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Beyond the Farmer’s Market: A New Guide to Building Your Own On-Farm Store

Grace Place Farm & Gardens in South Dakota is proving that for small-scale producers, a well-placed farm store can be just as vital to the bottom line as a successful harvest. With support from an NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher grant, they have explored how simple digital communication combined with a welcoming on-farm store can help producers […]

Join NCR-SARE's Administrative Council

NCR-SARE has an opening for a state Department of Agriculture representative to join the Administrative Council.

Apply for a Graduate Student Grant

Proposals are due by April 16, 12pm central time.

Apply for a PDP Grant

Professional Development grant proposals are due on April 2, 2026 by 12pm central.

Nominate Your SARE Hero

NCR-SARE is accepting nominations for the NCR-SARE Heroes recognition.

Battling Herbicide-Resistant Weeds with Cover Crops

Fall- and spring-planted cover crops could suppress weeds in wheat–sorghum–fallow systems.

A Guide to Building a DIY Portable Milking Parlour

A guide to building a low-cost milking parlor with detailed plans, pictures, and part lists. This is a construction guide for a milking parlor that can be built by a novice builder that requires no special tools.

Join NCR-SARE's Administrative Council

NCR-SARE is looking for a Rural Sociologist to join the NCR-SARE Administrative Council.

Urban Farming Soil Life Short Course Videos

The Xerces Society's Urban Farming Soil Life Short Course taught urban farmers and agricultural educators who speak English or Spanish about the organisms that contribute to soil health, farm productivity, and food safety. Through a series of six comprehensive short courses and a companion pocket guide—also offered in both English and Spanish—educators and farmers learned […]

Pocket ID Guide to Invertebrates of Urban Soils

About 25% of all known organisms on the planet are animals that live in the soil through all or a portion of their lives. The majority of these animals are invertebrates that interact with microbes, plants, and each other, forming the life of healthy soils. The invertebrate animals featured in this guide are large enough […]