The New American Farmer
A research paper from the Transnational Institute draws on ethnographic research conducted in the Central Coast of California and the Northern Neck of Virginia, where a significant number of Mexican […]
Report Addresses Helping the Farmers that Feed New York City
GrowNYC has put out a report detailing the challenges of the farmers that supply New York City’s Greenmarket. The report is Farmers on the Edge: An Assessment of Greenmarket Farmers […]
Conserving Local Farms in New York
The Columbia Land Conservancy (CLC) is protecting agricultural land in New York’s Columbia County. The Conserve a Local Farm (CALF) program protects farmland by establishing conservation agreements, or easements, on […]
Agriculture Advocates Use Theatre to Protest Development in California
A group of vegetables were bulldozed inside an East Bay location of Sprouts Farmers Market–a grocery store chain with 160 locations throughout the Southwest and Western United States. Sprouts Farmers […]
All the News That’s Fit to Print: New York Times Op-Ed Piece Advocates for Farmers
A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times winds through the hills of upstate New York looking for a solution to keeping agricultural land in the hands of farmers. […]
Land Conservation Efforts Need Re-evaluation
The National Young Farmers Coalition released a report yesterday that reveals how current farmland conservation practices are failing working farmers. Farmland Conservation 2.0: How Land Trusts Can Protect America’s Working […]
Land and Capital: Challenges for the Young Farmer
This story about young farmers in Illinois points to the challenges of land and capital as the biggest inhibitors. An excerpt from the article, first published by the Bloomington Pantagraph. […]
New Report Shows Role for Investors in Saving Farmland
Meeting the farmland access challenge in New England requires creative approaches and new partners. A just-released report from the Land Access Project (LAP) investigates the potential role investors can play […]
Raising Dough: New Book Kneads Into Financing Sustainable Businesses
A new book written by Elizabeth Ü and published by Chelsea Green uncovers financing options for sustainable food businesses. Raising Dough provides insights into the world of finance, including descriptions […]
Giving Voice to the Soil
The methods we use to gain attention for agricultural land access must be as diverse as the land we aim to preserve. Doug Nopar, a farmer and program organizer for […]