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 […]
Did the City Build the Farm?
A blogger from zompist.com looks into the legacy and teaching of Jane Jacobs: Not enough people have read Jane Jacobs. Many have; her The Death and Life of Great American […]
The Land of Many Palaces
A documentary by Adam James Smith and Song Ting shows Ordos, China, where thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. […]
New Case Studies from CA FarmLink
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The Great American Land Heist
This land is our land? By Christopher Ketcham from an article published in Harpers: Cliven Bundy, the notorious scofflaw cattle rancher from Bunkerville, Nevada, was taking his midday nap when I arrived at […]
Farmers walking away from their leases in the Midwest
A report from Reuters News Service: Across the U.S. Midwest, the plunge in grain prices to near four-year lows is pitting landowners determined to sustain rental incomes against farmer tenants […]
The Commons, Legally
David Bollier digs into the commons, and what law students, and all of us should know about our shared properties. From the article: If you mention “the commons” to someone […]
End of a Prison Farm, Opportunities for Local Farmers
Prospective farmers have until 10 a.m. Monday to submit bids to lease parcels of land at the Guilford County Prison Farm, county staff said at a walk-through Tuesday at the […]
Proposed Museum Could Unveil History, and Future
In a small beach haven in North Florida, there once lived a society separate from the economic realities of Jim Crow era America. As in many U.S. towns during that […]
Citizens of a New Nation
A group advocating for the protection of watersheds opens up the philosophy of citizenship to explore a new type of “nation”. From the Rose Coalition of Watershed’s web page. Rose C.O.W. […]