Articles: farm business

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Lessons From An Unusual Christmas Tree Farm: Resourcefulness and Craft

Emmet Van Driesche and his wife, Cecilia, operate the Pieropan Christmas Tree Farm in Western Massachusetts. When he’s not working on the tree farm or editing scientific…

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carving out a living on the land

Your Starting Place as a Farmer

We don’t often think about how, long ago, the towering and strong trees we see around us in communities and the rows of Christmas trees on farms…

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