Editorial Policy

What this document is

Publishing about small farming without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.

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.

Who signs the work

Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it and links to their profile. We do not publish under a house byline, because a house cannot be asked to explain itself.

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.

How we choose what to write

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.

Where money enters

A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.

Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.

From notes to published page

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

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

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.