Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable. Many think of a tree's role in agriculture as limited to ...

Forested land isn't usually good for farming unless it's clear-cut and plowed. Mini farms under the tree tops can grow crops like ginseng and mushrooms. It may be viable way to be a small time farmer.

FOREST RIVER, N.D. -- A fire that started late this afternoon in the Forest River Farmer's Elevator in the small Walsh County town was being fought by dozens of firefighters from several departments.

Although Michelle Pridgen knew black cohosh was growing on the forested acreage of her Windy Hill Farm in western Virginia, she never considered adding it to the list of crops she harvests—until a ...

If you've ever driven through farmland, you know the view is often miles and miles of identical rows of corn, soybeans or wheat without a tree in sight. But a different method of farming is growing in ...