Farming Magazines

Farming Magazines: Our list of the best periodicals out there for small scale agriculture and homesteading news (Also see our new farmer websites and free web publications pages).

Growing for Market covers farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture, the local food movement, organic growing, cut flowers, and much more. Growing for Market publishes 10 issues per year in print and online, and offers memberships to its online archive of articles. Has been one of the most useful farming magazines for small farmers for many years.

Acres U.S.A. is a monthly publication which offers a comprehensive guide to sustainable agriculture. Drawing on knowledge accumulated in more than 35 years of continuous publication, it brings its readers the latest techniques for growing bountiful, nutritious crops and healthy, vibrant livestock. Based on the work of scientists and farmers whose sophisticated approach to agriculture reveals chemical farming as obsolete and misguided, Acres U.S.A. shows its readers how to embrace the science of nature. One of the key farming magazines for small scale growers.

Mother Earth News is an iconic publication about country living, sustainability, and self reliance.

The Progressive Farmer is a magazine for conventional farmers with terrific information and articles. The DTN/Progressive Farmer website also has loads of information about everything farming, though some content requires a subscription.

Small Farmers Journal is a beautiful, large format agrarian quarterly packed with information. Supported 100% by its readership, this folksy and feisty publication is a platform for engaging farflung ideas about anything pertinent to the small family farm experiance. Livestock, Crops, Barns, Farming Systems, Equipment, Recipes, Kids pages, Marketing, Poetry, Stories, and Political Updates…

The Cut Flower Quarterly is the only regular publication dedicated to information about the production, postharvest care and marketing of cut flowers. Special issues include “New Varieties” and the “Postharvest Handling” editions.

The Packer ‘is the fresh fruit and vegetable industry’s leading source for news, information and analysis’. A fantastic source of information for farmers.

Countryside Magazine and Small Stock Journal “is more than a magazine: it’s a network where homesteaders share a wide variety of experiences and ideas about simple, sustainable, country living. There are no guidelines and no paid writers. Instead, there is an open atmosphere of neighborly sharing.” A quintessential homesteading publication that has been around for years.

Backwoods Home Magazine is a great publication on homesteading and small agricultural production.

Debi Kelly, Project Manager at the Missouri Alternatives Center, and University of Missouri State Sustainable Agriculture Co-Coordinator publishes a great monthly e-newsletter through University of Missouri Extension called Ag Opportunities.