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Stone crusher draws crowds | News | fltimes.com

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Stone crusher draws crowds | News | fltimes.com

SENECA FALLS — Anyone who has ever picked up large rocks by hand knows how menial — and physically demanding — that task can be, especially on a hot and muggy day like Tuesday.

People who want to make that job easier, or eliminate it completely, got a look at the machinery that makes it possible at Empire Farm Days.

Stone-crushing demonstrations by Bugnot, a French company, drew dozens of people who saw rocks the size of flat footballs reduced to stones that would easily fit in the palm of your hand. Smaller stones were pulverized, turned to powder that went into the churned-up soil.

Ducks and Geese on the Ranch

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My parents have had ducks at various points in time. Everything that Mike says about them in this video is 100% accurate, they are super messy, dumb, and may a handy snack for predators.

Can Farming Save Appalachia? – Modern Farmer

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Can Farming Save Appalachia? – Modern Farmer

A reclaimed coal mine might not be the ideal place to grow vegetables, but the terrain didn’t stop Fritz Boettner from digging in. The director of Sprouting Farms has been working to revitalize the local food system in coal mining communities across West Virginia since 2014. The nonprofit established a farm incubator to train new farmers, developed partnerships with farms to expand wholesale markets in the area and created a local food hub with the goal of providing opportunities in the small, rural communities that once depended on coal mining to put food on their tables.

I would imagine in a lot of applachia that isn't farmed now, the soils and the climate are rather unfavorable.

NPR – ‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

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NPR – ‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

American soil. Those are two words that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can't be be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades, which is raising alarm bells in farming communities.

When the stock market tanked during the last recession, foreign investors began buying up big swaths of U.S. farmland. And because there are no federal restrictions on the amount of land that can be foreign-owned, it's been left up to individual states to decide on any limitations.