About
What Farm Zone is for, who writes it, how claims are checked, and where to write when we get something wrong.
Farm Zone is a blog, and the line under the logo, Small acreage, real results, is the whole editorial brief. New articles go up when they are ready, and everything we have published stays available in the blog archive.
Farm Zone started as a private notebook. Somebody kept a record of what was worth the money and what was noise, and after a few years that notebook was more useful than most of what was published online.
Each piece sits under exactly one heading. Readers arriving from search mostly land in vegetable growing, livestock and soil and compost, so those sections get looked after first.
We write from notes taken while doing the thing, not from a summary of other summaries. Where we are unsure, the page says so in plain words.
We keep the commercial side visible. Some outbound links earn us money, and that never buys a change to the text around them.
If you want the mechanics rather than the summary, the editorial policy has them, including what we refuse to publish.
People ask about the name. There is rarely a good story behind a domain, and there is not one here either. Farm Zone was available, it was short enough to say out loud, and it has been the name long enough now that changing it would be more confusing than keeping it.
There is no house byline here. Each piece is signed, and each signature leads to everything else that person has put their name to.
Grace Holloway, Vegetable growing and soil writer. Grace ran a market garden for eleven seasons before she started writing full time, and she still tests her own soil every spring instead of trusting last year's numbers. She writes about vegetables and soil with the dirt still under her nails.
Walt Pruitt, Livestock and pasture writer. Walt grew up on his family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on his own few acres. He writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.
Renata Silva, Farm equipment and homestead business writer. Renata services her own tractor and sells produce at the same farmers market every Saturday, which means her writing about equipment and pricing has to survive contact with an actual ledger. She is blunt about what does not pay for itself.
There are questions we routinely decline. Anything that depends on facts only you can see, and anything where being wrong would cost you real money on our say so.
Tell us which line is wrong and why, at info@farmzone.net or through the contact page. Small errors are corrected the same week. Anything that changes the advice gets a dated note at the bottom of the article.
