Images of Progress – 2014 Our Land Symposium
In April of 2014, the Our Land Symposium brought together farmers, thinkers, land and legal experts and those who do it all or anything in between. See some images from […]
Experience Speaks: Alternatives to Farm Ownership
Alternatives to Ownership: Land Trusts as Land Reform by Robert Swann In those countries where traditional land reform (redistribution of land to private owners as initiated by the central state […]
Plans to Develop Shelved in RI: Land Returns to Agriculture
By Richard Salit from the Providence Journal Plans to convert historic Di Meo farm in Johnston into housing duplexes upset conservationists and forced the farmer leasing the land to relocate […]
Educational Farm May Gain More Land: Voters Make Decision
By Scott Mitchell Johnson of the Presque Isle Star-Herald PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The approval of a special article at the May 14 district budget meeting would add 34 acres […]
Farming Without Profit: NPR Looks at Part-time Farmers
Listen to the Story by Dan Charles from NPR Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture carries out a census of farmers: who they are, and what they are […]
Wood Colony Feels Urban Pressure
From The New York Times by Patricia Lee Brown MODESTO, Calif. — Farmers and other residents of the rural district known as Wood Colony refer to the 110-year-old arboreal landmark […]
Getting More Access for Agriculture on Protected Land
From Land for Good: A regional coalition to support sustainable food systems is partnering with LFG to work on significant local farmland access projects over the next year. The project […]
Town of Amherst, MA Proposes Incubator Program
By Diane Lederman from MassLive AMHERST – Town Meeting has supported spending Community Preservation Act money to help buy a nearly 20-acre parcel of land of Belchertown Road that the […]
Video: Wes Jackson Speaking at OUR LAND Symposium
New Food First Backgrounder Addresses Land Reform and Resistance in the United States
OAKLAND, Calif., May 1, 2014 – The disastrous effects of widespread land grabbing and land concentration sweeping the globe do not affect all farmers equally. The degree of vulnerability to […]