Purdue University

Publication – Handbook on Processing Fish for Small-Scale Fish Farmers

The aquaculture industry in the Midwest region of the United States has limited or no access to economically feasible seafood processing infrastructure for farmed seafood products, leaving producers ...
Purdue University

Publication – Direct Marketing Guidebook for Small/Medium-Scale Aquaculture Businesses

The aquaculture industry in the United States Department of Agriculture North Central Region (USDA NCR) is relatively small and diverse, consisting primarily of small- to medium-scale family-owned and ...
Mongabay

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

In Kenya, small-scale onshore aquaculture combined with sustainable agroecology practices is boosting food security and incomes for smallholder farmers. Though most of these farms are quite small, a ...
Modern Farmer

Small-Scale Farming Shouldn’t Just Be a Hobby. So Why Is It So Hard to Make a Living?

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...
Modern Farmer

The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and “Playing in ...
Mongabay

Series of small dams pose big cumulative risk to Amazon’s fish and people

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Small hydropower plants and small-scale fish farming in the Brazilian Amazon basin are often thought to cause negligible environmental harm, yet a ...