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HGN: Shaping the next generation of local farmers

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HGN: Shaping the next generation of local farmers “Even when you’re not plowing a field or pulling weeds, farming can be a tough business. With a focus on planning, marketing and networking, Roots Farm Academy teaches aspiring sustainable farmers how to grow plants while also growing a business. In close view of razor wire surrounding the Shelby County Corrections Penal Farm lies five acres leased by a nonprofit farm incubator with the mission of training the MidSouth’s next generation of farmers. Roots Farm Academy, project of now husband and wife Mary and Wes Riddle, leases the land from Shelby Farms … Continue reading HGN: Shaping the next generation of local farmers

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MDN: Farming Quality

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“Starting in August, a new crop of would-be farmers will settle in for a few months of classroom instruction led by the Roots Memphis Farm Academy, a sustainable farming incubator working to train and launch new farmers in the Memphis area. Armed with insights harvested from the organization’s intensive business-planning curriculum, the new farmers will write a business plan for an actual quarter-acre plot of land at Shelby Farms that, if all goes well, they’ll eventually manage and farm under the supervision of Roots Memphis’ staff. Roots Memphis’ goal is to plant seeds in the form of practical knowledge and access to … Continue reading MDN: Farming Quality