Free Land: Farming Under Pressure
This video from the BBC shows “how farms confiscated from Sicily’s mafia are providing food and wine, helping to fight crime and providing a future for a new generation on the island.” The project, a not for profit farming operation called “Libera Terra” (which translates as “Free Land”), was made possible by an Italian member of […]
Take Action to Protect Small Farming
Americans all around the country from every corner of our society are standing up and taking direct action to protect the programs and policies that allow them to thrive. Now is the time for all groups to make their voice heard and small, sustainable, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers are no different. If […]
Center for a Livable Future provides Policy and Community Solutions for Food System Health
The Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University released a series of policy recommendations for the new administration to bring the health of food systems and communities to the forefront of policy discussion. Agrarian Trust’s work all ultimately connects communities with the food being grown by their people from their soil, and according […]
Black Farmers are Taking Back their Place in America
The first week of black history month comes to a close. Though the pandering of the new admisitration’s approach to this commemorative month is directly at odds with the voices of the BLM protesters throughout the country and the voices of politicians continue to drown out the lived experiences of black and brown citizens in […]
Dismantling Racism in the Food System: Food First’s series to address colonization of our food
We should consider how our food, the way its produced, where it’s produced, and who we buy it from contributes to the historical barriers set up in this country. We should always be thinking on these questions, but especially today, Martin Luther King Day. While the problems of the food system and the disenfranchisement of […]
Natural Resources Conservation Service Accepting Applications for Conservation Easements
NRCS is now accepting applications for conservation easements for agricultural and wildlife lands through its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. The focus of the program is to preserve critical water resources and wildlife habitat through biodynamic farmland and wildland conservation. Native American Tribes, state and local governments across the country are eligible to participate in this program. […]
Unbroken Ground: A Patagonia Provisions Film
Patagonia Provisions, Patagonia’s newest project, is focused on challenging our current food system through providing an alternative model to the conventional way that we grow and consume food. Unbroken Ground, a short film directed by Chris Malloy, provides insight into four sectors of restorative agricultural practices including regenerative agriculture, regenerative grazing, diversified crop production and restorative fishing in […]
Rosalinda Guillen: A Future of Food Sovereignty through Farm Workers Rights
Born in Texas, and after spending her first ten years in Mexico with her family, Rosalinda Guillen entered the ranks of American farm workers at the age of 10. After growing up molded by that experience, Guillen was politicized during the 1988 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign. From that moment forth, she has served as a […]
Water Laws Crash Course: The History of Acequia
Since the dawn of agriculture on this planet, humans have been finding ways to get water to their crops. Creative solutions in what is now the Southwestern United States have harnessed the waters of the Rio Grande and other areas rivers to bring water to the once parched soils of this arid region. But when […]
Help Make Our Story Hill a Farm for Good
The Organization for Refugee & Immagrint Success (ORIS) has worked since 2012 to build a program for resettled refugee farmers to continue their agricultural careers on American soil. The group has been farming land in New Hampshire for almost 5 years and now, with collaboration from the Russell Foundation, has the opportunity to purchase the 57 […]