Small Farms
Farms with less than $250,000 gross receipts annually, on which day-to-day labor and management are provided by the farmer and/or the farm family that owns the production or owns, or leases, the productive assets. [NALT]
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Cottage Foods
In 2011, the Florida Legislature enacted HB 7209 (now Section 500.80, Florida Statutes) (http://leg.state.fl.us/statutes/) allowing individuals to manufacture, sell, and store certain types of cottage foods in an unlicensed kitchen.
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Sunn Hemp (Crotalaria juncea), an Effective Summer Cover Crop
Luis Rodriguez RosadoMay 6th, 2024Cover crops are traditionally used to cover bare land to protect the soil and/or improve soil characteristics between cash-crop cycles, or planted alongside the cash-crop. Farmers have used cover crops for a long time, and each different species can benefit a farm in different ways. One of these cover crops used in Florida and Southern […]
Crotalaria juncea (Sunn Hemp), un cultivo de cobertura de verano efectivo
Luis Rodriguez RosadoMay 6th, 2024Los cultivos de cobertura se utilizan tradicionalmente para cubrir tierras sin vegetación, para proteger la tierra y/o mejorar las características del suelo entre los ciclos de cultivos comerciales, o también se pueden plantar junto al cultivo comercial. Los agricultores han utilizado cultivos de cobertura durante mucho tiempo y cada especie puede beneficiar a una finca […]
2023 Fall Meeting of the SWFL Small Farmer Network
Jessica M. RyalsNovember 28th, 2023On November 3, 2023, the Southwest Small Farmer Network held our fall meeting at Circle C Farm in Hendry County, FL. The focus of the meeting was to highlight Circle C’s new on-farm store, learn about pasture management, connect producers, and share UF/IFAS Extension and industry partner resources. The Southwest Small Farmer Network is facilitated […]
