A New Sustainable Land Trust out of Iowa
From the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust: We’re proud to announce the launch of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, the only organization in Iowa dedicated to protecting land to grow healthy food. (Learn more and donate.) SILT is tapping a backlog of aging Iowa landowners and farmers who had been struggling with how to keep their farms as farms after they’re gone. SILT is […]
Playing by a Different Set of Rules
The game played for hours by families across the US, and the subject of countless spin offs, Monopoly, was once known by a different name, and had a different set of rules. A woman named Elizabeth Magie filed a legal claim for her Landlord’s Game in 1903, over thirty years before Monopoly was manufactured by Parker Brothers. The […]