New York City Land Event Tomorrow!
Saturday 9/20/2014: Join organizers of the New York City Community Land Initiative’s Education and Outreach media team for a presentation on Community Land Trusts, featuring Picture the Homeless’ Banking on […]
The Tree that Owns Itself: a pioneer for a new agrarian society
We found this little tidbit on Wikipedia, and thought it made a good Land Reform thought for the day! The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely […]
Beginning Farmer Program for Women in CT
From NOFA CT: If you are a beginning (less than ten years experience) women farmer in Connecticut and you are interested in joining the program, we are now accepting applications […]
Young Farmers Conference!
2014 NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS CONFERENCE Every December, hundreds of beginning farmers from across the United States gather at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture to learn from agricultural luminaries, […]
Finding New Ways to Pass on the Farm
From Yes! by Liz Pleasant Carol Ptak and her husband own Blacksmith Ranch, a small grass-fed Highland Cattle operation just outside of Rochester, Wash. The farm sits on more than […]
Big Land Gift in One of the Countries Costliest Areas
From the Point Reyes Light by Samantha Kinney The Marin Agricultural Land Trust this week announced a gift that could start a new chapter for the nonprofit: Corey Goodman and […]
Small Investors Enter the Land for Profit Market
From the Wall Street Journal by Liz Moyer Investing in farmland and forest tracts is sometimes described as “gold with a coupon”—a hedge against inflation, because land prices tend to […]
From the Ground Up: Keep Growing Detroit
Check out this initiative in Detroit, taking back the land and working towards food security in one of the country’s most troubled cities. Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) exists to promote […]
This Land is Our Land
As we forge forward, we analyze and reanalyze all of the possibilities for our farm future. In 2011, On the Commons hosted a gathering for a variety of individuals wishing […]
Food, Farms, Profit: Why Are Foreign Investors Buying U.S. Farmland?
These articles are just a few of the accounts of the scary trend in farmland. By Steve Holt from takepart.com The news from the Department of Agriculture this week wasn’t […]