Country Folks Grower is a business to business publication offering coast to coast coverage through three regional editions.
Each monthly issue covers all facets of growing and marketing fresh market and ornamental crops.
Growing together
Tom and Denise Rosenfeld of Earth First Farms, presenting some of the fruit of their labor.
Photo courtesy of Kate Gross Photography
by Sally Colby
When Tom Rosenfeld couldn’t find locally grown organic fruit near his home in Chicago, he decided to grow his own. […]
Agritourism, autumn 2020: What does it look like?
California customers said they felt safer coming to Underwood Family Farms for food essentials than being enclosed in traditional grocery stores.
Photo courtesy of Underwood Family Farms
by Courtney Llewellyn
Autumn can be the busiest visitor season for many farms which highlight pumpkin patches, corn mazes, […]
Realizing potential
Although Yosef Camire understood the basics of plants from his experience as the owner of a landscaping company, he realized he needed a lot more information before digging in.
Photo courtesy of Ahavah Farm
by Sally Colby
Coloradan Yosef Camire knew he had a lot to learn when he moved his family from Denver to Peyton […]
Diversity and sustainability: Meet Nichols Farm and Orchard
Chad Nichols and the wall of beets at the Chicago Daley Plaza Farmers Market.
Photo courtesy of Nichols Farm and Orchard
by Gail March Yerke
By 3 a.m. on any given morning you’ll find the Nichols family loading trucks for that day’s farmers markets. […]
An optimistic start
Emma Jagoz established more than 50 varieties of field-grown peppers this year, with varieties for all taste buds.
Photo by Sally Colby
by Sally Colby
It’s challenging to move a farm operation to new, vacant land. Bare ground is a blank slate, but jumpstarting a produce farm […]
The future of Northwest Christmas tree farms
Chal Landgren is a professor of forest engineering, resources and management at Oregon State University.
Photo courtesy of OSU
by Enrico Villamaino
In 2012, Oregon produced nearly 7.5 million Christmas trees. Since then, it’s been the nation’s top grower of Christmas trees, […]
