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The Minnesota Farmers Who Helped Shape Organic Agriculture
Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford, the managing owners of Blue Fruit Farm in southeastern Minnesota, have lived and worked on the same property for nearly four decades. And yet, that seems hardly enough time...
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The Woman Leading the Way for Urban Farming in the Nation’s Capital
With her background in advocacy, welcoming smile, air of refinement, and down-for-doing-business demeanor, it would be easy to assume that when Gail Taylor visits Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,...
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Biodiversity and Animal Welfare are Paramount for These Second-Generation...
“Hey pigs, we brought you some cucumbers!” yells Hillary Kimmel from the driver’s seat of an off-roading golf cart. The 21 young hogs who had been lazily rooting around the hardwood forest floor flee...
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Veterans Find Purpose and Healing at Comfort Farms
In the Iraqi deserts and villages outside Baghdad, Troy Bowyer repaired tanks and other vehicles in two back-to-back tours as an Army mechanic. Six years ago, however, he was medically retired from the...
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Rolando Herrera Is Blazing a Trail for Latinx Winemakers
Rolando Herrera is a bit of a unicorn in California’s Napa Valley. For one thing, he’s transcended the wine region’s traditional hierarchy. As a teenage immigrant from Mexico, Herrera started out as a...
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The Salmon Sisters of Alaska are Fighting for a Healthy, Sustainable Fish Future
The remote Aleutian Islands are a group of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller islands, mostly belonging to the state of Alaska, known for challenging weather and strong winds. But that has never...
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Jennifer Taylor Educates and Advocates for Underserved Small Farms in Florida
Jennifer Taylor’s love of farming began when she was a child, during the summers she spent on her grandmother’s farm in Glenwood, Georgia. Taylor’s grandmother, Lola Hampton, was a sharecropper who, in...
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Farming is an Act of Social Justice at Woven Roots Farm
The first community supported agriculture (CSA) pickup of the 2020 summer season at Woven Roots Farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts, was a joyous event. Pickup procedures were different, to be sure: masks...
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Deepa Iyer Is Farming for Social Justice
In Ghana, when a person passes a farmer in the field, they call out, “Ayekoo,” which loosely means “I see you” or “I acknowledge you farming the land.” In response, the farmer says, “Aye,” to thank the...
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On Henry’s Farm, Experimenting with Radical Adaptation to the Climate Crisis
In late September, Henry Brockman kneeled in the field, harvesting dried beans, their vines entwined over parched, dusty soil marked by fissures resembling lightening strands. He tugged the deep brown...
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