Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
Farming
Could provisions in the Farm Bill help with the high rates of suicide among U.S. farmers?
On most days, Sandra de Leon prunes grapevines in Northern California’s wealthiest vineyards. But today she is dressed head to toe in a yellow fire-resistant suit, helmet, safety goggles, and
Rewilding landscapes on and around farms can create refugia to protect plants and pollinators in the face of a warming, drying climate.
Without the need for dedicated land or water, honeybees offer a more stable climate future.
Dennis Hutson wants to recreate a Black farming paradise in California. First he has to adapt to the climate crisis.
Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
How mindfulness can help balance the toil of farm life.
Regenerative grazing is booming along the Mid-Atlantic, potentially helping to mitigate cows’ climate impact.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government’s push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide.
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
In 1969, experts said the cause of hunger was world overpopulation. Frances Moore Lappé showed they were wrong.
Over 70 different fruits and vegetables are grown in this urban biodiversity oasis, including specialty crops from the community’s diverse cultures.
At Freetown Farm, members of the community can learn the names of medicinal herbs and harvest vegetables, all while developing a deeper relationship to the land and local community.
A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
Sometime in the future of the After Times, a group of neighbors relearn how to grow food in community—and feel joy amid uncertainty.
Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha.
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
As climate change threatens rainfed farming, millets offer a way to achieve food, financial, and environmental security.
Taking care of the soil is the key to making farms and farmers more resilient.
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