Editorial Policy

Why this page exists

A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for small farming, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.

Our refusals

• Anything promising a result we cannot demonstrate.
• Pages written backwards from a search term.
• Advice we would not repeat to somebody sitting across a table.

Accountability

Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.

Dario Fenn, Market garden and soil writer. Dario ran a market garden for ten seasons before he started writing full time, and he still tests his own soil every spring instead of trusting last year's numbers. He writes about vegetables and soil with the dirt still under his nails.

Mabel Ostrander, Livestock and pasture writer. Mabel grew up on her family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on her own few acres. She writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.

Silas Kirkwood, Equipment and farm income writer. Silas services his own tractor and sells produce at the same farmers market every Saturday, which means his writing about equipment and pricing has to survive contact with an actual ledger. He is blunt about what does not pay for itself.

What earns a page

We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.

Paid and unpaid links

Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

How a page gets written

1. The writer collects what they already know and marks the parts they cannot support.
2. Those parts are checked against a primary source, an operator document, or direct experience.
3. What survives step two goes into the draft. What does not is cut.
4. A second person reads the draft for claims that sound firmer than the evidence behind them.

Dates

We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.

Corrections

Write to info@farmzone.net with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.