Join The Land Connection on Thursday, August 22, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, IL for our workshop on Farm Workplace Safety. Farming is strenuous work. Working in the fields, washing and packing up produce, transporting it to wholesale and retail outlets. All of these activities present different stresses for […]
PrairiErth Farm
Honoring Beginning Farmers
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 03/28/2016 – 7:47am Last week I traveled up to Chicago to go to the Good Food Festival. The gathering brought together policy makers, educators, food entrepreneurs, and farmers, just to name a few. There was a floor full of exhibitors with foods to taste, demos–like how to make your […]
Principles of Mechanical Weed Control
Principles of Mechanical Weed Control #1 Learn about some of the equipment used in mechanical weed control from Hans Bishop of PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, IL. Principles of Mechanical Weed Control #2 Hans Bishop of PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, IL takes us through setting up a piece of equipment used for mechanical weed control […]
