Soil is composed of layers that actually accomplish important purposes – to just till it all up destroys those benefits. Thus, the broadfork. Working your soil with a broadfork will not allow dormant ...

This article on how to build a broadfork is excerpted from a 1980 MOTHER EARTH NEWS interview with French intensive gardening expert John Jeavons, author of “How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits ...

The smell of grassy, earthy spring onions wafted through the hoop house at Broadfork Farm earlier this month as Janet Aardema pulled the hearty bulbs out of the ground, jolting them awake from their ...

Three ducks stood sentry at the driveway leading to Broadfork Farmstead in Greensboro last Monday afternoon. The menagerie on the 13-acre, solar-powered homestead also includes dogs, goat mamas and ...

I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I’ve always been interested in food networks. The way ingredients move from land to plate reveals a lot about our systems, values and communities. As a kid, I cooked at ...

We visit Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in Richmond On this episode we take a trip to Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in the ...

We learn how Broadfork Farm's endeavors are feeding families in the greater Richmond area On this episode we take a trip to Broadfork Farm and learn how their endeavors are feeding families in the ...

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I had to check Wikipedia to get a solid description of the increasingly popular and loved garden broadfork. Local broadfork user and Piedmont gardener Brenda Pates lovingly calls her 28-pound, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The smell of grassy, earthy spring onions wafted through the hoop house at Broadfork Farm earlier this month as Janet Aardema pulled the hearty bulbs out of the ground, jolting ...