Detroit People’s Food Co-op Opens May 1
Join the Celebration! “On opening day, I want everyone in Detroit to walk through our doors and feel like this is their store,” said Talley. The DPFC opens for business…
How Farmers Reshaped a Region and Solved Drought
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison travels to the village of Laporiyah in Rajasthan India to see the 45 year water harvesting and community development project spearheaded by waterman Laxman Singh. We…
The Scientists Creating the Foods of the Future
The fruits and vegetables in our supermarkets are not products of chance. Their journey took years of work by teams of scientists around the world, all attempting to figure out…
The Farm-to-Prison Pipeline
At the Mountain View Correctional Facility, in Charleston, Maine, incarcerated people don't just eat healthy -- they grow the food themselves. It's part of a philosophy that says that people…
Farmer, the World May Not Be Your Oyster | Hakai Magazine
Despite the desire for local and sustainable seafood, oyster farmers and communities from New York to Rhode Island are clashing over public access and ocean views. {listen}
Seven Sisters
As hard times and broken bots threaten a collective tea farm, the women keeping it going must decide whether to add another to their ranks.
7 friends built restoration ecovillage. Outcome 50 years on
In 1994 a group of seven friends began living and farming together after taking over an 80-acre, 1974 organic farm 70 miles north of San Francisco that had been left…
The Open Letter That Latina Farmworkers Wrote About Hollywood and Sexual Assault
Editor’s Note — The following open letter from the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, first published on Friday by TIME, was written in support of the November 12 Take Back the…
Using containers to stack high yield farms for urban produce
In the small town of Waregem, the test farm at Urban Crop Solutions is completely closed to the outside, and everything here is controlled. Using LED lights and hydroponics, it…