Soil is composed of layers that actually accomplish important purposes – to just till it all up destroys those benefits. Thus, the broadfork. Working your soil with a broadfork will not allow dormant ...

Mary Lou Powell, a resourceful MOTHER EARTH NEWS reader, demonstrates how to use this homemade broadfork made from recycled materials. To make this homemade broadfork, I bought two sets of coil-spring ...

We visit Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in Richmond On this episode we take a trip to Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in the ...

We learn how Broadfork Farm's endeavors are feeding families in the greater Richmond area On this episode we take a trip to Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in the ...

Your February soil checklist is an important aspect of preparing the farm for the growing season. Taking a few steps ahead of your last frost makes it possible for your fields and beds to yield ...

Three ducks stood sentry at the driveway leading to Broadfork Farmstead in Greensboro last Monday afternoon. The menagerie on the 13-acre, solar-powered homestead also includes dogs, goat mamas and ...

I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I’ve always been interested in food networks. The way ingredients move from land to plate reveals a lot about our systems, values and communities. As a kid, I cooked at ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Some things are too good to be true and others, like the broadfork, only seem so. The broadfork, a ...