The Land for Our Food, A Documentary
The Land for Our Food is a road-film documentary that follows English Apprentice Grower, Gavin Bridger, on his quest for land access for agroecological farming in England. Through his journey, Gavin learns that barriers to entry, such as access to affordable land, are not issues isolated to England, but are quite prominent across all of Europe. The video, […]
The Land, Issue 1 now available online
The Land, a magazine out of the UK based group The Land is Ours. TLIO campaigns for access to land, its resources and the decision making processes affecting them. In The Land, topics relating to land use policy, problems, and possible models for solutions are discussed in long form articles. Issue 1 looks at questions […]
OurLand 2: Tracing the Acequia Commons
Please Join Agrarian Trust for: OUR LAND 2: Tracing the Acequia Commons A symposium about Land Transition, Continuity and Commons. NOVEMBER 9-17th Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico Films. Talks. Exhibit. Acequia Walk Can our regions shift towards food sovereignty? Can our agrarian systems become more harmonious with their wild habitat? Can we maintain our […]
12 Days of Agricultural Conference Bliss in New Mexico
Thursday, November 9, marks the start of three agriculture-based conferences in New Mexico. Agrarian Trust’s OUR LAND 2 – SYMPOSIUM 2016 takes place in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, focusing on issues such as land transition, continuity and the commons. These topics will be touched upon through film screenings, talks, an art exhibition and more. Many events […]
Pennsylvania’s Farmers work with Federal Preservation Programs
With success that could be a model for the nation, Pennsylvania’s Farmland Preservation Program as reached a landmark agreement with the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). The agreement, which will protect 651 acres across 7 individual farms, was the product of two years of careful negotiation. This cooperation between state and federal officials for the preservation […]
We Shall Not Be Moved: A history of the Tillery resettlement community
We Shall Not Be Moved is their song, and it means they “ain’t going nowhere!” That’s the spirit of the Tillery, North Carolina resettlement, product of a New Deal program offering landless sharecroppers a chance to buy their own farms. Roanoke Farms was one of only a handful of resettlement projects for African Americans. Its […]
Congreso de las Acequias
There is a great event being put on by our friends at the NM Acequia Association in Taos, NM right after the 2016 OURLAND2 Symposium. “The NMAA is preparing for the annual Congreso de las Acequias as we celebrate another growing season and the bountiful late summer rains. The Congreso is the only statewide gathering […]
An Interview with Wes Jackson: Solving the 10,000-Year-Old Problem of Agriculture
Our dear friend and colleague, Wes Jackson, was interviewed by In These Times in 2016. His words continue to echo the truth:”In 1978, I wrote an essay for the Friends of the Earth publication Not Man Apart on the history of Earth abuse due to agriculture. I suggested building an agricultural system based on the way […]
Most Exiting Farmers in New England May Have No Successor
A new study by American Farmland Trust and Land For Good underscores the challenge New England faces in the next two decades around farmland transition. Nearly one-thrid of New England’s farmers are age 65+ and 9 out of 10 do not have a young farmer to work alongside of them. The 1.4 million acres they […]
Sustainable Capitalism and Farming
John Ikerd details a possible path for advancing Sustainable Farming in his article Farmland for New Sustainable Farmers: A Capitalist Approach to Land Reform.