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Backyard Farmer was the fourth Nebraska ETV Network program to begin broadcasting on the KUON-TV network. Both George Round and Dwayne Trenkle were the original hosts and moderators. The show consisted of a host and four specialists. In the 1960s, Backyard Farmer had the highest rating of any educational broadcast in the United States.
In 1973 John and Sally wrote Self-Sufficiency and in 1976 The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency was published. Appearing shortly after the publication of E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973) and The Good Life's first showing on British television (1975), the sales of the book exceeded all ...
A Bakweri farmer working on his taro field on the slopes of Mount Cameroon, 2005 Subsistence farmers selling their produce, 2017. Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. [1] Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local ...
Middle Georgia community stalwart and Dickey Farms owner Robert L. “Bob” Dickey II died Wednesday afternoon. He was 94. The farmer was known for his agriculture advocacy, love of family and ...
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Biointensive Mini-Farming Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (Vol. 19 (2), 2001, p. 81-83) shows that biointensive methods can enable small-scale farms and farmers to significantly increase food production and income, utilize predominantly local, renewable resources and decrease expense and energy inputs while building fertile topsoil at a rate ...
A back-to-the-land movement is any of various agrarian movements across different historical periods. The common thread is a call for people to take up smallholding and to grow food from the land with an emphasis on a greater degree of self-sufficiency, autonomy, and local community than found in a prevailing industrial or postindustrial way of life.
An old dairy farm used as a hobby farm near Leicester, New York A hobby farm (also called a lifestyle block, acreage living, or rural residential) is a smallholding or small farm that is maintained without expectation of being a primary source of income. Some are held simply to bring homeowners closer to nature, to provide recreational land for ...