Conservation efforts like this one in Chicago can help prevent the loss of land that is currently stymying small farming.

Escalating trade tensions with Canada were putting her business at risk of closing, an outcome that would eliminate the ...

The agency says the effort will bolster seed sovereignty and food security, but advocates say it doesn’t adequately address ...

October 5, 2026 – Just days after farm and environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of ...

The agency has concluded its investigation into a cyclospora outbreak that sickened a record number of Americans this summer.

For decades, Willapa Bay kept native shrimp in check with pesticides that are now banned. New solutions have been hard to ...

That’s the problem with the efficiency narrative. It measures what happens inside the farming operation. It often doesn’t ...

Activist Robin Greenfield just spent the past year living off the land ‘to break free from the global industrial system.’ ...

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A dinner like this can make people feel better connected and safer in a neighborhood like ours.” NOFA-VT was formed in the 1970s in Putney, Vermont, by a group of farmers who believed in farming to ...

In 2017, Larry Stone heard whispers about construction taking place near his home in Clayton County, Iowa. A retired photographer, Stone pulled up to the site, located around 20 miles away from where ...

Brea Baker remembers spending a lot of time in her grandparents’ New Jersey home with piles of paper everywhere. Her grandfather, Alfred Baker, worked to ensure the family was never tricked out of ...