Farm owners Jenny and Eric Quiner launched Dogpatch "To promote health/nutrition, enhance community, environmental conservation, and instill family values for their children." Last year, Dogpatch's second in business, the farm "Produced over 7,500 pounds of organically grown food," an impressive amount given its quarter acre of active farmland.
Regulators' growing demands on Dogpatch have proven costly and legion.
According to The Des Moines Register, among the changes the county required or sought to require of Dogpatch were creation of a site plan; installation of restrooms, a septic system, a paved parking lot, and fencing; the planting of dozens of trees; and creation of "a berm in accordance with a flood plan for the area, a[l]though they'd already spent $7,500 adding drainage tile to mitigate the threat of their crops flooding."
One thing is certain about Dogpatch: locals have been quick to eat up Dogpatch's bounty.
Small farms such as Dogpatch are becoming increasingly rare in Iowa.
"Iowa farms are dwindling in number and growing in size," the Register reported in 2014.
Dogpatch and other small farms in Iowa and across the country already face uphill battles as they fight for consumer dollars.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/24/iowas-small-farms-are-a-treasure-why-won
Regulators' growing demands on Dogpatch have proven costly and legion.
According to The Des Moines Register, among the changes the county required or sought to require of Dogpatch were creation of a site plan; installation of restrooms, a septic system, a paved parking lot, and fencing; the planting of dozens of trees; and creation of "a berm in accordance with a flood plan for the area, a[l]though they'd already spent $7,500 adding drainage tile to mitigate the threat of their crops flooding."
One thing is certain about Dogpatch: locals have been quick to eat up Dogpatch's bounty.
Small farms such as Dogpatch are becoming increasingly rare in Iowa.
"Iowa farms are dwindling in number and growing in size," the Register reported in 2014.
Dogpatch and other small farms in Iowa and across the country already face uphill battles as they fight for consumer dollars.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/24/iowas-small-farms-are-a-treasure-why-won
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