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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

From a distance, a utility-scale solar site can look well managed, with a perimeter fence around neat rows of panels and a vegetation buffer along the road. But look more closely and the land tells a ...

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For Kamanamaikalani Beamer, love and commitment to the land have the power to restore Native Hawaiians’ connection to place, community, and to those who came before—and will come after.

Today, when farmers harvest common American crops like wheat, rice, and vegetables, the crops look like did 100 years ago. But research shows those same crops are losing their nutritional value. These ...

The town of Skagway, in southeast Alaska, is home to approximately 1,000 year-round residents and hosts more than 1.3 million summer cruise ship passengers. Isolated in the winter, and reliant on a ...

Ticks are a daily, unsavory part of Jesse Warner’s life on Dirty Dog Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. Warner raises grassfed beef and lamb on 1,000 acres and spends much of his day in pastures, ...