The modern farm has been both blessed and cursed by the advancement of technology. Modern agricultural and horticultural techniques have enabled higher crop yields with smaller footprints supporting ...

Polk County’s numbers reflect that trend, showing a substantial share of small-acreage operations. About 21% of the county’s farms are 1 to 9 acres, and another 43% are 10 to 49 acres, according to ...

In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Oleson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day.” It’s a nice vision, and really the level of belief/commitment ...