Members of the Early American Industries Association (EAIA) and the Mid-West Tools Collectors Association (M-WTCA) will be holding their 31st annual Antique Tool Show & Sale at the Garfield Farm ...
Discover the essential gardening tools for running a small-scale farm, including walk-behind tractors, European hand tools, and the modern wheel hoe. Imagine you finally have some land and you’re ...
Members of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and the Early American Industries Association will be returning to Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills on Sunday, Aug. 6, to put on the 30th ...
“At the farmers markets, we got together with other women producers or couples farming, and the topic of tools constantly came up,” says Adams. Women farmers said they felt they were too weak to work ...
When Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger started a small heirloom vegetable farm in the early 1990s, they called their new venture Green Heron Farms, after the birds that nested in a copse of trees on their ...
Austin Vita Mzee Mwatete uses one of the tools he has fabricated in his farm in Mwatete, near Taveta, Taita-Taveta. [Luis Tato/FAO] Ms Janet Chuma, Mr Austin Vita Mzee and Mr Peter Kahui have two ...
For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...
From oxen and horses for power, crude wooden plows and hand sowing to the current satellite technology, farming has come a long way in the past 300 years. On Sunday evening retired farmer Norm Riley ...