There’s so much going on, sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Tonight, we’ll be attending the Hoosier Harvest Market food co-op annual meeting. Tomorrow night, a hemp networking event. And later in the week, the Indiana Small Farm Conference and National Farmers Union Annual Convention. Here’s more in detail on what Indiana Farmers Union is … Read More
By Nate Brownlee, Nightfall Farm I don’t think I’d be alone in saying that a healthy dose of ego goes into being a farmer. It goes without saying that we farmers are proud of what we do—if I wasn’t this proud to be a farmer, I’d definitely have more free time. We all think we’re … Read More
By Sherri Dugger Dugger Family Farm “So many friends and family … they want to come here, hang out, bring kids, eat the food … but really have no clue what it takes to make it happen.” So began a Sunday morning text message from a friend who runs a family farm very similar to … Read More
By Liz Brownlee, Nightfall Farm A Ram Truck ad in the 2013 Super Bowl caught my attention a few years ago—not because I was ever going to buy a new truck—but because the audio was an excerpt from a Paul Harvey radio broadcast. ‘So God Made a Farmer’ aired in 1978, back when “Get Big … Read More
By Nate Brownlee Nightfall Farm Here at Nightfall Farm, Liz and I are committed to farm in ways that conserve our natural resources, having rooted our business in the model of the triple bottom line—environmental, social and financial. When I think back to the first season of our farm, I recall the immense differences we … Read More
By Sherri Dugger “There is power in numbers.” It was a simple concept. It was cliché. It was also the truth, and it was the only way I knew to explain to 25 female farmers how Indiana Farmers Union and National Farmers Union worked. “I believe in transparency, and I believe in truth,” I went … Read More