The Wrightstown Farmers' Market opens for the season on May 5, 9 am - 1 pm! Come buy your locally produced and grown food this Saturday and every Saturday until Thanksgiving.  [More]

Farm Day Camp at Snipes Farm & Education Center, starting the week of June 25th.  [More]

Are you a new or aspiring farmer? Penn State Extension offers classes, workshops, demonstrations and information for: Farm Dreamers, New Farmers and Diversifying Farmers.  [More]

by Laura Brandt, Doylestown Patch
Derek Fell, a longtime organic gardener who lives in Pipersville, shared his tips and techniques for creating high production vegetable gardens in small spaces.  [More]

Program aims to sustain and grow local food producers while nourishing America’s schools. Proposals are due by June 15.  [More]

It’s been a bad week for corn. Less than a month after the Midwest heat wave threw a wrench into this year’s growing season, high-fructose corn syrup has been the subject of several scathing studies on its damage to the environment and human health.  [More]

After the product formerly known as "lean finely textured beef" came to be known as "pink slime," it quickly became unwelcome in many grocery stores, school cafeterias and fast-food chains.  [More]

Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the tens of thousands of human deaths that result each year from the drugs’ overuse.  [More]

Criminal codes in Iowa and Utah were used this year to keep secrets on factory farms by threatening jail time for anyone working undercover and taking pictures or video of animals without permission.  [More]

Local Bucks restaurants, farms and companies are partnering in sustainable ways.  [More]