Investing in Our Neighbors
As Agrarian Trust and our partners try to create a new framework where farmland commons are created by investors and worked by farmers in the community, we also are beginning to ask who can invest. Is there a legal framework for small lenders, and if not, how do we create one. From MinnPost.com: In January, new […]
The Human Cost of Food
Late last year, science reporter Liza Gross came to us with a project that examined pesticide use near schools in California. One high school in Oxnard that Gross focused on had the misfortune of being surrounded by strawberry fields that get dosed with a greater volume of toxic fumigants than any other community in the […]