theory and practical tips