Ecologist Jonathan Lundgren launched the 1,000 Farms Initiative to compare regenerative and conventional farming. The data is ...

As midterms approach, West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the ...

The Trump administration has called drops in federal food assistance enrollment good news. Access advocates and recipients ...

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

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How the daughter of author Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center advocates for agrarian ideals.

October 21, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule on Wednesday aimed at protecting recipients of federal food assistance from benefit theft, but without federal ...

After a scramble to replace lost federal dollars, farmers Tim and Rebecca Cooper are now confronting high input prices, and a growing number of people seeking to make ends meet.

West Virginia has some of the highest rates of food insecurity and chronic disease in the nation, and state officials there were early supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. We ...

In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the Baltimore uprising after the death of Freddie Gray, and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, much ...

Driving north from Santa Barbara on California’s Highway 101, you wind through miles of grapevines climbing gently rolling hills. It’s a bucolic vision of agriculture, with hardly a worker in sight.

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Expand ...