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Residents of Palisade were startled awake Tuesday night when a train car carrying railroad ties caught fire.

This past weekend, the thriving 30-acre farm held an animal swap and vendor fair to celebrate the opening of its strawberry season.

And a pair of student teaching gardens at the University of Florida are coming together for a farmers market with a unique twist.

Joshua Snedden, co-owner of Fox at the Fork Farm in Monee, Illinois, says there’s a lot of faults in Illinois’s local food infrastructure. Snedden says without a food processing facility nearby to turn his harvested vegetables into canned goods for the slow season, tomatoes that could be sold at grocery stores end up in compost...

The innovative facility, built by a Bridgeport-based nonprofit, aims to feed residents...

6 Maine Pick Your Own Strawberry Farms You Need To Visit Strawberries everywhere! Its a wonderful thing and Maine is experiencing a bumper crop this year, as a matter of fact according to a report by centralmaine.com, many farms are reporting crops that havent been this large in decades. Just to illustrate how large this years crop is, Maine ranked fourth in the nation behind Vermont, Delaware, and Wisconsin. Not only are the quantity of strawberries way up....the size of the strawberries are e...

9 of 9 Luke Sites, owner of Sites Farm in Athens, is seen behind strawberries on Monday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel David Popp has never seen such a plentiful strawberry crop in his more than 30 years at Popp Farm in Dresden. “The berries are big as plums,” he said, “and that’s no exaggeration.” But business is slow. The coronavirus pandemic was unkind to the farm, which was unable to afford a seasonal, full-time employee. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 103 Glasheen Road, ...

Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club enjoys its first harvest from hydroponic garden The first crop is in from the Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Clubs new hydroponic garden — and members enjoyed an ultra-fresh salad featuring club-grown lettuce on Wednesday, May 12. Written By: Vicki Gerdes | × Detroit Lakes Boys & Girls Club members Lydia and Harlem show off the lettuce plants they harvested from the clubs new hydroponic garden on Wednesday, May 12. (Submitted photo) Detroit Lakes Boy...

In addition to being a great neighbor to the university, Gainesville represents a great opportunity for learning. It’s a community where our students learn through real-world experiences and, in turn, serve while they learn. We’ve long understood this at the University of Florida’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), and we’re striving to make learning through service more commonplace. Because CALS is part of the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), CA...