Farmers' markets in winter? A bounty of help for growers.
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In the upper Midwest, a church coalition coordinates 50 winter markets â and offers additional help to farmers struggling to stay solvent.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By Doris Hajewski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 18--RANDOLPH -- It's a zero-degree February day outside, but inside the Jung Seed Co., the earthy smell of soil and peat moss is in the air, and with it comes the promise of spring.
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By Cheryl Winkelman Despite 2006's cold, wet spring and hot, sticky summer, San Joaquin County farmers experienced a pretty good year.
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Help is hard to find on Essex County farms. Not enough people know how to operate heavy farm equipment either. Packers and sales help at the farm stand are tough to find, too.
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By Doug Pike, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Winter coastal-fishing strategies are as dependent on water temperature as on any other factors. To catch more trout and reds now, keep one eye on the wind, one on the tide and another on the thermometer.
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LEWISTON, Maine -- After one of the warmest winters on record, this coming winter will be much colder than normal from coast to coast, according to the latest edition of the venerable Farmers' Almanac.
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Cut through the winter gloom, and get motivated to tackle your financial dreams.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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By Steve Ford  Chill winds out of the northwest and frost on the windows in the morning don't exactly make fishermen think of spring.  But then I'm not most fishermen. The unusually warm winter we've been having has me champing at the bit earlier than ever. But it's not just that.
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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As farmers markets have bloomed throughout the area, authorities are getting stricter about enforcing regulations that govern samples.
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Warmer-than-usual winters are stoking fears for the survival of New Englandâs maple forests.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 12--Four new community-supported agriculture programs have opened in  the Chattanooga area, a development some suggest signals more interest in  locally grown, organic produce.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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At 18, Andrew Orr is one of the youngest farmers in the country. While his friends sit in Macroeconomics 101, he grows corn.